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MASSIVE ALL-INDIA GENERAL STRIKE PROTESTS MODI'S PRO-INVESTOR, COMMUNALIST POLICIES
Deepal Jayasekera and Keith Jones
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ens of millions of Indian workers, youth and rural toilers joined a one-day nationwide general strike yesterday to protest the Bharatiya Jananta Party (BJP) government’s pro-investor and communalist policies.
Since winning re-election last May, with massive big business and corporate media support, the BJP government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has dramatically escalated its assault on the working class. Through changes to the country’s labour laws, it is promoting the proliferation of precarious contract-labour jobs and further limiting workers’ right to strike and organise. It has also dramatically accelerated the privatisation of.....
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