Today
the 28th February 2012, Indian working class is going on the 14th
General Strike against the anti worker, anti people
liberalisation-privatisation-globalisation policies imposed by the ruling
classes—the capitalists and landlords lead by the big capitalists—through the
Central Government and the various State Governments representing their
interests.
Irrespective
of their banners and trades, the employees and the workers of all sectors are
participating in the strike. The Central and State Government employees, the
employees and workers of the Central and State PSUs, the employees of banks and
insurance sector, the employees of telecom sector, the millions of unorganised
workers of all sectors are participating in the strike. All the Central Trade
Unions having various ideologies representing left, right and centre, and all
the unions and federations not affiliated to any central trade union are
participating in this strike. Several political parties have extended their
support to the strike in various states. But the West Bengal Government lead by
the Trinamool Congress issued a circular threatening to take disciplinary
action against those participating in the strike on case by case basis!This
reveals the fact that the Trinamool Congress is anti worker and anti people and
is trying to take away all the gains achieved by the working class and the
peasantry during the 34 years rule of the Left Front in the State. But the
working class and the people of West Bengal will definitely give a fitting
reply to this attack on their rights by the Trinamool Congress.
The
UPA Government lead by the Congress is not even prepared to discuss with the trade
unions on the demands raised by the working class in the strike notice. On the
other hand, it is trying to impose more and more attacks on the livelihood of
the working class and the people in order to enable the Indian and Foreign big
capitalists and the capitalist-ladlord alliance to loot the economy and the
people.
Hence
the General Strike against these anti worker and anti people policies is very
much the necessity to resist this attack.
It is
to be noted that in the countries where the working class failed to organise
the strikes and struggles against these liberalisation policies, the PSUs were
privatised fully, the job and pension security was lost and the social welfare
benefits of the people were cut. But in India this did not happen in a big way.
Still most of the PSUs remained as PSUs, the banks and insurance remained as
PSUs and could not be privatised and still the system of payment of pension by
the Governments to their employees is continuing except for those recruited
after 1-1-2004. The Governments at the centre and states are compelled to adopt
some welfare measures for the workers and for the people. It is due to the
struggles in each sector and due to the general strikes against the
liberalisation policies. The strike to day on 28th February 2012 is
the 14th General Strike against the
liberalisation-privatiosation-globalisation policies since 1991. The working class of India has determined to make this General Strike today a grand success.
This
struggle has to be further carried forward in order to put a stop to the anti
worker and anti people policies.
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