Report from a correspondent of Mazdoor Ekta Committee
Workers across the countryheld protests and rallies to mark International Workers’ Day on 1 May 2023.They saluted the struggle of the workers in Chicago in 1886, who fought for the right to an 8-hour work day.They opposed the multiple attacks being made on the working class in the form of privatisation, contractualisation, and anti-worker laws and policies. They demanded their right to better working conditions.
Report by a correspondent of Mazdoor Ekta Lehar
Workers and peasants, produce all the wealth of the country. We have to become its masters. Workers and peasants have to establish their own rule.
Karl Marx, born on 5th May 1818, was a revolutionary thinker and fighter for communism. His mission in life was to contribute to the overthrow of capitalist society and of the state institutions which it had brought into being, to contribute to the liberation of the modern proletariat. Marx fought with passion for this mission.
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Report by a correspondent of Indian Workers Association (Great Britain)
May Day, international working class day, was celebrated with great enthusiasm by workers organisations in London, Britain. More than ten thousand people marched from Clerkenwell Green, near Marx Memorial Library, to Trafalgar Squarey.
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Report by a correspondent of Workers Unity Movement
The First of May, 2023 marked the centenary of the first ever May Day celebration in India. Exactly a hundred years ago, workers hoisted the red flag in Chennai (then known as Madras). May Day this year therefore assumed great significance for workers. It marks a century of united struggle of the working class of India for its rights, first against the colonial rulers, and since independence, against the Indian ruling class.
Continue readingLet us strengthen our united struggle in defence of the rights of the workers, peasants and all the oppressed. Let us mobilise all the exploited and oppressed masses, with the aim of replacing the rule of the capitalist class led by the monopoly capitalist houses, with the rule of the workers and peasants.
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The National Meeting of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha, held in Delhi on 30th April 30, attended by more than 200 representatives of kisan unions from all over the country, took several important decisions to escalate the struggle in the coming months.
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A massive military exercise involving the armed forces of the US and South Korea has been launched in the Korean Peninsula. These exercises are being conducted on land, sea and air. The target of these exercises is North Korea, also known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). The exercises in March and April this year are one of the largest in many years.
Continue readingThe two unions of the pilots of Air India, the Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA) and Indian Pilots Guild (IPG) have opposed the new wage structure and the terms and conditions of work being imposed on them by the Tata Group management. They have threatened to go on strike if they are forced to sign the new work-contract agreement, which they have called ‘draconian’.
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It is not the government’s business that the workers of a government department want to support the kisan andolan or some other andolan of the people. It is not the government’s business that a workers’ union contributes funds to the CITU, AITUC or BMS or any other trade union.
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