CorCom bats for workers, peasants on May Day
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, April 30 2020: On the occasion of the International Workers' Day aka May Day, the CorCom has called for emancipation of all the suppressed workers and peasants of the land.

It is the International Workers' Day which gives a ray of hope to all oppressed workers to fight for their rights and free themselves from suppression, the CorCom asserted in a statement issued by its publicity committee.

All the oppressed workers and peasants of Kangleipak (Manipur) need to unite and fight collectively against the scourges of India's neo-liberal economic policies which have been only abetting suppression of all the weaker sections.

All the communities who have been living together in Manipur since ages must join hands to lay a strong economic foundation after overcoming and throwing away the market economy which is being championed by the capitalist class of India.

It's time for all the people to stand united against the Government under whose systems and patronage men are being oppressed by men.

Tracing the genesis of the International Workers' Day to the hanging to death of many workers in the USA on November 11, 1887 for demanding reduction of working hours to 8 hours in a day, the CorCom recalled that the second convention of the Communist International held in 1889 resolved to observe May 1 as the International Workers' Day.

It then offered revolutionary salute to all those workers who have been killed in the line of duty or in the course of fighting for their rights.

Even though many countries had changed or reformed their governance systems following massive revolts waged by workers and peasants against capitalism and feudalism, there has been little changes to the life of the workers of Manipur who have been living hand to mouth.

As the workers were always suppressed by the successive Governments of India, all the workers have been living a wretched life without a hope for any improvement in the near future, the CorCom remarked.

Unable to bear the extreme oppression unleased under the Indian political system which the Indian leaders claimed to be the biggest democracy in the world, there have been numerous reports of workers and peasants committing suicide.

Whereas the prices of essential commodities have been rising rapidly in tandem with the ever worsening corruption, the ever widening divide between rich and poor, privatisation of all public sector undertakings, the Government is yet to take up any concrete measure which would ensure minimum daily wages to workers.

When a citizen of India becomes a billionaire, one lakh people are rendered homeless, it said.

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