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Press Release from Delhi Metro Kamgar Union New Delhi, 30 May. Hundreds of Delhi Metro Workers gathered at Jantar-Mantar today toprotest against the serious and open violation of labour laws by DMRC under the banner of Delhi Metro Rail Kamgar Union (DMRKU). Delhi Metro workers held a large demonstration against the unreasonable termination of 250 […]

We strongly condemn the absolutely arbitrary and unprecedented action of the Jharkhand police administration in detaining eight members of a CDRO (Coordination of Democratic Rights Organizations) fact-finding team while they were addressing a press conference in Ranchi. The team had just returned from a fact-finding mission to Chatra, where ten members of the CPI(Maoist) had […]

http://www.livemint.com/Politics/pujm2e6W36g8Cak9A3z2FN/Mahendra-Karma-and-his-cynical-form-of-vigilantism.html Mahendra Karma and his cynical form of vigilantism For long, Karma often resembled a wolf that preyed on the tribals of southern Chhattisgarh, many from his own tribe Mahendra Karma is dead. And I am here to write ill of him. This may be construed as indelicate in the aftermath of the savage Maoist […]

by Paramjit Singh The rudimentary cause behind crises in the existing capitalist system is system itself. Each crisis, whether it is great depression (1930s), collapse of international monetary system (1970s), or the financial crisis of 2008, has one sole reason, i.e., the gap between haves and have-nots continues to widen. The only permanent solution to […]

Press Statement Activists of worker’s movement, revolutionary & progressive organizations, trade union movement and civil rights organization have jointly given a call for Gherao of Central Labor ministry office situated at Shram Shakti Bhawan, Rafi Marg New Delhi in solidarity with workers of Maruti Suzuki Pvt. Ltd. Manesar, Haryana. On 24.05.2013 at 2.00 p.m. people […]

On 19th May, around 1500 people had come from different parts of Haryana and adjoining places to Kaithal to extend solidarity to the workers of Maruti who have been sitting on an indefinite dharna since 24th March, 2013. A curfew was enforced in Kaithal from the previous evening in order to stop this mass dharna […]

http://www.countercurrents.org/ratnayake210513.htm Bangladeshi Police Attack Garment Workers’ Protest By K. Ratnayake 21 May, 2013 WSWS.org Police fired rubber bullets on tens of thousands of protesting Bangladeshi garment workers in the Ashulia industrial belt near Dhaka yesterday, injuring at least fifty. Workers were protesting to demand higher wages and safe working conditions. They were also demanding the […]

Solidarity Committee of the Rangareddy Brick kiln Workers’ Union organised a public meeting of the Brick-kiln Workers’ Movement.on 19th May 2013 at Dundigal village bus stop, Qutbullahpur mandal, Rangareddy dist. The speakers included S.L. Padma (IFTU), Vengal Reddy (Commitment), V. Praveen (IFTU), A. Krishna (Prayas), Shantilal (Activist, Brick kiln workers movements in Rajasthan and Gujarat), […]

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/protest-against-arrest-of-sacked-maruti-workers/article4732297.ece Protest against arrest of sacked Maruti workers Staff Reporter Several students and faculty members of Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi University and Jamia Millia Islamia staged a demonstration outside Haryana Bhawan here on Sunday to protest against the arrest of sacked Maruti workers in Kaithal. The Maruti workers, who were holding a peaceful sit-in at […]

http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/unions-left-wing-outfits-demand-release-of-maruti-workers-113052000247_1.html Unions, left-wing outfits demand release of Maruti workers Police action against protesting workers of Maruti Suzuki in Kaithal in Haryana during the weekend has drawn criticism from trade unions and some left wing organisations, who have renewed demands to free the 147 workers arrested in July last year after the violence in the Gurgaon […]