Amazon workers strike in Italy over pandemic-driven delivery demands -
Amazon workers in Italy went on a 24-hour strike on Monday in the first such action by the U.S. company’s entire logistics operation in the country, including third-party delivery service providers.
Trade unions estimate Amazon’s delivery systems rely on 40,000 workers in Italy including staff at its logistics arm, which employs most of Amazon’s 9,500 long-term staff in the country.
Italy’s FILT-CGIL, FIT-CISL and Uiltrasporti unions called the 24-hour strike after failing to reach common ground at two meetings in January with Amazon and the collapse of negotiations with employers association Assoespressi, which represents delivery firms.
On this day, 23 March 1931, Indian revolutionary socialists Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar (pictured, L-R) were executed by British colonial authorities in what is now Punjab, Pakistan. They had been sentenced to death for assassinating a senior British police officer in 1928, to avenge the police killing of Lala Lajpat Rai during an anti-colonial demonstration.
While they opposed British colonialism, rather than narrow nationalism they advocated working class revolution against both British and Indian capitalists. They were all just 22-23 years old. Singh commented: “They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit”.
In the wake of their conviction, Mohandas Gandhi appealed to the Viceroy of India to commute their sentences, but he also appealed to huge crowds not to take action to secure their release, as he had signed a truce agreement with authorities. After they were executed, Gandhi was greeted by a crowd he described as “incensed” flying black flags and shouting “Gandhi go back”, “Down with Gandhism”, “Gandhi’s truce has sent Bhagat Singh to gallows” and “Long live Bhagat Singh”. After their deaths, Bhagat Singh in particular became a national hero.
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