 For more videos on people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Hello and welcome to Around the World in 8 Minutes, a show by People's Dispatch which brings you stories of resistance and struggles against capitalist exploitation and state repression. Why are thousands of Colombians on general strike for the past five days? Why are automobile workers in the Indian state of Haryana protesting? In this episode, we take a look into these issues that concern the working class of the world. Before we move into our first story, let's take a look at Saturday's march by trade unions, civil society members and citizens in solidarity with the students and teachers of Jabaharlal-Hiru University in New Delhi, India. Students of the university have been demonstrating for the past month against the massive fee hike and police brutality. In our first story, we go to Colombia, the latest country to join the wave of people's uprisings against neoliberalism and state repression, capital accumulation and exclusion. After months of preparation, hundreds of organizations and movements staged a national strike on November 21 and achieved a historic result. The strike continued for a fifth day on Monday. Massive mobilizations were held in Bogota, Kali, Medellin, Cucuta and many other cities. Protesters blocked major roads and transportation terminals and marched for hours to express their discontent with the government of Iván Duque. Solidarity protests with the Colombian strike were also held in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Thursday. In many cities, demonstrations were met with violent repression from security forces. The infamous mobile anti-disturbance squadron, also known as Esmad, which specializes in repression, attacked protesters with tear gas, stun grenades, water cannons and unconventional weapons, gravely wounding dozens. They also detained over 100 people. Dozens of videos were circulated across Twitter, showing Esmad agents using excessive force against protesters while detaining them. In one video, a protester was seen being dragged to the ground by the agents. When the woman nearby with a bike tried to help the protester, the Esmad agent kicked her in the head. In response to the violent siege against protesters, people took to the plaza, streets and street corners across the country to bang on pots and pans, a form of protest called the Cacerolazos, to reject the repression and continue the mobilization. Following the violent eviction, Bogota's mayor, Enrique Pena Loza, declared a curfew. However, in spite of the curfew, tens of thousands were again on the streets in another Cacarolosa by night. In certain zones of Bogota, however, the curfew notice was accompanied by heavy militarization. Units of the Colombian army were deployed in different sectors of the city. Organizations reported that in neighborhoods in the south of Bogota, where mobilizations have been especially strong, violent shock groups have been organized to loot stores and homes and wreak havoc, and instill fear and de-determinize the mobilization effort. Many are suspicious of the actions as the same areas that were heavily militarized, now apparently do not have any forces to control these groups. The group's actions appear to be fulfilling the task of creating a volatile situation in which even those who are opposed to police and the armed forces are demanding their presence. In the Indian state of Haryana, thousands of automobile workers of Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India took out a 17-kilometer-long march from Manasur's industrial model township in the bet to intensify their protests. The march was joined by leaders of various central trade unions, as well as numerous workers from facilities operating in Manasur, such as Maruti Suzuki and Shivam Otto, among others. More than 4,500 workers, including 2,500 contractual and 1,900 permanent workers, are on a tool-down strike against the Honda management since November 5 because of the illegal retrenchments by the company. Around 700 contract workers were laid off earlier in the month of August, and another 200 were retrenched on November 5. The strike is led by Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India Employees Union. The main demand of the workers is that the company take back all the contractual employees retrenched in August and November. The workers are also demanding complete implementation of wage settlement reached between the management and the workers. After Saturday's march, the Honda management suspended six union leaders, including the General Secretary and the President of the HMSI Employees Union. The management further noted that the production will resume from November 25, and permanent workers will be called in four batches. The workers would have to sign a good conduct undertaking to join. The circular by the management does not mention anything about the contract workers. We talked to some of the workers and union leaders who joined the protest march. The second thing is that the contract labor rules are not followed. The permanent labor rules are not followed. The permanent labor rules are not followed. The management shifted the production to another plant to remove it. They used to give a gap of 15 days, then they would take it after a month, now after 3 months, and suddenly they were told that they are being removed, now they should take their own book. So, the people who have been working for 10-10 years are done. The management changed the contract workers, and now they are doing the violation of the contract labor act in the name of a year and a week. Now they are working for 10-10 years, and after that they are being removed from the government. I am Satvir Singh, CITU at Dex train council. What is going on in the Honda is very unfortunate. When this plant was planted here, there was one plant. The workers who are in the field of the fight today, they have made four plants. Today, by making the excuse of the council, the workers have been working for the last four months, and the attack is going on. Almost more than 1,000 workers have been removed from the government. On the 4th of the month, a lot of hundreds of workers have been removed from the government. In that situation, the entire contract worker who was inside the plant was sitting. And they were working very peacefully every day. On the 11th of the month, the management took the money from one side without any permission, without any labor department, talked to the government from the union, put a notice of production and suspend on one side. And because of which, the situation has become very difficult. We want the government to talk, call the Honda management, solve the entire worker's problem. And in such a situation, the workers who are making four from one plant are out today, and the management wants to complete the production in three plants and create their own profit. Even in this plant, a very high profit has been taken in October. So, there is no basis for this kind of chutney. But the management worker, because a demand note is already going on for a year and a half, to spread the demand notice of regular workers, and by attacking these workers, the management wants to suppress the rights of the Honda management. That is why, all the workers of the entire Gurgaon NCR, all supported the Honda worker by a lie on behalf of the Trade and Council. And this is all we have for this episode of Around the World in 8 Minutes. For more such stories and videos, visit our website peoplesispass.org and follow us on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Thank you for watching.