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.
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The struggle continues in Hyundai motors
The struggle between the workers of Hyundai Motors India Ltd (HMIL) and the management of the company is sharpening.
Continue readingPowerful 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.
Continue readingInterview with a striking Maruti Suzuki worker
On June 11, 2011, the tool down strike by Maruti Suzuki workers which had begun on the afternoon of June 4, entered its 8th day. A correspondent of MEL spoke to a leader of the striking workers. Below are excerpts of the interview.
Continue readingSupport the just struggle of the workers of Maruti Suzuki!
Since the afternoon of June 4, 2011, thousands of workers of the Maruti Suzuki plant at Manesar have gone on strike, bringing to a halt all production in this factory.
Continue readingWorkers and peasants must lead the struggle to end corruption
For the past several months, corruption and how to eradicate it has become the main topic of political discourse.
The monopoly media, both print and electronic, has become a warrior against corruption in public life.
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.
Continue readingCondemn state repression of farmers
The Communist Ghadar Party of India condemns the brutal repression unleashed by the state against the farmers of village Bhatta-Parsaul in Greater Noida, and in several other villages along the proposed expressway connecting Delhi via NOIDA to Agra and Aligarh.
Continue readingMillions of workers celebrate May Day throughout the world
The 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.
Continue readingI 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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