May Day 2021 was celebrated in India by trade unions and farmers together, as decided in a joint meeting on April 28, Samyukt Kisan Morcha and the Central Trade Unions. Discussions continue on how to take the joint battle forward, against the draconian laws attacking the rights of the workers, farmers and civilians. A Groundxero […]
All central trade unions, barring BMS, went on a national strike on 26th November 2020. The strike was labeled as historic, with a massive participation of the working peoples. But will such annual strikes in the absence of real struggle at sites of production and trade unionism rooted in economism have any effect on the […]
What had begun as a mark of resistance by Honda’s contractual workers against the management’s decision — asking 650 of them to proceed on a three-month-long leave on November 5 citing slump in consumer demand — gradually snowballed into a full-fledged “workers’ movement”. A report by GroundXero. On 22 November, several thousand workers of the Honda […]