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Labour Party Pakistan organizes 5000 strong anti-WTO rally Lahore

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Labour Party Pakistan organizes 5000 strong anti-WTO rally Lahore

Posted by | Dec 6, 2005 |

Thousands of Labour Party Pakistan’s activists demonstrated today (Tuesday) against the imperialist onslaught of privatization and WTO. The rally participated by trade union activists and political workers ,started from Shimla Hill and culminated at Lahore Station all the way from Abbot Road and Mcleod Road.

The charged participants were raising slogans against US imperialism, military dictatorship, privatization, brick kiln bosses and WTO.

In a statement on the occasion, the LPP chairperson Nisar Shah and general secretary Farooq Tariq said that the World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations are dominated by rich countries and their corporate lobbying groups thus the process of negotiations is not producing any fruitful results for developing countries.

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Movements unite in Hong Kong to condemn WTO text

Posted by | Dec 2, 2005 |

Ten Years is Enough!

Pascal Lamy’s draft text released for the upcoming Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO), if agreed in Hong Kong, will destroy the livelihoods of peasants, small farmers, landless and indigenous peoples, fisherfolk and workers the world over.

Where is the promise of development?

The current round of talks is called the Doha Development Round but the draft Ministerial text makes it clear that there is nothing developmental about this round. The text focuses on opening up developing country markets and sidelines the main demand of developing countries for special and differential treatment (S&D).

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