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UNIONS declared victory yesterday after up to 150 million Indian workers took to the streets in a general strike on Wednesday.
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) and IndustriAll Global Union hailed the enormous turnout in the protest against amendments to labour laws that will make it easier to sack workers.
The decision to call a nationwide strike was taken at a national convention of workers convened by India’s trade union centres in May.
The biggest strike in global history is a template for our future. The silence tells you all you need to know, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
