Editorial Board: M. K. Pandhe, W. R. Varada Rajan, Vimal Ranadive, P. K. Ganguly, Jibon Roy, Tapan Sen, S. Dev Roye

Pandhe, M. K., Sen, Tapan, Majumdar, Chittabrata +1

In This Issue: • Total Industrial Strike in West Bengal: Nation-wide Massive Protest Demonstration • CITU Seminar: On 150th Anniversary of the Communist Manifesto • Curtains Down: 50th Anniversary Of Independence – M. K. Pandhe • National Seminar On Steel Industry - Tapan Sen • Labour Issues In Parliament: Dunlop: Govt Cornered In Rajya Sabha • Lok Sabha: Revive Sick PSUs In National Interest • Public Sector Undertakings – Asset Or Burden Of The Country? - Chittabrata Majumdar • All Are Equal, But Are Some, More Equal? – K. P. Rao • Comrade Madhu Guha • Tamil Nadu Workers Face Serious Crisis • Tamilnadu: CITU Victories • Com. A Nallasivan Ninaivagam Declared Open • Martyr’s Widow Contributes Rs 5000 To BTR Memorial • National Safety Council • Several Thousands Demonstrate Against Anti-People Central Budget • Minimum Wages Act: Notification • Strike By Postal Employees • Textile Workers Demonstrate • Haryana Nurses On Strike • Maharashtra State CITU Meets • Workers Lay Siege On CM’s Residence • Cement Workers Stage Dharna In Front Of UP Assembly • Himachal Pradesh CITU Plans Campaign • The Striking Hospital Workers Lathicharged • Cuban Delegates Call On CITU • Vietnam Delegation Visits India • 1st International Conference of the Workers Against Globalisation and Neoliberalism, Brazil-August 1999 • Women and Neo-liberal Globalisation

1 Aug 1998

Basu, Ranjit, Zharikov, Alexander, Banerjee, Kanai +1

In This Issue: • Comrade Vimal Ranadive • Trade Unions’ Membership Verification - Ranjit Basu • Telecom - Muddle, Scam Or Loot? • 87th Session Of The ILO • Solutions Impossible Under NGO-Liberal Frame Work - Alexander Zharikov, General Secretary, WFTU at the ILO Conference • Defeat The BJP & Its Allies - Kanai Banerjee • West Bengal: 22 Years Of Left Front Govt. & Working Class - Chittabrata Majumdar • Com Saroj Vashist • On To Lok Sabha Elections: Points To Ponder • Economy On Rails! Heading Where? • USA’s Appalling Record On Workers’ Rights • Without Comments: Amartya Sen At Ilo; Bill Clinton At ILO • Consumer Forum Overrules TU Act • Kargil Fund: CITU Appeal • Victorious Strike By Tea Garden Workers • Fish Workers: CITU & Kisan Sabha Joint Meeting • CITU Bihar State Council Meets • Protest Day By State Government Employees • Tamil Nadu: Loadmen Court Arrest • CEL Privatisation Move Opposed • Protest Day In FCI • Actions To Save Rourkela Steel Plant • ENRON-The Great Treachery Exposed • Telecom Package Condemned • Kedia Distillery Accused Of ‘Fraud’; How BIFR Was Taken For A Ride • Central School For Anganwadi Workers • Hindi Patrika For Working Women • Indian Bank: Attack On TU Leaders • NATHPA-Jhakri: Limitless Repression • Against Globalisation • Changes In Oil Sector In Offing? • GEFONT: 10th Anniversary Celebrations • Signature Campaign To Save Public Sector • Com. Vimal Ranadive

1 Aug 1999

Monterio, Vivek, Dakshi, Ardhendu

In This Issue: • Working Women: 20 Years' Review • Let Us Back Our Valiant Jawans! • CITU General Council Meeting At Ghaziabad • Comrade Saroj Chaudhury Passes Away. A Vacuum Difficult To Fill Up • Public Sector Employees Prepare For Strike • Defeat The Anti-PSU Policies • Demonstration Before DPE Office • ESIC Procedural Problems Raised • ENRON: Endwrong Project – Vivek Monterio • Nationwide Protest Against Assam Murders • Contributions To Assam State Committee • Protest Rally At Mornoi Tea Estate • On Brutal Murder Of Tea Garden Workers • International Labour Conference • The Worst Forms Of Child Labour • Takes Aim At Abusive Forms Of Child Labour • Is There Any Alternative - Ardhendu Dakshi • Tamil Nadu News Letter: Local Body Workers’ Conference • Bokaro - Where Mafia Rule Supreme • Delhi: CITU Emerging As A Major Force • U.P: BJP Govt. Attack On Noida Workers • Embichi Bhava Smaraka Inaugurated • Kerala: FMRAI Conference • SAIL: McKinsey Proposals Opposed • M. P: Coal Workers’ Conference • Demonstrations In Port Blair • Against Privatisation: Salem Steel Workers Strike On June 24 • H.P: NAPTHA-Jhakri Project Workers On Strike • Yugoslavia: 600,000 Workers Rendered Jobless • Labour Law Changes: Plight Of Japanese Women Workers • Philippines-EPZ Workers Defeat ‘Union Busting’

1 Jul 1999

Pandhe, M. K., Dakshi, Ardhendu, Roy, Jibon +1

In This Issue: • The Peoples Convention Against Communalism • Massacre Of Landless Poor Murder Of Democracy • Struggle For Rectification Of Fraudulent Price Index – M. K. Pandhe • 35th Meeting Of The Standing Labour Committee: More A Ritual Than Anything Substantial - Ardhendu Dakshi • Pension Case: Apex Court Hearing On 13.4.99 • Cabinet Decision On Coal Mining Flayed • Public Sector Wage Negotiations: CITU Opposes Govt. Guidelines - Jibon Roy • Diversion Of PF, Pension Funds Opposed • National Convention At Delhi: NPMO Demands Withdrawal Of IRA & Patent Bills • ESI Scheme: A Thorough Overhaul Needed – Kali Ghosh • Asian Financial Crisis: ILO Sounds Alarm • Cuba Marches Defying US Blockade • CITU Makes Rapid Strides In Ap • Central Trade Union Class • Convention On IISCO Modernisation • Haryana: Protest Against Victimisation • State Govt. Employees’ Struggle • Protest Day In Assam • CITU Delegation Visits Bangladesh • Bank Employees On Warpath • Working Women’s Front: Anganwadi Employees’ March Forward • Murderous Assault On CITU Leader’s Family • Maharashtra CITU Stages Protest • West Bengal: A Successful General Strike • High Court Infringes Employees Rights • Rubber Growers Facing Ruin: AIKS • Egyptian TU Movement Centennial Celebrations • Com. BTR Memorial Fund

1 Mar 1999

Dakshi, Ardhendu, Pandhe, M. K., Dey, Gopinath +2

In This Issue: • NPMO Calls For Nationwide Campaigns • CITU General Council Meeting Notice • CITU Working Committee Meeting Notice • CITU Secretariat Meeting Notice • An Year Of All Round Ruination • Budget 1999-2000: People To Suffer, Economy To Continue To Sink – Ardhendu Dakshi • Port & Dock Workers Fight Against Port Privatisation – M. K. Pandhe • March 8: International Women’s Day: Indian Women Seek Equality, Empowerment • National Seminar On Coal Industry - Gopinath Dey • Buyback Shares By Public Sector: “Dig Your Own Grave !": Govt to PSUs - Swadesh Dev Roye • Central Budget And PSUs - Dipankar Mukherjee • Second National Commission On Labour • Standard Chartered Bank Attempt At De-Unionisation • Himachal Pradesh: Braving Police Repression And Mass Scale Arrest - NAPTHA Jhakhri Workers On Continuous Strike • Tamil Nadu: State Level Campaigns • Captive Power Plants Sale By Sail Opposed • Assam: CITU On The Move • Transport Federation Meets • Maharashtra: Misuse Of Professional Tax • ILC Meets On 3-4 April 1999 • Navi Mumbai Port: CITU Win • Working Women Committee Meeting • Save Rubber Plantations • CITU-ILO TU Training Activity • CPSTU Call • ESI Supplies Contaminated Fluids • Multifarious Campaign By BEFI • Multinational Way Of Recovery • Accord On Wage Revision For Bank Employees • Cement Workers Oppose Sale Of Units • Anganwadi Workers • ILO Criticises Australian Govt. • Alloy Steels Plant, Durgapur, Languishing • Struggle Against CEL Privatisation

1 Apr 1999

Pandhe, M. K., Sen, Tapan, Ganguly, P. K. +1

In This Issue: • Japanese Peace Delegation Visits India • Defeat This Fanaticism! • NPMO To Intensify Struggle • Com Z A Ahmed • II National Commission on Labour: Move To Usher In Deregulated Labour Market – W. R. Varada Rajan • Comrade K M Haribhat • Overhaul Economic Policy Reforms: CITU • Pre Budget Consultations, 1999-2000: CITU Memorandum • “Is There A Govt. Functioning Here At All?”: BMS • IRA Bill: Halt This Madness • Sexual Harassment Is A Violation Of Fundamental Right: Supreme Court Verdict • Com. Gopal Basu • To Save Coal Industry PSUs Coal Miners’ Prepare For Movement – M. K. Pandhe • Amartya Sen Honoured - Tapan Sen • Haryana: Unprecedented Repression • BHEL Hyderabad : INTUC, BMS Defeated • 8th Conference Of AP CITU • West Bengal: Organising New Area • Goa: Repression & Terror On Mine Workers • Com Radhika Banerjee • J&K State Govt Employees’ 18 Days’ Strike • Com. Naresh Dasgupta • Karnataka: Panchayat Employees’ Meet • Revive NPCC In National Interest • Construction PSUs Facing Serious Crisis • Delhi: State CITU Meets • Tamil Nadu CITU Intensifies Campaign • Manipur Employees On Strike • CITU Denounces Cabinet Decisions • U. S. Barbarism – P. K. Ganguly • International Seminar : World Energy Scenario On The Eve Of 21st Century • Day Of The Fat Wallet: Spiffy Growth In Top Income Bracket - Rich Get Richer In Post-Reforms India, Lower Income Crowd Thins

1 Feb 1999

Dev Roye, Swadesh, Pandhe, M. K., Menon, N. C. +3

In This Issue: • Farewell Com. EMS! • Chennai Prepares For CITU General Council • “National Agenda” Of The BJP-Led Combine: Labour Totally Ignored - Swadesh Dev Roye • Historic Significance Of The Communist Manifesto – M. K. Pandhe • Vulture Capitalism – N. C. Menon • Domestic Workers or Slaves? - Ranjana Nirula • South Asian Workshop on Occupational and Environmental Health – P. K. Ganguly • Suspension Of Work In Dunlop Factories: A Conspiracy By Management • Protect Domestic Industry - Says ASSOCHAM • Coal Washery Workers Agitate Against Closure • Workers Demand Judicial Enquiry • Rajasthan: Workers Agitate At Atomic Energy Plant • INDAL Workers Oppose Take-Over Bid • Conference Of BHEL Mazdoor Union, Jhansi • BPCL Workers To Go For Countrywide Strike • J&K Govt. /PSU Employees’ Strike • Steel Workers Expresses Concern On VRS in SAIL • Bank Employees Opposed Privatisation And Merger • 5th Conference of Bangla Desh Agricultural Farm Labour Federation - Vimal Ranadive • Iraq: Facing The Brunt Of US Gangsterism • Srilankan Plantation Workers’ Strike • Draft Declaration On Social Standards – A Dubious Move In ILO To Help MNCs – M. K. Pandhe

1 Apr 1998

Balanandan, E., Pandhe, M. K., Varada Rajan, W. R. +2

In This Issue: • CITU General Council Meets At Chennai • Com. Bimal Singha • Com P G K Krishnan • Capitalism : Enemy Of Open Society - E. Balanandan • Comrade K. L. Malabade • Interim Wage Increase For Coal Workers • The New Situation, Dangers And Tasks Ahead – M. K. Pandhe • Pseudo Swadeshi Stands Exposed – W. R. Varada Rajan • Capital Misery • CITU Highlights Pressing Issues Of Labour • Union Labour Minister called a meeting of Central Trade Unions and Employers organisations. The points made by M.K. Pandhe, General Secretary, CITU, at the meeting • Pre-budget consultation with Finance Minister: CITU Flays Fund-Bank Dictated Economic Policies • Towards A Two Days Nation Wide Strike. Public Sector Workers Plan Campaign & Agitations • Take Lead, For Successful Implementation: CITU Call • What Ails Employees' State Insurance Scheme? How To Remedy? - Kali Ghosh • WFTU Memorandum To WTO • Historic Struggle Of Delhi Nurses – A. R. Sindhu • Vajpayee Govt. On Contract Awarding Spree; CITU Expresses Serious Concern • ZENROREN’s May Day Message To CITU • 3 Days-Strike By FMRAI • Major Win For Maritime Union Of Australia

1 Jun 1998

Pandhe, M. K., Varada Rajan, W. R., Ganguly, P. K. +3

In This Issue: • The Midterm Poll And Working Class – M. K. Pandhe • 34th Session Of Indian Labour Conference - A Hoax To The Unorganised Sector Workers – P. K. Ganguly • State of Unorganised Sector Workers: Grim Reality Admitted • Elections, Big Business And Saffron Scribes – W. R. Varada Rajan • Pact Of Financial Services In WTO: American Invasion In Third World Market • The Supreme Court Verdict on Bandh – P. K. Ganguly • The CITU deeply mourns the passing away of Com. Tridib Chowdhury • The CITU strongly denounces the dastardly attack with the intention to murder on Com. Gulab Singh • Closure Of Gas Victims’ Rehabilitation Centres Deprive Victim Women Of Their Livelihood - Zulekha Zabin • Against SC Verdict On Bandh • South Korea: Severe Fall Out Of IMF Package - Tapan Sen • Agricultural Workers: Health Risks • On A Visit To Sri Lanka – A. K. Padmanabhan • Bihar: Electricity Workers Agitate • Coal Ash and Parcel Workers on the move • Successful Bandh Against Bathe Killings in Bihar • lISCO: Steel Workers Demonstrate • Western Hemisphere Workers’ Conference: NAFTA Privatisation And Deregulation • Pension: Settlement of Claims • Workmen Compensation Act • Paternity Leave for Govt Employees • Strike Hits Israel • National Platform Of Mass Organisation • Asia Pacific Graphical Federation • ILO Proposal for a Declaration on Fundamental Rights • Maharashtra : Protest Against Repression • PF: Government Notification • Foundation Stone For BTR Bhavan Laid

1 Jan 1998

Pandhe, M. K., Ranadive, B. T., Sen, Tapan +2

In This Issue: • A Blueprint For Whole Sale Privatisation – M. K. Pandhe • BMS. Also Lashes Out At Mania Of Privatisation • Vrs Galore! • Remembering Comrade B.T.R.: Unemployment And The Working Class – B. T. Ranadive Tapan Sen Justice B. P. Jeevan Reddy Kanai Banerjee • Closure Of PSUs - Swadeshi Style - Tapan Sen Justice B. P. Jeevan Reddy Kanai Banerjee • Com. Jadhav Prasad • Economic Liberalisation And Human Development - Justice B. P. Jeevan Reddy Kanai Banerjee • Foil The Conspiracy Against Coal Industry • Threat From Foreign Funded NGOs – Kanai Banerjee • 8th National Congress Of VGCL • Vietnam: Situation Of Workers • TUI Of Public And Allied Employees: Ninth World Congress • Coal Miners To Join Strike On 10-11 December • M. K. Pandhe Elected Vice Chairman • CITU Orissa State 7th Conference • HSCL Union Conference • Bihar: Massive CITU Rally • Country Wide Strike By Sugar Workers • Strike By Telecom Employees • Without Comments. Too Many Holes In PM's Economic Package • Himachal: Anganwadi Conference • CPSTU Denounces Closure Of Eight PSUs • HSCL: Joint All India Convention • Assam NPMO Convention • Bangalore: JAF Convention • Uttar Pradesh: NPMO Convention • Day Long Meetings, Rally In Patna • South Korea’s ‘IMF Orphans’ • 13th National Congress Of ACFTU

1 Dec 1998

Sen, Tapan, Pandhe, M. K., Roy, Jibon +2

In This Issue: • Polls Are Over—What Next? - Tapan Sen • CITU General Council Meeting, Chennai (Madras), 22-25 April 1998: Notice • 11th International Conference Of Transport Workers – M. K. Pandhe • Coimbatore Blasts & Massacres - A Tragic Fall Out Of Communalisation Of Politics - Jibon Roy • R. Umanath’s Appeal • Fixation And Enforcement Of Minimum Wages - Shanti Ghatak • Murderous Onslaughts On Colombian Workers • National Policy On Civil Aviation: - A Death Knell For The National Carriers - Tapan Pathak • Delhi: Increasing Incidence Of Rape • Construction Of BTR Memorial Started: Speed Up The Drive For Funds • CITU Delegation Visits Vietnam • Asian Crisis: ILO Prescribes fake pain killers, not real cure • Tigers In Crisis! À La Globalisation! • Zero Duty On Capital Goods Import! • Haryana: Heroic Fight Against Police Brutality • Strike In BEL • TRAI Debars MTNL • IISCO: TUs Demand Action • INTUC Against Disinvestment • BPCL : Fight Against Bifurcation • PF Employees on Strike • State Bank Officers' Meet • KVB Employees’ Conference • Chennai Race Club Women Workers • Tuticorin Dock Strike • Times Of India Employees’ Struggle • Russia: Wage Payment Is Not The Priority • WFTU Against UN To Bomb Iraq • Japan: Workers Rally For Wage Rise • Unrest In Air Force Over Pay Disparity • Stop Unilateral Family Budget Survey By Labour Bureau!

1 Mar 1998

Ganguly, P. K., Sen, Sukomal, Majumdar, Chittabrata +2

In This Issue: • The Hidden Agenda Surfaces • NPMO Call: 30th Nov Mass Rally In State Capitals! Intensify Campaign For 11th Dec Strike! • 81st Anniversary Of October Revolution – P. K. Ganguly • Com. Dasarath Deb • Working Committee Meeting, Ahmedabad, 22-24, December, 1998: Notice • Catastrophe In Russia: A New Showdown In The Offing - Sukomal Sen • Technological Advancement: Can It Sustain Capitalist Development? - Chittabrata Majumdar • Colombo: Forum For Union Leaders: Neoliberal Globalisation: Indian Experience • A Profile Of Indian Economy • Wage Rates In The Global Hiring Hall For Production: Workers In Manufacturing • Foreign Funding Of Indian NGOs - Kanai Banerjee • Govt. Contribution To Pension Scheme: CITU Opposes Move For Withdrawal • South Korea: Attacks On Workers • Violence At Workplace • Plantation Workers Plan For Struggle • Hindi Region CITU Leaders Meet • Tamilnadu Prepares For Strike • Pharmaceutical Workers’ Convention • TUI World Congress • HSCL: Forced Retirement Opposed • HIV/AIDS: Prevention And Control At Workplace • “Overhaul World's FIs’ - WFTU • A Worker Asks Who Are The Real Experts? • FEMA & PML Bills - Legitimising Hawala • Gender Eye On....Economic Crisis • The Golden Hand-Shake - Ardhendu Dakshi

1 Nov 1998

Choudhary, Saroj, Sindhu, A. R., Roy, Jibon +2

In This Issue: • Elections 1998: CITU Appeals To The Working Class • Without Comments: Whither Communal! • WTO Pact On Financial Service: Who Cheers! - Saroj Chaudhuri • Com. B. P. Kashyap • Quarry Workers Of Faridabad - A tale of woes and agony • Trade Unions Denounce Disinvestment Of Public Sector Shares, National Meet At Bangalore Calls For United Struggle • Women Workers Organise in Monica Electronics, Delhi – A. R. Sindhu • Whither Public Sector! • Elections 1998: Rid Factory Gates Of Communal & Caste Divide - Jibon Roy • More on Judgement Against Bandhs: A Pedantic Rhetoric of Anglo Saxon Jurispudence - Har Dev Singh, Bar-at-Law, Supreme Court of India • M.P: Nightmare Of BJP Rule - Badal Saroj • Madhya Pradesh BJP’s Tendu Leaf Scam • Of Bofors Connection! • ILO Sounds Alarm On Unemployment • Whither Globalisation! IMF To Bail-Out Or Sell-Out • Central TUs On IISCO Modernisation • Total Bandhin Burdwan • Police Repression On Dalli - Rajhara Mine Workers • C.S.E.U. Celebrates Silver Jubilee • Save Cement Corporation: TUs Call • FMRAI Rally In Mumbai • HMS Conference • Employees’ Rally Against HVP-BJP Govt. • Demonstration before US Embassy • Japan: Yamaichi Securities Co. To Close • Part-Time Workers Demonstrate • Japanese Govt Attacks On Hospital Workers • Mass Protest Against Govt. • Against Reforms and Deregulation • Joint Programme for Spring Struggle • Australia: Workers Win Better Wages • Fighting Health Hazards • All European Ports Paralysed • CITU Demands abrogation of Sanctions against Libyan Arab Jamahiriya • WFTU Calls For Worldwide Action • Multilateral Agency For Unilateral Benefit!

1 Feb 1998

Dakshi, Ardhendu, Choudhary, Saroj, Sen, Tapan +1

In This Issue: • Subhuman Life Under “Inhuman Development” – Ardhendu Dakshi • End This Us Arrogance! - Saroj Chowdhury • Greetings To People’s Republic Of China • "Sell Out PSUs At Any Cost !" – Tapan Sen • Com Chadayan Govindan • Without-Comments: Cheap Import Virus Hit Desi Companies – BIFR • Dumping Puts Steel Industry In Crisis • Without-Comment: Fake Divestment • Steel Industry: Anti-Worker Measures Opposed – M. K. Pandhe • For Cuba: Medicines Against Blockade • "Payment Of Wages Must Get Priority" • Extract Of The Interim Order: Dunlop Factory Employees Union Chennai vs The Management of M/s Duntop India Ltd. Chennai • Pension Case In Supreme Court • Supreme Court Judgement On 1. What Is Sexual Harassment? 2. Who Do These Guidelines Apply To? 3. Preventive Steps; 4. Complaints Procedure; 5. Disciplinary Action; 6. Other Provisions Of Guidelines - These Supreme Court Guidelines Are Legally Binding And Must Be Enforced. • Road Transport Workers On United Struggle • Reign Of Terror In Dhaurabhata • Karnataka Convention Of NPMO • Jute Workers’ Strike On Bonus • IOC Contract Workers • Strike By Seamen Of Home Trade • Maharashtra: Workshop On Child Labour • CITU Wrests Fertiliser Union From BJP • Com. Pritish Chanda • Tamil Nadu: Construction Workers Welfare Scheme • J & K Co-Ordination Committee Of TUs • Who Will Help Jamuna Devi? • ESI: Standard Benefits Enhanced • Ousted Bank Staff Win Back Jobs • AICCTU Conference • Successful Strike Of College Teachers • Philippines: Workers Losing Jobs • Com. P. Ramachandra Rao • WFTU Plea To NAM Summit • BTR Memorial Fund • Fidel Castro On Globalisation And Third World Unity

1 Oct 1998

Pandhe, M. K., Raghunatha Reddy, A.

In This Issue: • Forward To A Countrywide Struggle Against BJP Govt's Economic Policies And Communalism – M. K. Pandhe • Insurance Sector: Implications Of Opening Up – A. Raghunatha Reddy • National Platform Of Mass Organisations: Call For All India General Strike On 11.12.98: Declaration • Abolish Bonus Act Ceilings: CITU • Call Of National Convention Of PSU Workers: All India Strike In PSUs On 10 & 11.12.1998: Declaration • TUI World Congress • 1998 World Conference Against A&H Bombs • Financial Assistance To Workers: West Bengal Scheme • WB: All TUs Demand Repeal Of Bonus Ceiling • Mumbai TU Convention Plans State Wide Action • Jabalpur Earthquake Victims: Insurance Employees Organise Relief • Bihar State CITU Meets • Tamil Nadu: Campaigns And Struggles • Karnataka CITU Steers NPMO Activities • West Bengal: PSU Workers’ Convention • Postal Workers’ Strike Gains • Unions Urge Revival Of CIWTC • Bank Strike: 18.9.1998 • Central TUs Oppose Tata Airlines Proposal • Govt. Notifications • Coordinated Struggle At Calcutta Airport • Himachal: Convention At Parwanoo • MP: CITU Opposes BALCO Privatisation • Workers Fight Sale Of CCI Units • All India Convention Of Anganwadi Workers • CITU Condemns Denial Of IR To Sick PSUs • Massive Strike By Industrial Workers At Delhi • South Korea: Workers’ Resistance • “Reverse” Migration In Asia • CITU Greets GFTUK • USA: 54 Days - Strike In General Motors • Tell Tale Figures On Labour Cost • Japan Women Workers’ Study Tour

1 Sept 1998

Sen, Tapan, Pandhe, Pramila, Pandhe, M. K. +3

In This Issue: • Forward To 7th December Strike For A Genuine Pension Scheme • Public Sector More Investor Friendly! • Govt. Pension Scheme: Farcial Review, Paltry Relief, Indexation Denied Fradulent Pension Scheme -Who Abetted Imposition? • A Cruel Slap On Democratic Rights • 92nd Birthday of Com. B. T. Ranadive: Com. B.T.R. on His Early Days in T.U. - excerpts from the interview by Sri B.N. Datar • Electricity Employees & Engineers to strike on. 17.12.1997 • Central TUs Oppose Govt. Move On Price Index • In Japan Interacting With Working Women… - M. Rajeswari • Status Of Japanese Women Today • The Class Bias Of The Bourgeois Press - E. Balanandan • Expedite Action On Pf Related Issues • B.T.R. Memorial Trust: Unique Symbol Of Working Class Dedication • Contributions To B.T.R. Memorial • Successful Countrywide Strike By BPCL Workers • Fertilizer Workers Observed Countrwide Strike On 11.11. 1997 • November Revolution Day Observed In Durgapur • Bihar : TU Class • International Symposium On Health Safety And Environment In Iron And Steel Industry • 36th Conference Of AITUC • WFTU Asian Regional Seminar • General Council Meeting Of WFTU Asia Pacific Region • International Relations • CFTU Conference • Meeting Of Hindi Speaking States • Attention All Concerned, Please! • For United Action - interview with M. K. Pandhe

1 Dec 1997

Pandhe, M. K., Dev Roye, Swadesh, Varada Rajan, W. R. +2

In This Issue: • Pro-Capital, anti-People, MNC--Friendly Budget – M. K. Pandhe • CPSTU Call • Bengal Strike • Coal Workers To Strike • Central TUs Call For Intense Struggle • Com. Ajit Sarkar • NPMO Calls • Electricity Tariff Regulatory Commission: Whom It Serves? - Swadesh Dev Roye • Hidden Agenda Explodes At Pokhran – W. R. Varada Rajan • Reopening Of Dunlop India Ltd • Save Hindustan Fertiliser • Payment Of Gratuities (Amendment) Bill • On Amendments To P.F. Act • Overdue Wages For HSCL Workers • West Bengal: Industrial Relations—Recent Trends & Issues - Santhi Ghatak • Resist Globalisation Of Capital. Move Against Capitalist System Itself - Chittabrata Majumdar • May Day’98 In The Philippines: Workers Celebrate Militant Struggle • Anganwadi Women Plan For Struggle • MP Mine Worker Killed In Police Firing • ASSAM: CITU On The Move • Coalmine Disaster: Enquiry Abandoned • IDPL Workers Court Arrests • Textile Rally On 15.7.98 • Maruti Sell Out Condemned • Kanpur: Struggle Against Closures • NBCC Workers Denied Wages • May Day In Tamil Nadu • Working Women • Kailash Prasad Felicitated • Visaka Steel Plant • Water Transport Federation • Bank Employees On Struggle • Transport Federation • Retirement Age Move Opposed • Insurance Privatisation Opposed • CITU Foundation day • Endangering Lives At Sea • Implement Dprk-Us Accord: CITU • End Inhuman Sanctions Against Iraq: CITU

1 Jul 1998

Pandhe, M. K., Balanandan, E., Majumdar, Chittabrata +3

In This Issue: • Mount Resistance To The Policies Ruining The Country: CITU Working Committee Call • Forward To Intensification Of Struggles – M. K. Pandhe • World In Recession, Nation In Crisis Intensify Fight Against Anti People Policies – E. Balanandan • Strike: Nation-Wide General Strike, A Massive Success, Severest Indictment Of BJP Govt. • Condemn US Bombing On Iraq: CITU • Strike: West Bengal Report • Strike: Kerala Report • Strike: Karnataka Report • Strike: CGT Message To CITU • Value Of Rupee • Strike: Tamil Nadu Report • Strike: Delhi Report • Strike: Maharashtra Report • The World Of Hungry People • Strike: Bihar Report • 11 Dec. Strike And INTUC Leadership • Strike: Assam Report • Strike: Manipur Report • Strike: Tripura Report • Strike: Orissa Report • Strike: Gujrat Report • Strike: Andhra Pradesh Report • Strike: Madhya Pradesh Report • Strike: Haryana Report • Strike: In Different Sectors • Combat Liberalisation: Struggle For Social Change - Chittabrata Majumdar • Price Rise - Whom Does ‘Sultani’ Serve? - Dr. Vandana Shiva • West Bengal: Recognition Of Trade Unions By Secret Ballot - Kali Ghosh • Amending The Patent Act: Volte-Face By BJP – P. K. Ganguly • BTR Memorial Fund • Labour Issues In Parliament: PSUs: Revival And No Winding Up, Is The Need • 94th Birth Anniversary of B. T. Ranadive

1 Jan 1999

Pandhe, M. K., Ghosh, Jayati, Mitra, Ashok +18

In This Issue: • Globalisation And Neo-Liberalism • World Capitalism To-Day Under Globalisation – M. K. Pandhe • Globalisation and national economic policy: Myths and responses - Jayati Ghosh • No Alternative? - Ashok Mitra • IMF And World Bank: Genesis, Functioning And Role Today - Arun Ghosh • International Trade, WTO and International Labour Standards: The Debate On Social Clause - Sukomal Sen • Globalisation - Myth And Reality – N. M. Sundaram • Erstwhile Socialist Countries And Globalisation - Chittabrata Majumdar • Without- Comments: Poor Have Become Poorer: UN Report • Liberalised Foreign Trade And Deindustrialisation In India – Dr. (Ms.) Anjali Kulkarni, Dr. (Ms.) Rucha Ghate • “Privatise And Perish". Genesis Of The Game Plan - Swadesh Dev Roye • The New Phase Of Global Capitalism – M. R. Appan • Seeds of Suicide : The Ecological and Human Costs of Globalisation of Agriculture - Dr. Vandana Shiva, Afsar H. Jafri • Globalisation - Labour And Quality Of Life - Jibon Roy • Globalisation and the Informal Sector – P. K. Ganguly • Globalisation and Liberalisation: Impact on Women and Children - Ranjana Nirula • Globalisation, Shipping Services And Seafarers – M. M. Lawrence • Banking Sector: Reforms or Ruination? Ashis Sen, Asit Das Gupta • On Power Policy - K. R. Unnithan • Civil Aviation: Pressures And Policy Options - R. Ramanathan • Globalisation and Telecom Industry – V. A. N. Namboodiri

1998-06(2) Supplement

Mukherjee, Dipankar, Balanandan, E., Pandhe, M. K. +3

In This Issue: • The Steal Deal - Dipankar Mukherjee • Advocacy Of Ordinance Raj Reprehensible! • NATO Offensive In Yugoslavia: A Threat To Sovereignty Of Nations – E. Balanandan • Economy In Decline, Workers In Misery – M. K. Pandhe • Elections And Tasks Of The Working Class • FDI Investment In Asia Decline • Labour Legislations: Alarming Picture Of Absolute Anarchy - Tapan Sen • Repulse Attack On Collective Bargaining - Swadesh Dev Roye • Globalisation Or Economic Subjugation? – W. R. Varada Rajan • Xv World Congress: On Occupational Safety And Health • T N: Welfare Scheme For Unorganised Workers • WB: Unique Scheme To Help Workers • CITU Leaders Murdered In Assam Teagarden • Kerala: Cashew Workers’ Struggle • Ap: Leaf-Plate Making Women Revolt • Rourkela: Workers’ Oppose Sale Of PSU Assets • Delhi: Rally By FCI Workers • GIC Move For Productivity Linked Wages • Bihar: Successful Strike By Govt Staff • Kanpur: Ramasrey Memorial Inaugurated • Regional Rural Bank Employees’ Conference • May Day Celebration In TN • CPSTU Meets • May Day In Maharashtra • Move To Privatise Indian Airlines Condemned • World Energy Meet In France • Globalisation And Migration • Vizag: CITU Workers Join Struggle For Land

1 Jun 1999