Why civilian employees’ national strike against reckless privatisation of defence production is a milestone in Indian labour movement
Workers striking at the ordnance clothing factory in Avadi, Tamil Nadu. The defence civilian employees are striking to protest privatisation, disinvestment in defence PSUs, the National Pension System, etc.
B Sivaraman has been an active member of CPI(ML) Liberation since 1976. He was a member of the CPI(ML) Polit Bureau and edited its Central organ Liberation for about a decade. After recovering from a debilitating head injury in an automobile accident in 2002 and four years of amnesia, he withdrew from active political work as his mobility is very much restricted but continues to write columns on labour issues and on contemporary left politics.