-Mumbai was full of Textile Mills
- Employed Lakhs of workers in early 80s
- Trade union leader Dutta Samant organized massive strike against evil capitalists
- Mills shut down
- 150,000 lost jobs
- Mill owners sold land at great profit
- unemployed workers became slum dwellers
A success story for communists where rich guys became insanely rich, lower middle class workers became poor
Kanpur- Industries thriving, city growing
- Textile hub
- Voted for communists
- Union trouble starts
- Industries shut down and move away
- Out of work people work in other states as migrant Labour
- Another communist success story
I don’t even have to start on Bengal I guess
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