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On May 15, the Israeli Armed Forces opened fire on hundreds of protestors who had gathered at a check point on the border of Gaza with Israel, to commemorate Naqba (day of catastrophe), the founding of the Israeli Zionist state in 1948. At least 15 people were killed in the firing while many more were wounded.

After a 10 day strike that grounded Air India, and three days of negotiations involving the pilots, the Management of Air India and the Civil Aviation Ministry, the Indian Commercial Pilots Association withdrew their strike on May 6, 2011.

Tens of thousands of people all over Spain have been participating in sit – in protests in the second half of May 2011, occupying the Puerta del Sol in Madrid and many other public buildings and places.

The results of the elections to the assemblies of West Bengal, Tamilnadu, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry have come in. These elections took place against a background of growing anger and resentment amongst the workers, peasants, tribal people, progressive intelligentsia and other working people, about the worsening conditions of life.

The industrial areas of Panipat contains mostly hosiery and yarn factories. Thousands of workers who work in this industrial area live in rented tenements in the neighbourhood.

On May 22, 2011, the fact finding team established by the Committee of concerned citizen-students and youth on the suicides of textile workers in the Tirupur district in Tamil Nadu presented and discussed their report among human rights activists, political activists and social activists in New Delhi.

Wheels India workers at Ranjangaon, Pune in Maharashtra are on strike demanding increased wages, regularization and equal remuneration for contract workers engaged in work of a perennial nature.

Workers of public and private sector banks in the country will strike work on July 7, 2011.

8000 operational staff of the cargo handling agents (CHA) at Sahar Cargo Complex (SCC) in Mumbai went on a flash 24 hour strike on May 26, 2011. The workers were protesting lack of proper infrastructure as well as increasing corruption.

The struggle between the workers of Hyundai Motors India Ltd (HMIL) and the management of the company is sharpening.