In November, 1978, the Government of Bihar had organised a ‘rural camp of agricultural labourers living in Barh (meaning “flood”) and Mokamah police-thana areas, Bihar. Some observations made at this camp were recently published in the National La-bour Institute Bulletin (Jan-Feb, 1979). The study points to one inevitable conclusion: the…

Thousands of workers in Mandsaur District (M.Ρ.) who produce slate pencils sign their own death certificate every day. While cutting stones to make pencils, these workers breathe in huge quantities of silica, a fatal dust, causing silicosis, an occupational disease for which no cure has been discovered.According to a report…

On October 5, Lalla Budhram Gaund, aged 31, was killed while working on the curing machine at Jalan Dyeing and Bleaching Mills. Three other workers-Ibrahim Sher Khan (aged 31), Sawnmal Sobatsingh (aged 40) and Bansilal Bhagwatiprasad (aged 55) were severely injured in the blast. Although most capitalist newspapers reported the…

What happened in Faridabad on October 17 is mass murder. More than 50 workers (the exact num-ber is still not known) were brutally shot down while peacefully demonstrating for their just demands,And who were the murderers? The capitalists and their government, the former armed with goondas and the latter with…