Nationwide day of protest by Indian trade unions against massive attacks on the working class!
November 26, 2025: Correspondence from German visitors in Pune, India: A coalition of ten major Indian trade union federations, representing millions of workers, protested nationwide today against new labor laws introduced by the fascist Modi government.
On behalf of Indian monopoly corporations, the new laws contain massive attacks on the working class, such as facilitating mass layoffs, extending the maximum daily working hours, and lifting the ban on night work for women. Demagogically, the government is still promoting this as progress toward more freedom and equality, which the unions are rightly fighting against! Only the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh “trade union,” which is loyal to the ruling BJP party, welcomes the new laws and openly stabs the working class in the back. This is yet another example of the class interests that fascist and ultra-reactionary forces around the world actually represent!
“Workers' rights are being trampled underfoot, and the government is justifying this move with a flood of lies that the laws would benefit workers!” Tapan Sen, general secretary of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions, the umbrella organization affiliated with the revisionist CPI(M), is quoted in the media with these apt words.
Protests took place today in all parts of the country, but not yet as a broad strike movement. In Pune, where the 3rd International Automotive Workers' Conference successfully ended the day before yesterday, trade unionists organized a rally (see photo).
The aggressive anti-communist actions of the police against the solidarity visit of auto workers from IG Metall and comrades from the MLPD showed how nervous the state apparatus is in the face of the expected mass protests and strikes. This had not been expected by various representatives of Indian trade unions. Without accepting this repression in any form, the colleagues ended their visit so as not to provide any pretext for further escalation of the situation by the police.
We protest against this repression by the fascist Modi government and stand in even more determined solidarity with the struggle of the Indian trade unions, which can serve as an important example for the protest announced by IG Metall and Ver.di against the “autumn of cruelty” of Merz and Klingbeil!
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