Amazon started laying off thousands of employees globally as 2022 drew to a close. The giant corporation has cut jobs across its various businesses, citing losses. India accounts for about 7% of Amazon’s total workforce of over 1.5 million. It was reported in early January 2022 that 18,000 Amazon employees in India had been laid off since September 2022.
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Petroleum and gas workers to step up struggle
Petroleum and gas workers have decided to step up their struggle against the anti-social, anti-national and anti-worker program of privatization and in defence of their rights as workers. They will coordinate with electricity and coal workers to organize a united All India strike of energy sector workers in the near future. This decision was taken by the Petroleum and Gas Workers’ Federation of India (PGWFI) at its fifth triennial conference held at Duliajan, Assam in December 2022.
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The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code: Grave Violation of Workers’ Rights
Workers are pointing out that the OSH Code greatly aggravates the already deplorable conditions that workers in all sectors face, in terms of their health, safety and working conditions at the workplace. It is a grave violation of the workers’ right to life and dignity. It is being resolutely opposed by trade unions cutting across party affiliation, and by workers and their organisations in all industries and services.
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Struggles of working class and people across the world – 2022
All the capitalist countries are engulfed in an economic crisis which is ever deepening. The imperialist bourgeoisie has been shifting the burden of the crisis onto the backs of the working class and people.
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Workers and Peasants struggles In India – 2022
Growing unity of workers and peasants against attacks on their rights
Workers across several sectors took to the streets right through the year in 2022 to oppose the anti-social and anti-worker program of privatisation. Trade unions representing workers of different public sector enterprises are coming together on a common platform and extending support to each other in the struggle against privatisation.
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On the Centenary of formation of the USSR:
A multi-national proletarian democratic state which protected the national rights of all
The 30th of December this year marks 100 years since the formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). It was formed as the result of the voluntary coming together of the Russian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian and Transcaucasian Soviet Republics. They were national and multinational states consisting of nations and peoples who had been liberated from the rule of the bourgeoisie by the Great October Revolution in 1917
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Unite around the Program for the Navnirman of India!
Speech of Comrade Lal Singh, General Secretary of the Communist Ghadar Party of India, on behalf of its Central Committee, on the occasion of the 42nd anniversary of the founding of the Party.
“It is our task, as communists, to make the crores of exploited and oppressed people unite and defeat the lakhs of exploiters.
“We need to restore the unity of the communist movement in the course of building the revolutionary political unity of the people around the program to establish workers’ and peasants’ rule and lift society out of crisis.”
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42nd Anniversary of the Communist Ghadar Party of India enthusiastically celebrated
December 25 marked the 42nd anniversary of the founding of the Communist Ghadar Party of India. Members and supporters of the party participated with great enthusiasm in the meetings organised on this joyous occasion.
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Workers of Britain intensify their struggle
Britain has been witnessing growing struggles of workers in several key industries and services, including the state-run National Health Service.
Continue readingTwo years of the kisans’ occupation of Delhi’s borders
Dear Editor, MEL The article on the occasion of two years of the kisans’ occupation of Delhi’s borders, published on 26th November, 2022, was very educative. There was lively discussion of this article in the party unit to which I belong. Through discussion we understood more deeply the following profound
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