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11/09/2023 cgpiadmin

The next stage in the campaign of kisan organisations

On 4th September 2023, the kisan organisations and the Punjab government met in Chandigarh’s Punjab Bhavan to discuss the demands placed before the central government.

11/09/2023 cgpiadmin

Tank cleaning leads to death of five workers

Report of Mazdoor Ekta Lehar’s correspondent

On 30^th August five workers died from a gas leak in Sakshi Food Products in Dhanela village off the Agra-Mumbai highway, in Noorabad thana of Morena district in Madhya Pradesh.

10/09/2023 cgpiadmin

Rajasthan Platform Based Gig Workers (Registration and Welfare) Act, 2023:
A claim to address the problems of gig workers

Trade unions and organisations of the working class have to take up the issues of legal recognition of gig workers as workers, of their rights such as fixed working hours, safe working conditions, minimum wages, security of jobs, social security, right to form unions, mechanisms for redressal of grievances, etc.

09/09/2023 cgpiadmin

Continuing Crisis in Manipur

The people of Manipur can and must overcome this situation. They must refuse to fall for the divide and rule policy of the ruling class.

09/09/2023 cgpiadmin

Protest against the plight and deaths of Safai Karamcharis

Report of the correspondent of Mazdoor Ekta Committee

On 28^th August, hundreds of women sanitation workers staged a massive protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. Under the flag of ‘Safai Karamachari Andolan’, these workers have been on the campaign since May 11, 2022, i.e., for the last 480 days, to raise the pitch about the deaths of Safai Karmacharis in different areas of the country.

09/09/2023 cgpiadmin

Pharmacists on strike in Rajasthan

Report of Mazdoor Ekta Committee correspondent

From September 1, 2023, pharmacists working in government hospitals and dispensaries across different districts of Rajasthan are organising a series of strikes in support of their demands, under the leadership of Rajasthan Pharmacists Employees Union (Unified).

09/09/2023 cgpiadmin

Spirited protests by ASHA Workers in Haryana

Report by Mazdoor Ekta Committee correspondent

Since 8 August 2023, ASHA workers of Harya have been on strike demanding minimum wage. The ASHA Workers union is leading this struggle.

08/09/2023 cgpiadmin

Upcoming G20 Summit at New Delhi:
No solution to the world’s problems from the champions of capitalism

The G20 will not come up with any solution to the major problems that afflict our people and the peoples of the whole world, such as economic crises, unemployment, inflation and destruction of the natural environment. There is no solution to these problems within the capitalist-imperialist system.

06/09/2023 cgpiadmin

Playing with the Lives of Workers

Report of the correspondent of Mazdoor Ekta Committee

On 24^th August 2023, repair work was going on at an old petrol pump building in Jalandhar, Punjab. The roof of the petrol pump suddenly collapsed while it was being repaired, killing two workers and injuring another two.

04/09/2023 cgpiadmin

Declining quantity and quality of employment:
Wastage of country’s youthful workforce

Government spokesmen claim that India is the fastest growing major economy of the world. However, the number of jobs is not growing and the quality of available jobs is deteriorating. The youthful population, which is India’s most precious productive force, is getting wasted because the economic system is oriented to fulfil capitalist greed and not to fulfil people’s need.