Dear Editor, I read with great interest what was published in Mazdoor Ekta Lehar on the occasion of the 165th anniversary of the Great War of Indian Independence – the Ghadar of 1857. The article focuses on one main point, that the Ghadar smashed the myth that Indian people, who
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On the War in Ukraine
Dear Editor,
I have been reading your articles on Ukraine with great interest. Some of my friends say that both the US-led NATO and Russia deserve to be condemned. The facts, however, do not justify such a position. To say both sides are to blame misses the point.
Continue readingThe Genocide of Sikhs and the Communal Indian State
Dear Editor, I am writing this letter in response to the CC statement of 27th October 2021 about completion of 37 years of the Sikh genocide in 1984. The genocide of thousands of innocent Sikhs in 1984 was an inhuman act by the Indian state and the ruling class of
Continue readingWho benefitted from the Note Ban
Dear Madam / Sir, The assessment of the Communist Ghadar Party has been accurately on target on the Note Ban. The past five years have provided ample evidence that the entire project was aimed at accelerating the growth of digital payments, benefiting numerous billionaire profiteers who have invested in payment
Continue readingInsecurity of livelihood of workers
Dear Editor, It pains my heart to read about the conditions of the workers in the Automobile industry in the article titled ‘Automobile workers in Tamil Nadu face grave insecurity of livelihood’. It is so heartbreaking to learn that employees are sacked for taking a sick leave. They are threatened
Continue readingState of unemployment in our country
The article ‘Drastic Decline in the Quantity and Quality of Employment’ has comprehensively discussed the state of unemployment in our country.
Continue readingIntensified exploitation and the attacks on the toiling masses in the past 74 years
This is in response to the CC statement of 15th August 2021. The statement is extremely well written. Starting from the history of the British rule in India and relating it to the present condition of the working class of our nation; it helps one understand that the exploitation of the toiling masses and the attacks on them by the capitalist class has just intensified in the past 74 years.
Continue readingIndependence for toilers and tillers is only possible by building India on a new foundation
I’m writing this letter in response to the Statement of the Central Committee of the CGPI on the occasion of Independence Day.
Continue readingAnganwadi and ASHA workers must be acknowledged as workers
Hailed as COVID warriors and Heroes, the Anganwadi workers (AWWs) of the biggest world’s largest community-based programme for child development – the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS), and the Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) under the National Rural Health Mission are not even paid as per the minimum wage of the Government of India.
Continue readingRailway privatisation is anti-people
Before lockdown was imposed in March 2020, I travelled by the Mumbai local trains nearly every day. The cheap, reliable and safe railway service allowed me to go to college and to move independently as a young woman. I spent approximately Rs. 4 per day on the ticket due to
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