[Reader-list] appeal from trade unions and left for maruti workers struggle

[Asit Das]

Dear Friends,


 We received following appeal from Com. Subhasish D. Sarma <
subhas.ssc at gmail.com>. We are here to request all individuals and
organisations to endorse it and circulate it to their friends and
acquaintances. Word files of the appeal are attached for the purpose.







 *Appeal from revolutionary mass organisations*


 *RISE AND STRENGTHEN THE MARUTI WORKERS’ FIGHT AGAINST INJUSTICE!*



 *RELEASE THE FALSELY IMPLICATED 148 WORKERS DENIED BAIL FOR 18 MONTHS!!*


*JOIN THE JAN JAGARAN YATRA FROM 15TH TO 31ST JANUARY!!!*




In the midst of continuing attacks on the rights and livelihood of the
workers everywhere by the desi-videsi capitalists and the central and state
govts governed by political parties of different shades, workers in a
number of factories in the recent times are struggling to form their unions
and resist the onslaught of their employers. The struggle of Maruti Suzuki
Manesar factory workers is one among the forefront of such struggles, their
struggle continuing from when it came out into the open in May 2011 riding
through many ups and downs, facing numerous assaults of the Maruti employer
and govt.-state-machinery combine. Post the 18th july 2012 violent incident
in the Maruti Manesar factory, through which the employer craftily
attempted to drown the voice of protest of the Maruti workers they are busy
branding the workers as criminals with open aid and collusion of the govt.
Hence it has become a still tougher uphill task but the fighting Maruti
workers have not given up. With 148 of their comrades in jail, bail denied
to them for a long one and half years, both the labour and criminal cases
lingering for months, and the workers’ families bearing great hardships,
the fighting Maruti workers are continuing their struggle against great
odds and repeated threats and harassments of the state machinery and Maruti
management. As a part of this ongoing struggle *from this 15th of January
the Maruti workers with their families and support of other trade unions,
workers organizations and students have started a Jan Jagaran Yatra
appealing to the common masses to rise and lend stronger support for their
fight against injustice. It has started from Kaithal in Haryana on the 15th
and will pass through   several districts of the state with mass meetings
and demonstrations at different spots such as Rohtak, Jind, Gurgaon, and
ultimately culminating in a big demonstration and presentation of
memorandum to the President at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi on the 31st of
January.*

*We appeal to all organisations and individuals, who feel that the banner
of revolt raised by the Maruti Manesar factory workers against the assaults
on their rights by the management and the state govt., like all such
revolts against these capitalist class policies that are being adopted by
all govts. of all kinds of established political parties from the so-called
left to the right, must be supported with all possible effort,* to rally in
support of the Maruti workers’ continuing endeavour to turn against the
powerful tide of  capitalists onslaught and particularly free their jailed
148 co-workers, who have been randomly picked up and put behind bars
foisting concocted charges on them;* to participate in the true spirit of
solidarity in the Padayatra specially with full strength on the 31st
January demonstration and mass-meeting at Jantar Mantar bringing along with
them workers of other factories and common toiling masses to further
strengthen that voice of revolt.*

*15th January 2014*



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*All India Federation of Trade Unions(New), Indian Council of Trade Unions,
Inquilabi Majdoor Kendra, Krantikari Naujawan Sabha, Majdoor Ekta Kendra,
Majdoor Patrika, Nowruz, Sanhati, Shramik Sangram Committee, Shramjivee
Pahal, Trade Union Centre of India,and pdfi*