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January 8, 2020

Indian Workers & Students Launch Strike to Protest Privatization
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In India, hundreds of thousands of unionized workers and students took
to the streets today for a strike to demand a rise in the minimum wage
and to protest the privatization of natural resources. Many students are
also boycotting classes in solidarity with violent attacks on students
at Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University, who blamed the attack on a
right-wing student group linked to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling
BJP party. This is one of the protesters today, Rajbir Singh.

Rajbir Singh: "Today, the whole of India is observing a shutdown. All
the banks of the country are shut. This is against the central federal
government's privatization and anti-employee policies."



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