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
Why would kerala ban government workers from striking? I thought a marxist party was the most represented party in the kerala government
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)
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 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.
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.
