World Popular Resistance Clippings 19/5/2013

 

Vendors seek to profit from China’s security budget

BEIJING: Mannequins in riot gear, armoured cars and drones line a police equipment and “anti-terrorism technology” trade fair in Beijing as vendors seek to profit from China’s huge internal security budget. The country is estimated to have more than 180,000 protests each year and the [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 19/4/2013

 

Pakistan quake victims burn tyres at angry protests

MASHKAIL, Pakistan — Pakistani earthquake victims burnt tyres at angry protests on Friday, accusing the government of failing to provide adequate relief three days after their homes were destroyed or damaged. Tuesday’s 7.8-magnitude quake, centred in southeastern Iran, killed 41 people — all but one [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 19/2/2013

 

1 dead, 3 hurt in NPA attack on Del Monte compound

MANOLO FORTICH, Bukidnon — A security guard was killed while three others, including a civilian, were wounded when armed men believed to be New People’s Army rebels stormed the compound of a multinational firm here at around 6:10 p.m. Tuesday. Capt. Christian [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 2/15/2013

Rail workers on strike in Khashuri

TBILISI, DFWatch–Around 800 rail workers in Khashuri in central Georgia went on strike Wednesday,demanding increased salaries and to restore benefits which they used to have years ago.

There are no staff available on the railway section between Zestaponi further west and Gori closer to Tbilisi, but Georgian Railway [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 5/2/2013

NPA rebels raid quarry in Rizal town

THE New People’s Army’s Narciso Antazo Aramil Command (NPA-NAAC) on Sunday afternoon raided the quarry of Pacific Concrete Products Inc. in Sitio Catmon, San Rafael village, Rodriguez town, Rizal province. NPA-NAAC Spokesman Macario Liwanag said a platoon of guerrillas participated in the 5 p.m. raid, in which a [...]

Labour activists demand inspection of factories

Labour activists on Friday vowed to continue their struggle for the rights of the workers until the government fulfills the registration of factories and restore the procedure of labour inspection in the industries across the country as per the law. At a protest rally taken out in solidarity with the workers killed in the Baldia [...]

Bonded labour: Brick kiln workers of Pakistan urged to unite

Speakers at the Brick Kiln Workers’ Labour Convention on Friday urged the brick kiln workers across the Punjab and Pakistan to unite to change their social condition. The speakers also demanded the implementation of the Rs665.75 per 1,000 bricks wage rate determined by the Punjab government and the need to give brick kiln workers social [...]

Jharkhand Police recovers US and Pakistan made arms from Maoists

Simdega, Oct 30 (ANI): The Jharkhand Police has seized Pakistan and US made arms from an arrested area commander of Maoist group People’s Liberation Front of India (PLFI) and his bodyguard.

Area commander Surya Don alias Subar Singh and his bodyguard Churu were arrested on Friday from the Odisha-Jharkhand border in a joint operation by [...]

Protest against Wapda sell-off

LAHORE – Thousands of Wapda Workers held a mass rally demanding that the control of 15 National Electricity Distribution and Generation Companies be handed over to Wapda for providing cheaper Electricity to consumers and overcoming the menace of serious loadshedding instead of handing over to the private hands on the behest of IMF and the [...]

Protest against Rangers raids

KARACHI, Sept 1: Police resorted to a baton charge and fired teargas shells in Mawachh Goth on Saturday to disperse a number of people, including women, who took to the streets in protest against a late-night operation carried out by Rangers that led to the detention of nearly a dozen youngsters, officials said.

They said [...]