India: Graziano workers target of management harassment and state repression

by wsws (reposted)

Mon, Nov 17, 2008 10:23PM

The following report on the plight of the Graziano workers was submitted by a World Socialist Web Site reader in Delhi, India. Previously the WSWS reported on the September 22nd death of the CEO of the Indian subsidiary of the Italian auto-parts manufacturer Graziano—a death that India's big business media hastily labeled a "lynching" by disgruntled workers.

The police and state government responded to the death of Graziano Transmission CEO L.K. Chaudhry with mass arrests and pledges to provide employers in the Noida Special Economic Zone, which lies close to Delhi, with increased protection. 137 Graziano workers were arrested by the police, 63 of whom have been charged with the CEO's murder. All of the workers have vehemently denied any role in the CEO's death.

The Indian media's shrill denunciations of the Graziano workers was matched by its tardiness in carrying out even an elementary investigation into what happened on the 22nd. In its initial report, the WSWS took note of the absence of any evidence showing that the Graziano workers were responsible for Chaudhry's death, as well as the claim of a well-known politician that Chaudhry might have been the victim of a contract-killing organized by corporate rivals.

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http://wsws.org/articles/2008/nov2008/indi-n17.shtml

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