India
India: Car plant workers wildcat strike
Car manufacturing workers at Hindustan Motors in India walked out on Monday.
One of the five registered trade unions at the company engaged in an unannounced stoppage and disrupted normal operations at the company's Uttarpara Plant on March 12 2007.
India: Strike of 10,000 tailors enters seventh day
The indefinite strike of thousands of garment workers in Tirupur for a wage increase continues this week.
Chennai online reported that with talks to find a solution to the demand for increase in stitching charges remaining inconclusive, the strike by job working units for domestic innerwear brands in nearby Tirupur entered the seventh day today.
Working life, interviews and leaflets in Delhi's call centre cluster, 2006
Detailed report written after three months of work as foreign call centre worker in Delhi and collective political intervention in the area.
The text looks at the composition of foreign workers in Indian call centres and documents interviews with workers from international companies such as HP or Citibank which relocated call centre work to the industrial outskirts of Delhi.
Introduction
India: general strike in Kerala and West Bengal
A mass 24-hour walkout has brought economic life to a halt across two states in India, protesting privatisation, discriminatory labour legislation, rising prices and low wages.
Public transport has been paralysed and all flights cancelled, as well as most trains, banks and businesses are also closed. The streets are reportedly deserted of traffic while thousands of armed police have been deployed. Thousands of people also rallied in the Indian capital Dehli in support of the strike.
Indian technology industry workers get organised
A short article from business magazine, Forbes, about the recent unionisation drive within the Indian technology industry.
India’s technology industry, which has been merrily soaking up jobs from higher-cost countries, got a little shock last week when it had its first brush with organized labor.
1919-1946: Gandhi and the national liberation of India
A critical examination of the 'saint' of non-violence, Mahatma Gandhi, and his role in the 'liberation' of India.
Mahatma Gandhi is often cited by pacifists as the shining example of how non-violent civil disobedience works successfully. Unfortunately, these paeans of praise leave out a close study of Gandhi’s role in the Indian struggle for ‘independence’, and just as importantly, who were his class allies in that struggle.
2001: Pakistan - The Mummification of the Class Struggle - Melancholic Troglodytes
Pakistan: The Mummification of the Class Struggle?
"The highest heroic effort of which old society is till capable of is national war; and this is now proved to be a mere humbug, intended to deter the struggle of classes, and to be thrown aside as soon as that class s
Revolutionary "termites" in Faridabad: a proletarian current in India confronts third worldist statism
An analysis of the struggles by workers in Faridabad and of the involvement of the Kamunist Kranti.
India: 1,057 workers arrested for picketing
A total of 1,057 members, including 399 women, of All India Kisan Sabha and All India Agriculture Workers Association were arrested on Saturday for picketing.
In Dindigul they picketed roads at 11 places, demanding issue of house pattas to the poor and downtrodden. They picketed roads in Nilakottai, Sempatti, Iayyalur, Eriyode, Dindigul, Natham, Gopalpatti, Oddanchatram, Sri Rampuram, Kodaikanal and Gujiliamparai.
India: Tea estate lockouts lead to starvation deaths
Assam and Darjeeling tea estate lockouts have led to malnutrition and starvation deaths in India this month.
Roopacherra tea estate in South Assam has been under lockout for nearly month after the executives abandoned it. Leading to the death of a three-year-old girl, Shivani Kalindi and two workers, Yogendra Kalindi, 22, and Manorama Dev, 60, according the workers' panchayat (council). Shivani had been taken to the garden hospital on Tuesday evening, but no doctor was available.
