Lessons from the past: Interview with Com. Thangappan on struggle strategies, leadership and future of working class movement

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Com. Thangappan, with over 50 years of experience in organizing workers in their struggle against capital, is a treasure house of anecdotes when it comes to working class struggle in India. Having been baptized in the class struggles that gripped Bombay from the late 1950s to the late 1980s, he is an authority on working class strategies, making him one of the many sought after union leaders for advice and direction. Thozhillalar Koodam, sat down with him for an interview at Open World Conference 2016, Mumbai. Com. Thangappan, put down his views on various themes such as the form of working class struggle, the role of leadership, and the way forward, with a number of experiential struggles of the past.