through unethical means. This
episode exposes how, the lofty
slogans
like
‘corporate
accountability’ etc are hollow.
Even after exposure of its
unfair practices Pepsi co argues
that it was compelled to take the
judicial recourse as a last resort to
safeguard the larger interests of
thousands of farmers that are
engaged with its collaborative
potato farming”. What a hypocrisy!
But since this absurd case was
foisted in the atmosphere of
general elections in India and
facing with growing social media
out-rage, public outcry throughout
the country and protests from
various farmer groups and
condemnation from major political
parties, and particularly its
business necessities and interests
of a gigantic a great volume of
business and prospects of high
profiteering from Indian markets
made Pepsi co and the threat of
boycott of its products in India
made Pepsi co to back out from the
cases by withdrawing them.
Though this is a relief to the
concerned farmers it is a temporary
phenomenon. But it has every
opportunity to plunge on to the
farmers and again resort is
onslaught under some flims pretext
or other of legalistic consi-
derations. This in other words is a
looming threat and challenge to the
sovereignty of seeds, sovereignty
of looming threat and challenge to
the sovereignty of seeds,
sovereignty of foods and
sovereignty of our country.
Until and unless of our country
asserts and decisively come out of
the tangle of uneven W TO
agreement that threatens the
sovereignty of our country, not only
the farmers but the people of our
country and their rights and
interests at large including our
economic independence remain at
the
mercy
of
imperialist
transnational corporations of big
capital.
June,July - 2019
contd from page 23
Already a burgeoning section
of workers have emerged in the
sectors like of e’commerce as
delivery boys, drivers working for
cab aggregators and delivery boys
with food apps.etc. All these are
employed on contract, are denied
fixed working hours, are not eligible
for fixed pay or social security. The
plight of these labourers is in no
way going to be mended and their
conditions be improved by those
labour codes, but these codes will
encourage the employers to
continue and worsen the working
and living conditions of workers.
Now it is the time for the
workers movement in India to rise
to the occasion and act decisively
to protect the interests of the
workers and their rights duly by
building up a resistance movement
against the governments attack of
abolishing the legal rights of
workers of this country.
All the trade unions keeping
away from their differences of
political, regional, religious and
other affiliations and sentiments
must unite to fight relentlessly
against the anti-worker policies of
the government.
With the exclusive principle of
strong unity and struggle against
anti-working class policies and to
protect the legal rights of working-
class each and every worker shall
prepare to fight and join in the
struggle against the attacks on their
legal rights!
A strong worker’s movement
against this on slaught of workers’
rights in the need of the hour.
Workers themselves have to fight
for their rights!
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