The agitation of about eight lakh government employees of Rajasthan has been gaining momentum since several months. Government employee organizations in several districts of Rajasthan have been working to make the agitation a success. For example, on 18th January, a protest was held in front of the collector office on behalf of the Joint Employees Federation in Hanumangarh, where a memorandum regarding their demands, addressed to the Chief Minister, was given to the Collector.
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It has been the experience of kisans that when their crops are damaged, the insurance claims are not fully paid. They have pointed out that insurance companies, in connivance with the government officials, cut down on their insurance claims. Therefore, they have demanded that crop cutting data be made public and the kisans should be given full insurance claim based on this data.
Continue readingWorkers, through their labour, contribute to society during the years they work. It is the duty of society to ensure that they are taken care of in their old age, or when they suffer injuries and are unable to work any longer.
Continue readingLike every year, as the presentation of the Union Budget approaches, various lobbies of Indian and foreign monopoly capitalists have been raising the demand of further corporate tax cuts and government handouts. They are arguing that when the global economy is slowing down, capitalists need more “incentives” to keep the Indian economy growing at a fast pace.
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The OSHW code is a blatant attack on the safety, health and dignity of workers. It has been roundly condemned by all trade unions and workers’ organisations in every sector. Workers are demanding repeal of this anti worker law. They are demanding that the state ensure safe, healthy working conditions for all workers.
Continue readingThe National Monetisation Pipeline is aimed at handing over the mineral wealth, the land, and the infrastructure assets that belong to the whole of society to monopoly capitalists. The results of the past two years, shows that the government is finding it difficult to implement this plan in the face of mounting opposition of workers and working people to privatisation.
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More than a million workers, cutting across trade union affiliations, unitedly participated in a one-day strike all across France, on January 19, 2023. They were protesting against French President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the legal age of retirement to 64 from 62, thereby denying them their due pension for another two years.
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The struggle of the Palestinian people for their national rights and restoration of their homeland is a just struggle. The Indian people, together with people of other countries, are one with the Palestinian people, in this struggle.
Continue readingStatement of the Central Committee of the Communist Ghadar Party of India, January 18, 2023
People must have the right to propose and to reject laws. They must have the right to amend or reformulate the Constitution. We must enjoy the right to select candidates for election, to hold those elected to account and recall them at any time, and the right to initiate legislation. Instead of making decisions in the people’s name, political parties must be duty bound to ensure that decision-making power remains in the people’s hands.
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The Indian state works to fulfil the drive of the monopoly capitalists to make maximum profits. All the arms of the state — the Central and state governments, the judiciary, the parliament and state assemblies, the principal parties of the ruling class — are committed to fulfilling monopoly capitalist greed.
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