General strike in India planned over price rises India's major unions have called for a nationwide general strike this September over numerous issues including the rising cost of living and demanding an improved social security net.
Developing Unrest: New Struggles in Miserable Boom-Town Gurgaon Following article tries to summarise the main tendencies of class relations in Gurgaon and based on that to come to practical conclusions and suggestions for local ‘communist activities’.
“Needles and Threats”, Local Textile Industry, Part One A text on the textile export industries around the New Delhi area in India, including workers' reports and how one company got rid of permanent workers by repression and taking advantage of the workers' trust in their union representatives.
Union struggle and the law in Gurgaon A short introduction to the Industrial Disputes Act and some general thoughts on union-related local problems, with a detailed look at two struggles.
Gurgaon: Whose security is it anyway? Reports from Security Guards in Gurgaon, one of them employed by G4S, formerly known as Group4. The worker reports about the massive and open money swindle the company undertakes. Another guard reports why he had to work 48 hours without a break.
After the fire: When the offices keep on being dirty, the bosses come down to the jhuggis… Short note on a slum fire in Gurgaon, which destroyed about 800 huts of families of cleaning and recycling workers on 24th of April 2007. The first two days after the fire office bosses came down to the slum, asking why their offices kept on being dirty.
Thousands of invisible hands moving the automobile industry in Gurgaon area, Part One A short introduction to the local automobile industry, plus five Faridabad Majdoor Samaachaar reports from workers employed in different companies of the supplying sector.
Factory and police station, Faridabad An account of the beating and repression by bosses and police of MG auto workers in Faridabad, India, 2007.
Not yet special enough: Special Economic Zones, part 1 Gurgaon workers news examine plans for a new Special Economic Zone in the Gurgaon area, India, 2007.
Techy Wage increase attempt at Convergys in Gurgaon An account of an unsuccessful attempt of call centre workers in Gurgaon, India, to inflate their wages by forging positive feedback.
Liberty Shoes, Strike and Cycle Rikshas An account and chronology of a strike at the Liberty Shoes factory in Gurgaon, India in 2006.
