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2020 Indian general strike

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1074: 485: 710: 647: 309:'s own strike calling for newly enacted anti-farmer agricultural laws to be repealed. The worker's unions and the AIKSCC declared their solidarity with each other in the days leading up to the general strike and the AIKSCC's " 575: 176: 980: 702: 156: 637: 670: 680: 458:(BJP) used the image to criticise police violence, while BJP members claimed that the Sikh farmer had not been hit. Choudhury said that the man had been hit by the policeman. A 608: 294:, a demonstration meant to block traffic. According to a statement made by the CPIM, there was "massive participation" by people who did not receive strike notice, such as 1130: 1110: 565: 306: 170: 896: 970: 842: 168: 166: 290:
workers, domestic workers, agricultural workers, vendors, hawkers, and self-employed people in rural as well as urban India to come onto the streets for
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A "photograph of a paramilitary policeman swinging his baton at an elderly Sikh man", later identified as Sukhdev Singh, taken by Ravi Choudhury of
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despite the proven hostile nature of Indian labor as a significant impediment to the growth of manufacturing sector in India.
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reported shut-down in 13 of 38 districts, with industrial strikes continuing in the remaining districts. In
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Some public sector companies the government has been accused of trying to privatise include the
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Implications of Labour Laws in the Indian Economy on Employment Generation and Economic Growth
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and their supporters ... demonstrating at several road junctions". By 3 December,
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8,800 or US$ 110 in 2023) per month to all families who earn less than the
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estimated the number of farmers blocking New Delhi in the hundreds of thousands.
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to workers of all industries, calling scheme workers, construction workers,
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liberalizing agricultural reforms seen by the protesters as anti-farmer laws
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Gettleman, Jeffrey; Singh, Karan Deep; Kumar, Hari (30 November 2020).
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workers, students, women, and peasants. Approximately a quarter of all
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to provide employment from the current 100 days to 200 days work in
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Several other organisations were involved in the strike. The
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Social media also helped start a Sikh solidarity protest in
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to all, restore earlier pension scheme and improve EPS 95.
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of government-run manufacturing and service entities in
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Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
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Prof. Richard Wolff: India's Historic General Strike
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people in India participated in the general strike.
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says would make it arguably the largest in history.
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Index

Indian general strike of 2020
general strike
India
trade unions
Indian National Congress
Communist Party of India
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
left-wing
Trade unions
crore
Jacobin
farmers march to New Delhi
workers' unions
Direct cash transfer

income tax
grain
ration
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
rural areas
wages
urban areas
anti-worker labour
code
liberalizing agricultural reforms seen by the protesters as anti-farmer laws




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