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Labour file The September.2. General Strike and the Immediate Necessity for Reorienting the Workers’ Movement on Working Class Lines! To the one day token protest strike call given by the convention of the central trade unions and industrial federations held in New Delhi on May 26, 2015, the workers all over the country have overwhelmingly responded on Sept.2, 2015, expressing their desire to fight against the exploiting ruling-classes, their hench-men rulers, ruling-parties and the governments. They have expressed their willingness to fight against the anti-worker, antipeople and anti-national and probig capital policies pursued by the ruling-classes and the rulers of our country for all these 68 years after of the so-called independence. They have fervently expressed their will to fight against the contral and management of the affairs of the rule in India by the foreign capital through the transnational corporations. In order to express their will to fight against their class enemies the workers have faced many hurdles and braved various types police oppression. By participating in the one day protest strike the workers of our country have made it clear that they are willing to wage struggles against the ruthless exploitation and attacks of the big capital which has been playing havoc with the lives and living conditions of the toiling people of this country. This valiant spirit of the workers shown through their magnificent response shown for the one day token strike call is laudable and has to be hailed and applauded. It is estimate that around 15 crores of workers from organized and unorganized and from formal September 2015 and informal sectors have participated in this country-wide token protest strike. It is reported that the transport, insurance, banking and mines sectors have greatly affected by the strike. A large number of women workers have participated in the strike. In various industrial belts such as Gurgaon, Manesar, Delhi, Ghaziabad, Noida, Hosur, Sriperambadur in Tamilnadu the industrial workers working in the plants of multinational corporations like Maruti, Honda, Toyota, Volvo, Bosh, Kirloskar have participated in the strike. Workers of some state road corporations too have participated in the strike. More than 20 lacs of Anganvadi employees, mid-day meal workers and Asha workers have also participated in the strike. Workers of various small industries and factories throughout the country have participated in the strike. Teaching staff of NCLP schools, Para teachers under the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan etc participated in the strike. In some cities like Delhi auto rikshaw and taxi drivers have also participated in the strike. In some cities and towns the Hamalis (loading and unloading workers) also have participated in the strike. All this has become possible only with the support and participation of thousands of independent, trade-unions, not affiliated to the traditional central unions, and the staunch support of diffirent toiling sections of the society and common people, the peasants, the agricultural workers, the artisans all over the country through their solidarity by participating in massive demonstrations, rallies, rastarokos etc. Though the government had used all sorts of tactics to scuttle the strike like making the B.M.S. (the RSS affiliate) to withdraw from the strike, threatening the employees of public sector units to use ESMA or with break of service besides loss of wages and approaching highcourt (BPCL management in Kerala) by obtaining a direction that no strike should be called pending the disposal of the petition to be taken up on Sept.4, conducting police flag march in Noida industrial area on the eve of the strike, resorting to police Lathi-charges and arrests in different parts of the country and physical attacks on striking workers by hooligans and police in West Bengal the workers have bravely faced these impediments and valiantly participated in the one day token strike. On Aug. 29 itself the urban development minister Firad Hakim of West Bengal announced that the state government (West Bengal) will go allout to foil the nationwide strike of Sept.2 and warned that the trade-unions will see what the government can do to foil the strike and boasted that the W.B.government will ensure that Sept.2 will be like any other working day. )Q