S V Singh // “Since no such data (number of migrant workers died during lock down) exists, there is ‘no question of giving compensation’ to victims’ next of kin”, declared Santosh Gangwar, Union Minister of State, Ministry of Labor and Employment in Parliament on Sep 14, 2020. Government, however, conceded that more than 1 crore … More Workers Disowned By Their ‘Own’ Government
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The origin of May Day is indissolubly bound up with the struggle for the shorter workday – a demand of major political significance for the working class, as Alexander Trachtenberg wrote in 1932 as the first lines of his important pamphlet titled The History of May Day. Hence, it becomes crucial for the working class … More A MESSAGE ON MAY DAY: WHAT’S NEEDED IS A BLOW TO CRUMBLING CAPITALISM
The first (inaugural) issue of Weekly Commentary of Scientific Socialism is right in front of you. It is quite natural that Covid-19-related articles overwhelm its contents. Though it is a weekly commentary on current issues, yet the question of revolutionary direction is not to be lost sight of, which very much runs through every article … More CORONA OR CAPITALISM, WHICH IS THE REAL ENEMY?
Migrant workers across the big industrial cities, since the past few weeks, have been defying government diktats and demanding that they be allowed to go back to their homes and villages, despite facing widespread humiliation, oppression and even death. The time is ripe that the workers, with all their courage, should step into direct negotiations … More YE WORKERS! PLACE YOUR DEMANDS AND BARGAIN HARD AT ALL POINTS BEFORE YOU RETURN TO WORK
Demand Free And Universal Health Care System To Combat Covid-19 Covid-19 has put the future of humanity itself at stake, while Capitalism is at war with the society even now. What has been proved is the urgent necessity of a mass political movement of the working class against capitalism; a direct frontal assault on it … More RISE FOR CLASS STRUGGLE, AGAINST EXPLOITATION AND INEQUALITY
Almost a dozen state governments have quite recently adopted a slew of anti-worker labour law reforms with the main feature common to all of them being the increase of the work hours for workers from 8 hours per day to 12 hours. While the prevailing law, the Factories Act 1948, with respect to overtime mandates … More RESIST THE NEW NORMAL OF 12-HOUR WORK DAY
Raise your voice against the dangerous attack of the capitalist class and the government on the working class in pretext of corona crisis and the insensitivity of the government towards the crisis of life and livelihood of the working masses!Transform the protests into protracted, militant and decisive struggle of working class! Pay full wages to … More ALL INDIA PROTEST DEMONSTRATION (3rd July ’20)
Ekta // After a relentless struggle of 163 days, Delhi Government orders reinstatement of workers. Still, University Administration refuses to immediately implement the order and calls police on workers and students who went to University asking for implementation. Despite police detention (later released) and threat of FIR, the 6-month long struggle continues unabated. The sanitation … More [GROUND REPORT]: UNITED STRUGGLE OF WORKERS AND STUDENTS OF NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY, DELHI
A Priya // Coronavirus pandemic wreaked havoc on the entire mankind and has seriously challenged the status quo. With this unparalleled situation, came to surface the flaws and rot in the current system. Amidst the chaos, it brought with itself great prospects for mass upheavals, but also an opportunity for the capitalists to pedal their … More TREADING THE DEPLORABLE PATH OF PRIVATISATION: PM LAUNCHES THE AUCTION OF 41 COAL BLOCKS FOR COMMERCIAL MINING
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