A public meeting on "The Return of Class: Beyond headlines of worker’s violence in Delhi NCR" was addressed by Com. Santosh, Mazdoor Patrika. He discussed the historic significance of the ongoing wave of workers' strikes in breaking the pro-corporate consensus around “development” and the political possibilities of working-class struggles. Read more.
Workers in Noida, Manesar, Faridabad, Panipat, Neemrana, Bhiwadi and other industrial areas across North Indian states have been on protest since early-April for better wages, in one of the largest working class assertions in the last decade. Nihal Koneru, a student of B.Sc. Economics - Finance at Shiv Nadar University, a private university in Greater Noida, reports on the spontaneous protests which erupted on campus, the first such action by university workers in the ongoing strike wave.
The brutal rape and murder of a 2nd year PG medical student at RG Kar Medical College, Kolkata on 9 August has sparked nationwide Reclaim the Night protests. After finishing…