The 8-hour work system was first implemented in Asia in Pondicherry, when the Mill workers rose in rebellion, led by CPI. 12 workers lost their lives when the French Army opened fired on July 30, 1936
On Oct 31st 1936, the French agreed to an 8-hour work system. #Mayday#history
The first Labour Day (May Day) in India was celebrated on May 1, 1923 in Marina Beach in the city of Madras, which was the winter capital of the Madras Presidency.
The event was organized by the Labour Kisan Party. (Led by M Singaravelar).
It was Dr BR Ambedkar who brought the 8-hour working day into the Indian legal framework
He brought it in the 7th session of the Indian Labour Conference in Delhi on Nov 27th 1942. Ambedkar held the port-folio of Labour member in the Viceroy's Executive Council from 1942 to 1946
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Mexico (1947)
South Africa (1994)
Netherlands (1927)
Spain (1937)
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." : Karl Marx.
Photo: Supporters of the Iraqi Communist Party in Baghdad march during May Day celebration in 2019.
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India has so many NATO lovers despite the fact that the same alliance was against India during the 1961 Goan Liberation & 1971 war.
In 1989, ISRO approached USSR (Glavkosmos) for 7 cryogenic engines & also a complete transfer of technology. USA blocked the move & NATO backed it.
USSR was the only nation willing share cryogenic technology with ISRO. In 1998, Clinton imposed economic sanctions on India.
The love for NATO by Indian millennials (both Liberals and RW) shows how many don't know exactly what NATO really is or their history.
You can condemn Putin without supporting NATO, the alliance which has bombed many nations across the globe. And it's weird to see so many Indians supporting that Alliance.
Balai Chand Dutt (BC Dutt) was the man who triggered the 1946 Royal Naval Mutiny. Today, BC Dutt has been erased from Indian History.
A 23-year-old Dutt persuaded his comrades to join the revolt, commencing on February 18th 1946, with a hunger strike on the Ship 'HMIS Talwar'.
Within three days, the revolt spread to nearly 75 others ships and nearly 20,000 Indian sailors joined the Mutiny.
Karachi, Bombay, Kochi, Madras and Calcutta were the focal points of the Mutiny. Indian Sailors began offering left-handed salutes to British superior officers.
In 1946, 32-year-old A K Hangal led the general strike in support of the Naval Mutiny in Karachi and narrowly escaped the British firing. He was imprisoned in Karachi jail for two years till 1949.
He also stood up against the Shiv Sena during the 1992 riots.
A Bollywood LEGEND.
Hangal became the Secretary of Karachi Communist Party in 1946 which angered the British again. He was arrested in 1947 and was forced to leave Pakistan. He arrived in Bombay in 1949.
A lifelong Communist Party card-carrying member, Hangal became a Film Actor at the age of 48.
Hangal acted in around 225 films and is known for his role of Rahim Chacha in Sholay.
Why I'm tweeting this now?
Next week is the 76th anniversary of the 1946 Naval mutiny. A forgotten chapter in both Indian & Pakistani History books. A mutiny that rattled the British crown.
"The Nazification of German public schools and colleges was catastrophic for German education."
"History was so falsified in the new textbooks. The teaching of the “racial sciences,” exalting the Germans as the master race and the Jews & Slavs as breeders of almost all the evil there was in the world.
Twenty-five new courses in Rassenkunde—racial science— were introduced."
"The teaching of the natural sciences, in which Germany had been so pre-eminent for generations, deteriorated rapidly.
Great teachers such as Einstein and Franck in physics, Haber, Willstaetter and Warburg in chemistry, were fired or retired."