Proletarian Photo Story from Kapas Hera:

A New Working Class Dormitory Shanty-Town in Gurgaon, India GurgaonWorkersNews - June 2010

Kapas Hera is one of the biggest new 'working class dwelling clusters' in the Delhi industrial belt. Within the last ten years rent-based mass-accomodations for around 200,000 to 300,000 workers and families emerged out of dusty scrub-land around a minor peasant village. Kapas Hera is where over 100,000 garment export workers eat and sleep or conspire after 12 to 16-hours shifts in neighbouring Udyog Vihar Phase I to IV - one of Delhi's biggest 'planned' industrial areas.

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

GurgaonWorkersNews - Newsletter 23 (March 2010)

(full version at: www.gurgaonworkersnews.wordpress.com)

Gurgaon in Haryana is presented as the shining India, a symbol of capitalist success promising a better life for everyone behind the gateway of development. At a first glance the office towers and shopping malls reflect this chimera and even the facades of the garment factories look like three star hotels.

Behind the facade, behind the factory walls and in the side streets of the industrial areas thousands of workers keep the rat-race going, producing cars and scooters for the middle-classes which end up in the traffic jam on the new highway between Delhi and Gurgaon.

Gurgaon Workers News - Newsletter 21 (November 2009) www.gurgaonworkersnews.wordpress.com gurgaon_workers_news@yahoo.co.uk

In the November 2009 issue you can find:

1) Proletarian Experiences - Daily life stories and reports from a workers' perspective *** 19 Short Workers' Reports from Gurgaon Factories -

2) Collective Action - Reports on proletarian struggles in the area *** The Youth is Getting Restless / Hidden Struggles in Okhlas Textile Factories, Part 2 - organising will develop. * Rico and beyond: One month of automobile unrest in Gurgaon - * What crisis? - * The terrific jam - *

Video-Interviews with Gurgaon Automobile Workers - http://visions-of-labor.org/topic.php?clipId=17&Viam=Feature&Vlang=eng

3) According to Plan - General information on the development of the region or on certain company policies *** From Cluster to Class War -

4) About the Project - Updates on Gurgaon Workers News *** Glossary - Updated version of the Glossary: things that you always wanted to know, but could never be bothered to google. Now even in alphabetical order.