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Following a strike action last year and Activision Blizzard King’s acquisition by Microsoft, ABK workers virtually walked out again to protest the video gaming company’s cancellation of COVID-19 vaccine mandates for employees.

In the midst of the intensification of a nationwide and global strike movement, CSN workers struck and demonstrated, demanding higher salaries and bonuses.

Truckers have said that the suspension of the nationwide truckers strike is only temporary, so they can recover financially before striking in the summer.

A wave of strikes is spreading among different sections of the working class in response to the explosive inflation rates accumulated in the two years of COVID-19 pandemic.

Support for the strike was especially strong among workers at the many state-owned corporations now targeted for privatization.

Across India there is immense social anger over mass joblessness, endemic poverty, the lack of basic public services and the ruling elite’s “profits before lives” pandemic policy.

More than 70,000 Maharashtra state transport workers have been on strike for 19 weeks to demand job security and decent, timely paid wages.

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To foil the attempts of management, aided by the corrupt unions, to starve them into submission, the MSRTC workers must make their strike the spearhead of a working-class counter-offensive against privatization and precarious contract labour jobs.

Workers in Sri Lanka must take a sharp warning from the Rajapakse regime’s moves to further outlawing strikes in the state sector and other strategic industries.