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Chennai: Four major Left and progressive parties, the CPM, CPI, VCK and CPI(ML) Liberation, have strongly condemned the Union government’s new labour codes, describing them as a sweeping assault on workers’ rights and a serious blow to India’s labour movement.

In a joint statement released on Sunday, CPM state secretary P. Shanmugam, CPI state secretary M. Veerapandian, VCK president Thol Thirumavalavan and CPI(ML) Liberation state secretary Pazha Asaithambi urged workers, trade unions and the wider public to participate in statewide protests on December 8, demanding the immediate withdrawal of the codes.

The parties said the Centre had replaced 29 long-standing labour laws with four consolidated codes, on Wages, Indust

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