While comrade Karat keeps talking and talking without doing anything to improve the conditions of unskilled/semiskilled workforce, corporates are training them work force into a skilled, value added workforce fetching them better salary. Service sector industries like IT companies, Retail companies, Airline companies train these people (who have completed high-school/diploma holders) into IT-infrstructure technicians, front-store POS assistants, air hostess' respectively.
//Do you find India is changing and changing very fast?
Yes! Yes, India is changing. As Marxist we have to analyse that capitalism today is not the same capitalism when I was, say, a student or when I was very young.
Capitalism has grown, it has proliferated. Some people say we are still a semi-capitalist society. It is not true. We are developing capitalism rapidly. The impact of that capitalism which is also linked to globalisation is bringing about the big changes in our society. Our task is to analyse it and see what all is happening to working people who are exploited and who are actually producing wealth in this country.
Part I of the interview: 'This is the period when the Left parties had maximum gain'
That is our Marxist view. We will stand with them, we will represent them, and we will fight for them. The change is coming and we will have to work out our strategy and tactics in a new way. Everybody is talking about workers in the unorganised sector. For them I want more (in the) manufacturin
