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FIAT has branded me (An interview with a Fiat Worker, 1979)
Giampaolo Pansa Translated by Lawrence Venuti Giampaola Pansa, well-known for his interviews with Italian workers, talks here to a Fiat worker from the Mirafiori plant In Torino who was among the group...
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August 9: In solidarity with Maruti Suzuki Workers
A joint demonstration was organized at the Labour Ministry headquarters of the Indian government in Delhi by over 20 organizations on August 9, 2012 to protest the repression and arrest of Maruti...
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An interview with workers at FIAT, 1970
Three Workers from FIAT Mirafiori describe the experiences of the Southern immigrant coming to work in the industrial cities of the North. The conversation was recorded in Turin during December 1970....
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Sep 2 – Relatives and families of Maruti Suzuki workers demonstrate in Rohtak
On 2nd September 2012, over 400 relatives and families of workers of Maruti Suzuki protested against the arrests, torture and termination of workers, and demanded immediate release and work for all...
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Blind workers demonstrate for their rights
BLIND WORKERS GHERAO MINISTRY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE & EMPOWERMENT WORKERS PRESS MINISTRY TO HONOUR ITS APRIL 2012 ASSURANCE OF PROVIDING ALTERNATIVE EMPLOYMENT Today, a large number of blind workers...
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Possibilities beyond the Maruti Struggle: Nationalisation and Workers Control...
Alok Kumar, leader of Krantikari Yuva Sangathan addressing a gathering at the Maruti Suzuki Headquarters on August 27, 2012.
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Maruti Suzuki: Workers’ Side of the Story
Workers of the Maruti Suzuki Manesar plant speak up about the events of 18th July 2012, and the repression that they have been facing since then. These workers were amongst the 500 permanent workers...
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Maruti: A moment in workers’ self-organisation in India
Pratyush Chandra The Chairman of Maruti Suzuki, R.C. Bhargava, himself described the July 18 incident as a “class attack”. The management, which learnt from the Japanese how to instrumentalise unions...
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Banaji and Hensman on multinationals and industrial conflicts in Bombay...
Courtesy: Economic & Political Weekly
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The Practical and Impractical
Faridabad Majdoor Samachar, September 2012 (Translated from Hindi) Practicality in these Times: * Waking up a three/four/five-year-old at 5/6/7’o clock in the morning. Forcing the child to clear its...
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A Review of “The Socialist Alternative”
Ankit Sharma Michael A Lebowitz, The Socialist Alternative: Real Human Development, Monthly Review Press & Aakar Books, 2010 This book is part of Michael Lebowitz’s larger project of demonstrating...
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Seminar: Challenges facing the labour movement in India (Oct 20, 2012)
Seminar organised by various workers organisations in New Delhi (Oct 20, 2012) to assess the challenge before the workers movement in India in the context of the Maruti Struggle.
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The Faltering Miracle Story of India
Anjan Chakrabarti Last time Indian economy ran into a major systemic crisis was in the late 1980s; it was a result of and also the final nail in the coffin of state sponsored planned economy. Along...
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The Charge of Neoliberal Brigade and Higher Education in India
Ravi Kumar This paper looks at the state of higher education in India – in terms of policies and the trajectory that it has taken in the aftermath of neoliberalisation of the economy. Through studying...
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Why must social science be critical, and why must doing social science be...
Raju J Das Now-a-days, we hear the word ‘critical’ everywhere. It is there even in business schools: there is indeed such a thing as critical business or management studies. Conscious (=conscientious)...
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Why is Hurricane Sandy a political issue?
Saswat Pattanayak President Obama and his administration have been exchanging high-fives and posing for stock images to bring home the point that Sandy’s aftermath is being dealt with successfully....
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Maruti Suzuki Workers’ Union: A two-day hunger strike (Nov 7-8)
The Maruti Suzuki Workers Union (MSWU: Reg. no. 1923) has decided to hold a protest dharna in the form of a two-day hunger strike on 7th and 8th November 2012. Our family members, relatives and...
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Maruti Suzuki Workers Union: The First Day of the Hunger Strike
The terminated workers of Maruti Suzuki, Manesar plant launched their mass hunger strike today in front of the District Magistrate Office, Gurgaon demanding an impartial inquiry into the incident of...
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Workshop on Organisation and the Self-Emancipation of the Working Class...
A three day workshop is being organised with comrades from Mouvement Communiste, a communist organisation in France and Belgium belonging to the Autonomist Marxist tradition. The workshop will be held...
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On the Organisational Question of the Working Class
Arvind Ghosh “I have tried to dispel the misunderstanding arising out of the impression that by ‘party’, I meant a ‘League’ that expired eight years ago, or an editorial board that was disbanded twelve...
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