Your point has made me think. Thank you.
First a starting point. I am a Muslim Communist and Islamic principles seem to allow investing in stock market but on the condition that the company to be invested in does not work on interest-based economics and its service does not involve gambling and other such moral wrongs and it is even better if the surrounding society is governed is an ideal Islamic welfare state society where losing money in the stock market will not lead to the person becoming bankrupt / socio-economically deprived. I think Islamic stock investment is a smaller version of taking up partnership in a business instead of giving loan to the business. The loan-giver will of course want to make profit and will ask for a cut of the profits from the business' products or services and will be understanding of the fact that Islam prohibits interest-based economics ( Islam evolved this from the preachings of Prophet Isa - Jesus - 600 years prior to the establishment of Islam ). But some Muslim investor who either does not have too much money to take up partnership or does not want to risk money by lending to a business whose idea or product may not work can more safely invest in an established business as stocks and he will be protected by the surrounding welfare state system.
This can also be theoretically extended to a more evolved society which is governed on modern, ideal Communist ideals and which has an evolved socio-economic system. In such a system there can be stocks investing but a person who loses money will have not consequences of economic desperation. Please read
this my proposal again to know how that can be done. Let us say a company - say one producing durable, stylish and smart clothing - needs immediately funds to purchase some components from other companies so that they can do research for a certain clothing product but has insufficient funds even after pooling funds from the leaders and the other workers ( companies will be a collectivized arrangement ). What they can do is invite immediate / urgent stock investment through the internet. After a while the research done, product developed and sold, the profits will be distributed equally among the leaders and other workers of the company and among the stock investors depending on how much they invested. And if the product doesn't get sold and doesn't get profit the stock investors will not become economically deprived because of the nature of the socio-economic system I proposed. So a development.
I will start by saying that I almost set up an employee union in the ITES company I worked in from 2013 to 2014. I found wrongs done to me and a few others so this led me to organically decide to set up a union. I didn't know then that the Indian Constitution gives the worker the right to join or set up a union. The idea just came to me to organize the workers. I secretly spread the word around in my branch office to a few workers. The local branch manager somehow got to know of this and quarreled with me on this so I decided to go higher up with my complaints. And the HR lady asked me what is the solution. I foolishly said I want to resign from the company despite my previous plan of setting up the union. I had the momentum so I could really have set the union but I resigned. My previous plan was to set up the union in my branch and then to encourage workers in the main branch in my city to set one up too. This would have been the first employee union in the Indian IT / ITES industry. The next step would have been to encourage my union's workers to tell their friends in other IT / ITES companies in any Indian city to set up unions too. It was a wonderful plan but I resigned. Foolish of me.
But about your question we will have to first go back to before the riot started and this we are talking about the current situation in which India and IOC are Capitalist entities.
If I am a labor leader in Indian IOC and I get to know of IOC's plans to develop an oil well in Gabon I will get the company to send me to Gabon to establish contact with the incoming workers and encourage them to set up an employee union ( and enlist a leader from amongst them who is intelligent, calm and not given to violence ). This would be opposite to the case of IBM-USA which had an employee union ( at least until 2015 ) but when IBM set up the Indian branch many years ago neither the Indian workers set up a union nor did representatives of IBM-USA employee union came here and incited IBM-India workers to set up the union. And this inaction by IBM-India employees is wrong even considering that my father who worked in a government-owned bank and told me that bank workers from all over India, from different banks set up a common employee union IIRC right after the country's independence in 1947.
Coming back to IOC-Gabon it would be ideal if the worker union leaders sit in every meeting that the management has. Now if the workers have a wage problem then they have a legitimate complaint and the workers will discuss this amongst themselves first. Their leaders will not wait for the next management meeting but immediately go to the management about this. The negotiations will need to be calm and the workers will be repeated told to be calm too and informed that the union exists for their welfare so any indiscipline from them will have the effect of those particular workers losing the sympathy and support of the union leaders and the other workers and of me the original Indian union-setting-up encourager. The local union leaders will use me as the conduit to tell the IOC-India management about the wage concerns of the IOC-Gabon workers and I will try to do further negotiations. There can be the possibility of worker strike in IOC-India sites in solidarity with IOC-Gabon workers which will further give encouragement to IOC-Gabon workers to not do indiscipline, rioting etc. If rioting is about to be done by a few workers the other workers will be encouraged to discourage the mischief makers from doing it and if it still is done then the rioters will have to face Gabon security law.
TBH I don't know much about it though I do tend to not accept biased Western recounting of it. Can you summarize that entire revolution ?
Again, I don't know much about Trotsky except how he was killed and also me reading
this 2013 article about the Pakistani female activist Malala Yousafzai attending a gathering of Socialists in Pakistan that was arranged by IMT ( International Marxist Tendency - a Trotskyite group ). I quote :
The article also has this :
About my political spectrum it is evolving. I know the basics of what a Communist society should be like and various experiments around the world and what they achieved. For example, in pre-2011 Libya there was Direct Democracy - effectively the people ruling themselves. This was essentially an implementation of the Communist desire for "the withering away of the State". The Libyan political system has been adapted by Venezuela. And then I made the proposal for a new socio-economic system which has money but has eradicated economic classification and socio-economic deprivation.
