Organized struggles of workers and peasants. The ones you don't get to see on mainstream media.
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More than 250 organisations of farmers had come up with two bills: one to demand remunerative prices and expanding procurement;two, tackle indebtedness
Instead, government decided to give a free hand to corporations.
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CITU organised nationwide protests on 16-17 July against the central government's move to privatise 109 railway routes, ban on recruitments, handing over railway stations and production units to corporates. Other mass organizations and working people joined in the protest.
The Construction Workers Federation of India is organising an all India protest today against merging of Building & Other Construction Workers Cess Act, 1996 and Interstate Migrant Workers Act, 1979 with other welfare acts thereby blunting their provisions.
Protests in West Medinipur, West Bengal, against privatization of coal mines and railways, loot of national assets and corruption/bribery fraud of the TMC government.
Protestors are demanding 200 days employment under MNREGA and transfer of ₹7500 per month to all non-IT payers.
Pourakarmikas held protests in various locations across Bengaluru demanding adequate supply of PPE, protective suits for those working in containment zones and asking for the promised payment during lockdown.
23 pourakarmikas had tested postive for Covid in testing done by BBMP.
Today is the 24th anniversary of the Bathani Tola Massacre, in which 21 people (8 children, 12 women and one man) in Bihar belonging to families of Dalit and Muslim agricultural laborers, were killed by Ranvir Sena, the feudal militia of upper-caste Bhumihar and Rajput landlords.
Today is the death anniversary of revolutionary freedom fighter Comrade Kishori Lal (1912-1990). He was one of the members of Hindustan Socialist Republican Association who were sentenced to transportation for life in the Lahore Conspiracy Case, and spent 18 years in jail.
Their demands include:
>Doubling allocation of ration under ICDS
>Minimum wages pm of Rs 30k for workers and Rs 21k for helpers. Extend Pension, ESI and PF.
>Provide COVID-19 safety gear to all anganwadi workers and helpers. Ensure frequent, random and free COVID tests +
