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JAWAHARLAL INEHRU UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION 30. 4. 05.
Against Globalization And Imperialism.
Uphold Glorious Legacy OfMay Day For Workers' Rights, Democracy And Freedom !.
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1 \3fl$~ ~~lqGI'fl em thC1 fc)~cFR1 ftl~1~)1 ! 1 \3t1Cf>~ thi'<i! ~ m..
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On }day 1. 1886. US workers had declared a nation-wide strike demanding that the 8-hour workday be legalised More .
.
rhan 3 lakh workers participated in the strike. in Chicago, the police fired on protesting workers, killing 6 and wounding.
.
policefired again, killing innumerable workers. in an instance ofblatant witch-hunting, the police then arrested 8 workers' .
.
hundreds. On May 4, thousands ofworkers gathered in Haymarket Square to protest against the police brutality. But the.
leaders on trumped up murder charges. With no shred ofevidence, all 8 were convicted as guilty, andfour were executed..
.
Working class struggles have always been branded as anti-national by the State, andsubjected to brutal repression. The.
the statutes, bur it continues to be used against the struggles ofagrarian poor. Draconian laws like ESMA andNSA are used .
.
bulk ofthe: victims ofthe draconian TADA were workers and trade-unionists; even today, TADA may have disappearedfrom.
to crush working class assertions, the historic right ofthe workers to strike is now being i/lega/ised..
Meanwhile, the industrialists who ordered the murder ofworking class leader Shankar Guha Niyogi escape punishment.On May Day, as we commemorate the historic May I strike for which the Haymarket Martyrs were hanged, we also salute .
the memory of the martyrs and heroes of our working class movement-Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev, the hundreds.
of nameless workers and students killed in the protests against the British colonial trial of the INA soldiers, as well as .
working class leaders like Niyogi, Datta Samant, Safdar and Mahendra Singh..
The fate of workers being evicted from their homes in the cities of Cyberabad and Mumbai; the suicides of farmers in Andhra Pradesh and Punjab, the starvation of agrarian workers due to unemployment -all these tell the tale of the fresh .
assault on the working class in times of globalisation. Mills are shut down to make way for malls, and workers' slums aredeclared to be blot on the 'beauty' of the very cities their own labour has created..
In the era ofGlobalisation, the assault on the working class has intensified internationally; but at the same time, it is the working class which has formed the core of remarkable mass protests against imperialist economic policies and aggression..
In India, since the decade ofnineties, successive Governments launched their 'liberalisation' offensive on the workingwhich presided over the privatization ofpublic sector units like VSNL, Balco, Maruti andJPCL. Rushing to obey the diktats of class. The most naked expression ofthis assault was by the BJP-led NDA. The BJP-NDA instituteda 'DisinvestmentlJinistry'.
the imperialist funding agencies, the BJP-NDA speeded up the process ofselling out India s assets, culling back on public .
~pending on ~vc:ial sectors. and c.:onc.:e:i~ions to big corporales and MNCs. The resulting starvation, farmers· suicides and.
unemploymentfinally burst the 'india Shining' balloon that the BJP-NDA hadtried to present to the people as an election gift..
However, even the UPA, which came to power promising a shift in such anti-people policies, has gone ahead on the same .
path. All the BJP-NDA's pet projects-whethet it be the disinvestments ofPSUs, including the Oil sector PSUs, Airlines, and .
.
BHEL. the proposal to allow 74 per cent FDI in Indian private banks, (announced by the NDA), the hike in FDI cap in .
telecom to 74 per cent, the proposal to permit FDI in the retail sector and further privatise the insurance sector, privatisation.
ofthe power sector, the privatisation ofthe Delhi and Mumbai airports (a step initiated by the NDA), the privatisation ofthe.
pension funds ofGovernment employees, -the UPA is all set to continue with them all..
The UPA diluted the demand of universal employment guarantee, reducing it to a promise of I00 days employment for one person per rural household -a move that is not only hugely inadequate but would militate against women's right toemployment. Now, the Government is not even implementing t~is diluted promise! Despite the fact that today, most rural .
districts in India have their own 'Kalahandi' zones, where agrarian labourers starve, the UPA Government has announced.
privatisation and casualisation of services, which creates a workforce which is totally at the mercy of capital -all these Food-for-Work Schemes in merely 150 districts. Anti-labour 'reforms' to labour laws, retrenchment ofthe existing workforce,moves are being aggressively pursued by the UPA Government..
In our own campus, we can see the reflection ofthese ~oves. Karamcharis in JNU are on a dhama, protesting against the .
fact that 25% arrears, due since the fifth Pay Commission a decade back, ere yet to be paid! The freeze on new recruitments.
by the UGC has provided the excuse for the privatisation and corporatisation ofofsecurity and other services. Students too .
feel the brunt of such anti-labour moves; the freeze in recruitments adversely affects facilities in messes and library..
On the eve of May Day, the JNUSU invites students to help to forge a unity between the student movement, and the .
workers' struggles on the campus -be it those of the karamcharis or those of the construction labourers who build the hostels in which we live. .
Join Mav oav RaiiV (Ramlila Maidan to Town Hall).
Mona Das May 1, 5.00pm assemble at Ganga Bus Stop at 3.30 pm.
President, JNUSU Ena Panda .
.
Muqbll AhmarVice-President, JNUSU Gencrl Scactry, JNUSU Sona Mitra.
Joint Sccrctry, JNUSU .
.
PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2005 ID-43499
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l .
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e.
c..
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c .
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{ .
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.
,..
.. .
.
~ .
F.
f .
.
JAWAHARLAL INEHRU UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION 30. 4. 05.
Against Globalization And Imperialism.
Uphold Glorious Legacy OfMay Day For Workers' Rights, Democracy And Freedom !.
crt: eng (1 I ~ ~~~i61 cf> ~=a~111 I CT6 ~n~0I tR EAT ~cH~T em qG~JII I fch l{t) fc) ~~ft d14k1 ~ erg f?R;rr s3ll ~.
1 \3fl$~ ~~lqGI'fl em thC1 fc)~cFR1 ftl~1~)1 ! 1 \3t1Cf>~ thi'<i! ~ m..
7ltr& 47udll.
On }day 1. 1886. US workers had declared a nation-wide strike demanding that the 8-hour workday be legalised More .
.
rhan 3 lakh workers participated in the strike. in Chicago, the police fired on protesting workers, killing 6 and wounding.
.
policefired again, killing innumerable workers. in an instance ofblatant witch-hunting, the police then arrested 8 workers' .
.
hundreds. On May 4, thousands ofworkers gathered in Haymarket Square to protest against the police brutality. But the.
leaders on trumped up murder charges. With no shred ofevidence, all 8 were convicted as guilty, andfour were executed..
.
Working class struggles have always been branded as anti-national by the State, andsubjected to brutal repression. The.
the statutes, bur it continues to be used against the struggles ofagrarian poor. Draconian laws like ESMA andNSA are used .
.
bulk ofthe: victims ofthe draconian TADA were workers and trade-unionists; even today, TADA may have disappearedfrom.
to crush working class assertions, the historic right ofthe workers to strike is now being i/lega/ised..
Meanwhile, the industrialists who ordered the murder ofworking class leader Shankar Guha Niyogi escape punishment.On May Day, as we commemorate the historic May I strike for which the Haymarket Martyrs were hanged, we also salute .
the memory of the martyrs and heroes of our working class movement-Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev, the hundreds.
of nameless workers and students killed in the protests against the British colonial trial of the INA soldiers, as well as .
working class leaders like Niyogi, Datta Samant, Safdar and Mahendra Singh..
The fate of workers being evicted from their homes in the cities of Cyberabad and Mumbai; the suicides of farmers in Andhra Pradesh and Punjab, the starvation of agrarian workers due to unemployment -all these tell the tale of the fresh .
assault on the working class in times of globalisation. Mills are shut down to make way for malls, and workers' slums aredeclared to be blot on the 'beauty' of the very cities their own labour has created..
In the era ofGlobalisation, the assault on the working class has intensified internationally; but at the same time, it is the working class which has formed the core of remarkable mass protests against imperialist economic policies and aggression..
In India, since the decade ofnineties, successive Governments launched their 'liberalisation' offensive on the workingwhich presided over the privatization ofpublic sector units like VSNL, Balco, Maruti andJPCL. Rushing to obey the diktats of class. The most naked expression ofthis assault was by the BJP-led NDA. The BJP-NDA instituteda 'DisinvestmentlJinistry'.
the imperialist funding agencies, the BJP-NDA speeded up the process ofselling out India s assets, culling back on public .
~pending on ~vc:ial sectors. and c.:onc.:e:i~ions to big corporales and MNCs. The resulting starvation, farmers· suicides and.
unemploymentfinally burst the 'india Shining' balloon that the BJP-NDA hadtried to present to the people as an election gift..
However, even the UPA, which came to power promising a shift in such anti-people policies, has gone ahead on the same .
path. All the BJP-NDA's pet projects-whethet it be the disinvestments ofPSUs, including the Oil sector PSUs, Airlines, and .
.
BHEL. the proposal to allow 74 per cent FDI in Indian private banks, (announced by the NDA), the hike in FDI cap in .
telecom to 74 per cent, the proposal to permit FDI in the retail sector and further privatise the insurance sector, privatisation.
ofthe power sector, the privatisation ofthe Delhi and Mumbai airports (a step initiated by the NDA), the privatisation ofthe.
pension funds ofGovernment employees, -the UPA is all set to continue with them all..
The UPA diluted the demand of universal employment guarantee, reducing it to a promise of I00 days employment for one person per rural household -a move that is not only hugely inadequate but would militate against women's right toemployment. Now, the Government is not even implementing t~is diluted promise! Despite the fact that today, most rural .
districts in India have their own 'Kalahandi' zones, where agrarian labourers starve, the UPA Government has announced.
privatisation and casualisation of services, which creates a workforce which is totally at the mercy of capital -all these Food-for-Work Schemes in merely 150 districts. Anti-labour 'reforms' to labour laws, retrenchment ofthe existing workforce,moves are being aggressively pursued by the UPA Government..
In our own campus, we can see the reflection ofthese ~oves. Karamcharis in JNU are on a dhama, protesting against the .
fact that 25% arrears, due since the fifth Pay Commission a decade back, ere yet to be paid! The freeze on new recruitments.
by the UGC has provided the excuse for the privatisation and corporatisation ofofsecurity and other services. Students too .
feel the brunt of such anti-labour moves; the freeze in recruitments adversely affects facilities in messes and library..
On the eve of May Day, the JNUSU invites students to help to forge a unity between the student movement, and the .
workers' struggles on the campus -be it those of the karamcharis or those of the construction labourers who build the hostels in which we live. .
Join Mav oav RaiiV (Ramlila Maidan to Town Hall).
Mona Das May 1, 5.00pm assemble at Ganga Bus Stop at 3.30 pm.
President, JNUSU Ena Panda .
.
Muqbll AhmarVice-President, JNUSU Gencrl Scactry, JNUSU Sona Mitra.
Joint Sccrctry, JNUSU .
.