Pharmaceuticals

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

Balanandan, E., Dev Roye, Swadesh, Majumdar, Chittabrata

In This Issue: • Seattle Ministerial Meet: TUs Demand • Editorial: ‘Second Generation Reforms’ Shall Not Pass! • CITU Working Committee Call: Unleash Countrywide United Struggle • Resisit Imperialist Machinations – E. Balanandan • CITU On The Move • Diesel Price Hike: An Act Of Deception! • BJP’s ‘Second Generation Reform’: Financial Sector Top In The Hit List - Swadesh Dev Roye • 5th Conference of SIGTUR Call: Strengthen Struggles Against Globalisation - Chittabrata Majumdar • Economy: On Rails: Heading Where ? • Workers Got A Raw Deal! 57000 Jobs Lost In One Year In Textile Sector Alone: Closures Galore • Document: Second National Commission On Labour • Comrade Dhaniram Khosla • WFTU Memorandum To Seattle Ministerial Meet • Call For Countrywide United Action • Jyoti Basu Greets AIRF Jubilee • Orissa Relief Efforts By FMRAI • Maharashtra CITU On The March • CITU Condemns Privatisation Move In SAIL • PSU Workes, On To Nationwide Struggles • Assam: Tea Garden Struggle Fund • International Conferences • South Korea: Massive Workers' Rally Against Privatisation • Training Programme For Plantation Women • Iraqi TU Federation Congress

1 Dec 1999

Sen, Tapan

In This Issue: • Save The PSU, Save The Country: PSU Workers’ Strike On 2nd February • Editorial: The People On The Move • NPMO Call: Carry Forward The Surging Tide Of Struggles! • National Platform Of Mass Organisations: All India Convention, 20th January, 2000, New Delhi: Declaration • Action Programme • Strike By Port And Dock Workers • International Support • Strike Steered To Success • HMS Golden Jubilee Conference • Govt Slashes Down Interest Rates • UP Power Workers Strike • All Round Support And Solidarity • Economy On Rails ! Heading Where? • Direct Tax Arrears Mounted To Rs 41230 Crore In 97-98 The Poor Are The Tax Payers, The Rich Are The Defaulters • Who Is Holding The Country To Ransom ? - Tapan Sen • Without Comments: Backlash Against Globalisation • Dave Committee Presents Final Report • State Govt. Employees’ Conference • Murderous Attack On Union Leaders • Electricity Employees Federation Meeting • BTR Birth Anniversary In Patna • Raipur: Strike By FMRAI Members • Delhi Demo Against WTO Chief • JK Tyre Union Contributes To Orissa Relief • Major Airports Leased Out • Rajasthan And J&K Govt. Employees On Strike • CITU Protests Mauritius Bill. • Pak TU Federation Extends Solidarity • Oil Sector Strike • Without Comments: Democracy And Globalisation • Bravado At Seattle! And, Yeilding To US! • Pre-Budget Discussion: TUs Criticise Government Economic Policies

1 Feb 2000

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

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

Balanandan, E., Pandhe, M. K., Mukherjee, Samar +7

In This Issue: • Let everyone help "The Working Class" • CITU surging ahead through struggles—E. Balanandan • Twenty five years of CITU— M.K. Pandhe • Working class unity and role of CITU— Samar Mukherjee • CITU-1995—Niren Ghosh • Women and political participation— Vimal Ranadive • FMRAI Decides Strike Action Against Amendment of Patent Act • CITU and policy of unity and struggle in international arena—Chittabrata Majumdar • Stop amendment of the Indian Patents Act— P. K. Ganguly • Issues before trade union unity —M. K. Pandhe • Prospect of industrialisation of Assam and new economic policy——Amal Ghosh Dastidar • ILO in retrospect —Swadesh Dev Roye • Telecom privatisation-A surrender to Multinationals—V. A. N. Namboodiri • A Time to respond—Cuba calling • Engineering and unorganised sector industries workers to go on strike in Delhi and UP on June 24 • All India convention against telecom privatisation • National platform to launch next phase of agitation against NEP • Decisions of Secretariat Meeting • Railwaymen’s News: Seminar on Train Safety through Signal and Telecommunication • CITU-ILO national workshop on child labour • Pioneers of India's working class movement • May Day celebrations • CITU refused to sign MOU in coal industry • On supreme court judgement regarding and re-location of industries outside Delhi • International struggles • Messages from international trade unions on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the CITU

1 Jun 1995

Ranadive, B. T., Sen, Sukomal

In This Issue: • May Day 1984 – B. T. Ranadive • Slogans of CITU for the May Day—1984 • Road Transport Worker’s Conference to be held in Madras • Workers’ March to Parliament • Victory of the Jute Workers • Victory of Port and Dock Workers • Coal Workers to Strike Again • Steel Workers Convention • Demands Day Central Government Employees • Bank Employees Struggle • Annual Meeting of Reserve Bank Employees Association • Around The States: Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Karnataka, Bihar, Orissa, Tripura, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Haryana • Convention of Opposition Parties • Peace Day Observed • Conference of AICAPEF • CITU Demands More Power To States • Seminar on National Transport Policy • Memorandum by Plantation Workers’ Federation • HSCL Joint Forum at Breaking Point • Seamen Hold Protest Demonstrations • Strike by Medical Representatives • CiTU Demands Implementation of Labour Laws by Brick-Kiln Owners • CITU Secretariat Meeting • Monopoly Houses Thrive at the Cost of People • Of Membership Of Trade Unions: The Present Procedure for Verification • M.Ps. Demand Recognition of Sahrawi Democratic Republic • Railwaymen’s Struggle: 48-Hour Strike in Chittaranjan Locomotive Works • Railway Budget Evades Responsibility for Poor Performance • Warm Reception to Chinese T.U. Delegation • Tripartite Committee On D.A.: Delay in Convening Meeting • Demand of Bonus and Interim Relief by the State Government Employees: The background and perspective – Sukomal Sen, General Secretary, All India State Govt. Employees Federation • CITU & AITUC Protest Against Verification Process • State Government Employees to Strike • Library and Reading Room for Steel Workers • Women’s Struggle: Third Convention of Working Women • Seminar on Workers’ Participation in NTC • Comments on the Delhi Recognition of Trade Unions Bill, 1983 • Comrade Santosh Mitra • Comrade Golak Pati Roy • On the Government’s Scheme for Employees’ Participation in Management • International Struggles

1 May 1984

In This Issue: • Strike in Public Sector on 11 March. Countrywide Demonstrations on 3 March • CITU Condemns LIC Ordinance • CITU Opposes Increase In Rail Tariff • Locomen’s Struggle Withdrawn, But Fighting Spirit Not Quelled • Continuous Strike in Hindustan Cables • Pfizer Workers Force Multinational Company for Settlement • Plight of Woman Construction Workers • Slate Pencil Industry in Mandasaur. For Survival Workers Forced to Choose Work Which Kills • Railway Budget : To Subsidise a Corrupt, Inefficient and Anti-Working Class Bureuacracy • West Bengal Newsletter • For the First Time Pay Scales Recommended for Jute Workers • Indian Seamen Win Their Just Demands • News in Brief • Growing Influence of Lal Jhanda Union in Delhi • Assam CITU Meets • AINEF to Fight Back Wage Freeze Policy

1 Mar 1981

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Suspension Of Seven Freedoms And Working Class • Comrade Chou En-Lat • Chasnala Disaster • Multi-National Cartels In Drug Indusiry • Magistrate Orders Thorough Enquiry • Declining Trend In Utilisation of Industrial Capacity • Output of 50 Industries Declines In 1975-76 • Regional Rural Banks And The Bank Employees • Chasnala Tragedy | Legal Notes • Railwaymen Win Their Cases • In Parliament • J. K. Jute Mill Workers Submit Memorandum To U. P. Governor • ClTU Application On Pre-Censorship In Calcutta High Court • Unequal Wages Still Continue In Plantations • Anti-Labour Agreement In Ritz Continental Hotel • Other Regular Features

1 Feb 1976

Ramamurti, P.

In This Issue: • Defeat Imperialist Conspiracies Against The Socialist World - B. T. Ranadive • Forward To November 23 • States Complete Conventions • ESMA is a Penal Law • Police Escalate Repression In Assam Tea Gardens. Workers Killed in Police Custody : Firing at Nagrijuli & Herchura • All India Plantation Workers Meet • Bangladesh Bank Employees Struggle • Head Load Workers’ Victory • Samar Mukherjee’s Letters To Smt. Gandhi: Restore Normal Labour Relations In Indian Railways • Notwithstanding NSA, ESMA • Gandhian Principles in Trade Unions mean Theory of Class Collaboration—Anti-Strike Trusteeship – P. Ramamurti • Coal India Management Scuttling Bipartite Forum • Advance of CITU in Gujarat • World Congress Of Women • All India Steel Workers Convention—8-10 January 1982 • BHEL Bonus issue Partially Settled • Seminar On The Drug Industry And The Indian People • West Bengal News Letter: Successful Bonus Struggle • “Voice Of America” Against Reaganomics • Bata Workers’ Strike • Convention of J.K. Workers • CITU indicts Government Labour Policy • Simplex Strugglie Continues • Convention Against Drug Multinationals • TUI Secretary Visits CITU • Hosiery Workers Strike • Greetings To The AUCCTU

1 Nov 1981

In This Issue: • Resist Imposition Of Wage Freeze • Violations Of Trade Union Rights In India • Central Trade Unions Expose Government’s Anti-People Policies • ILO Committee on Work on Plantation • CITU Denounces Notification On N.S.A. • CITU Condemns Increase In P. & T. Service Charges • Chowgule Matrix Hobs Workers on Indefinite Strike • Steel Workers to Launch Country Movements • Dilatory Tactics Of BHEL Mangement • Country Wide Response On January 19 • Railway News: Indian Locomen Express Solidarity With British Locomen • World Medical Association President Calls For Nationalisation Of Multinational Drug Companies • Turmoil In J. K. Industries At Kanpur • Philippines Workers Congratulate Indian Workers For 19th January Strike • Conference of Bangladesh Agricultural Farm Labour Federation • CITU Condemns Repression on Workers in Turkey and Colombia • Sixth Congress of Korean Trade Unions • Tenth World Trade Union Congress • A Resolute ‘No’ To War • In Parliament: Bombay Textile Strike • Union Bank Employees’ Strike • Standing Committee Meeting On Bonded, Migrant And Casual Labour • Tripartite Settlement In Medimpex • Indefinite Strike In Barsua Mines

1 Mar 1982

In This Issue: • Forward to the Mighty Mobilisation of the Working Class. All India Day on November 3 • Assam Plantation Workers Fight Repression • The CITU General Council to Meet in Howrah • CITU Criticises Prime Minister’s Statement • Women Protest Against Price Rise • Joint Trade Union Convention in States • Struggle in J.V. Electronics, Faridabad • Coal Workers Demonstrate • Govt. Employees Struggle for TU and Democratic Rights • CITU Condemns Repression on Simplex Workers at Bhilai • CITU Delegation Visits USSR • CITU Delegation to China • Settlement in Neyvelli Lignite Corporation • Memorandum to Sonepat D.C. • The Woes of the Rural Unorganised Labour • Beedi, Cigar Workers on Path of Struggle • Tamilnadu Textile & Handloom Industry : Low Wages & High Workloads • CITU Blames SAIL Management for Low Production • All India Demands day by HSCL Workers • Third Conference of Orissa State CITU • Labour Aristocracy in South Korea • Observe August 17 as Black Day • Railway News: Samar Mukherjee Assails Policy of Victimisation • Bihar CITU Meets • U.P. CITU Meets • Delhi Workers Demand Better Wages • Jute Workers’ Massive Agitation • Jute Workers Donate for Biharsharif Victims • Petrol Price Rise Condemned • Tamilnadu Govt. Policy Hit 2 Lakh Handloom Workers • Victory of Medimpex Workers • Gruesome Murder of Jaiprakash in Modinagar • Yet Another Attack on Sirsa Textile Workers

1 Aug 1981

Ranadive, B. T.

In This Issue: • Rally Resolves for Country-wide One Day Strike • On to One Day Strike - B. T. Ranadive • Assam Tea Garden Workers Continue Grim Struggle • Meghalaya State Convention • All Industries Strike In Goa • Management-Hoodlums Cause Rampage In Textile Mills • Take Over Of Mills Demanded • Hindusthan Ferodo Strike Enters Fifth Month • High-handedness By Missionary Institute • Police Repression on Colliery Workers • West Bengal: Victory By Bank Staff Through Strike Actions • Strike Demanding Implementation of Palekar Award • Strike by P.U. Staff • Dharna By BGML Workers • Gujarat Newsletter: Growing Attacks and Rising Struggles • World Trade Union Conference on Peace And Disarmament • Message From Com. Chen Yu, Vice Chairmans, All China Federation of Trade Unions, to Com. P. Ramamurti, General Secretary, CITU • Victory By HSCL Workers • CITU Condemns Repression On U.P. Jail Staff • Violation of Agreement by SAIL Unit • CITU Greetings to GFTUK Korea • Workers’ Participation In Management. Resolution on Govt’s Scheme of ‘Participative Management’ • Tamil Nadu Newsletter • Message Of CITU To CGIL Italy • The Historic March. All India Strike On 19th January • Indian Workers in London Protest Against ESMA • Dilatory Tactics of BHEL Management • Railway News: World Bank Loan-Public-Railway Men • National Campaign Committee and Railwaymen • CITU Demands Need Based Minimum Wage • All india Convention of Working Women Formulates Charter of Demands • Drug Seminar Calls for Nationalisation of Multinationals

1 Dec 1981

Ranadive, B. T., Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Rising Attacks and Growing Struggles – B. T. Ranadive • Karnataka CITU Conference • CITU Calls for United Struggles Against Capitalist Onslaughts • CITU Condemns Firing on Workers by Management Hirelings in Sirsa • Railway News • Call for Strengthening United Movement Against Anti-Labour Policy • Glorious Public Sector Strike On 11 March • CTUs Congratulate the Strikers in Public Undertakings • All India Convention on Drug Industry • Over One Lakh March on State Assembly in Bombay • Successful Strike of Seamen in Calcutta • J & K Govt Employees Conference • CITU Demands Govt. Intervention in TISCO Contract Workers’ Strike • All India Coal Workers Convention • MICO Factory • A Plea for Further Amendment of Section 2(s) of I.D. Act | Legal Notes -Arun Prokas Chatterjee • Police Raj in Rajhara • Contracts to Foreign Oil Companies: Against the Interests of the Country • Delhi TUs Call for General Strike on 14 April • Jute Workers to Launch Countrywide Campaign • Engineering Workers’ Convention Held • Leaders of Medical Workers Union from USSR Visit CITU Office

1 Apr 1981

Ranadive, B. T., Chatterjee, A. P., Chakrabarty, Nrisingha

In This Issue: • On the Foundation Day of the CITU, 1931 — B. T. Ranadive • Foundation Day of the CITU was celebrated at the CITU Central Office in New Delh • A Plea For Immediate Legislative Amendment | Legal Notes - Arun Prokas Chatterjee • Babcock and Wilcox Workers on Continuous Strike • Government of India’s Callousness Towards the ILO Conventions • Retrograde Recommendations of Ramanujam Committee • May Day Celebrations in Moscow — Nrisingha Chakrabarty • Second Conference of Sonepat District CITU • International Health Hazard Alert on 2 Nitro Propane. Concerned Unions Must Note • Comrade Soong Ching Ling • Comrade Bal Dandavate • Kolar Goldfields • Tripartite Meeting in Drug Industry

1 Jun 1981

Ganguly, P. K., Vaidya, G. N.

In This Issue: • Call of General Council: Fight the Communal and Divisive Forces – P. K. Ganguly • CITU condemns strike by drug cartels • Workers Enslaved Authority Mafia-Caucus in Cochin Port • Secretariat Communique: CITU Calls for Campaign Against New Industrial Policy • Joint Fight Against Communalism by Central Trade Unions • Meeting with Planning Commission: TUs Flay New Industrial Policy of Government - P. K. Ganguly • General Council Meeting, Kanpur, July 21-23, 1990: Resolutions • CITU Condemns Gangsterism in Tripura • Railwaymen’s Struggle - DREU Demonstrations • Tripartite Committee on DA Ends Without Conclusions • Joint Dharna against IDPL • Reminiscences. B. T. Ranadive—My Friend for Sixty-Seven Years – G. N. Vaidya, M. A., L. L. B. F. T..A., Textile Consultant • ANC Remains Firm to Dismantle Apartheid • SAIL’s Attempt to Go-Back from Pension-Commitment Foiled

1 Aug 1990

Ganguly, P. K., Pandhe, M. K., Roy, Jibon

In This Issue: • Against Economic Policies Of The Government: Trade Unions Call for Countrywide Strike • Steel Workers Protest Govt Policy of Bailing out the Country • Fertilizer Workers to Launch Nationwide Agitation • Meeting with Trade Unions: Finance Minister on the Defensive – P. K. Ganguly • CITU Appeals for United Strike Action against the Economic Measures taken by the Government • W. Bengal Prepared for United Strike Action • Punjab CITU for Strike Action • Maharashtra Prepare for Strike • Assam CITU Gearing Up for Strike Action • CITU Led Successful Struggle in Vizag Steel Plant • Punjab Working Women’s Convention • Conference of NPCC Workers Union • September Programmes Against Economic Policies of the Government • The offensive of Privatisation – M. K. Pandhe • 6th September—Bank Employees’ Strike: Joint Declaration by Bank Unions against Privatisation of banks • 20 Years of ‘The Working Class’ • Special Seamen's Convention • CITU Condemns Strike Decision by Drug Cartels • CITU Demands Drastic Punishment to Murderers of Chundur Harijans • ACFTU Acknowledges CITU’s Sympathy for Disaster Hit People • 1st Aug. 1991 Observed as ‘Anti-Privatisation Day’ by Civil Aviation Employees in Bombay • Tamilnadu Moves for Strike Action • Small Scale industry under Big Business Stranglehold • 51st Conference of the Bengal Chetkal Mazdoor Union • Construction workers to go on All India Strike • Rail workers Convention Against ‘Human Rights’ Violation • Tasks Ahead of Trade Union Movement - Jibon Roy • Focus in Parliament: Government Grilled on Economic Policies • CITU Rejects Pension Scheme Proposed by the Central Board of Trustees (Provident Fund)

1 Sept 1991

Pandhe, M. K.

In This Issue: • Against anti-people Economic Policy and communalism: Rally Of Several Lakhs In The Capital. Countrywide General Strike On 11th May • Editorial: March On, To The Battle Ahead! • National Platform Of Mass Organisations: Declaration Of 9th March, 2000 Rally • 2.5 Lakh Jute Workers On Strike From 22nd March • Forward To General Strike On 11th May! – M. K. Pandhe • Com. Gita Mukherjee • ILO Director General Visits India • Com. N. Appa Rao • Atrocious Union Budget! • Steel Workers On Warpath • CITU Denounce Entry Of Foreign Lawyers, Condemns Assault On Legal Profession • Economy On Rails! Heading Where? • Volte Face — BJP Brand • Rail Budget: No Answer To The Crisis • 42 Days - Long Strike By J&K Employees • Construction Workers Hold Rally • Chandigarh: Dharna by U.T. Admn: Employees • 29th Conference of AIRBEA • FMRAI: Tamil Nadu State Conference • AP: United Struggle Forum • Postal Employees To Go For Indefinite Strike • Municipal Workers On Strike From 21st March • Meerut: TU Rights Trampled Upon • Struggle against Privatisation of Visakh Steel Plant • Clinton’s India Visit: Vajpayee Govt’s Surrender To Imperialist Machination • The Whole Country Protests Clinton’s Visit

1 Apr 2000

Ranadive, B. T., Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Fight The Wage Freeze – B. T. Ranadive • Comrade Harekrishna Konar • Unite All Workers! Develop Fraternal Relations with the People! (Extracts From B. T. Randive's Speech Given At The A.L.R.T.W. Convention) • Against Victimisation of Railwaymen And Wage Freeze Ordinance : United Movement of Entire Working Class Planned • Railwaymen : United Struggle to Continue Under The Banner of NCCRS • CITU’s Activities In Defence of Railway Employees • A New Orientation? / Legal Notes • CITU State Committees Meet / Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, West Bengal • Newsletters / Kerala, West Bengal • West Bengal Jute Workers Observed Demands Day • Convention of Chemicals And Pharmaceutical Unions • Other Regular Features

1 Aug 1974