This is to thank ESSF and its supporters whose close support for PKRC activities made it possible to resist and fight back and organise major gatherings. ESSF could send to PRRC and CF €11,000 due to the solidarity efforts of individual donors.

Along with other organizations, ESSF has consistently supported the activities of PKRC and printed most of it regularly in the website.

The ESSF support made it possible for us to resist and organize against corporate farming and other neo liberal agenda in the field of agriculture.

 Introduction

2024 was a year of relentless struggle, collective resistance, and visionary organizing for the Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee (PKRC). As corporate-led development, debt burdens, and environmental collapse continued to devastate the lives of small farmers, landless peasants, and rural communities across Pakistan, PKRC stood at the frontlines of resistance. From mobilizations against wheat scams to bicycle rallies for renewable energy, from global climate campaigns to land defense declarations, PKRC’s actions were grounded in food sovereignty, peasant rights, and climate justice.

This report documents the breadth and depth of PKRC’s actions and alliances from January to December 2024 for those ESSF close supporters.

 Highlights of Key Actions

1. Fight Inequality Alliance:

FIA Pakistan organized several national wide campaigns against inequalities. Part of ESSF was used in these activities.

As a result of the activities, Anjuman e Mazareen Punjab is the leading the farmers movement in Punjab and it is now a member of Fight Inequality Alliance.

The issue of water distribution in Sindh has taken the mainstream attention and a political debate has been generated. This was against building of 6 canals on the river Sindh to facilitate the corporate sector in agriculture. People rebelled against it and the government was forced to withdraw the decision.

The activities of FIA Pakistan were quite successful primarily because of the team work diligently put up by the FIA host organization (Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee). Secondly, the organizations and movements FIA supported had organic linkages with the people and the area where they are based.

In Pakistan NGO’s activities are looked at with a suspicion eye, and as a matter of fact many NGO’s have been shut down by the government. Therefore, during the public activities, we deliberately try to make the local organizations and activists more visible so that law enforcement agencies may not get to investigate about the international status of Fight Inequality Alliance.

Our activities led the empowerment of the community mobilizers so they could be able to help people as they are within the community and people can reach out to them at any time. We led a campaign for capacity building of community leaders at national level.

We were able to engage educated youth of the peripheries residing in the urban centres.

Women inclusion in public activities is immensely powerful, we need to encourage women to participate more and ensure they feel safe.

We have mobilised thousands of workers, farmers and daily wagers and we expect the number to increase in the future activities. We have been able to spread our message across the length and breadth of the country; however, there is still a lot to be done. Like, we need to make our work sustainable and to make it possible we need to setup provincial offices of Fight Inequality Alliance under the supervision of the provincial councils. The fight against the global 1% elite comes with enormous challenges. The foremost challenge is making people understand that it is worth fighting and this world has not been like this since the first day and if we keep on believing the super-rich class of our society things will get worse. We need to build alternative structures which could replace the existing capitalist architecture of the global order in favour of the 99% majority population of the world.

2. Climate and Energy Justice Campaigns

● Feb 10 2024 – China: Stop Coal Financing!

PKRC, joined by the Labour Education Foundation (LEF) and Tameer e Nau Women Workers, staged a protest in Lahore urging China to divest from coal and lead the renewable energy transition in Pakistan.

● Apr 19 – Debt x Fossil Fuels Nexus Protest

On the sidelines of IMF-World Bank meetings, PKRC demanded immediate debt cancellation and denounced fossil fuel-linked financing as climate injustice.

● May 19 – Pedal for People and Planet

Over 100 cyclists in Lahore joined PKRC’s 22-km rally demanding a just transition to renewables.

● June 11 & June 25 – G7 & Japanese Megabanks Protest

PKRC mobilized against the failure of G7 countries and Japanese megabanks to meet climate finance commitments, calling out greenwashing and fossil fuel expansion.

● Sep 10 & Sep 20 – Asia-Wide Mobilizations for Fossil Fuel Phase-Out & Climate Finance

PKRC led protests in Karachi, Faisalabad, Jamshoro, Gujranwala, and Shikarpur demanding $5 trillion in climate reparations and a fast, fair, funded fossil fuel exit.

● Nov 7 & Nov 15 – COP29 Mobilizations: End Fossil Gas, Tackle Smog

PKRC co-organized boat protests in Karachi and joined a mass mobilization in Toba Tek Singh calling for a coal ban and pollution control.

3. Agrarian and Food Sovereignty Struggles

● May 9 & May 21 – Expose Wheat Scandal, Demand Procurement

PKRC, alongside farmer unions from all provinces, launched nationwide protests demanding arrests of those involved in wheat import scams and immediate wheat procurement.

● Oct 7–Mass Kissan Conference & Farmer Resistance

Thousands gathered in Jhang to reject corporate farming and pass a resolution for agrarian reform. Farmers demanded land redistribution and an end to elite capture of agriculture.

● Oct 21 – Right to Food Action

During the UN Committee on World Food Security’s session, PKRC held a seminar in Chishtian calling for minimum support prices and food sovereignty.

● Nov 21 – Press Conference: We Will Not Vacate Land

PKRC and Anjuman Mazareen Punjab declared a peasant-led resistance to forced evictions under the Green Pakistan Initiative, rejecting land grabs and calling for radical agrarian reform.

4. Policy Advocacy and Solidarity Actions

● May 2 – Statement on Loss and Damage Fund Meeting

PKRC condemned CSO exclusion from the UNFCCC’s L&D Fund negotiations and demanded direct access for affected communities.

● Jul 24 – Tax Justice Press Conference

PKRC demanded an end to electricity taxation, lower energy prices for the poor, and a super tax on the rich.

● Oct 21 – Food Sovereignty Seminar

Farmers, civil society, and experts jointly demanded sustainable practices, MSPs, and a national food sovereignty strategy.

5. International Solidarity and Anti-Imperialist Stances

● May 28 – Solidarity Protest for Palestine

PKRC joined CSOs in condemning Israel’s genocidal invasion of Rafah and extended support for the Palestinian struggle

Major Themes Across the Year

→ Land and Agrarian Justice

PKRC played a key role in uniting small farmers and landless communities to oppose corporate farming, state-led land grabs, and the Green Pakistan Initiative.

→ Climate Reparations and Finance

Through coordinated regional campaigns, PKRC amplified demands for climate finance, debt cancellation, and fossil fuel divestment.

→ Anti-Capitalist Solidarity

From resisting IMF-dictated austerity to condemning energy injustice and extractivism, PKRC linked local struggles to global systems of exploitation.

 Looking Ahead: 2025 and Beyond

PKRC commits to:

● Deepening alliances with farmer, worker, climate, and feminist movements;

● Expanding legal and grassroots campaigns against land dispossession;

● Strengthening the call for a People’s Agrarian Reform and Food Sovereignty framework;

● Amplifying the voices of peasants, rural youth, and women in national and global platforms.

 Conclusion

In a year marked by crises and injustice, the Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee stood firmly with the oppressed. The support of ESSF was crucial in carrying out all our activities.

We were able to educate several dozen of youth in basic Marxist ideas by helping them to join public activities in support of the most down trodden strata of the society.

Through protest, policy advocacy, mass education, and internationalist solidarity, PKRC reaffirmed its mission: Land, Dignity, and Sovereignty for all peasants and agricultural workers.

Report; Saima Zia
Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee

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