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 suggestions for local 'communist activities'.)

Gurgaon, a satellite town in the south of Delhi became the symbol of 'Shining India'. Many people are dazzled by the glass-fronts of shopping-malls and corporate towers and fail to see the development of a massive industrial working-class behind the facade of 'post-fordist' display of consumerism. Together with industrial centres like the Pearl River Delta in China or the Maquiladoras in Northern Mexico the Delhi industrial belt has become a focal point of global working class formation.

A Global Working Class in Local Formation

San Precario - patron saint of casual workers http://www.creativeunions.org/2009/05/28/san-precario-patron-saint-of-casual-workers/

Protesters broke with the consensual way in which employers and employees in postwar Germany have solved disputes over working conditions.

Why Germans are starting to strike – like the French By Isabelle de Pommereau | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor May 29, 2009 edition http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0529/p06s08-wogn.html

Photograph Day-care workers are on strike this week as Germany's model labor union system shows signs of unraveling.