India

On September 14, 2017, construction of India’s first bullet train, a much-lauded bilateral project between India and Japan, finally got underway. Although now being used by Narendra Modi’s BJP to further a nationalist agenda, ten years ago, senior BJP leader VK Malhotra slammed a railway budget that initially proposed the idea for high speed rail (HSR), for neglecting infrastructure and safety requirements as well as exposing the existing infrastructure to greater risks.

An overview by Gregor Gall of sex workers' organising and unionisation efforts in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

An expansion of the Delhi-NCR region, New Okhla Industrial Development Authority - NOIDA - is an example of 21st century expansion of wage-labour based commodity production. Below, we look at some glimpses of what this entails.

印度城市古尔冈，购物商场和金融大厦鳞次栉比，然而这繁华盛世背后却是工人阶级辛酸的挣扎。近年来，伴随着工业腾飞，印度诞生了一个庞大的工人阶级——农民工。和中国的情况相似，由于工资过低，来自农村的工人被迫与家人分离，只能在大城市工厂与农村之间流动。残酷的现实促使印度工人不断发起集体反抗来改变自身的处境。本文结合古尔冈的工业结构等背景，提出当地工人需要总结以往传统抗争方式失败的教训，未经批准的罢工以及工厂占领可能才是出路。