Report of Mazdoor Ekta Committee correspondent
The biennial convention of Moradabad division of All India Loco Running Staff Association (AILRSA) was held on 27th September 2023. Keeping in mind the increasing incidents of train derailment and passing of red signal (SPAD), the theme of this AILRSA convention was – ‘Safety Seminar on Mission Zero SPAD and Biennial Division Conference’.
Continue readingJournalists, teachers, students, lawyers and political activists have unitedly condemned the attack on journalists and the news portal NewsClick.
Continue readingThe Communist Ghadar Party of India condemns these raids and arrests as a blatant attack on democratic rights. It condemns the invocation of the draconian UAPA. This law has been invoked only in order to ensure that those arrested can be kept in jail for an indefinite period without the possibility of bail. The raids, arrests, and the use of UAPA against journalists are aimed at throttling the voices of all those who dare to dissent.
Continue readingSeveral organisations of farmers have raised their voices in protest against the recently announced cuts in duty rates on American imports of many agricultural and poultry products to India. These include chickpeas, masur dal, apples, walnuts, almonds, chicken legs and chicken liver.
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Farmers of Punjab and Haryana have been organizing protest actions to assert their claims.
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It is a crime when producers have to destroy their harvest because they cannot get the prices to cover their investment. This is what tomato producers in Maharashtra are facing today.
Continue readingThousands of contract workers are employed by different contractors from various parts of the country, in the two bases of the Indian Navy under the Southern Naval Command, in Kochi and Kannur in Kerala. These contract workers are denied the statutory minimum wages. They have no job security and no social security measures. According to a notification issued by the Union government, they are eligible for wages of Rs 617 per day, which is supposed to be revised every six months. However, workers employed by several contract companies have complained that they are not being paid these wages.
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The 19th State Conference of West Bengal Medical and Sales Representatives Union (WBMSRU) was recently held at Siliguri from 8th to 10th September 2023. WBMSRU is the largest union of medical sales representatives (MRs) in West Bengal and has around 22,000 members. The Conference discussed the deteriorating working conditions of workers in this sector.
Continue readingThe Indian bourgeoisie has considered the presidency of G20 this year as an excellent opportunity to advance its own imperialist aims. Behind all the talk about championing the interests of less developed countries of the world lies the interests of Indian capitalists to further penetrate the markets of such countries and gain control of various precious raw materials.
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The protesting workers are demanding that the JNU management recognise them as permanent workers and give them the statutory wages as well all other benefits due to them.
