Resist and Defeat Modi Govt’s Despicable Move to Export Indian Workers to Israel !
CPI (ML) Red Star
According to reports, the Modi regime is engaged in a long-term plan to export Indian workers for the Israeli construction and caregiving sectors, as thousands of Palestinian workers are being exterminated and/or incarcerated and the remaining are forced to leave the occupied territories following escalation in Zionist terror and ethnic cleansing in Gaza and other Palestinian territories.
This is reported to be in continuation of an already existing understanding since May, 2023 to export around 42,000 Indian workers to Israel as part of the close Saffron-Zionist integration since the ascendancy of fascist regime in India. It is also linked with Israel’s predetermined plan to replace Palestinian labour with cheap Indian workers who are condemned to the pitiable position of offering themselves at the cheapest wage, amidst Godi-media’s propaganda blitzkrieg on India’s “economic miracle” under the BJP rule, concealing it’s transformation as a “wasteland of unemployment” and a “citadel of global poverty”. However, concrete information on the number of workers exported so far as per the engagement with Zionist regime is unavailable.
Now, as Zionist extermination of the people of Gaza intensifies, according to reports, Israeli Builders’ Association is in dire need of workers, and as the African and Latin American countries, in solidarity with Palestinian people, having cut off their relations with Zionists, Israeli Foreign Ministry is reportedly exerting pressure on its Indian counterpart to expedite the process of export of Indian workers to the flourishing construction sector there. The reported move is to hire at least on lakh Indian workers to replace the 1.3 lakh Palestinian workers as early as possible.
No doubt, the far-right Modi regime which is bent on serving corporate cronies by replacing the existing 44 Labour Laws in the country with 4 Labour Codes thereby converting Indian working class as bonded slaves, will have no qualms in sending Indian workers as ‘cannon fodder’ to the ongoing Zionists’ extermination of Palestinians. This despicable move also smacks of the horrific colonial Transatlantic slave trade which flourished between mid-16th and mid-19th centuries that transported millions of African people to be deployed as slave workers in American plantations and sprawling industries, whose average life span was only 7 years after enslavement. Now, if the Zionist regime deploys Indian workers in “occupied territories”, then it will be a clear violation of International Law too.
Now the Modi regime has already aligned itself with Zionist-Imperialist nexus against the Palestinians who are subjected to the horrific Zionist terror. It’s reported move to export the hapless Indian workers at Zionist disposal is inseparable from this unholy nexus. We resolutely condemn this despicable move. We appeal to the Indian working class and all oppressed together with all progressive-democratic forces to come forward resisting and defeating this heinous neo-fascist move on the part of the Indian regime.
P J James
General Secretary
CPI (ML) Red Star
New Delhi
12th November 2023
