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By Lok Sahitya Parishad The following article, reproduced from the Shankar Guha Niyogi – CMM Archive at Sanhati reflects on the state of Indian democracy from the perspective of the Bhilai movement. -Eds Summary: This essay uses real life examples, contemporary in the years 1990-1992, to highlight the inefficacy of law and the Indian constitution […]

Open letter to political parties contending in the 16th Lok Sabha Elections on the release of political prisoners and related issues of public concern [The following open letter to political parties contending in the 16th Lok Sabha elections asks them to clarify their stand on the recognition and unconditional release of political prisoners and the […]

[The following article is reproduced from the March 2014 issue of Gurgaon Workers News. – Eds] Against the background of persistent inflation the ruling class in India has to actively curb the wage pressure from below. We document short examples of current struggles in the Gurgaon area and have translated one report about a riotous […]

Let’s Boycott the Elections that would determine the prime national-traitor
from the list of national traitors!

The puppet regime’s third presidential election possesses particular
importance. In this election the person who would be chosen as the president
of the puppet regime will sign the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) with
the American imperialist occupiers and become the

The filthy scramble for seats. A deluge of defections. Casteist and
communal calculations in evaluating candidates’ prospects. A sickening
repetition of false promises. Crores of black money pumped in to buy
allegiances and votes – make no mistake, that ugly spectacle of
parliamentary elections is on.

The rulers tell us that this is our golden opportunity to make choices.

Choose between

Madawi Al-Rasheed: Saudi Arabia helped create a network of terrorism to achieve political aims, and while it does come back to bite them at times, they promote a similar ideology and continue to these alliances

See Madawi Al- Rashid here:

http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/hypocrisy-dressed-up-as-realism.html

IF YOU HAVE MISSED SENATOR GRAHAM’S INTERVIEW WITH PAUL JAY

Democracy and Class Struggle are re-posting this article from http://maosoleum.wordpress.com/ has we find this short introduction to Marxism Leninism Maoism very useful for comrades has a brief exposition of MLM .

For those wanting a more detailed exposition of MLM by Indian Comrades visit here :http://nickglais-springthunder.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/marxism-leninism-maoism-basic-course.html

New York, NY – Following a walkout by 250 UPS drivers in Maspeth, Queens, and the subsequent unjust retaliation by UPS, the fight for justice continues.

Workers walked out to defend a union activist and 24-year worker, Jairo Reyes, after UPS attempted to fire him through an abuse of the grievance procedure – a common practice to retaliate against workers enforcing their rights. UPS issued working terminations to the 250 brave drivers from Teamsters 804, claiming they could maintain the right to dismiss them at anytime. In response, the local union launched a national campaign of support with the aims of bringing UPS back to the table, and rescinding the terminations. The support included a national petition which garnered over 100,000 signatures in just two weeks.

Union leaders, stewards and rank-and-file activists from Local 804 hit the gates of every building in New York City educating members and gathering signatures from their 6000-person membership.

“We want to show UPS we’re united and won’t tolerate them retaliating against our brothers and sisters. UPS created this situation by violating the contract and refusing to respect the grievance procedure,” said 804 member Dustin Ponder. “The workers we talked to were eager to sign. They stand behind the drivers and our local.”

The groundswell of support spread nationwide as activists from groups like Teamsters for Democratic Union, the Vote No movement and Part Time Power at UPS circulated the petition outside gates across the country. Within days activists gathered petitions at hubs in Florida, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Philadelphia, Chicago, Rhode Island, Ohio, New Jersey and Arizona.

The union held a rally outside the distribution facility in Maspeth, Queens on March 21, where union leaders and local politicians such as New York City Public Advocate Letitia James were joined by hundreds of workers and community supporters. They demanded the company rescind the terminations and begin respecting the contract.

UPS attempted to raise the stakes on March 31 by terminating 20 workers after they completed their shifts, and stating more terminations of hard working drivers would follow. Outrage spread in a matter of days and the story quickly spread to national headlines.

The union and their allies now want to shine the spotlight on up to $60 million in subsidies New York City gives the company. “We’ve given UPS breaks, particularly as it relates to this [parking] program,” Public Advocate Letitia James said in quote given to the Daily News. “They should not treat workers in this manner.”

Local 804 issued a call for workers and community supporters to rally on April 3 at 10:00 a.m. outside city hall to continue the fight-back against UPS’ abuses of their workforce. The rally will demand that UPS reinstate all workers who walked off their jobs and rescind all outstanding terminations.

Ukraine: ‘No Elections Without a Referendum’

Appeal of Union Borotba (Struggle) Coordinator Sergei Kirichuk:

Kharkovites! Comrades and compatriots!
 

The new rulers of Ukraine, who came to power after the massacre in the center of Kiev, triggering the collapse of the country, want to legitimize their illegal junta.
 

For this purpose they have announced May 25 elections, which should

We started the NPA from scratch in 1969. We had only 9 automatic rifles and 26 inferior firearms to rotate among 60 Red fighters… At present, the NPA has about 10,000 fighters. The guerrilla fronts number more than 110, covering significant portions of 71 provinces.

 
SPEECH delivered on the occasion of the 45th Founding Anniversary of the New People’s Army Mirror