Kisans in Punjab, Haryana, UP and other parts of the country continue to wage struggles for assured public procurement of their produce at remunerative prices, MSP for all crops, for state subsidies for agricultural inputs, for better irrigation facilities, for loan waiver and against the Electricity Amendment Bill. Justice for the murder of agitating kisans in Lakhimpur Kheri and withdrawal of false police cases against agitating kisans are other important demands they are raising. Kisans are demanding that the government fulfill the assurances it gave to them in December 2021 on the basis of which they had withdrawn their dharna at the borders of Delhi.
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Capitalist greed is leading to massive destruction of jobs
The drive of capitalists to maximise their profits in the conditions of acute economic crisis has led to massive job losses around the world.
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Workers’ struggles in the Auto Industry
Throughout the auto and auto components industry, the capitalists have ensured that workers are kept divided on the basis of whether they are regular workers or contract workers. For the same work, contract workers are paid much less than the regular workers. They do not have any social security benefits. The capitalist owners, together with the labour department of the government, ensure that contract workers are not allowed to organise themselves into unions. Neither are they allowed to join the unions of regular workers as members.
Continue readingHundreds die in bridge collapse in Gujarat:
Criminal negligence of the state
The Morbi bridge collapse is one more man made tragedy inflicted upon our people by a system in which the overriding concern of the state is to ensure the profits of private capitalists, without caring for the safety and well being of masses of people.
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US rattled by decision of petroleum exporting countries’ to cut oil production
In early October, the 23 member group of petroleum exporting states known as OPEC+ agreed amongst themselves to cut oil production by 2 million barrels per day. This amounts to about 2% of the prevailing daily oil production.
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Present Situation and the Way Forward
The most positive development in our country in recent times is the growing unity of workers and peasants against the capitalist program of globalisation, liberalisation and privatisation. The way forward is to defend and further strengthen this unity, without being diverted by the electoral rivalry among bourgeois parties.
Continue readingOn the 38th anniversary of a Monstrous Crime:
Lessons of the 1984 Genocide
State-organised communal violence and state terror can be eliminated once and for all, only when the rule of the bourgeoisie is replaced by workers’ and peasants’ rule. The existing state must be replaced with a new state which guarantees to all citizens the right to life, right to conscience and all other human rights and democratic rights.
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Struggle of the Sanitation Workers – Municipal Corporation of Delhi
Sanitation workers of the MCD struck work on 14th October after their pending demands had not been met. The strike was organised under the leadership of the MCD Union Core Committee which comprises of 8 unions of sanitation workers across Delhi.
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Third meeting on “Crisis of Agriculture and its solution”
“Food is an essential requirement of society, so those who produce food must be assured of a secure livelihood. But if large sections of the society are under-fed and those who produce food are driven to suicide due to lack of a secure livelihood, then that is a definite sign of the crisis.” With these opening remarks, Birju Nayak, secretary of Mazdoor Ekta Committee began his address to the third meeting on ‘Crisis of Agriculture and its solution’ organised by Mazdoor Ekta Committee (MEC) on October 20.
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Mass Demonstrations in Europe
Workers have been protesting in large numbers throughout Europe, against the economic crisis and the escalating attacks on their livelihood. They are opposing the huge increase in energy prices which is making life a living hell for the working people.
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