Tens of millions of workers across India joined a 48-hour strike this Tuesday and Wednesday to voice their opposition to the “pro-investor” policies of the country’s rabidly right-wing government.
The strike involved vast sections of the working class - from mines and manufacturing to banking, transport and other government services - and cut across the caste and communal divisions the Indian ruling class has incited for decades as part of a deliberate “divide and rule” strategy.
This week’s general strike in India, one of the largest strikes in history, is part of a growing upsurge of the world working class.
You can read the rest @
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/01/12/pers-j12.html
Meanwhile back in the USA, both the feds and corporations are slowly starving us to death ... but we do nothing. Is that it for "the home of the brave"? What are we going to do when AI and robots eliminate 40% of our remaining jobs?
Pitiful.
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