Kamunist Kranti
Indian communist group that stresses small everyday resistances and struggles of wage-workers wage without representation.
The Indian Rico strike and the aftermath: when capital wants to "de-risk"
The report of a Rico auto worker of a strike in 2009, alongside another similar struggle and general questions about workers' organisation in India.
Aftermath of the Rico strike
The following report of a Rico worker is part of a longer article published and distributed in Hindi in FMS no.227. Apart from the Rico dispute the article documents a workers’ struggle in Gorakhpur and asks general questions about how to organise.
http://faridabadmajdoorsamachar.blogspot.com/2009/12/gorakhpur-and-gurgaon-some-questions.html
Gurgaon Garment Export Workers’ Reports and Escapist Hopes of the Export Regime
Reports from Indian textile workers about their conditions, from autumn 2009.
These reports were told by workers during the distribution of Faridabad Mazdoor Samachar in autumn 2009. Most of the workers are employed in textile factories – some of them working for major companies like H&M, GAP or Calvin Klein. The textile export companies announced in December 2009 that the market is back on track and that exports to the US and Europe grow again.
Letter from a London street cleaner
An account of working life for a London street sweeper hired through a temp agency.
I started working for a temp agency which hires street sweepers, waste loaders, street sweep-truck drivers. I work on a street sweeping truck, I sweep stuff from the pavement into the vacuum-brush of the truck.
Questions for alternatives - Kamunist Kranti
A selection of texts by Kamunist Kranti on work, and its domination over all aspects of human life
Introduction
What follow are pieces from our monthly Hindi language publication Faridabad Majdoor Samachar.
A ballad against work - Kamunist Kranti
Indian communist group Kamunist Kranti's pamphlet about and against wage labour.
A Publication For Collectivities, January 1997.
Majdoor Library, Autopin Jhuggi, N.I.T., Faridabad 121001, India.
Online version taken from the Collective Action Notes website and formatted for libcom.org.
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.
Reflections on Marx's Critique of Political Economy
Marx's concepts and categories have become an intrinsic part of common usage. They are also used by statist tendencies to legitimise their claims to power and to suppress the questioning of the foundations of existing hierarchical society. This text seeks to dissolve the aura that surrounds Marx's concepts and categories.
Self-Activity of Wage Workers
Theories and practices of representation & delegation are a stumbling block in the self-activity of wage-workers. They hinder wage-workers' resistances, refusals and steps of change. What follows is a part of a larger critique of representation & delegation that we are engaged in. We invite you to join us in this attempt.
