CorCom greets on International Workers' Day
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, April 30 2017: On the occasion of the International Workers' Day (May Day or May 1), the CorCom has conveyed best wishes to all the peasants and workers of the land.

A statement issued by CorCom media coordinator Ksh Yoiheiba called upon all the suppressed people of the land, particularly peasants and workers whose rights have been forfeited to work collectively for a new egalitarian society.

The advent of machines and the subsequent Industrial Revolution heralded drastic changes in Europe in the 18th century.

The capitalist class set up a number of big factories and they were pressed into service day and night leading to astronomical surge in industrial production.

Hundreds of thousands of labourers working in these factories were forced to work like machines and they were paid paltry sums as wages.

Unable to bear the harsh working conditions, thousands of workers raised an uproar against the inhuman policy of the capitalist class on May 4, 1886 at Chicago which is now known as the 'Haymarket Affair'.

Four labourers were killed in police firing.

In commemoration of the event where four workers were killed in the fight for their rights, May 1 has been observed as the International Workers' Day since 1891 .

Even though the world has undergone dramatic changes in the 21st century, a large number of peasants and workers have been living a wretched life in Manipur.

Rather than devising suitable industrial policies which can enhance the State's productive capacity, the Government of India destroyed all the productive bases of the land thereby converting the State into a captive market, CorCom alleged.

In the absence of big industries, there is no industrial proletariat, and workers and peasants are unable to forge collective strength.

Under such adverse conditions characterised by 'captive-market economy', peasants and workers of the land have been struggling hard for survival.

In order to take the ongoing revolutionary movement against the alien rule driven by capitalist interests to a higher trajectory, workers and peasants of Manipur need to unite together.

Only when there is freedom, people of the land including peasants and workers can lead a secure and dignified life, it asserted.

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