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 […]
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Delhi – Protest at Haryana CM’s residence, May 20
Harayana government, in collusion with Maruti management, has clamped down on workers protest in Kaithal. 150 workers have been arrested and Kaithal town is under section 144. Join Joint protest against state repression on Maruti Suzuki workers and activists in front of Haryana CM Hooda’s residence. Assemble today (May 20) @ 9:30 am near Patel […]
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Delhi – Protest against Haryana govt’s clampdown on Maruti workers’ protest, May 19
Harayana government, in collusion with Maruti management, has clamped down on workers protest in Kaithal. 150 workers have been arrested and Kaithal town is under section 144. Let us show our solidarity with struggling workers: protest at Haryana Bhavan, Delhi (near Mandi house) on May 19 at 2.30 PM
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May 18 : Demands of unions under study, says PM
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said some of the demands raised by the various central trade unions, for which they organised a nationwide general strike for two days in February, were in advanced stage of consideration of the government. Those demands include universal social security cover for workers in both organised and unorganised sectors […]
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Kaithal, Haryana – Gherao of Industries Minister’s residence by Maruti workers, May 19
Provisional Working Committee MARUTI SUZUKI WORKERS UNION We appeal to all workers, workers and peasant organisations, trade unions and democratic forces and individuals to JOIN us in Kaithal at 11am on 19th May 2013, on our call to GHERAO of the residence of Industries Minister, Haryana, Randip Singh Surjewala. On 8th May, the Mahapanchayat in […]
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Hyderabad – Public Meeting of Rangareddy Brick-kiln Workers’ Union, May 19
Venue: Dundigal Bus Stand, (1km from Gandimaysamma X road, Hyderabad) Timings: 11:00 am To 5:30 pm Date : 19.05.13 On behalf of : Solidarity Committee for Brick-kiln Workers’ Union. Every year hundreds of thousands of workers migrate from the drought prone districts of Western Orissa to work in subhuman conditions in the brick-kilns in and […]
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Delhi – Peoples’ Convention on the right to freedom of expression and association, May 17
Venue: Deputy Speakers Hall, Constitution Club of India Date: 17th of May 2013 Time: 2.30-6.00 pm Denial of fundamental rights & freedom of expression & association all through from AFSPA, Sedition laws to FCRA act 2010!!!! Let us all collectively stand up against the conspiracies unleashed by neo-liberal and anti people politics JANADHIKAR SANGHARSH SAMITI […]
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Letter endorsed by Indian Scientists on their concerns about the quality of components and equipment used at the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant
A Letter to the Chief Ministers of Tamilnadu and Kerala by Indian Scientists expressing concerns about the use of substandard components in Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant 1 & 2, and the revelation at this late stage that four valves in a critical safety system were found defective. To: Hon’ble Chief Minister Government of Tamil Nadu […]
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U.S./Israel Hands Off Syria!
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement on Syria from the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC).
The May 2-3 and 4-5 nighttime bombings of Syria’s International Airport, military installations in a Damascus suburb and a military supply depot reportedly killed 300 people. The bombings were initially denied but then confirmed by Israel and soon after given the stamp of approval by the Obama Administration.
The previous week President Obama and Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel threatened to escalate U.S. intervention in Syria based on the unsubstantiated charge that Syria had employed weapons of mass destruction, in this case the deadly sarin gas.
What is incontrovertible is that U.S. allies in the region – Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia – have supplied hundreds of millions of dollars in lethal military aid to destabilize the Syrian regime. The U.S. itself claims to have supplied some $400 million in “non-lethal aid.” The U.S., which funds Israel’s multi-billion dollar “Iron Dome” missile program, is the chief military force in the region.
No serious observers believe that Israel, the largest recipient of U.S. aid in the world, to the tune of $4 billion annually, acts without U.S. approval – the same is undeniable with regard to Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the U.S. NATO ally, Turkey.
In the case of Qatar, a nation without an army, the U.S.-established and privatized Blackwater military installation is used daily as an operational base for the U.S. war in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.
The U.S. Machiavellian strategy in Syria is first and foremost to advance its economic, military and regional “interests.” The latter includes deepening the isolation of Iran, whose oil wealth the U.S. corporate elite seeks to regain.
We recognize no rights among imperial nations to determine the future of any oppressed nation on earth, not to mention the modern day neo-colonial interveners. With regard to Syria, that right belongs to the Syrian people only.
The U.S. government is presently restrained by the mass antiwar sentiment expressed in repeated polls over the past two years. The most recent Pew Research poll indicates that 62 percent are opposed to any U.S. intervention in Syria. We must add to this the fact the U.S. bloody wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the decades long U.S. support to the Egyptian Mubarak dictatorship as well as the constant drone attacks on Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia have earned it the deep hatred of the peoples of the Middle East and beyond.
The Iraq “weapons of mass destruction” justification for this still-raging war, that has taken the lives of 1.5 million Iraqis so far, and the ongoing war in Afghanistan, wherein the U.S. puppet Hamid Karzai regime is discredited around the world, has convinced social justice activists everywhere that the U.S. imperial rulers fight for oil and military-geographic advantage and not for peace and justice.
More than ever the U.S. and the worldwide antiwar and social justice movement must demand:
• U.S./Israel Hands Off Syria!
• Bring All U.S. Troops and Mercenaries Home Now!
• Self-determination for the Syrian People!
• No to U.S. Sanctions Anywhere!
• End All U.S. Aid to Israel!
• U.S. Out of the Middle East Now!