 For more videos on people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Hello and welcome to Around the World in 8 Minutes by People's Dispatch. In this show, we bring you stories from people's resistance and struggles across the world. Today we are at Jantar Kanta New Delhi, where all the communist parties are gathered to protest against the rising prices, the rising unemployment and the economic recession in the country. The communist parties allege these problems are due to the neoliberal economic policies by the far-right wing Indian government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. They also allege that this government is not for the people, but for the rich in the country. The rich in the country is primarily two big corporates, the Adani and Ambadis. And the communist parties and the opposition allege that this government is actually working for these two companies. This is an arctic temple because the people of the country do not have the strength to buy anything. And this strength has already been removed from your node. Later on, the way the GST was applied, after that, the way your public sector, the general sector, is being reduced. And this has become the case that people are closing down because of the lack of strength to buy anything. In your automobile industry, there is an amount of about 20 lakhs of people who were working for the GST. Your textile sector has been reduced to around 30 lakhs. So these are not their policies, Prime Minister. What should be done? The GST has given 2.5 lakh crores to the rich, the rich and the rich. This is 2.5 lakh crores. If they invest in the government, if they make infrastructure, which is very important in the country, then in the number of crores, there will be new jobs. And when there will be new jobs, when the money will come in their hands, when they will start spending it, then the demand will increase and this will open up a closed house. This is the path that everyone has taken. But they will not do this because they will help their big friends. By helping them, they have made this situation. Some factories say that it is a 3-day job for a week. They are not getting a job for the whole 6-7 days. They used to get a job over time. Now they are not getting a job. They close their businesses. They are not getting a job. So women are very worried. Women are also sitting at home. That's all we have here at New Delhi's Parliamentary. Now we go back to the studio for more stories in this show. For our next story, we go to South Africa. The motor industry sector in the country which has a workforce of over 300,000 is inching closer to a strike action. The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa or NOMSA will be meeting with the Commission for Consoliation, Mediation and Arbitration that is CCMA on October 23 to discuss the picketing rules. Following this, the union can seek a certificate of non-resolution from this dispute settlement body as the last meeting with the employer held on October 11 proved to be fruitless. This meeting was the last of the series of meetings that make up the compulsory arbitration process that the union has to undertake before engaging in a strike action. At this meeting, the employer sought an agreement which would raise the workers wages over a 3-year period but only on the condition that NOMSA raises no other dispute during this period. NOMSA has refused to accept such a condition. Once the certificate of non-resolution is issued by the mediation body indicating that all other means of resolving the dispute have been exhausted NOMSA can officially notify the employers about a strike action. The previous wage agreement with the employers in the motor industry sector lapsed in August this year. As a part of the new agreement which has been under negotiation since June NOMSA has been demanding an across-the-board wage hike of 12%. At the last meeting arbitrated by CCMA on October 11 the employers made a counter-offer to raise the wages in a phased manner over a 3-year period. The employers are represented by three bodies the National Employers Association of South Africa the Retail Motor Industry Organization and the Fuel Retailers Association. However, this offer made by the employers is conditioned upon a peace clause which if accepted would imply that NOMSA forfeits its right to raise other demands to address issues such as employees' benefits and working conditions. These are demands the employers have refused to engage with. These demands include the 600 grand of $40 monthly travel allowance and a night shift allowance for those working at odd shifts. The later is mandated in the basic conditions of Employment Act. Acceptance of the peace clause would in effect require NOMSA to drop these demands for the next three years until expiry of the new wage agreement. NOMSA has therefore rejected the company's offer and chosen to escalate towards an industrial action instead. The union said in a statement that our members made it clear that we cannot accept any agreement which does not improve working conditions. It further said that illnesses due to exposure to petrol fumes are common among fuel station workers. In a memorandum addressed the Department of Minerals and Energy NOMSA demanded medically aid and insisted that workers should not be expected to pay medical expenses as a result of exposure to petrol fumes caused by their occupation. And this is all we have in this episode of Around the World in 8 Minutes. For more such stories and videos visit our website peoplesdispatch.org subscribe to our YouTube channel and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Thank you for watching. 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