Report of the correspondent of Mazdoor Ekta Committee
A protest demonstration was organized on the evening of August 14, 2023 at Patliputra Golambar in Patna, the capital of Bihar, to protest against the gruesome crimes committed against women in Manipur and the increasing sexual harassment and violence against women in the country.
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Report of the correspondent of Mazdoor Ekta Committee
At the call of the Rajasthan Nurses Joint Sangharsh Samiti, nurses working in various district hospitals of Rajasthan took out a candle march and torch procession on August 14, 2023, in support of their demands. The protesting nurses shouted slogans against the state government. On 15th August, Independence Day, the nurses hoisted the flag at the protest sites as a show of their demands. The nurses warned that if the government did not take any action on their demands, they would organize a massive rally and demonstration in Jaipur on 25th August.
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Report by Mazdoor Ekta Committee correspondent
On 10th August 2023, more than one lakh workers from various government sectors raised their voice in the ‘Pension Adhikar Maharally’ at Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi, demanding the implementation of the old pension scheme.
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Workers organized programs of mahapadav (large protests) across the country on 9th August 2023, at the initiative of the United Forum of Trade Unions. They organized several processions, dharnas, meetings and protests in different state capitals and district-tehsil headquarters against the anti-labour, anti-farmer, anti-people policies of the central government and in support of their demands. It is estimated that such mahapadavs were organized at more than 700 places across the country.
Continue readingThe targeted demolition of homes and properties of people in Nuh by the Haryana government must be severely condemned. There is no justification for it. Justice loving people all over the country have rightly condemned it.
Continue readingInsurance companies have received Rs 1,97,657 crore as premium during the past seven years. They have paid around Rs 1,40,036 crore to farmers in claims during this period. The difference, which is the profits they have pocketed, amounts to about Rs 57,000 crore.
Continue readingThe people of India need to be liberated from capitalist exploitation and imperialist plunder, as well as caste discrimination, women’s oppression and state-sponsored communal and sectarian violence. The working class needs to lead the struggle for liberation, in alliance with the peasants and all other toiling and oppressed people.
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On August 9, trade unions and workers organisations in Tamilnadu held protest dharnas in Chennai and other towns. In Chennai, there was a massive rally held at Egmore Rajarathnam Stadium. Workers demanded immediate implementation of their long-standing demands.
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Instead of protection and growth of forests, the opposite is being ensured through the amendments. The areas of applicability of the FCA 1980 have been greatly reduced.
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Government spokesmen claim that India is the fastest growing major economy of the world. However, most people know that their standard of living is not improving. The incomes of many working people have not even kept up with the rising prices of essential consumption articles. It is necessary to probe beneath the figures of GDP growth to figure out what is really happening.
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