Juhi Tyagi gives a working paper on 'Radical politics: Organizational Structures and Networks of the Poor'

This paper focuses on radical organising by the poor. Unlike workers in mass production, who by their location in the economic system, possess leverage, how can the poor make demands of institutions over which they possess no structural power? Using the case of the armed insurgency in India, I find that areas of sustained radical networks of the poor emerged from specific organisational formations on the ground. I elaborate each of these organisational structures that emerge, tying them to the crucial aspect of relatively autonomy in the functioning of peasant groups of poor in the village.