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.
Continue readingMore 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.
Continue readingThe 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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Over the last 2 years power sector workers across the country have repeatedly challenged the capitalist plan of power sector privatisation. In December ’22 and first week of January ’23 it was the turn of the power sector workers of Maharashtra, who through their relentless campaign across Maharashtra, culminating with the strike on 4th January ’23 defiantly opposed the further privatisation of the power sector.
Continue readingKisans of Mansurwal village in Zira tehsil, Ferozepur, and its adjoining regions in Punjab have been protesting for over five months against Malbros International Limited, an alcohol manufacturing plant. The villagers are protesting against the hazardous effects of the discharge from the liquor factory on their groundwater, soil and the environment, which have already claimed several lives of humans.
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Haldwani, in Uttarakhand, has been the scene of unprecedented protests by people against the threat of forcible eviction from their homes by the government of Uttarakhand. The protests began following the order of the Uttarakhand High Court on December 20, 2022, which authorized the use of force to evict thousands of families from 78 acres of land in Banbhoolpura claimed by the Railways.
Continue readingAmazon 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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