Plantation

In this issue: • March 8, International Women's Day • STRUGGLE & ORGANISATION ◦ Valiant Fight By Cardamom Workers (Kerala) ◦ Please Nurse... ◦ 1000 Court Arrest (Bhopal) ◦ P&T Women's Convention (Rajasthan) ◦ Letter from Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) ◦ Second State Convention: Vizag Coordination Committee (Andhra) • 5th Conference of CITU: Bring Women Workers into Working Class Movement • Women’s Emancipation—A Common Cause: Krishna Iyer Speaks out • INTERNATIONAL: ◦ Inequality All The Way ◦ Human Walls Against Nuclear Bases ◦ Commander Ana Maria ◦ Pakistan: Flogging Continues ◦ Appeal to Non-Aligned Movement ◦ Where Women Are Free And Equal: Soviet TU Delegates Talk to Indian Women

1 Jun 1983

Ranadive, Vimal, Karat, Brinda, Vaigai, R. +1

In This Issue: • Looking Back • Women Joining Mainstream Of Struggle – Vimal Ranadive • Tamilnadu : Women Teachers Come Into Struggle • Delhi Action Forces Return Of Dowry – Rita Karat • Dowry – A Killer Disease – R. Vaigai • Tobacco-Mechanisation Continues • Rajasthan Newsletter – Madhu Tandon • International Women's Day - Vimal Ranadive • Discrimination In Tea Industry • The Case Of An IAS Trainee • Campaign Against Cut In Rations • Around The World ◦ Letter From WIDF ◦ Usa: Grievous Blow To Womens Rights ◦ Women Workers & Transnationals In The Philippines ◦ Saudi Arabia: It's A Sin

1 Apr 1982

Ranjana, Rajamma, M. M.

In this issue: • How Do You Go To Work ? • Call Of United T.U. Convention • Madhya Pradesh: Slow March To Death • Railway Reservation Clerks’ Harassment • A Grim But Successful Struggle: J. V. Electronics, Faridabad – Ranjana • Krishnakali: The Blood, Sweat And Tears • The Heinous Terror And The Valiant Women of W. Bengal • War Or Peace ? The Arms Race - Who Pays? • Air Hostesses: Shocking Support To Discrimination ! • In Karnataka: Women Participants In The 77-Day Strike – M Rajamma • Women In Agriculture • A Woman Adviser To ILO • Women’s Organisations To Jointly Fight Price Rise • Around the world • Women’s Organisations To Jointly Fight Price Rise • Did you Know ?

1 Jul 1981

Sen, Tapan, Ganguly, P. K., Roy, Jibon +1

In This Issue: • Successful Countrywide Strike By Unorganised Workers • Against the New Economic Policies--Preparation for Bharat Bandh on September 9 in Full Swing • CPSTU Extends Full Support To Bharat Bandh On 9th September • Plantation Workers To Join Enmasse In 9th September Bharat Bandh • Bipartite National Seminar Calls for Broadest Unity to Fight New Economic Policy • Calcutta High Court Issues Stay Order against Privatisation of Public Sector Units • Labour Minister Assures Consideration of Public Sector Workers Demands • Goswami Committee on Sick Industries: A Blue Print For Closure And Retrenchment - Tapan Sen • CITU Condemns The Goswami Committee Report On Industrial Sickness • Railwaymen’s Movement: AIREC CWC decisions • AlIIMS Nurses Struggle Achieved Demands • Manila Conference of World Trade Unions affirm faith in Socialism - Sukomal Sen • Government’s Turn Around Strategy on NTC: Damocles Sword Over National Textile Corporation – P. K. Ganguly • Workers Representatives Protest Privatisation Move of Cycle Corporation of India Ltd. • PSU-Disinvestment Scam—A National Corollary To NEP - Jibon Roy • Government of India Sponsored Employees Pension Scheme—Some Reactions from the Grass root • National Convention of Central Govt. Employees • South Africa Making Hope A Reality - Hemant Kumar • New Offensive of Japan Trade Union Movement: Interview with Kumagai Kanemichi, Secretary General of ZENROREN • Guangzhou Symposium: Emphasises on Economic Development and Trade Union Struggle in Asia – P. K. Ganguly

1 Aug 1993

Balanandan, E., Sengupta, S. B., Maheshwari, L. Uma +1

In This Issue: • Unitedly Fight the Developing Fascism - E. Balanandan • Andhra Pradesh Launches Campaign for Communal Harmony • CITU Opposes Government’s Economic Policies During Pre-Budget Discussions • Sponsoring Committee calls for Campaign against Communalism and intensify fight against the New Economic Policy • Appeal And Pledge By Rashtriya Ekta Abhiyan • Trade Union Demands Resignation of Maharashtra and Gujarat Chief Minister for unabated Communal orgy • State Conference of Kerala Plantation Labour Federation • CITU Seeks Prime Minister's Intervention in IA Pilots Strike • Crash of TU 154: CITU Condemns Cailous Attitude of Government • CITU Demands Effective Intervention Against Communal Forces • In Andaman & Nicobar: Massive Protest Against Economic Policy • ClTU Condemns Hike in Price of Food Grains • Karnataka State Council Meeting of CITU • Karnataka: BTR’s Birth Anniversary : Seminar on Communal Organisation & Political Parties • Fertiliser Scenario During Nineties Vis-a-Vis India’s Food Security - S. B. Sengupta • Fertilizer Workers to Launch Nationwide Vigorous movement • Trade Unions Oppose Privatisation of ISCO, Burnpur • Textile Workers Strike In Tamilnadu • Second Indian Ocean Region Trade Union Conference - L. Uma Maheshwari • The Concrete Wall, A Symbol of Division • Meeting of the Road Transport Co-ordination Committee • Pledge to Maintain Unity: INTUC Joins Trade Unions to Appeal to the Working Class of India • Tamilnadu Trade Unions Prepare for Campaign on National Unity • New World Order Invades Somalia - By Tom Pearson • WEFETU Calls for Halting Racist Acts • CITU Condemns Attack on the Polish Trade Union Alliance • Assam Trade Unions Visit Riot Affected Areas • WFTU Condemns US Air Raids on Iraq • CITU Opposes Amendment of FERA • Phased Programme of Action Decided by CPSTU

1 Feb 1993

Choudhary, Saroj, Shukla, N. K., Banerjee, Kanai +2

In This Issue: • Cherished Heritage Of October Revolution Will Remain For Ever! • CITU Condemns Military Offensive By Yeltsin Regime • Mass Platform to carry forward fight against Economic Policies Demonstration and burning effigy of Dunkel Proposals • TUs to organise Dharnas against New Labour Law on 7th December • CITU Endorsed Mass Action Plan against Dunkel Proposals • CITU Calls For Urgent Relief To Earthquake Victims • ILO Appreciates CITU’s Report On Organization • Nationwide Indefinite Strike By Postal Employees From 7th December • A Historic Judgment • ONGC Workers To Observe A Day’s Strike On 23rd November Throughout The Country • NFPE Protest Against Reduction Of Interest Rates Of Post Office Savings Schemes • The Public Sector: Still Scaling Great Heights - Saroj Chowdhary • Seminar On Alternative Agricultural Policy – N. K. Shukla • Future Campaign And Struggles • Agricultural Workers Union Calls For Action • Anganwadi Delegation Meets Director Planning Commission • Mass Struggles In Tamilnadu • Attack on Choibari Tea Garden Workers by INTUC and Management • CITU/CTUC Workshop On ‘Now Technology and its Impact • Central Govt. Employees’ Struggle: The Strike That Was Not - Kanai Banerjee • FWFI Working Committee decides to launch nationwide phased agitation • Kerala CITU donates one day’s wages for Earth Quake Victims • In The Wonderland Of Capitalism • Homelessness : Growing Problem In West Europe • Magnificient LRSA Victory: Supreme Court Orders Reinstatement of Victimised Locomen • ICDS threatened with Privatisation • Strengthening Of International Cooperation Of Trade Unions Around The Indian Ocean Region - Chittabrata Majumdar • Get back to where you once belonged. This is what working women in Russia are being told in the wake of economic recession - Fred Weir

1 Nov 1993

Pandhe, M. K., Ganguly, P. K.

In This Issue: • Editorial: An Exercise In Self-Deception • Whither National Wage Policy? – M. K. Pandhe • Countrywide Strike by Workers in Banks • IBA’s Discriminatory Stance Forces Countrywide Bank Strike on 26th-27th September • Call of CITU’s Textile Workers’ Convention: Forward to Jail Bharo on 12th December – P. K. Ganguly • TU Convention Against sell out of Bailadila Mine Demands Scrapping of the Scandalous Deal • CITU Resents Unilateral Announcement of Revised DA Formula • Huge Rally of Plantation Workers at Guwahati • Assam State CITU Observes 25th Year of Foundation • CITU-ILO Workshops on Child Labour • Beedi Workers to Launch Countrywide Movement • Meeting of the MP State Coordination Committee of PSU Unions • CITU Supports United Six Day Strike of Coal Mines • Report of Standing Committee on Energy-II • New VDA Formula for Central Public Sector Employees • Around the States • The 1995 World Conference Against A and H Bombs • Japan's Unemployment is as High as in the United States?

1 Oct 1995

Balanandan, E., Roy, Jibon, Ganguly, P. K. +2

In This Issue: • Massacre in Red Bank Tea Garden: Martyr's Blood In Banarhat Will Not Go In Vain • Working Committee Meeting of CITU held at Bhubaneswar on 4-6 June 1993: Presidential Address - E. Balanandan • Bhubaneswar Working Committee Meeting: 4-6 June 1993: CITU Finalises Organisation Report. Commanding Role of Socialism Reiterated - Jibon Roy • Working Committee meeting Bhubaneswar June 4-6 1993: Proceedings Of The Meeting • COSATU Delegation on Study Visit in India • Unorganised Workers: Forward to Countrywide Strike on July 14 – P. K. Ganguly • CITU & Plantation Workers Federation Condemn The Murder Of CITU Workers By INTUC Goondas • Resolution On All India Strike by Workers of Unorganised Sector of Industries • Rashtriya Ekta Abhiyan calls to Observe National Unity Week • On 9th September Bharat Bandh • Massive Preparations On For Bharat Bandh • Tamil Nadu News Letter: Tamil Nadu prepares for Bharath Bandh - A.K. Padmanabhan • State Convention of Mass Organisations Against Govt's Economic Policies & Communalism • Ensuing Bharat Bandh and Raiiwaymen’s Struggle - Kanai Banerjee • More Revelation On The Anti-Worker Pension Scheme Of The Government • CITU Foundation Day Observed

1 Jul 1993

Ganguly, P. K., Krishnan, P. R., Ranadive, Vimal +3

In This Issue: • National Convention of Mass Organisations Calls for Countrywide Picketing and Rail Roko/Rasta Roko against NEP – P. K. Ganguly • Fifth Pay Commission • CPSTU Extended Session: Public Sector Workers Decide Strike Action • In The Parliament: Urgent Action for Revival of Sick PSUs Demanded by MPs; Policy on Disinvestment flayed • Amidst Protest Insurance Regulatory Authority Bill Introduced In Parliament • 2nd All India Conference Of Beedi Workers Call For March To Parliament – P. R. Krishnan • Anganwadi Women March To Parliament - Vimal Ranadive • Government Flouting the Agreement on Modernisation of NTC Mills: Workers to Launch Rail Roko, Rasta Roko on 30th December – P. K. Ganguly • CITU Demands for Revival of NTC Mills and IDPL • Massive Protest Rally Against Patent Amendment Bill • Bihar Bandh Total – J. S. Majumdar • AITUC Journal Carried Wrong Report • Against Govt Pension Scheme: Resented Workers’ Outburst In Bhilai Steel Plant • LIC - GIC Strike Total • 92nd Birth Anniversary of Com. BTR • G K Panickker • 7th Conference of Plantation Workers Gives Call Against Repression in Assam • CITU Welcomes Supreme Court Verdict on Child Labour • Consolidation Of The Russian Working Class - Chittabrata Majumdar • Conference of NPCC Workers Union • International Meeting Of Workers Against Neoliberalism And Globalization At Cuba - Sukomal Sen

1 Jan 1997

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

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

Balanandan, E., Sen, Tapan, Maran, Murasoli

In This Issue: • Kerala High Court Assault: On Democratic Rights, Once Again • CITU Flays Cabinet Decision On Disinvestment • Editorial: External Vigilance, Ever Needed! • ILO In The Shadow Of Globalisation • Should Ministers Dole Out Freebies • Lessons Of May 11 Strike - E. Balanandan • Extending Favouritism To BMS • The PM And Trade Unions • Mass Signature Campaign By CITU: Text Of Petition To President Of India • CITU Contribution For Orissa Cyclone Relief • Economy On Rails! Heading Where? • Closure Of Six PSUs Condemned • Growing Concerns Over Agonising Globalisation • Freedom To Import: Road To Disaster - Tapan Sen • “We Knelt Down, Succumbed To Pressure, Signed On Dotted Lines?” - Murasoli Maran • Delhi: State Level Workshop On Organisation • Textile Minister On Satyam Committee Report • All India Convention Of Handloom Workers • Convention On Power Sector Reforms • Kerala Plantation Workers Conference • Mass Dharna At Kanpur • Rajasthan: Workshop On Unorganised Sector • CITU Campaign Materials Just Released • Some Important Decisions Of The ESI Corporation • Preparation For CITU All India Conference

1 Jul 2000

Balanandan, E., Varada Rajan, W. R., Dakshi, Ardhendu +1

In This Issue: • Centre Of Indian Trade Unons, General Council Meeting, Kozhikode (Calicut), Kerala, • 20-22, April 2000: Notice • Editorial: No More It Is Hidden! • SLC Session Another Futile Exercise • The UP Electricity Employees Strike - E. Balanandan • Dave Committee Report: Investment Centric Prescriptions – W. R. Varada Rajan • CITU On First Report • The World Bank Inspiration • SAIL - Restructuring Or Demolition ? - Ardhendu Dakshi • Total Strike In Salem Steel • The President Speaks Out • NFL To Go To 'Strategic Buyer’ - Swadesh Dev Roye • Magnificent Public Sector Strike • Com. N. J. Iyer • Forward To 9th March • Pension Case • Campaigns And Struggles In Tamilnadu • Tripura Plantation Union Conference • Chevalla: CITU Fights Police Brutality • CITU Win In Chittivalasa Jute Mills • INTUC: Metal Workers’ Convention • Real Face Of PEPSICO • Insurance Employees Conference • SICA: Repeal Move Denounced • Dunlop: Chhabaria’s Game Exposed • UB Employees To Fight Job Losses • MP: Retrenchement Move Condemned • Employees’ Pension Scheme • A Different Hijacking • March 8 International Women's Day

1 Mar 2000

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

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

Balanandan, E., Ganguly, P. K., Sundaram, N. M. +2

In This Issue: • Working Committee Meeting, New Delhi, June 7-9, 1996: Address by the President - E. Balanandan • CITU Working Committee Supports UF Government; With The Right To Oppose The Negative Points In The Minimum Programme – P. K. Ganguly • Main Resolution of the Working Committee: The Present Situation and the Trade Union Movement • CITU Working Committee Observes Second Death Anniversary Of Com. Kim Il Sung • CITU Opposes Govt Guideline To Reduce Manpower • Joint Statement issued by various organisations of Central Government employees on the Statement made by Shri P Chidambaram, Minister of Finance • CITU Opposes Any Move To Close Down 40 NTC Mills • State Level Convention of Textile Workers in Orissa • Report on Working Women in West Bengal • All India Plantation Workers’ Conference in Assam in December • AIIEA Opposes Insurance Reforms – N. M. Sundaram • Report of AP Anganwadi Workers and Helpers Union - K. Hemalata • TUs Demand Immediate Steps for Revivial of Sick Units Within PSU Framework in the Meeting with Prime Minister • Meeting With Finance Minister • Wage Negotiation in Cement Industry Workers to get an increase of minimum Rs 900.00; Proposed strike from 24th June deferred • Joint Forum Of South Asian Trade Unions - Swadesh Dev Roye • Question of Politicalisation of the Working Class - Sukomal Sen • Japan Newsletter: 78000 Strong Rallies on May Day ’96 in Japan • South African Labour Movement Proposes to Govt

1 Jul 1996

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

In This Issue: • The Spectre of Crisis • Countrywide Movement Of Coal Workers’ Planned • Enhancement of Stipend of Apprentices • Railway News: Demonstration Before British High Comnission • CITU Denounces Increase In Railway Fare & Freight • Sucessful Strike By Quarry Workers • CITU’s Complaint To I.L.O. On Assam Jute Mills • Barbarous Lathi Charge On Kanpur Biscuit Factory Workers • SAIL Management’s Production Policies Criticised • Delaying Tactics of HSCL Management • Spate of Victimisations After January 19 : Workers’ Resistance • All India Movement by L.I.C. Employees • West Bengal Jute Workers Preparing For Indefinite Strike • Movement By Teagarden Workers • CITU Congratulates Govt. Employees • Rajasthan, UP Govt. Employees’ Indefinite Strike • National Compaign Committee Condemns Impounding of DA, HRA and CCA • Simla Hotel Workers Fight Victimisation • LRSA’s complaint to ILO • Kerala Convention Of Women Teachers • International Women’s Day • All India Lawyer’s Union • AITUC-CITU Oppose Productivity Linked Wages In Steel Industry • All China Federation of Trade Unions Thanks CITU (Letter dated February 6) • Glorious Strike of Bombay Textile Workers • Stay Order In Cement Arbitration • The World Trade Union Congress • Down With The Capitalist Path Of Development • Uphold The Banner Of Proletarian Internationalism • Appeal Of The Congress To Workers And Trade Unions Of All Countries

1 Apr 1982

Ranadive, B. T.

In This Issue: • Against the Black Ordinance. Massive Countrywide Protests • Strike in Kerala • Antulay Government’s Brutal Assault • Struggle Continues in J. K. Rayon • Massive Morcha And Courting Arrest By Delhi Women • Attempt to Murder Com. Ajeya Rout • Com. C. Govindarajan Stabbed • Jute Workers Observe Total Strike • Attack on CITU Union in Tamil Nadu • All India Demands Day by C.G. Employees • Kerala Tea Estates lock-out • Railway News: Samar Mukherjee Indicts Railway Board for Accidents • Dharna by Loco Running Staff • For Prompt United Intervention by the Working Class. CITU General Council Reiterates the Call for Confederation • Stirring Call by P. Ramamarti: Strengthen Organisation—Build up United Struggle • Grasp United Front Tactics • Successful T.U. Convention in Maharashtra • A Supplement to the Working Class September 1981 issue: Presidential Address by Com. B. T. Ranadive, General Council Meeting, Bally-Howrah, August 21-24, 1981 • Condition of Workers in the Arab Territories Occupied by Israel • Coal India Management Responsible for Stagnation in Production • Steel Industry Settlement of Anomalies Question • In South Zone Movement for Minimum Wage Mounts UP • Mass Retrenchment in Kalta Iron Mines • HSCL Management’s Dilatory Tactics Opposed • Beedi Workers To Demonstrate

1 Sept 1981

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