[Marxism] 40 Million Workers Strike on India: a Report and/or Photos?

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

> Millions join national strike in India to protest privatisation plans
>
> 1 hour, 40 minutes ago
>
> NEW DELHI (AFP) - A national strike has disrupted flights and shut
> down government offices and banks in India as millions of state
> workers staged a one-day protest over moves to liberalise Asia's
> fourth-largest economy.
>
> Television station NDTV said some 40 million workers had joined
> Thursday's strike, matching the prediction of M.K. Pandhe,
> president of the trade union group CITU, who Thursday described the
> response as  "unprecedented".

Is there anyone among posters or lurkers or archive watchers here who
participated in or observed the strike?  Send me a report and/or
photos at yoshie at monthlyreview.org!

Yoshie Furuhashi
<http://montages.blogspot.com>
<http://monthlyreview.org>
<http://mrzine.org>
* Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: <http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/07/mahmoud-
ahmadinejads-face.html>;  <http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/07/chvez-
congratulates-ahmadinejad.html>; <http://montages.blogspot.com/
2005/06/iranian-working-class-rejects.html>



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