Voice of Toilers and Tillers

Interview with Com Santosh Kumar, spokesperson of the Mazdoor Ekta Committee

On the occasion of May Day 2013, MEL interviewed Com Santosh Kumar, spokesperson of the Mazdoor Ekta Committee, on the issues facing the working class at this time. The interview is reproduced below.

Q. What is the message that you want to give on this May Day?

Sat, 04 May 2013 - New Delhi ,  Delhi ,  India

Mazdoor Ekta Lehar interviewed several working class leaders on the occasion of the All-India Workers’ Strike on February 28

We are publishing the interview with Birju Nayak, Secretary, Mazdoor Ekta Committee

MEL: Why has this strike been called today?

Birju Nayak: This strike has been called to oppose the anti-worker, anti-national, anti-people policies of the present UPA government.

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 - New Delhi ,  Delhi ,  India

Views of the working class on the program of economic reforms

As a newspaper and organisation that is partisan to the workers and toilers, we have been asking the leaders of the working people as to how the toilers of India view the reforms that were started 20 years ago. Whether the working class and people have benefitted from these reforms or have suffered?

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 - New Delhi ,  Delhi ,  India

A year of militant struggles by the working class and peoples in defence of their rights

The year that has gone by has been characterised by militant struggles of workers, peasants and all the exploited and oppressed in defence of their rights.

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 -

Doctors of Rajasthan's government hospitals on strike

Doctors working in Rajasthan's government hospitals have been on strike since December 21, on the issues of parity in wages and time-bound promotions. 6000 doctors are militantly fighting for their rights.

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 - Jaipur ,  Rajasthan ,  India

Motormen of Western Railways fight for their rights

Between 23-25 November 2011, Motormen of the Western Railways, organized under the banner of the Western Railway Motormen’s Association, went on a work to rule agitation. This resulted in disruption of the normal running of trains. They were protesting against the suspension of a motorman for crossing a signal at a platform.

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 - Mumbai ,  Maharashtra ,  India

We do not sell our mother earth!

People’s opposition to nuclear projects is growing across the country. Thousands of peasants in Gorakhpur village and surrounding areas of Fatehabad district of Haryana are also militantly opposing a nuclear electricity project being planned in this village. The government shamelessly declared that the land in the area is infertile.

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 - Fatehbad ,  Haryana ,  India

Voltas workers on 200th day of chain hunger strike

On 21 December 2011, a gate meeting was held the headquarters of Tata owned Voltas in Mumbai. The occasion was the 200th day of chain hunger strike of workers in defense of their rights. 5 women workers of the company were on hunger strike on this day.

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 - Thane ,  India

Interview with E. Saravana Muthuvel, District Secretary, Tamilaga Vivasayigal Sangam, Tootukudi

Overall, peasants have lost their economic independence, their livelihood, their land, the collective life and culture of the village.  

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 - ,  Tamil Nadu ,  India

Interview with Thiru. Kannan, Union leader of Ashok Leyland, Chennai

They are doing this not to develop India. India's development should mean how the ordinary workers and peasants prosper. If we see that way, exploitation by the capitalists has increased and so has the number of poor people in India. The land, water and labour of our people are being super exploited. Our experience in Ashok Leyland over these years show that people have not benefited by the policy of privatization and liberalization. Only big capitalists have become richer. 

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 - ,  Tamil Nadu ,  India
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