Pakistan: Unemployed Youth Camps across country

On
July 16, 2009, the Unemployed Youth Movement (BNT) held a marvellous
camping campaign for the membership and registration of youth for the
Unemployed Youth Movement all over the country. A large number of
youth from every sector of society visited the camps in different
cities of the country and registered. The response from the youth was
overwhelming. The youth registered after the discussions and debates
on the causes of unemployment and its solution, i.e. the bringing
down of the capitalist system and the formation of a socialist
society through a revolution.

The
camps were held in Kashmir, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Abbotabad, Wah,
Fateh Jang, Lahore, Faisalabad, Sialkot, Multan, Khanewal, Kot Addu,
Rajanpur, Karachi, Hyderabad, Meher, Bhan Saeedabad, Khairpur and
other cities of the country. A leaflet was published before this
campaign and distributed throughout the country. Thousands of youth
visited these camps, read the leaflet and discussed the whole day the
issue of unemployment and its links with capitalism. The demands and
programme on the leaflet for the unemployed youth were as follows:

1. To
   register all unemployed persons in the country

2. Government
   should provide jobs to all unemployed or give Rs. 10,000/- as
   unemployment allowance

3. Reduce
   the working day from 12 to 6 hours per day and provide jobs to all
   by starting four shifts over twenty-four hours

4. Provide
   sports grounds and other facilities for the healthy activities of
   the students and the youth

5. Provide
   technical education and skills to the unemployed youth by making
   vocational training institutions at district and town level.

6. Reduce
   the amount of defence spending and non-productive budgets and
   increase the education budget to provide free education at every
   level

7. Provide
   equal job opportunities for women

8. Nationalise
   all institutions and immediately run the institution that had been
   closed

9. Provide
   jobs on a permanent basis to the contract labourers and daily wage
   workers

10. To
    organise the youth for the struggle of socialist revolution through
    their political and ideological training.

These
demands were appreciated by the youth as they expressed the voice of
their hearts and a lot of them decided to start struggle for the
achievement of these demands on the platform of the Unemployed Youth
Movement (BNT).

The
comrades working in the national body of the Unemployed Youth
Movement are organizing the youth in different units and also
educating them through study circles. The next plan is to hold more
camps in Balochistan and Pushtoonkhaw and other cities of the Punjab
and Sindh.

The
mood of the comrades was very high, thanks also to the tremendous
response of the unemployed youth. We will keep on struggling till the world socialist revolution.