{"id":392132,"date":"2019-01-09T00:47:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T23:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/indian-workers-need-revolutionary-socialist-program-to-combat-social-devastation-and-political-reaction\/"},"modified":"2019-01-09T00:47:37","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T23:47:37","slug":"indian-workers-need-revolutionary-socialist-program-to-combat-social-devastation-and-political-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/indian-workers-need-revolutionary-socialist-program-to-combat-social-devastation-and-political-reaction\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian workers need revolutionary socialist program to combat social devastation and political reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Indian workers need revolutionary socialist program to combat social devastation and political reaction<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Deepal Jayesekera and Keith Jones<br \/>\n    <br \/>8 January 2019<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Tens of millions of workers and young people will participate in this Tuesday\u2019s and Wednesday\u2019s 48-hour, all-India strike against the socially destructive, \u201cpro-investor\u201d economic policies of the BJP-led government\u2014that is, against savage austerity, privatization, the promotion of precarious contract jobs, the shredding of environmental and workplace safety standards, lavish tax cuts for big business and the rich, and onerous tax rises for workers and the rural poor.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>World Socialist Web Site<\/em> welcomes workers\u2019 readiness to make financial sacrifices and risk reprisals and even firing, to fight the BJP government.<\/p>\n<p>Anil and Mukesh Ambani, Gautam Adani and other billionaire oligarchs propelled Narendra Modi and his Hindu supremacist BJP to power in order to intensify the class war assault on the working class and more aggressively pursue the Indian bourgeoisie\u2019s great power ambitions. And they have done just that. The four-and-a-half-year old BJP government has stoked communal reaction, strengthened the repressive apparatus of the state (including arrogating the right to spy on all electronic communications and data), greatly expanded India\u2019s military-strategic alliance with US imperialism, and accelerated the ruling-class drive to make India the premier cheap-labor haven for global capitalism.<\/p>\n<p>But workers must beware.<\/p>\n<p>The Jan. 8\u20139 protest strike is politically led by trade unions and political parties that are an integral part of the Indian establishment, and that have played a pivotal role in implementing, and suppressing opposition to, the Indian capitalist elite\u2019s now more than a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/01\/08\/ings-j08.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Indian workers need revolutionary socialist program to combat social devastation and political reaction By Deepal Jayesekera and Keith Jones 8 January 2019 Tens of millions of workers and young people will participate in this Tuesday\u2019s and Wednesday\u2019s 48-hour, all-India strike against the socially destructive, \u201cpro-investor\u201d economic policies of the BJP-led government\u2014that is, against savage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-392132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}