Appeal to observe 4th/5th April as All-India
& International Day of Protest
Comrades,
You are aware of the repression on us by the
nexus of Company management-Police-Government, as 13 MSWU members have been
sentenced to Life Imprisonment and 4 more workers handed 5 years by the Gurgaon
Sessions Court on 18 March 2017 – without a shred of evidence, and solely on
the false witness accounts by the management.
The MSWU body members have been targeted
because they have been the leadership of the struggle since 2011 against illegal
contract worker system and for Trade Union rights and
dignity of labour. It is a ‘class attack’ as in the words of Maruti CEO RC
Bhargava. All workers know that this manifestly unjust verdict is to ‘teach a
lesson’ to us by those in power that we should not fight for our rights and
dignity on the shop-floor and beyond.
But against this repression, thousands of
workers in this industrial belt and across India and world are protesting. On
the evening of the Verdict on 18th May,
30000 workers in Gurgaon-Manesar did tool down strike against the injustice.
The Maruti Suzuki Mazdoor Sangh (MSMS)–the joint platform of Maruti Suzuki
factories–had given a call for Protest on the martyrdom day of Bhagat
Singh-Rajguru-Sukhdev on 23rd March
in Manesar. Despite prohibitory orders of Section 144, thousands of workers
from the industrial belts in Haryana and Rajasthan rallied in protest from
factory after factory in Manesar. A letter from the Jailed workers was read out, and a call given to
intensify the struggle for the release of the Jailed workers. It was also decided
to give economic assistance to families of the Jailed workers.
On this 23rd March Protest program, we already
appealed to all to observe 4th April
as an all-India Day and International of Protest. Preparations for the same
have already begun in various places. Meanwhile, recognized Central Trade
Unions later issued a call to organize all-India Protest in solidarity with the
Maruti Suzuki workers on 5th April.
So, We appeal to all workers and pro-worker
forces to observe 4th/5th April 2017 as all-India and International Days of Protest and show solidarity in whatever
ways possible.
The struggling workers in the
Gurgaon-Manesar-Bawal-Neemrana industrial belt in the states of
Haryana-Rajasthan are showing that they will not relent on their legitimate
rights and strengthen their class unity against the capitalist onslaught. We
have also received great courage and thank the amazing show of solidarity of
workers with the struggle for Justice of Maruti workers. Since the last few days, there have
been protests by lakhs of workers in this and other industrial belts and by
various workers, student-youth, human rights and other democratic organizations
in over 30 cities-towns in the country. We also greatly encouraged and thank
the amazing show of international working class solidarity with protests,
deputations and solidarity positions and actions in over 21
countries. This is a long battle, and only the growing force of the
movement and wider solidarity can take the struggle forward.
Provisional Working Committee,
Maruti Suzuki Workers Union
Contact: 7011865350 (Ramniwas), 9911258717
(Khusiram) on behalf of the PWC, MSWU.
email: marutiworkerstruggle@gmail.com; blog:
marutisuzukiworkersunion.wordpress.com
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