Date Issued

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., 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

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., 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

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

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

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

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

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., 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

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

Ghosh, Kali, Dakshi, Ardhendu, Varada Rajan, W. R. +1

In This Issue: • Com Sukhdev Singh • Yugoslavian Embassy Thanks CITU • To The People For A New Mandate! • CITU Manifesto For May Day 1999 • 35th Session Of ILC: Workers’ Side Protests ‘Tailking Shop’ Exercise • CITU Highlights Workers’ Resentment • Industrial Sickness And Employment Generation: Strident Criticism Of 35 Session Of ILC: Govt Indifference • Alternative Approach Outlined Before ILC: "Review Policy Of Mindless Privatisation And Liberalisation" • Crisis Of Indian Railways And The Status Paper • Employees State Insurance Scheme (ESI) - Need For Speedy Overhauling - Kali Ghosh & Ardhendu Dakshi • ‘Oasis’: Code Name For Milking Workers’ Funds To Quench The Greed Of Big Business – W. R. Varada Rajan • Diversion of PF/Pension Funds to Private Sector Mutual Fund flayed • Southern Initiative Against Globalisation • Nationwide Strike Of Coal Miners On 11-12 May – M. K. Pandhe • CITU Himachal Pradesh Decides Future Action • Steel Workers Federation Conference • Newspaper Employees Strike • All India Locomen Meet • Construction Workers’ Conference • Rajasthan: CITU Workshop On Organisation • HP: Anganwadi Workers • Committee Of Public Sector Trade Unions Notice • Tamilnadu: CITU - ILO Training Camp • Demands Of SAIL Contract Workers • High Court Reinstates Contract Workers • International Demand For Halt To Liberalisation, Review Of WTO Role • Supreme Court Upholds Contract Workers’ Right To Regular Job • Denial Of Subsistence Allowance, Inhuman: SC

1 May 1999

Balanandan, E., Pandhe, M. K.

• DOCUMENTS 1. Presidential Address – E. Balanandan 2. Report Of The General Secretary – M. K. Pandhe 3. Condolence Resolution 4. Discussion Paper - Two Decades Of The All India Coordination Committee Of Working Women: A Review 5. Accounts • DOCUMENTS (H) 1. अध्यक्षीय भाषण - ई बालानंदन 1. महासचिव की रिपोर्ट - एम के पंधे 2. शोक प्रस्ताव 3. परिचर्चा पेपर: अखिल भारतीय कामगार महिला समिति के दो दशक 4. लेखा रिपोर्ट

1 May 1999

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

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

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

Pandhe, M. K., Ranadive, Vimal, Dev Roye, Swadesh

In This Issue: • Mumbai Farewell To Vimaldi • The Battle Ahead: Save The Country • Economy On Rails Heading Where ? • Hai Swadeshi ! • BJP/NDA Manifesto - Working Class Is Nowhere • Challenges Before The Trade Union Movement Today – M. K. Pandhe • Condolence Meeting Of Saroj Vasisth • Bail Out For Private Sector And Sell Out Of PSUs • Govt. Must Amend The Payment Of Bonus Act Right Now • The Great Fervour Of The 1930s - Vimal Ranadive • Com. Vimal Ranadive - A Life Sketch • Madhya Pradesh State Committee Meeting • State Convention Of Public Sector Unions • Oil Sector Worst Hit Under BJP Rule - Swadesh Dev Roye • Public Sector: Open Letter To All Political Parties • Unorganised Sector Workers Convention At Calcutta • Air India/Indian Airlines/Airport Authority: Contract Labour Board Recommendation • Conspiracy To Rob Workers' Savings • Tamil Nadu: Police Action On Tea Garden Workers • West Bengal: State Convention Of PSU Unions • Steel Workers Observe Protest Day • Mornoi Tea Garden Murders • Management-INTUC Nexus Exposed • Massive Rally Of Solapur Beedi Workers • Mumbai: Trade Union Seminar On Globalisation And Communal Danger • Tamil Nadu State CITU Meeting • Tributes To Vimaldi • ESI Benefits For Disabled/Retired Workers

1 Sept 1999

Pandhe, M. K.

Published in ‘The Working Class’, September 1999

1 Sept 1999

Pandhe, M. K., Varada Rajan, W. R., Ravindranath, K. N.

In This Issue: • Centre Of Indian Trade Unions Working Committee Meeting Jaipur, 13-16 November 1999: Notice • Editorial: 13th Lok Sabha And After • Liberalisation Boosts Billionaires In India – M. K. Pandhe • Billionaires Galore Despite Recession! • Challenges Emerging In Post-Polls Situation – W. R. Varada Rajan • Accidents Or Man Made Calamities? • Barbarians At The Gate! • Economy On Rails! Heading Where ? • Present Phase Of The Global Economy – K. N. Ravindranath • WTO Style Liberalisation, Leading Where? • Dear Power - Lyla Bavadam In Mumbai • Without Comments: Congress-BJP Convergence On Economic Reforms Manifestoes Ignore Labour Interests • Myth Of Falling Inflation Rate ! • West Bengal: Bonus Demand Day Observed • Tamil Nadu: Wage Settlement In Sugar Industry • Himachal Pradesh: Statewide Rallies • The Life Ambobai Leads… • HIV/AIDS And Workers • International Meet Demands Reconstruction Efforts In Yugoslavia • BJP Govt’s Anti-Employee Measures • Finance Ministry Calls For Austerity Drive • Seaport Infrastructure In India. Is Privatisation A Panacea? • Sangh Parivar On Indian Womanhood • Perpetuating Inequality Globally • Rio-De-Jeneiro Meet Against Globalisation • Pension Case In Supreme Court

1 Oct 1999