Author: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research / Political Geography: India

Author:: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Publication Date:: 02-2020
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Abstract:: The Indian Communist movement has experimented with various forms of people’s polyclinics, which provide free or reduced-cost health care to anyone. The epicentre of this initiative has been in the Telugu-speaking region of India, where the Nellore People’s Polyclinic alone treats 1,000 patients per day at rates 40% lower than corporate hospitals and has trained over five hundred doctors who now provide health care across the region. Our Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research Dossier no. 25 focuses on the history of the polyclinics in this region.
Topic:: Communism, Health, Community, and Medicine
Political Geography:: India and Asia

Author:: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Publication Date:: 07-2019
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Abstract:: In the face of increasing neoliberal policies, the working-class movement in India has seen several major general strikes. Our eighteenth dossier – an interview with K Hemalata, President of the Centre of India Trade Unions – discusses the challenges and struggles facing the Indian working class and how they are able to organise workers who initially were apprehensive and afraid to join working class movement.
Topic:: Labor Issues, Class, Unions, and Mobilization
Political Geography:: India and Asia

Author:: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Publication Date:: 01-2019
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Abstract:: Ahead of the 2019 elections in India — the largest exercise of electoral democracy in the world– Brinda Karat of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) discusses the current political context in the country and the left-led resistance to the deepening assault on basic human rights led by India’s right-wing.
Topic:: Communism, Elections, Political Parties, and Leftist Politics
Political Geography:: India and Asia

Author:: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Publication Date:: 10-2018
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Abstract:: During the summer of 2018, the Indian state of Kerala was hit by severe rains and floods – the heaviest in nearly a century – affecting 5.4 million people. What followed was one of the most successful rescue and relief efforts in India’s history. This dossier tells the story of the remarkable way in which the people of Kerala, led by their Left Democratic Front government, powerful mass organisations and community networks, responded to the crisis, fighting the roadblocks put up by the far right RSS-BJP which is leading the federal government.
Topic:: Disaster Relief, Natural Disasters, Leadership, Community, and Weather
Political Geography:: India and Asia

Author:: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Publication Date:: 07-2018
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Abstract:: The women beedi (thin cigarette) workers of Solapur, a city in the Indian State of Maharashtra, used to live in tiny shanties on rent in slums. The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) organised them and led a prolonged struggle to construct houses for them. The result: the government was forced to allocate funds for the purpose and 15,000 houses have been constructed for the workers. Another 30,000 houses are being built for informal sector workers from various industries. With their united struggle and sustained movement, the workers of Solapur are building a city of their own.
Topic:: Solidarity, Community, Housing, Trade Unions, and Labor Unions
Political Geography:: India and Asia

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