FULL UNEMPLOYMENT CINEMA & SHORT FUSE PRESS SPECIAL SCREENING AND BENEFIT PARTY

FULL UNEMPLOYMENT CINEMA & SHORT FUSE PRESS SPECIAL SCREENING AND BENEFIT PARTY

Sunday 23 May 5 – 11pm

195 Mare Street Social Centre

Full Unemployment Cinema presents a new documentary film on workers struggles in Faridabad, Gurgaon and other areas of Delhi's industrial belt.

6 - 8pm
Developing Unrest: Workers' Struggle in Gurgaon - One of India's Miserable Boom Cities
Film screening and discussion with speaker from Gurgaon Workers News

8 – 11pm
Music from Full Unemployment Cinema DJs
Bashment, dubstep, mbalax, dancehall and more

This is a benefit for Short Fuse Press and Full Unemployment Cinema for more about these London based self-organised and autonomous projects follow the links below

Entrance free but donations welcome

http://www.gurgaonworkersnews.wordpress.com
http://shortfuse.alphabetthreat.co.uk/
http://unemployedcinema.blogspot.com/


Film Screening and Debate

Developing Unrest: Workers' Struggle in Gurgaon - One of India's Miserable Boom Cities

Gurgaon, a satellite town in the south of Delhi became the symbol of 'Shining India'. In the industrial areas of Gurgaon a very particular class composition emerged. Hundred of thousands migrant garment workers work next to the assembly lines of India's biggest automobile hub and next to hundred thousand young workers sweating under the head-sets of Gurgaon's call centres.

Due to the real estate boom which catapulted local farmers out of their fields into land-lordism and business a specific coalition of local political class, land-lords, labour contractors, police and company-hired local goons became a repressive front ready to quell expressions of workers' unrest. This local front of ruling class is complemented by a faceless front of multi-national investment and central government policies.

Many traditional strikes of the minoritarian permanent work-force end up in mass lock-outs. A new generation of casual workers is forced to take direct action: during recent years wildcat strikes and factory occupations shook the major auto plants and garment factories.

Since the early 1980s small group of unorthodox communists publish a monthly workers' newspaper 'Faridabad Majdoor Samachar' in nearby Faridabad, documenting workers' experiences and asking questions of how to build non-hierarchical collectivities of mutual aid and subversion against the machine. Currently they try to open meeting spaces with workers in Faridabad, Gurgaon and other areas of Delhi's industrial belt.

We want to screen a recently finished documentary on proletarian experiences in Gurgaon. A comrade involved in GurgaonWorkersNews will share his impressions after several longer stays in the region. We hope to contribute to the debate about how 'international proletarian support' could look like, what kind of role can a 'workers' newspaper' or a 'form of organisation' play today.

www.gurgaonworkersnews.wordpress.com