The upper number is the highest I could find, so it likely is a margin lower.
While :ukkk: newspapers title:
- Low turnout for India’s national two-day strike as 50 million join protests notes about repression of the strike are only afterthoughts:
The states of Kerala and West Bengal banned government employees from joining the strike, and Maharashtra invoked an emergency law banning the 80,000 workers in its power companies from striking.
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) congratulates the working class for the successful 48-hour general strike held on March 28-29. Millions of workers responded to the call given by 10 Central Trade Unions and various sectoral federations.
Note: The 250 million number got removed from the original article I found it in.
The strike follows the 2020 general strike which might've been the largest in history till that moment
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WSWS writes:(I don't remember if the wsws was okay Yeah they aren't: https://hexbear.net/post/184287/comment/2302253)
Millions of Indian workers to join two-day general strike against Modi’s ruinous pro-investor policies
Low turnout for India’s national two-day strike as 50 million join protests
How does that sentence make any sense?
They may be comparing it to the general strike in 2020 that had four times that number
Imagine publishing a headline with a straight face that says only 50 million people showed up lmao
Imagine if 13 million people in the US marched with the hammer and sickle.
well acktszdzjchyually, we expected you to get 200% of the answers correct on this exam, and you only got 100%. Therefore you fail
Yo! some of these dudes are shutting down ports with their bodies! Mad respect to these protestors.
I had never even imagined you could shut down a port by just having a couple dudes go for a swim. That's good info :meow-shining:
And unlike doing that on a road, you don't get CHUDs running you over for sport. Or at least less CHUDs.
wow that is rad.
sure doesn't deserve the dumbest comment ever attached to it:
But why Marxist flag on a temple elephant? Opium no more?
But here we are, in Hell.
India's strikes are so inspiring, MILLIONs out in the streets and flying communist and socialist insignia.
i love that "low turnout" headline as if a labor action in the UK or US could even approach that proportion rn
Capitalists in the US would shit themselves if even 2% of the nation went on strike, let alone 18%
3-18% of the population is akin to like 10-60 million in the US, damn that's huge
Did you know Egypt gets 40% of its wheat from Russia and Ukraine, and that bread price increase was a major indicator of the arab spring?
Chill out guys, he was just trying to protect us from a Canadian Spring (inshallah)
(I don’t remember if the wsws was okay)
they aren't, if you're asking, they're rapist apologists and anti-MeToo
They're also an amazing barometer for cryptofash. They loooove posting stuff from there.
It says all the things they want to hear AND it even has socialist in the name!
Ty, I remembered something was off with them, but not quite what it was.
Why would kerala ban government workers from striking? I thought a marxist party was the most represented party in the kerala government
The Communist Party of India-Marxist has government control over Kerala and has for a long time. The order to prevent Government workers from striking is a High Court of Kerala decision. The Keralan Government itself has been encouraging the protests and even proposed to give leave of absence with full pay to its workers until the High Court threw a shit fit.
Judges in a high court are appointed by the President of India in consultation with the Chief Justice of India and the governor of the state under Art 217 of the Constitution but through subsequent judicial interpretations, the primacy of the appointment process is on the hands of the Judicial Collegium.
So this is more of a Federal government intervention.
Thank you for the clarification! Should have read more on this
from little contact i had once w an indian communist he talked about how the keralan demsocs try very hard to distance themselves from the maoists while the maoists resent the cpim for severing ties in exchange for electoral influence.
we have a "communist" party here in brazil that's filled to the brim with socdems, even though they declare themselves communists (pcdob)
Yeah, except the CPIM actually has a real administrative mandate and power.
that says nothing about them being communists though, if anything after being inside the institutions for so long they might have deviated
just like pcdob - they managed to govern a state and are consistently getting to second round in elections throughout the country, even in important capitals like porto alegre, even winning some of them
they still govern like socdems (or worse, like the PT liberals, which is actually more often the case sadly)
while CPIM doesn't have a particularly strong national presence it has an iron grip on Kerala and has had it since arguably the 1940s. It hasn't 'managed to govern' it, CPIM IS Kerala. I don't know how useful this conversation is because anything short of seceding from the Indian Republic by denouncing participation of its parliamentary democracy, CPIM has consistently fulfilled a deeply held state identity of communism.
I don't know anything about PCdob but I can almost guarantee they haven't accomplished shit compared to what CPIM has for decades in that state.
Going to have to rectify what you're saying. CPI(M) split from CPI after the Sino-Soviet split in 1967. Kerala haven't had uninterrupted CPI(M) rule. The won in the late 60s and 80s but it's only recently that they have enjoyed uninterrupted success in Kerala. West Bengal(1977-2011) and Tripura(1978-2018) are the ones who won their state election uninterrupted.
I don’t know anything about PCdob but I can almost guarantee they haven’t accomplished shit
if the CPIM has accomplished anything it's already far more than PCdoB, which has done basically nothing beyond being electoralist slaves of the PT
i think you're under the impression i was calling the CPIM socdems, the point of the comparison was just to say that calling yourself a commie isn't enough
if like you say they've kept their ideology solid and their actions meet their words then that's actually great
yea im not anti cpim just relaying their opinion
they called them "the dsa of india" so i figured demsocs was better than that
the unverified indian communist called the kerala demsocs "essentially the dsa of india"
Take a moment to read the top reply, it was a court decision and the court is appointed by the federal government.
No investigation, no right to speak. Fucking chauvinist.
Found the imperial core “leftist” obsessed with purity while somehow still defending Pol Pot and stanning the Shining Path lmfao
Extremely surprised you haven’t done something reactionary enough to be banned yet by the mods.
Funny that the NYT tweet seems to have been 'ratioed' by Indian nationalists
Do you have a link to a news article? This looks like maybe the thumbnail from one
Yeah, I got a couple, wanted to see which are good, will add over time into the post's body. Feel free to add some yourself if you find some noteworthy ones.
that is quite possibly the best/worst emoji name we have on this site
