Rangers Attack Protesting Ragbi Industry Workers Demanding Bonus – 40 Injured, 25 Arrested September 6 2010 Karachi. Rangers (paramilitary) and police attack Ragbi Industry protesting workers, injure 40, arrested 25 in Korangi No4 Police Station. Ragbi protestors were demanding their due Bonus denied by bosses as company is making profits. Ragbi is a mixed workerforce comprising both men and women and Mohajir and Pukhtoons. Majortiy of those arrested are Mohajir workers while a large number of Pukhtoon workers from Ragbi held a big meeting coordinated by Intl Socialists Karachi at Muzaffarabad Colony Landhi, an area from where a number of Pukhtoon workers go to work in Korangi Ragbi which is 4km from Landhi. A number of workers attending the meeting were injured while some woman workers were also reportedly injured by Rangers attack. The meeting decided to hold protest tomorrow at the Ragbi/Korangi Police Station/ Karachi Press Club. The fightback by workers at Ragbi show that ethnic state-sponsored target killings of Pushtoons and Mohajirs in the past few months have failed to divide the working class in Karachi. Earlier in August J&M Garment workers of Export Processing Zone Landhi, also a mixed workforce including Pushtoons, Mohajirs, Sindhis and Punjabis was attacked by the Rangers when workers demanded better food. The attack by Rangers on working class protests is a new development in Karachi’s industrial areas of Landhi and Korangi. It seems that the bosses have got a free hand and the Rangers and Police is increasingly being used to attack working class. Please help by sending sms of incident to media and sympathatic journalists and join the protests. Details Farooq 0343-32011316 www.worldtowinpk.net
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