{"id":2660,"date":"2012-05-09T07:30:13","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T06:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socialism.in\/?p=2660"},"modified":"2012-05-09T07:47:13","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T06:47:13","slug":"may-day-2012-pune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socialism.in\/?p=2660","title":{"rendered":"May Day 2012 – Pune"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Adv. R. B. Sharmale addressing the meeting<\/figcaption><\/figure>New Socialist Alternative – Pune branch (CWI-India)<\/em> has been working with Lokkalyan Mazdoor Union (affiliated to Hind Mazdoor Sabha – HMS<\/em>) for quite some time now. It was felt that while we engage with workers taking up their workplace demands, it is equally important to raise the consciousness among them on various political, social-economic and cultural issues that they confront in their day to day life. Idea of running workers\u2019 study circle was thus conceived and on the day of international labour day i.e. 1st May we conducted its inaugural session. The session was attended by 130 odd workers from various trade unions in the city. Had it not clashed with other May day programs at factory levels organized by few other trade unions, turn out could have been larger.<\/p>\n

In his lead off Adv. R. B. Sharmale, President of Lokkalyan Mazdoor Union and many other unions in various factories introduced on \u2018Politics and Workers\u2019 Movement\u2019. Declaring \u2018No politics is a dirty politics\u2019 he warned against the general tendency among masses to decry politics as something too dirty, maligned to take part in or engage with. In his eloquent speech he stressed the need for \u2018politicisation\u2019 of workers\u2019 movement as capitalist class engaged into anti-working class politics all the time and it was for workers to understand this and safeguard their interests. He also touched upon how the politics in Maharashtra is being monopolised by just few families and their descendants right from independence or even earlier. <\/p>\n

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Workers at the Venue <\/figcaption><\/figure>Com. Youvraj from Pune branch addressed the rally expounding on the changing character of class exploitation in neo-liberal era pointing at large scale privatization and commercialization of various social services like education, health etc. Citing huge tax concessions given to the capitalist class, he elaborated how State has been brutally acting in the interests of this class at the cost of working masses. <\/p>\n

Workers responded enthusiastically and few of them insisted on holding it more often than monthly as currently planned. Young workers were especially motivated. We have formed a committee including representatives from participating unions that would drive the initiative meeting monthly and deciding on topics, speaker and other logistics aspects to ensure it is run collectively and democratically.
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New Socialist Alternative – Pune branch (CWI-India) has been working with Lokkalyan Mazdoor Union (affiliated to Hind Mazdoor Sabha – HMS) for quite some time now. It was felt that while we engage with workers taking up their workplace demands, it is equally important to raise the consciousness among them on various political, social-economic and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialism.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialism.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialism.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialism.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialism.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2660"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/socialism.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2672,"href":"https:\/\/socialism.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660\/revisions\/2672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialism.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialism.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialism.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}