Many tens of millions on strike in India
Strikers in Kerala As I write tens and very likely hundreds of millions of workers in India are taking part in a two-day (28-9 March) general strike against privatisation, precarious work and growing inequality. It is sponsored by ten of the country’s big union federations (generally organised in India on party lines), with the glaring exception being the Hindu nationalist federation run by the BJP. Narendra Modi’s BJP government is an extreme-right Hindu nationalist regime. It is also radically neo-liberal, accelerating the anti-working class economic policies developed for decades under...