privatization

27/10/2023 cgpiadmin

Coal workers oppose privatisation

Colliery Mazdoor Sabha of India (CMSI) recently held an anti-privatisation convention in Asansol in West Bengal. The focus of the convention was to highlight how the Central government was trying to privatise different operations of this industry. The Central government has already sold 37% shares of the public sector Coal India Limited.

01/06/2022 cgpiadmin

BEML privatisation is anti-worker and anti-national

BEML is a PSU of strategic importance in the defence sector. It manufactures missile launchers, tank aggregates, armoured recovery vehicles (ARV) and armoured repair and recovery vehicles (ARRV), bridging systems, transportation trailers, etc. It is precisely for this reason that BEML had been placed under the Ministry of Defence. With its highly capable workers, BEML can play a much bigger role in indigenising defence manufacture, thus reducing the dependence on foreign countries.

23/12/2021 cgpiadmin

Bank workers strike against privatisation!

Nearly 9,00,000 bank workers participated in the strike, resulting in the closure of banking operations of all the public sector banks. Through the strike, bank workers expressed their determination to defeat the anti-national and anti-social plan of the bourgeoisie to transfer ownership of public sector banks into private hands, to enable monopoly capitalists to rake in maximum profits.

14/12/2021 cgpiadmin

Opposition to privatisation of the National Health Service

Workers of the National Health Service are in the forefront of the ongoing struggle of the working class and people of Britain against privatisation of health services.

11/10/2021 cgpiadmin

Privatisation of Air India – an anti-worker and anti-people act to fulfil monopoly capitalist greed for maximum profits

Air India, and its subsidiary AI Express, which together own 94 aircrafts and serve over 100 domestic destinations and 60 international destinations, have been sold to the Tata Group.

10/10/2021 cgpiadmin

Delhi state workers’ convention calls for strike on November 25, 2021:
Unite in struggle against the growing attacks on our livelihood and rights!

We are publishing here a report received from Mazdoor Ekta Committee, of the convention held by the Trade Unions Coordination Committee.
The Joint Platform of Trade Unions of Delhi held an important convention on September 30 in New Delhi. The convention assessed the grave situation facing the workers of Delhi, particularly those in the informal and unorganized sector. It gave the call for united struggle against the growing attacks on our livelihood and rights.

29/09/2021 cgpiadmin

Coal Bearing Areas (Acquisition and Development) Amendment Bill 2021 in the service of monopoly capitalists

The 2021 amendment to the Coal Bearing Areas (Acquisition and Development) Act 1957 is a clear move of the Indian state to facilitate land acquisition for private profit.

25/08/2021 cgpiadmin

Interview with the Secretary General, All India Station Masters Association

Excerpts of the interview of MEL with Com Sunil Kumar P. (SKP), Secretary General, All India Station Masters Association (AISMA).

23/08/2021 cgpiadmin

Protest against privatization of country’s property

On 9th August 2021, a protest demonstration was organized in the call of central trade unions at Ghari check in Ambikapur in Surguja district of Chhattisgarh.

09/08/2021 cgpiadmin

Rising prices of petrol and diesel

Outright robbery of workers and peasants in the name of serving the people

Petrol and diesel account for a huge share of revenue collected by the Central government from excise duty. According to revised budget estimates, excise duty on petroleum products amounted to Rs. 3.6 lakh crore in 2020-21.