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Chapter 2: "It is September 2005 and the hand-loom silk weaving industry of Varanasi is slowly rotting away. Over the past five years, as India has opened its domestic market to foreign imports, cheap Chinese silk has flooded in."

Chapter 3: "The skilled trade union man, the barricade fighter who had never been to a public meeting, the mystic feminist from the backstreets; these were the archetypes who made the Paris Commune."

Chapter 5: "Miller wrote that if he had not become a Wobbly, he would have been a criminal. Having left behind religion there was no hell he could be threatened with."

Chapter 9: "But the economic crisis skidded out of control, provoking a currency devaluation and a run on the banks. With unemployment spiralling to twenty per cent, unemployed pickets blocked the highways. Hundreds of workplaces were taken over by their employees in December 2001. 'It was an uprising,' says Godoy."

'Live Working Or Die Fighting' by Paul Mason