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Holy shit, that’s more workers than are even in the US. That’s amazing! Good for them I hope they get everything they’re asking for.
I’m sure if it is mentioned in western media will be as a vague “Oh those wacky brown people are angry about something, what’s new am I right?”
Pretty sure this is the one from a bit over a week ago, which would be this:
https://apnews.com/article/india-modi-protest-trade-deal-us-farmers-90746ddd26679ba11a180aa36a4612c5
Is this real? I don’t see this being reported anywhere in the mainstream press
Trying to find something in the mainstream Indian press and all I can find is BJP protests about shirtless AI bullshit?
The fuck os going on over there lmao? Is Indian kleptocracy this advanced their mainstream press won’t even cover a 300 million worker protest?
Indian media is 99% controlled by the BJP and their oligarch masters. Everything they don’t like is labeled as treason.
Try searching “Bharat Bandh” - I’m doing that now but the only mainstream Indian sources I’m finding are day-of articles about how traffic will be affected and whether schools will be open. Can’t find a major article about the arrests in Bengaluru or anything.
Edit - Like, why does thewire.in have a pre-strike article, but nothing about the day of?
Edit edit - Okay, here we go: https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil-nadu/2026/Feb/13/thousands-detained-as-india-bloc-backs-unions-in-strike-against-centre
A one day strike isn’t a strike, it’s a protest. Respect to these workers, but calling it a general strike like 🇺🇦 is just contributes to the mis-understanding of labor power. If all working Americans took a Friday off, the machine would go back to normal on Monday.
I don’t see why you wouldn’t call it a strike. The bosses aren’t making money that day, right?
I guess my issue is that strikes in labor specifically are designed to hurt companies by depriving them of their staff until demands are met. A one day seems to be more a venting of dissatisfaction than a strike, but hey, I’m not doing it
I agree with you conceptually but the workers and organizers called it a strike, so it’s not a mislabeling by the Ukraine-flag poster. The unions in India call one-day general strikes like this all the time.
Then how do we distinguish between one day shows of dissatisfaction and indefinite actions designed to bring the system to its knees?
On a Saturday again?
In India, you usually only get Sundays off.
well then its a good way to get saturday off
