More than one lakh electricity workers from all over UP went on a 72- hour strike from the night of March 16, under the banner of UP Rajya Vidyut Karmachari Sanyukta Sangharsh Samiti. The striking workers included engineers, junior engineers, technicians, operating staff, clerical and contractual employees.
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Bourgeois ruling classes claim that there is no better alternative to multi-party representative democracy
The Paris Commune, established on 18 March, 1871, showed that there is a superior alternative – proletarian democracy
Thousands of kisans and their supporters began their 200 km long march on 13th March from Nashik in Maharashtra. They are determined to demonstrate in front of the state assembly sometime on 20th or 21st March. This march is reviving memories of a similar march 5 years ago in 2018.
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Lakhs of state government, semi government, teaching and non-teaching employees all across Maharashtra began an indefinite strike on 14th March.
Continue readingA program to celebrate International Women’s Day was organised by the Maharashtra State Electricity Workers’ Federation (MSEWF) in Pune on 8th March. Com Bharti Bhoyar, President of the Women’s Front of MSEWF, chaired the meeting. Com Bhoyar emphasised the need for women to fight shoulder to shoulder with their male co-workers, in order to win and defend their rights, as workers and as women.
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International Women’s Day, March 8, 2023, was marked by meetings, protest marches and mass rallies in different cities throughout the country. Women’s organisations, workers’ organisations as well as organisations fighting for human and democratic rights of the people came together in militant protest actions on this occasion.
Continue readingStatement of the Central Committee of the Communist Ghadar Party of India, 8 March, 2023
The Communist Ghadar Party of India salutes the millions of fighting women on the occasion of International Women’s Day, 2023. We salute the working women who are in the front lines of the battles against privatisation and liberalisation in our country. We salute all those who are fighting against state organised communal violence, state terrorism and all forms of violence against women.
Continue readingThe struggle for restoration of the Old Pension Scheme (OPS) for central and state government workers is spreading all across the country with increasing unity and resolve. In Maharashtra too, state government, semi government, teaching and non-teaching employees have declared that they will go on an indefinite strike from 14th March 2023.
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Social ownership of the means of production is the necessary condition for social production to lead to the fulfilment of human needs rather than the fulfilment of monopoly capitalist greed.
Continue readingThousands of workers die due to the unsafe conditions that prevail at work sites. Lakhs of workers are injured or maimed every year. Workers affected by these accidents are thrown out of work, without any compensation. Workers in many industries are perpetually exposed to hazardous conditions, whose ill-effects on their health manifest themselves later. Instead of safeguarding the health, safety and rights of all workers, the OSHW code eliminates a very large number of workers from its coverage, such as those who work in small factories, or on contract basis. Similarly IT employees, delivery workers, taxi drivers, gig workers, etc. are kept out of the purview of this act.
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