Bhopal and Beyond: 40 Years of Struggle Since the World’s Worst Industrial Disaster

Bati Bai Rajak, Farhat Jahan, and Jiya S. Pandya speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. It will be forty years since the night when a Union Carbide (now Dow Chemicals) factory leaked 27 tons of toxic methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas into the lungs, soil, and water of Bhopal, India, killing 22,000 people and leaving 500,000 still facing the environmental, health, and economic devastation from this disaster. This panel spotlights these survivors' efforts to build and maintain community resilience for the past four decades, as state and corporate actors abdicated all responsibility, as well as the ongoing struggle to hold Dow Chemicals responsible for the clean up of Bhopal. The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, July 3-6. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org. Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow Haymarket on podcast platforms for regular event recordings, book talks, political analyses and poetry readings!