NAPM calls for full participation in the All-India Nationwide General Strike on 9th July
Intensify Resistance to pro-corporate and anti-working class regime
8th July, 2025: The National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM) extends complete support to the call for Nationwide General Strike on 9th July by the Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions, Independent Federations and the Sanyukt Kisan Morcha. In addition to the call of General Strike, NAPM strongly opposes the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and extends support to the call of Bihar Bandh by the opposition parties on the same day.
India is witnessing large-scale crony capitalism leading to unprecedented accumulation of wealth by a few and, at the same time, the pauperization of the working class. This has gained greater pace under the Modi Govt. This regime is relentlessly pursuing the policy of informalization of work even in the public sector leading to enormous exploitation and undermining of hard-won historical battles for the working-class like that of 8 hours of work and statutory minimum wages. The shameful repeal of more than 40 labour laws and enactment of four anti-worker labour codes is a diabolical effort to annul the history and legacy of the labour movement in this country and to prevent unionization of workers. It signals a major assault on livelihoods, minimum wages and social security.
Millions of the nation’s farmers powerfully agitated against the three farm laws, forcing the Government to withdraw the same. However, the farmers have been betrayed by the Central Government as their demand of Minimum Support Price (MSP) for crops remains unfulfilled, causing massive distress to farmers, even leading to farmer ‘suicides’. The relentless move towards corporate control is pushing agrarian communities including small and marginal farmers, traditional fishers, adivasis and forest dwelling communities, in particular women, to the brink of crisis. Meanwhile, democratic protests in the country have been met with the full might of the State. We feel strongly against the shrinking of democratic spaces, where holding any peaceful protest or expressing a critical opinion on the Modi regime is fraught with dangers. Activists and organizations have constantly been subject to repression of various forms.
The very foundation of our parliamentary democracy – elections – are also being manipulated to favour the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP). After the debacle of Electoral Bonds, we witnessed the Maharashtra Elections where serious procedural lapses objections were raised by the Leader of Opposition. Now the exclusionary Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls happening in Bihar, right before state elections have left people and democracy in further turmoil and exposed the true nature of the ruling party.
In this context, we appeal to all democratic forces in this country to come together and make the All-India Strike on 9th July, 2025, a roaring success. We full endorse the various demands put forth by unions, federations and coalitions across the country calling for repeal of the labour codes, ensuring minimum wages, social security, right to unionization of workers, an end to the spree of privatization and dilution of hard-fought pro-people and pro-ecology laws and ensuring land, livelihood, forest rights for the millions of working class – in particular informal sector workers, small and marginal farmers, forest dwelling communities. We shall not be silenced. Let us all unite against hate politics and against anti-worker, anti-farmer, anti-minorities, anti-people, undemocratic policies of the regime.
Issued by: National Working Group of NAPM
