[Marxistindia] Congratulations for Historic All India Strike

[news from the cpi(m)]

January 08, 2020
Press Statement
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the
following statement:
Congratulations for Historic All India Strike
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) congratulates the
working class, peasants, agricultural workers, students and other democratic
sections for the magnificent strike across the country on January 8 despite
large scale arrests and repression.
The joint platform of the trade unions and different federations have
successfully underlined the extremely difficult conditions of livelihood
which remains ravaged by the policies of the Modi government, through their
magnificent collective action. The strike across all sections of the economy
was excellent due to extremely enthusiastic participation of industrial
workers both in the organized and unorganized sectors, as well as the
financial and other service sectors. The strike was particularly pronounced
in PSUs, transport, tea, jute, engineering and scheme workers.
A new feature of the all India strike was the large participation of the
peasantry and agricultural workers in the rural areas to highlight the
severity of agrarian distress.
The student organizations had also given the call for a strike to highlight
the severity of increasing costs of education and assault on democracy in
the campuses which came into sharp focus with the recent assaults in Jamia,
AMU and JNU. The college and university students have played a big role in
spreading the message of the strike with the particular concern for the
defence of the Indian Constitution. School, college and university teachers
participated widely.
The general strike was total in Kerala. In Tripura, braving the brutality of
the BJP and the state administration, the strike was near total. Strike was
complete in Manipur. In West Bengal, the strike was extremely vibrant and
widespread with the TMC led state administration doing everything possible
to foil the bandh. The strike was very significant in Assam, Bihar,
Jharkhand, Punjab Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Tamilnadu, Maharashtra and in many
other states.
The Polit Bureau is confident that the voice of the workers and other
sections of the working people together with students and other democratic
sections should redouble the resolve and defeat the back breaking economic
policies of impoverishing the overwhelming majority of our working people,
divisive policies of polarization, furthering the fascistic onslaughts to
undermine the very foundations of the Constitutional principles of the
Republic. The strike action today paves the way for even broader unity of
the people through forging mightier struggles.  
 
 
(Hari Singh Kang)
For CPI(M) Central Committee office
 
 
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