Faridabad Majdoor Samachar | Faridabad Workers Newspaper

Re-thinking the Figure of the Worker
— Majdoor Samachar, 17.09.2013

Over the last 30-35 years, we have witnessed and have been connected with innumerable self-activities of workers. Even within these, there has been much that has stayed beyond our grasp, much has remained illegible to us. The electric self-activity of workers of Maruti Suzuki (Manesar) between 4 June 2011 and 18 July 2012 not only produced fresh energy and excitement, it also brought forth new questions. We want to share some of these with you today. The intensifying social churning that is apace in industrial areas surrounding Delhi demands reflection in practice; it calls upon us to breathe more creativity into our ways of thinking. We believe the workers of Maruti Suzuki have raised questions that are planetary in their significance.

A comrade who was engaged inside and outside a factory for 15 years, and then outside factories for another 15 years, said this in reference to the self-activity of the workers of Maruti Manesar:

‘Calling the self-activity of workers “the act of occupying” is a gross misunderstanding. What workers were doing was taking away the occupation of factories by companies and the government, weakening the control they have over factories.’

What the workers of Maruti Suzuki (Manesar) did between 4 and 16 June 2011 is extremely significant. What the workers of Maruti Suzuki, Maruti Engine, Suzuki Casting, Suzuki Motorcyle, Satyam Auto, Bajaj Motors, Endurance, Hilex, Lumax, Lumax DK, Dighania Medical factories did on 7 October is even more significant. These actions were not about civil or constitutional rights. Neither were they a strike. In Majdoor Samachar, we called it “workers’ occupation of factories”. To call what the workers did in June and October 2011 in IMT Manesar “occupation of factories by workers” is to see what the workers were doing through a reduced lens. “Occupation” is a misnomer; it is misleading. Occupation is how existing social hierarchies – based as they are on wealth and power – are held in place. Companies and governments today are on an overdrive to gain possession of everything not only on this planet, but also of all that exists in the entire universe. What we want is to wrest out of the clutches of companies and governments that which they have come to see as having a free reign over, and to create a commons. They want to occupy everything – cows, humans, land, houses, water, air. They are eager to occupy even the human heart. It is this greed to occupy that has brought us to the brink of disaster. Given this context, to call what workers of IMT Manesar did “occupation” is to refute the essence of their actions; it is akin to trampling over the possibilities they created. In conversations we have had with workers of Maruti Suzuki, they have abundantly expressed that between 7 and 14 October, when they unshackled the factory from the control of the management and government, they felt a joyousness of life that is usually unimaginable. The significance of what the workers of IMT Manesar did lies in it being a departure point from where on a series of de-occupations followed. Refracted through this lens, the significance of the “Occupy” movement that started in the US becomes clear – as actually being a movement calling for de-occupation, a taking away of the control that companies and governments have.

We shared this insight from our worker-friend in the February 2012 issue of Majdoor Samachar. It is commonplace to find some older methods insufficient in practice, to reject some of them, and to realise some methods are harmful. Practice makes it expedient to change and mould some methods, and to discard or turn away from some methods. An insight such as this comes from long years of practice and thinking. What is to be done, what avoided; how it can be done, and what should be steered clear of; constantly searching and inventing new methods; relentlessly testing diverse ways through practice – this is a continuous process, and the workers of Marusti Suzuki (Manesar) have given it a new velocity.

During the thirteen days – from 4 June 2011 to 16 June 2011 – when factories were de-occupied of the company and the government, it was as if people who had worked with each other for three, and perhaps four years, were seeing each other for the first time. In the words of a worker from Maruti Suzuki (Manesar):

“Inside the Maruti Suzuki factory, 7-14 October was the best time. No tension of work. No agonizing about the hours of entry and exit. No stress over catching a ride in a bus. No fretting about what to cook. No sweating over whether dinner has to be eaten at 7, or at 9 pm today. No anguishing over what day or date it is. We talked a lot with each other about things that were personal. All of us drew closer to each other than we have ever been before, during these seven days.”

Occupations are always wobbly. Steps are constantly underway for countering occupations. Time and again, the control that a company has over a factory is weakened in ways that can be called ‘de-occupation’. The temporary workers of Ametip Machine Tools in Faridabad, workers hired through contractor companies in Hero Honda Spare Parts factory in Gurgaon, permanent workers and workers hired through contractor companies, together, in Napino Auto & Electronics factory in IMT Manesar, have de-occupied factories of companies and the government. There are innumerable examples everywhere in the world of students having de-occupied schools, colleges and universities of governments. All over the world, weakening and removing occupation is on its way to becoming a widely practiced and common act. It’s so commonplace in fact, that factories of knowledge-production don’t even deliberate on whether it should be called “occupation” or “de-occupation”. Perhaps it isn’t considered worthy of deliberation, or maybe it just isn’t a point that can be debated academically. From occupy to de-occupy, from occupation to de-occupation is a conceptual leap. We feel that the idea of de-occupation is one of the results of our years of deliberation on unity vs. unison (ektaa banaam taalmel). Unique and together becomes conceivable. All and everyone’s comes into view.

# Point number two

The time during which occupation is diminished or removed is an active, alive time for those participating in its happening. It’s a time when many people exchange ideas with each other – without fear, without hesitation, and with leisure. Different angles are shared and mulled over. Many kinds of bonds are forged; new alliances are formed and deepened. And that which may have been considered beyond questioning, and stable stereotypes that may have otherwise been overlooked, begin to be brought up for questioning. Lively discussions about life stoke the fire of desires that seek simple alterations in the present and the near, foreseeable future. Thinking with that which can be brought into practice, people are freed from the vicious encirclement of demands.

With the de-occupation of Maruti Suzuki (Manesar), the sahibs found themselves confronted with an unsolvable riddle: What do workers want? What in the world is it that workers want?

Concessions hold meaning only when they can be mobilised, and they can be mobilised only in order to respond to demands. They are meaningless in the face of desires for life and joyous living. This is what 18 July brought. In brief:

Thirty workers were cajoled into submitting resignations. After that, with no further need to be egged on, the company offered what are called “concessions”. Reduction in speed – brought down from one minute to 45 seconds per car. Remuneration for trainees, apprentices and workers hired through contractor companies was increased. Permanent workers were assured of substantial wage increments over-term, three-year contracts. The number of buses was increased. Parents were included in health policies. Number of vacation days was increased. Heavy cuts in payments for absence of merely one or two days was ended. Workers would now no longer be arbitrarily asked to continue working after their duty hours. Workers hired through contractor companies would no longer be made to put in an hour and a half extra at the end of every night shift. A second union was registered, and it was given the status of a recognised union. Workers were assured residential quarters would be constructed for them, enough for all. A requisition was accepted from the union for long-term contracts, and follow-up discussions were promised.

If one were to consider the above-mentioned concessions within the framework of concessions, they would seem remarkable. However soon, and as early as February-March 2012, workers started feeling that despite everything that had happened, nothing had changed. Among the workers of Maruti Suzuki (Manesar), any kind of talk of concessions began to be called “the management’s language”. After everything they had brought about, if workers remained workers, then could anything be said to have changed at all? On 18 July, workers rebelled against being workers. Two things that symbolised that workers would be kept as, and in their place as, workers were attacked – managers and the factory buildings. It wasn’t a small group of 20-25 workers who were doing this. Old workers and new, permanent workers and those who were temporary, all participated in this together. It just happened to happen on 18 July – it could just as well have happened on 15th May or 25th August.

On 18 July 2012, workers challenged the customs that keep a worker labouring. The question, ‘what next?’, has become a live and vital question today. It is vigorously discussed among workers. A worker from Maruti Suzuki (Manesar) said, “It would have been quite something if what happened on 18 July had happened all across IMT.”

Today, when the ease with which a worker can be kept labouring is under duress, the questions of what comes next, of what can come after this, are questions that carry a force and a challenge for everyone, everywhere. Everyone, everywhere can participate in searching answers.

# Point number 3

How are factory workers reading the current circumstances and situation, what new kinds of interpretations are they bringing to bear on them, and how is this getting reflected in their practice and ways? This is very significant for understanding the challenges they have posed to power and the everyday changes that have resulted. Here are two examples, in brief:

1. On 14 October 2011, approximately 1600 permanent workers, trainees and apprentices gathered inside the Maruti Suzuki (Manesar) factory. Following an inspection of the factory by the police station head, administrative head of the district, the DC, accompanied by gunmen and 20-25 officials, arrived. Here is how a worker described the scene:

The DC walked around a little bit, then took his position in one place and started speaking. He said, you are good workers, you are educated, you have worked well the last five years, you have produced this much, you have contributed this much by bringing in tax, your salaries are better than those of others, your management is decent, you have been misled by some people, your occupation of the factory is unconstitutional, you must pay heed to the order that has been passed by the High Court, you will have to follow the order and vacate the factory, there is no other way, we won’t let you disregard law like this, Rico Auto lost a lot of orders when its workers got waylaid, if Maruti Suzuki were to shut down you would lose your jobs, but, moreover why should the government have to suffer losses?

The workers gave the DC their full attention for the half hour he spoke. But then the DC started telling a story, one that the workers had heard umpteen times from the management: The story of the tortoise and hare, only a little extended. The second time around, this version goes, the hare didn’t sleep, and he reached the finish line first. The third time around, even though the tortoise stopped for a drink of water on the way, he reached the finish line before the hare. The fourth time around, the route was sometimes even, sometimes treacherous, and water was needed as well, and sometimes the hare rode on the back of the tortoise, sometimes the tortoise rode on the hare’s back. Teamwork! The management and workers should walk together. The moment the DC started narrating this tale, workers started lying down, dozing off, chatting among themselves. At the end of his narration, the DC said that very soon he would arrange for a compromise with the management, but that for now the workers should follow orders. Then another official started waxing forth on law – that this is an illegal occupation, that we must vacate the factory. When the DC started to leave, a worker stepped up to where the mike was and said, ‘We heard you out, now you should listen to what we have to say.’ The DC stopped, but when workers started asking questions one after the other, he decided to leave. Workers now started shouting slogans, and when their shouting became a roar, the DC and his team pretty much scampered out of the factory.”

2. A worker hired through a contractor company in Maruti Suzuki (Manesar) was on duty in shift-B on 13 January 2012, when he received a phone call from a worker in Allied Nippon that a worker had sustained burns in a fire in the factory. The company had got him admitted in Sapna Nursing home, and the doctors had said that he would be released from the hospital by evening. Both his legs, from the thigh down, had been severely burned. The worker at Maruti Suzuki advised that the injured worker should be kept at the nursing home. The next day, on 14 January, a Saturday, 10-15 workers hired through contractor companies in the Maruti Suzuki factory went to the nursing home to visit the injured worker. When the doctor said that he was ready to release the injured worker, they asked him instead to continue treating him, and that they would cover the expenses if the company didn’t. No one from the management visited the nursing home on Saturday or Sunday, though, of course, workers did. When they called the production manager of Allied Nippon, he lied that he had no idea a worker had sustained burns at the factory. When workers went to the nursing home on Monday morning, the doctor said that if they didn’t pay the nursing home’s fee, the worker would be transferred to the Employees State Insurance Corporation hospital (ESI). The visiting workers called their colleagues, and within half an hour 70-80 workers from the press shop, assembly, paint shop and weld shop of Maruti Suzuki, and workers of Suzuki Powertrain hired through contractor companies gathered at the nursing home, from where they went together to Allied Nippon factory. They demanded to meet the manager. He refused to come out to discuss anything in connection with the injured worker. The workers assured him that he needn’t be scared, that he could talk to them from the safety of the other side of the gate, but he refused to meet them. The workers kept waiting, and when they had waited for half an hour, the supervisor of the contractor company, through whom the worker with burn injuries had been hired, arrived. A discussion ensued and it was decided that the expenditure of the nursing home till then would be borne by the company, that the injured worker would receive his wages for the duration of his recovery, and that his family would be informed by phone and brought here. He was shifted to the ESI hospital in Sector-3, IMT. For gaining admission into Emergency, the hospital demanded the worker’s ESI card, but one didn’t exist. The supervisor requested the doctor to give him two hours, and that is how an ESI card for a worker who had been working in that factory since 12.12.2010 got made on 16.1.2012. An accident report was filed. The injured worker’s father arrived from the village. It’s 24 January today; the worker continues to be treated at the hospital.

Durgesh, the worker of Allied Nippon factory who sustained injuries while at work, stays on rent in Baas village. The workers of Maruti Suzuki and Maruti Powertrain, who took steps after he sustained burns, live on rent in Aliyar and Dhana. None of them knew Durgesh before this incident. Unshackling the factory from the control of the company and the government twice in six months has kindled in the workers of Maruti Suzuki ways of thinking and feeling that exceed known and familiar bonds. Permanent workers and trainees de-occupied the factory of the company and the government between 7 and 14 October to insist that workers hired through contractor companies be retained. Workers of eleven factories in IMT stood alongside them through de-occupation. This has transformed the environment; all those who are strangers have become ones own.

# Point number 4

Lets look at another aspect. The speaking order that was passed by the Managing Director of Maruti Suzuki in August 2012 reflects the management’s terror of 18 July. But perhaps even more telling is what the speaking order betrays via the management’s views on ‘incitement to violence’ and ‘participation in violence’. Here goes: The Managing Director sent letters individually to 546 permanent workers. Each letter states, for every worker it addresses, that he both incited and participated in violence. This means the management sees every worker as an instigator as well as a participant.  And what this means is that the company recognises that each and every worker is a potential de-occupier. Even in the eyes of the management, every worker has today become the fountainhead of a destabilising force. The language of the leader and the led has lost its valence; it has become obsolete.

The self-activity of workers has blurred the partitions that separate intellectual labour from physical labour. It is time, therefore, that in order to participate in the creation of a new world, all of us take the cue and let go of long-held assumptions and settled theories.

# Point number 5

Instead of wrapping up with a conclusion, lets broaden the scope of our discussion some more. The young, 20-22 year-old workers of today often have work experience from 10-12 places under their belt. They exchange the wealth of experience and understanding and thinking that comes with this with each other, freely and rapidly. This is a global trend. Here is one worker’s trajectory – after tenth class examination in 2001, he started  working at the construction of Essar Steel factory in Hajira (Gujarat), then he worked at the construction of Gas Authority of India (Gail) plant at Bharuch (Gujarat), then at the construction of Jindal Steel & Power Works in Raigarh (Chhatisgarh), then at the construction of JSW Plant in Bellary (Karnataka), then at the construction of Jindal Stainless Steel Plant in Jajpur (Orissa), and then at the construction of Reliance Refinery in Jamnagar (Gujarat). These constructions are on ten square kilo metres to sixty square kilo metres land where ten thousand to a hundred thousand workers are employed. In 2013, instead of construction, he was working in a factory in NOIDA(UP).

We have already discussed the self-activity of workers in Maruti Suzuki (Manesar). And though little detail is known about the activity of workers in NOIDA on 20 February, everyone is aware that something quite extraordinary happened. It caused such alarm in Napino, Honda, Maruti-Suzuki and other factories in the Industrial Model Town Manesar (Gurgaon), that all the factories were closed by the managements the next day. We have discussed the activities of the workers in Okhla on 21 February 2013 in one of the issues of Majdoor Samachar. Here’s what a propagandist-thinker who would rather have existing and old ways continue ad infinitum said about 21 February: “It is understandable that when workers get angry, they can get violent. This anger can be reigned in through offering concessions. But what we saw in NOIDA and Okhla was different – the workers weren’t angry; they were enjoying being violent. This is an extremely problematic situation.”

Friends, it is time to let go of the image of tired, defeated and despondent workers. Our experience of factories in Faridabad, Okhla, Gurgaon and IMT Manesar urges us that we unfetter ourselves from these chains. And what we have seen in these factories is only a small glimpse of a transformation that is much more vast. In the course of six months, the workers of Maruti Suzuki (Manesar) were compelled to sign three agreements, but in their practice the workers saw them and treated them as meaningless scraps of paper. The image that is emergent today is that of workers who are filled with restlessness and are harbingers of a deep churning. This image challenges settled ways of seeing and thinking. Accept this challenge. This is an opportunity to shape the world anew, to think the world anew. This opportunity is for everyone. The events of 18 July 2012 have a place of immense significance in the chronology of events that have shaken the world recently. It emits a sense of the deep transformation the world is going through in our times. We are living in a time in which we can all stand up against prevalent ways and make them obsolete, more and more obsolete. It is for times like this that it has been said, “audacity, more audacity and still more audacity!”

17.09.2013

(Translation of a 17 June 2021 post.)
## Read English translation of philosopher Peter Sloterdijk’s book, Critique of Cynical Reason some twenty-five years ago. It was a study of the 1920s in Germany.

A few words :
National Socialism – Nazism (Fascism). Name of Hitler’s party in German : Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. And in English : National Socialist German Workers’ Party.

Some information :
— In1889, the Second International was formed in Paris. Party in Germany was its axis and Karl Kautsky could be said to be its theoretician.
— From 1891 the party in Germany self-proclaimed itself as workers’ marxist party. Besides the party organ edited by Kautsky, around eighty publications in German language of which some forty were daily papers published from different cities in Germany. Before the war, in 1913 the party had more than a million and eighty-five thousand members. Amongst those elected for local bodies administration, there were 13 thousand party members. In the 1912 parliamentary elections, with thirty-five percent of the votes, the party was the largest group in parliament. For large scale propagation of science and scientific socialism, there were party libraries, party schools, party sports clubs, party health centres, party music and drama teams, and the party organised festivals. There were two and a half million workers in the party’s trade unions.
— A resolution passed, repeatedly for twenty years, in the congresses/conferences of the Second International : The coming war is a capitalist war. Workers in each country must transform the war amongst exploiters into a war against the exploiters in their own countries.
— In 1914, when the First World War began, the leadership of the party’s unions declared their support in the war to the government of Germany . And, on 3 August 1914 on a resolution in German parliament to support the government in the war, 96 members of the party voted in favour of the resolution and 14 abstained lest the party breaks … And, on the second resolution (2 December 2014) in parliament in support of the government, only one member, Liebknecht voted against the resolution.
— Like in Germany, in every country member parties of the Second International supported their governments in the war. And Lenin, who in his 1903 book, “What is to be done?” had popularised Kautsky’s ideas, was shocked beyond belief by all this. Then in 1918, when Kautsky criticised the Bolshevik Party government in Russia, Lenin denounced him in his pamphlet, “Renegade Kautsky”
— In January 1918 the self-proclaimed workers’ marxist party became an important part of the government in Germany. And, the workers’ upsurge that had emerged to challenge power/the state in Germany, was suppressed by the army with the support of the self-proclaimed workers’ marxist party and its trade unions. While crushing the workers’ uprising, the party even had its own significant leaders for decades, Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg murdered.
— Then, after defeat in the World War, a number of members of the self-proclaimed marxist/communist parties became members of Hitler’s party, the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. In the Indian sub-continent, all hues of self-proclaimed communists joining parties that they themselves had called capitalist/landlord, has been going on for a hundred years now.

●National Socialist German Workers’ Party came to power in Germany in 1932-33. Hitler at the helm. Anti government activists/revolutionaries left Germany or were imprisoned. War situation and nationalist propaganda at its peak. Second World War began in 1939. In this situation … yes, in this scenario workers in Germany downed production by thirty percent. And, no targets for power to launch attacks!
A historian was surprised by the awesome worry spread over in documents of the secret services, police, managements, armed forces officers, top echelons in Hitler’s government.

●Well, it seems to be workers’ being, their very being that 100 workers in Globe Capacitor factory in 2015; 1500 workers in Bata Shoe factory during 1983-85; millions of workers in many cities in Germany during 1938-45; … did the impossible : without holding discussions, without meetings, without leaders, without representatives, without delegates, without handbills-pamphlets, without clandestine hints, … workers collective steps happen. Such collective activities seem to be normal. They are of visible scale every two-three months. Such visible collective acts from a few hours to a few days to a few years can be read in these two hundred years of factory workers existence. The key to an indecipherable riddle that we were stuck with for years was provided by a neighbour, a young temporary worker of Globe Capacitor factory in Faridabad in October 2015. Working in two twelve hour shifts, what the worker said, after dinner, was reported verbatim in the November 2015 issue of Majdoor Samachar. The very being of workers makes possible what otherwise seems/is considered impossible.

●●●From memory, some points from Sloterdijk’s book.
This time-period-duration-era is one of knowingly doing wrong. Whereas, in the nineteenth century dominant/prevalent conceptions were :
1). The reason for problems is ignorance.
2). Propagation of information, expansion of knowledge will solve the issues.
As per Sloterdijk, these conceptions of the nineteenth century were not right. Rather, they were wrong. It was not unknowingly but rather knowingly that wrong was being done.
And then, Sloterdijk seemed to be sidestepping the social essence of social subjects. He seemed to be lost in a maze of personal/individual solutions of social issues.
## Forty years ago, in 1982 the publication of Faridabad Majdoor Samachar commenced. And, from the very beginning, factory workers raised questions on the basic premises of Majdoor Samachar.
One basis of Majdoor Samachar was : “In the factory, union is a workers’ organisation. Attempt to remove wrong leadership and establish worker-side leadership in the union.”
And, some of what factory workers said on the character of unions, on the essence of unions were :

* If you want to operate a union then :
1. Someone with a say in the government should be backing you.
2. You should have the support of some important officer in the local administration.
3. You should have sweet relations with a faction of management in the factory.
4. You will have to cultivate some musclemen-bullies.
* — “Had made promises with the holy Ganges water in hand.”
— “Had taken oath with hand held on salt in a vessel.”
— “Had made promises with hand held over his son’s head …”
And, union leaders of red-yellow- white-black-tricolor flags went on to assist managements.
* “Union leaders take cuts. Not a big issue. Let leaders take cuts, cuts like a little salt in flour. But what is this, union leaders are engaged in gulping all the flour.”

●●It can be said that mechanistic sciences dominated the nineteenth century. Domination of “Definite- Accurate-This Is It”. Simply put : Two And Two Are Four.
“Two And Two Are Four” can be said to be the essence of mechanistic sciences.
On paper two and two are always four. The miracles that this two and two four has given, the miracles of science and technology are all around us.
And, we are also face to face with the role of science and technology in taking exploitation & oppression to new heights.
Science-technology can be said to be the carrier, the vehicle of production for the market using wage-labour. Science and technology seem to be the Ishwar-Allah-God of modern hierarchy.

●For religious, economic, cultural, political sects : definiteness seems to be an indispensable necessity. “This was. This is. This will be.” — this could be said to be the essence of any sect. Supporters and antagonists seem to be the axes of sects.

●●In divided societies, in hierarchic social formations two and two are rarely four. Sometimes two and two are thirty-five. Sometimes two and two are minus twenty-six. Sometimes two and two are zero. In hierarchic societies two and two are four only as a matter of fluke.
For some years it had become routine in Majdoor Samachar to take these two and two things amongst factory workers. And, many years after reading Sloterdijk’s book, by chance, we got an English translation of Dostoyevsky’s nineteenth century book, “Notes from Underground”. In this book there is a beautiful exposition of the two and two four thing.

## And in the nineteenth century itself, Karl Marx, who had almost internalised mechanistic sciences, in the context of major social transformations talked about this or that, instead of definiteness. It is this reading by Marx that keeps him relevant even today.
— And be it the marx-name-chanters of the Second International, the Third International (Communist International), or today’s organisations that bow to Marx, in the social sphere two and two are four for all of them.
— It seems that in the hierarchic societies of today, definiteness suits “marxists”. And all those that call themselves “marxist” organisations seem to be the organisations of “revolutionary intellectuals”. This or that person seems to be peripheral.
— Organisations of activists/revolutionaries also seem to be expressions of a social strata whose interests are in tune with :
*In the name of achieving equality, to propagate the conception of statising everything.
* To declare the state sector as public sector. Calls to defend the state sector.
* Achieve power, state power by any means. Besides statisation of everything, organisation and administration of a powerful army with captains-colonels-generals to hold on to power.
“State-capitalism” can be said to be the essence of different hues of “marxism”.
## Leaps in the productive forces that began in the 1970s have inflicted fatal wounds on the sway/domination of pandits. Blows dealt by electronics-internet to activists/revolutionaries are squeezing out of them their very life.
— In this context, interactions with factory workers since 1982 have provided us with direct experiences of our own irrelevance. During this period, throughout the world, we have seen “intellectuals” in general, and “revolutionary intellectuals” in particular becoming unserviceable/unemployable (नाकारा). Have seen the knowledgeable, the scientist becoming irrelevant.
— Reason? During these thirty-forty years, throughout the world communications between people have been becoming increasingly easy. Reach of everyone to what is available in different languages, besides becoming possible, is becoming simpler. Together with the innumerable experiences-reflections in the present, thousands of years experiences-reflections of our ancestors’ are available to us as something normal. Once in a while, material in English is put online by Majdoor Samachar. Google Hindi translation of some of that is being sent to us also by factory workers in this region.

●●ln science, quantum physics emerged in the twentieth century. Even in the context of the simplest like electron/particle, concepts of definite, accurate, exact have been found to be unemployable (नाकारा). For use at atomic levels, concepts of possibilities, probabilities, densities have been developed. Instead of the conceptual framework of definiteness, for atomic and sub-atomic levels a new conceptual framework of possibilities, probabilities, densities emerged.
## But … but even in the twenty-first century, definite-accurate-certain in the social sphere suite the rulers. It seems that tottering of hierarchies, the collapse of hierarchies in every sphere is accelerating. In this scenario, the increasing desperation of power is finding expression in identity politics throughout the world.
— Persons/parties in power, persons/parties enamoured with acquiring power are obsessively engaged in fanning confrontations amongst social strata which themselves are facing social murder/social death. But for increasing the pains, these attempts to hold on to modern hierarchies through increasing doses to identity politics, do not seem to have anything else in store.
## And, it seems that for conceptions regarding creation of new society, concepts of quantum physics could provide some points of departure.
## We are in vibrant times where the peaks of a few knowledgeable are rapidly shrinking and conversational interactions amongst seven billion persons are increasing.

●●During these twenty years, factory workers in Noida, Okhla, Udyog Vihar Gurgaon, Industrial Model Town Manesar, and Faridabad taking copies of Majdoor Samachar while going to work/coming after work, it has been rare to meet a worker who has favoured any organisation.
— Due to the constant pressures put by some friends, Majdoor Samachar became online from January 2016. Factory workers enthusiastically welcomed it and circulation increased significantly. Number of printed copies which had stabilised/been static around fifteen thousand copies per month also increased rapidly. During mid-2018 to February 2020 the number of copies printed : 18-20-25-28-30-32-35-36 thousand copies per month. Readers of Majdoor Samachar themselves had started taking the paper amongst factory workers in Noida, Okhla, Udyog Vihar Gurgaon, IMT Manesar, and Faridabad. Due to the whatsapp number in the paper, besides factory workers, some organisations began sending their material online to us.

●●The specificities of the bosses (saheb) and the specificities of an insignificantly fatal virus, Covid-19 made this virus fatal for the bosses. The bosses scared to death. Production in hundreds of thousands of factories shut down. March 2020 onwards, governments of the bosses imposed lockdowns for weeks and months in different parts of the world, throughout the world. This is a new scenario, a leap in the possibilities of radical social transformations. During this period, online conversational interactions with workers has further increased the liveliness.
But, leftists, rightists, centrists of different hues have been sending their material in increasing amount to Majdoor Samachar. We have not blocked anyone and in a day, two-three times removal of material from whatsapp has become another necessity. And, everyday leftists- centrists-rightists send such material that twenty-five year old memories of Critique of Cynical Reason have been refreshed.

It seems that in sects, knowingly doing wrong has become a pandemic. And, in political sects throughout the world, but especially in India (and Nepal, Pakistan, …) the level of politics has brought to the fore, these readings of the second half of the nineteenth century:
# To maintain hierarchy premised on wage-labour based production for the market, democracy is the best power apparatus. Democracy also is state power.
# Places where people become too political, there they invite their doom.
These readings were not for some specific country.
The relevance of these readings of the nineteenth century as paths to destruction are in a scenario of increasingly unstable, rapidly tottering-dispersing power, state power.
— 17 June 2021, Majdoor Samachar-Kamunist Kranti