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Labour India

Publications Limited

Who we are

A press run by the people who read it.

Labour India Publications Limited has printed working-class journalism and literature since 1991. We are a small, worker-run house: editors, printers and binders who believe the shop floor deserves its own record.

Nothing we publish is written from a distance. Our reporting comes from warehouses, mills, sites and kitchens, and it is printed a few metres from where it is bound.

Stacks of risograph zines and labour flyers inside the bindery

the bindery, Mumbai

Some dates

1991

Founded above a printing shop in Parel with one second-hand duplicator.

2004

First monthly newsletter, The Shop Floor Dispatch, reaches 5,000 readers.

2013

Bindery moves to its current home and adds riso colour printing.

2024

34 titles in the catalogue and subscribers in every state.

Work with us

We take on printing, editing and distribution for unions and collectives.

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