All parties and organisations which are fighting in defence of people’s rights, against liberalisation and privatisation, against communalism and state terrorism, need to unite and take up the program of empowering the people. This is the key to the solution of all the problems plaguing our society.
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On the 29th anniversary of the founding of the Preparatory Committee for People’s Empowerment:
Condemn American interference in Pakistan!
Developments on the world scale show that the US imperialists do not refrain from criminal acts to push their interests. They sponsor so-called democratic opposition parties to bring down elected governments. They organise the assassination of those leaders who stand in their way.
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Kerala High Court rules that government employees cannot go on strike
On 28th March 2022, a division bench of the Kerala High Court passed an order declaring a strike by government employees illegal. It called upon the Kerala government to ban the strike.
Continue readingThe Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022:
An attempt by the state to criminalise all forms of protest and to terrorise people
The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022 was introduced in the Lok Sabha on March 28, 2022. The Bill replaces the Identification of Prisoners Act, 1920.
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Contractual nursing officers of RML Hospital oppose termination orders
Nursing officers employed on contract at the central government-run Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital in New Delhi are deeply agitated at the threat of losing their jobs. The hospital has announced that new permanent nursing staff are going to be hired and that they are going to terminate the contractual nursing officers, some of whom have been working at the hospital for over a decade.
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Anganwadi workers in Delhi receive termination notices for participating in strike
Nine hundred and ninety one Anganwadi workers and helpers have been terminated until March 14, according to the submission of the Delhi government in the Delhi High Court. According to the Delhi State Anganwadi Workers and Helpers Union (DSAWHU), the notices received by workers state that their services are being terminated for being an “active part of the strike, agitation and dharna”.
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Struggle of Rail workers of Canada
More than 3000 railway workers of the Canadian Pacific Railways (CP) are waging a struggle for a new agreement with the company on wages, pensions, other benefits, and work rules. The workers are locomotive engineers, conductors, train and yard workers. According to the workers, the earlier agreement between their union, the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC), and the company expired on December 31, 2021
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Nurses of Covid facility at LNJP Hospital protest against termination notice
Nearly 100 nurses employed at the COVID centre affiliated to the Lok Nayak Jaiprakash Narayan Hospital (LNJP / LNH), have been issued notices on March 3, stating that their services will stand terminated after March 31. The nurses have been on dharna at the gates of LNJP Hospital, since the beginning of March, demanding that they be re-instated.
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Convention of Electricity Employees and Engineers
The NCCOEEE (National Coordination Committee of Electricity Employees and Engineers) held a convention on March 19, 2022 at Chandigarh. The convention was co-organised by UT Electricity Engineers Union. The Convention was held to sum up the experiences of the heroic strike struggle that the electricity employees and engineers in Chandigarh had waged from February 22-24, 2022 and to take forward the struggle.
Continue readingBan on Hijab:
An attack on the right to conscience and the unity of the people
The controversy over whether girls should be allowed to wear head scarves or hijabs while attending school or college, has now developed into a major political issue. Passions have been aroused on this issue and attempts made to divide people on communal lines.
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