supporters point to this one-sided
coverage as proof that it was not a
slaughter, but rather an armed clash
with narco-terrorist cocaleros.
The lack of evidence that the
protesters were unarmed, and that
not a single police officer died, is
of little consequence to a media
dead-set on waging an information
war.
“The media say we’re armed
terrorists, but in reality we haven’t
got anything to defend ourselves
with if the military does attack,”
explained a young campesino
named Eleuterio Zurita, who has
offered protection for journalists.
“The point of an attack would be to
break the union organization we’ve got here, so I hope the world can
support us and show the truth.” The self-governing nature of
Chapare has arisen out of the
practical need for sustenance and
self-defense, not a devotion to
anarchistic ideology. All the unions
here are currently holding emergency
meetings, not to discuss the
administration of local affairs, but
to lay out a strategy about how to
confront the coup nationally, and
thereby take back state power.
At every meeting I have
attended, union members have
passed a resolution committing to
contributing grassroots donations to the MAS campaign, not to be
used here, but instead by MAS
chapters in other parts of the country
where the party is not as strong.
This is how MAS has thrived
since its earliest days. So it would
be difficult to imagine the party
putting forward a ticket without a
representative of this organizing
tradition.
The coming days and weeks
will determine whether this radical
space of resistance will be drowned
in blood by the Bolivian junta. If it
survives, it will be the base from
which the left resurrects its national
project.
Courtesy : Monthly Review
contd from page 12 other reason, he can simply allow
the term of employment to end. So
the worker loses his job. This fixed
term worker can never be able to
settle down, have a planned future
since his job is not at all secured.
The workers engaged in ‘jig
economy’ who are necessary
attached to a work place are not
included into the ambit of these
industrial relations and not carting
to expand the definition of employee,
while contractualising jobs. These
employees are being deceived by telling them that they are
‘entrepreneurs without capital’, who
in reality are poorly paid and highly
exploited workers without any
rights.
In other words this code on
industrial relations-2019 turns the
workers into slaves!
The workers’ movement in
earnest shall prepare itself to fight
against this monstrosity, with
unwavering spirit to protect the
rights of workers who are the real
wealth creators of the world.
upteen industries and businesses
including the jig platforms.
While framing the rules for
code on wages, the government
has skillfully included a provision
that talks of a “9-hour work” day in
place of “8-hour work day” that is
achieved as a right by the workers
throughout the world with heroic
struggles and untold sacrifices.
Though this clause incorporated in
vague terms with an innocent
appearance, it is a clear indication
that our rulers are intending to reject
and refuse the concept of 8-hour
working day, the right of workers.
They blatantly renege on workers
and their rights in their subservience
to the big capital and forces of market world of imperialist monopoly
finance capital.
These draft rules did not take
the socio-economic considerations
and realities faced by workers, but
are based only on the dictats of the
market world forces that have been
ruling the roost of the entire globe.
These rules have failed the
lives and aspirations of entire
informal workers of our country.
The workers movement in our
country shall have to equip itself to
fight against this repressive and
reactionary attacks unleashed by
the ruling classes and their
government on the rights of the
workers, in the service of big capital
and imperialist forces.
renewed. The fixed term worker is
forced to agree all the terms and
conditions imposed on him by the
management. If the employer dislikes
TUs, then the fixed term worker has
to stay away from the union.
If the employer declares that
the job performance if the fixed
term worker is not satisfactory, that
his productivity is low, the worker
has to improve his performance and
produce more. If the employer finds
himself in financial trouble or any
contd from page 13
and punishment for defaulting of
payment of due wages and other
allowances and it also reduced the
amount of fines to be collected from
the defaulters.
Moreover the proposed rules
will apply only to the mines, railways,
telecom, banking and insurance
sectors along with central public
sector units, government owned
ports and private contractors
engaged by the central government
and the state governments are
permitted to frame their own rules
in this regard. Thus a large scope
is left for not fixing even the so-
called floor level wage to a numerous
number of workers employed in
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