The phenomenon of the trade unions and working class utilizing the social network media for their organization and struggles is growing every day around the world. Mobile SMS, Facebook, Twitter etc are used to mobilize opinion. The internet and communication technologies are helping in organizing big mobilizations in several countries.
The mobile phones have become the "weapons of the weak" in their mobilization to fight for their demands. Using the social media and communication technologies, huge mobilizations were organized in Egypt that resulted in changing the Government. Occupy Wall Street movement in America was organized using the social media. Huge demonstrations with thousands of people were organized in Russia recently against the fraud in the elections and the communications technologies are used for these mobilizations.
Though the working class in India has started to use communications technologies like internet, mobile phones etc for their organisations, it is not yet in a big way.
Since the working class is paying the heavy price for all that is going wrong with the finance capital dominated globalized world economy and since the crisis in the economies of the advanced countries like USA and European countries is adversely effecting the economies and the conditions of the working class in the developed countries like India, it is necessary for the working class to know the happenings and to respond to the happenings quickly and to organize their struggles with much greater mobilizations. Traditional ways of communication for organizing the struggles are not sufficient for this purpose.
Therefore it is very much necessary for the trade unions to cultivate the culture of utilizing the modern communications technologies and social networks for organising effective mobilizations for strengthening the working class struggles.
Workers of the world, Unite and Text! You have "virtually" nothing to lose!
(Based on the article "Class Struggle Moves Into Cyber Space", published in "The Hindu Business Line" dated 28-12-2011)
The mobile phones have become the "weapons of the weak" in their mobilization to fight for their demands. Using the social media and communication technologies, huge mobilizations were organized in Egypt that resulted in changing the Government. Occupy Wall Street movement in America was organized using the social media. Huge demonstrations with thousands of people were organized in Russia recently against the fraud in the elections and the communications technologies are used for these mobilizations.
Though the working class in India has started to use communications technologies like internet, mobile phones etc for their organisations, it is not yet in a big way.
Since the working class is paying the heavy price for all that is going wrong with the finance capital dominated globalized world economy and since the crisis in the economies of the advanced countries like USA and European countries is adversely effecting the economies and the conditions of the working class in the developed countries like India, it is necessary for the working class to know the happenings and to respond to the happenings quickly and to organize their struggles with much greater mobilizations. Traditional ways of communication for organizing the struggles are not sufficient for this purpose.
Therefore it is very much necessary for the trade unions to cultivate the culture of utilizing the modern communications technologies and social networks for organising effective mobilizations for strengthening the working class struggles.
Workers of the world, Unite and Text! You have "virtually" nothing to lose!
(Based on the article "Class Struggle Moves Into Cyber Space", published in "The Hindu Business Line" dated 28-12-2011)
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