Powerful expression of solidarity with striking Maruti Suzuki workers

The dharna was organized by an action committee for solidarity with Maruti workers that was established at a meeting of local trade unions on June 8, 2011. Over 2000 workers of the Maruti Suzuki plant are on tool down strike since June 4, 2011 in support of their demand for recognition of their union, Maruti Suzuki Employees Union and against the terribly exploitative wages and working conditions. All production has come to a halt.

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Workers resist factory goons

Workers of Ankur Udyog Ltd, a factory in the Bargadwa industrial area of Gorakhpur, were attacked by hired goondas of the management on May 3, 2011. The attack was organized by the factory owner to "teach the workers a lesson" for participating in a May Day rally. The capitalists association of Gorakhpur was incensed with the large scale participation of workers in the May Day rally in defiance of the dictate of the capitalists.

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May Day 2011, Turkey

Millions of workers celebrate May Day throughout the world

May Day 2011, TurkeyThe May Day demonstrations and rallies organised throughout the world show the feeling of solidarity of the workers worldwide, their resolve to fight for their rights and those of other toiling people while reflecting their growing realisation that the overthrow of the capitalist system and setting up a system where the toilers are the real rulers is a necessary condition for ending all the woes of unjust war, poverty, deprivation and injustice that pervades the world today.

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I support the air India pilots strike

The Delhi High Court ordered the striking pilots back to work by declaring the strike illegal, and is initiating contempt proceedings since its order was not obeyed.  It has remarked that if its orders are not obeyed, then it would lead to anarchy and a discrediting of the institution, and then everyone would do as they liked. Why does not the Court also ask this of the management, and in particular of the MD, Mr. Arvind Jadhav? The latter has now been named in several allegations amounting to corruption of the worst sort, including those listed in the article, and more recently in the sale of valuable land to private players. 

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