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