May Day report from Multan.
On May 6, hundreds of students gathered in front of the college campus and protested against the affiliation of the Nishtar Medical College of Multan with the University of Health Sciences (U.O.H.S). The mass demonstration comprising of male and female students chanted slogans like “Down with privatisation”, “Stop the economic murders of poor students”, and “We want human rights.”
The workers of Dudhdiwala power looms in Faisalabad are terribly oppressed by the administration and the factory owners. Their daily working hours go from 12 to 16 hours. They get very low salaries. Against all these brutal conditions imposed by the mill owners the workers went on strike.