jobster india awakens ?

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by shandra shah 
editor of wed site
              sub continental rift  
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 "  by day
   her toiling  masses 
  known
 little but 
      panks   
 in their  belly 
        and 
         achs 
  in their  backs ...
   but beware jolly fools 
         mother india  
       roars each nite  in her  sleep "
                      
                   -subash sen-

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 and so  comrades
    what about  red india
           can she  wake  her mother up ...... 

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"India Trade unions 
went on strike across India
on Thursday
 firing a political salvo 
that could
reshuffle the pace and sequence
 of India's economic
changes 
but was unlikely to derail 
a growing political
consensus on liberalization"



The strike was called 
by unions allied to the Communist
parties 
that are 
outside coalition partners
 in the Congress Party government

 As the first general strike
since congress
 took power last year it
this tests whether Congress 
can balance its agenda 
to open
the economy 
with the need 
to keep coalition partners in
lockstep




 unions said it was their largest action in
years 
and cited 60 million
 private- and public-sector
workers

 NDTV, a leading 24-hour news channel,
 put the
figure at 40 million




"Disruptions were spotty
 with islands of shutdowns 
in a
sea of business as usual"

 


"The unions struck 
to register a hodgepodge of
grievances, mainly economic, 
but also because of
India's apparent policy reversal
 in siding with the
United States 
against India's longtime ally, Iran,
 to oppose Iran's nuclear program. 

But the main
focus of the unions' anger
 is government plans to sell
stakes in profitable state-owned firms
 to ease labor
laws to facilitating hiring 
and firing 
and the opening
of sectors like retailing 
and banking to foreign
investment

"We have put them on the warning."

" We are just telling
them that at times 
you forget you are in a coalition.
They forget the opinions of the working class,"

"They
must reverse this policy 
of neoliberal globalization.
They must promote 
a self-reliant development program."

the Communist-allied unions 
appear to be protesting
as much the impotence 
of their own movement 
in the face
of a growing consensus
 between India's 
largest two
parties, 
the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party,

on  

"the agenda of LPG" 

liberalization of regulation,
 privatization of state-
owned firms 
and globalization
 by opening to foreign
investment and competition




The government's precarious balancing act
 is to speak
convincingly to two different audiences: 
foreign
investors eager for assurance 
that India's growth is
unlikely to be stalled by politics, 
and leftist parties
on whose political backing 
the Congress-led coalition
continues to depend.

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 only this i'll add

more will go down 
          much more
  before anything will come 
  flying up out of this movement 

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       as less  of more is paid 
  to those  
privileged enough 
to be organized ...

         the unions will have a choice

beg on

   or  submerge into the masses
and  prepare for the great up[ heaval 

that can  lift all working india as one