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