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Padmanabhan, A. K., Pandhe, M. K., Rangarajan, T. K.

In This Issue: • Countrywide Strike On 23rd February Against Pension Scheme • Editorial: Reforms Must Stay • Public Sector Workers’ meet at Bhopal • Com. B T Ranadive’s 91st Birthday • State Reports • Haryana State Workshop on Child Labour • Calcutta High Court Stays Diversion of PF Money to Pension Fund • National Platform of Mass Organisations: Declaration of the Joint Mass Dharna at Jantar Mantar against Retrograde Economic & Industrial Policies of Government of India, Friday, the 15th December, 1995 • Child Labour Workshop in Agarbatti Industry • Beedi Workers’ Struggle • Karnataka State Convention Of Textile Workers • CITU’s Comments on Ordinance On Coal Miners’ Pension • AITUC’s Role During All India Coal Workers Strike on18th December, 1995 • EEFI Condemns Revival Of Enron Deal By Shiv Sena-BJP Govt. • CITU Plans Campaigns And Movements – A. K. Padmanabhan • NRF Misused For Retrenchment – M. K. Pandhe • CITU Opposes Equity of Private Sector in Coal Mines • France Rises Against Cuts: 45th CGT Conference Discuss New Approach – T. K. Rangarajan • Report of Standing Committee on Energy – IV • 40 Years of the Vietnamese Trade Union review: 40 Years Of Struggle And Development

1 Feb 1996

Pandhe, M. K., Padmanabhan, A. K., Ganguly, P. K. +1

In This Issue: • Editorial: The Union Budget • Central Budget Does Not Give Relief To Working Class And The Poor • CITU Condemns Anti-People Rail Budget • World Summit On Social Development: No Concrete Measures To End Poverty And Unemployment – M. K. Pandhe • CITU’S Unqualified Support to Central Employees’ Demand for Wage Parity With Public Sector • Kerala News Letter • Tamilnadu News Letter – A. K. Padmanabhan • Workers Fight Against Production Curtailment At Chittaranjan Locomotive Works • On Social Clause In Multilateral Trade Agreements - P. K. Ganguly • The Mexican Crisis • China’s Economy: Review And Prospects - By Wang Zhongyu, Beijing Review, Feb. 20-26, 1995 • Dharna by Insurance Employees

1 Apr 1995

Ganguly, P. K., Pandhe, M. K., Sen, Tapan +3

In This Issue: • Com. Robin Sen • Editorial: The World Summit On Social Development • CITU Extends Solidarity to Khazaksthan TU • Indian Labour Conference Exposes Govt’s Policy to Scuttle Employments – P. K. Ganguly • "Liberalisation" Hits Indian Shipping Industry – M. K. Pandhe • Three Years’ NEP : A Sad Commentary - Tapan Sen • CITU Demands Urgent Steps To Revive Sick Units – A. K. Padmanabhan • Textile Workers To Intensify Struggle • Com. Joe Solvo • Com. B. K. Banerjee • Com. Gopilal Siwalia • Com BTR’s Birth Anniversary Observed • Coal Strike Deferred • Pakistan Trade Unions Form Confederation • Disinvestement Programme Of PSUs • Airlines Employees Demonstrate Against Privatisation • NAM Labour Ministers’ Conference - An Appeal From The Central Trade Union • Organisations Of India To The Fifth Conference Of Labour Ministers • Of Non-Aligned And Other Developing Countries, New Delhi, Vigyan Bhawan, 19-23, January 1995 • Enron Project: Unveiling The Truth • Enron: Environmental Sell-Out - By Sulabha Brahme • CITU Supports FMRAI’s Action Programme against Amendment of Patents Act • CITU Condemns Ordinance Amending The Patent Act • CITU Denounces MOU with MNC in Telecom • Railwaymen’s Struggle: AIREC demands Further Interim Relief, 100% merger of DA, early submission of Pay Commission Report • World Summit for Social Development - Hemant Kumar • WFTU Rejects inclusion Social Clause in International Trade • The Mexican Crisis : Warning Bells For Economic policy

1 Feb 1995

Ganguly, P. K., Balanandan, E., Prasada Rao, N. +2

In This Issue: • National Platform Declares Next Phase of Mass Actions Against NEP – P. K. Ganguly • Telecom Strike - And The Betrayal - E. Balanandan • Scrap Enron’s Dabhol Power Project • UNREADABLE – SCAN AGAIN • A.P. CITU Decides Struggle Programme Against Privatisation - N. Prasada Rao • UNREADABLE – SCAN ENTIRE ISSUE AGAIN • Successful Bandh in Burnpur Demanding Central Govt Support for IISCO Modernisation • SAARC Region Trade Union Seminar Calls For Relentless Struggle Against Liberalisation and Globlisation • International Seminar on Social Aspects of Trade Union Activities in Trnsitional Economics - J. Ballabh • AIDWA-CITU Workshop on Home-Based Workers • International Symposeum on Trade Union Work in Foreign Funded Enterprises – V. B. Cherian • Wage Agreement concluded in Steel Industry • CITU Union’s impressive Victory in Vizag Steel Plant • Child Labour In Us • Successful Strike In Delhi, UP, Punjab And Haryana • UP CITU Holds State Level School • National Convention of Textile Workers Plans for Jail Bharo Action – P. K. Ganguly • Observe the 50th Anniversary of the Holocaust of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a Joint Appeal by AITUC, BMS, CITU, HMS AND ??

1 Aug 1995

Pandhe, M. K., Hemalata, K., Padmanabhan, A. K. +2

In This Issue: • Editorial: Defeat Congress(l), BJP. Ensure Victory of the Left, Democratic and Secular Forces • Massive Response To Pension Strike, Feb. 23 – M. K. Pandhe • State Govt Employees Contribution to Cuba Solidarity and Relief Fund • CITU’S Appeal To President Not To Repromulgate Pension Ordinance • Massive Rally of Unorganised Sector Workers at Bhopal • Beedi Workers to launch countrywide picketing on 2nd April • NTC Workers Stage Dharna Demanding Writing Off Loans • Victory for Anganwadi Employees in Andhra Pradesh – K. Hemalatha • Release DA to 15 lakh Industrial Workers Immediately • Coal Unions at Dhanabad are on the Path of Joint Movement Against the Declaration of BCCL as sick industry by BIFR • Massive Struggles of Workers in Tamilnadu – A. K. Padmanabhan • Kalakot Coal Mine Workers’ Strike • Demonstration by Safai Karmacharis of Air Port Authority • Condition Of Safety In Coal Mines – S. Kumar • Railway Accidents Do Not Happen, But are Caused – S. K. Dhar, Secretary General, All India Loco Running Staff Association and CWC member of AIREC • Whither India under Congress(l) Rule! • Carry On Struggle Against Govt Pension Scheme • Madhya Pradesh Forms State Federation of Beedi Workers

1 Apr 1996

Ganguly, P. K., Pandhe, M. K., Namboodiri, V. A. N. +1

In This Issue: • The Commission on Labour Standards must be wounded up – M. K. Pandhe • The Growing Phenomena of Child Labour – P. K. Ganguly • CITU’s Project on Elimination of Child Labour • Decisions of the National Committee • NEP: Design For Employment Regression - Swadesh Dev Roye • Multinationals Capture Indian Telecom – V. A. N. Namboodiri • Conference of Reserve Bank Employees • Bank Employees Sign Agreement • Kerala Newsletter • J & K Employees Achieve Major Success after strike • Steel Workers Staged Dharna On January 31 All Over The Country • CITU wins BEL Elections • CITU wins in VISL Election • BIFR Proceedings Indicate Revival Prospect Of Scooter India • Gratuity Recent Amendments X-Rayed - Nirmala L Bhawnani • Crisis Developing in the Beedi Industry – P. K. Ganguly • Seminar of SAARC Countries’ Trade Unions • Seminar on Legislation for Construction Workers • Assam CITU Leader Arrested under TADA • Successful Countrywide Strike by Insurance Employees Against Privatisation

1 Mar 1995

Ganguly, P. K., Balanandan, E., Pandhe, M. K. +1

In This Issue: • Editorial: The Telecom Strike • CITU Supports Telecom Strike • Call of CITU General Council: Prepare for Next Phase of Actions against NEP – P. K. Ganguly • Resolution on Struggle Against the New Economic Policies of the Government of India • General Council Meeting Howrah, 31st May- 2nd June, 1995: Presidential Address - E. Balanandan • Delhi And U.P. Prepare For 24th June Strike • Massive Rally By Rajasthan CITU Against Anti-Labour Policies Of BJP Government • Joint National Convention Of Textile Workers At Calcutta • Raw Deal For The Coal Miners—NCWA-V X Rayed – M. K. Pandhe • CITU Greets FMRAI For Strike Against Amendment Of Patent Act • The CITU Surging Ahead Through Struggles - E. Balanandan • CPSTU Holds All India Convention on Contract Workers • Anganwadi Women Protest Against Privatisation - Vimal Ranadive

1 Jul 1995

Ganguly, P. K., Balanandan, E.

In This Issue: • Call Of CITU Working Committee: Raise Mass Struggles To New Heights – P. K. Ganguly • Working Committee Meeting, Bhilai, 2-4 November, 1995: Presidential Address - E. Balanandan • RESOLUTIONS: On Forthcoming programmes of National Platform of Mass Organisations, On Sell Out Of Bailadila Mine, On Amendment Of Payment Of Bonus Act, Resolution On Beijing Conference On Women, On Solidarity With Cuba, On Wage Revision Of Central Govt Employees And The Fifth Central Pay Commission, Resolution in support of the decision on launching indefinite strike in Jute Industry from 29th Nov., 1995 by all Central Trade Unions operating in Jute Industry, 12th December Jail Bharo By Textile Workers, Resolution On US-Pakistan Arms Deal: Demand immediate scrapping of the said Indo-US Cooperation deal, Resolution On Fishing Worker Struggle, On Bank Strike, On Accident In Bhilai Steel Plant On 2nd Nov. 1995, Resolution On Pension Scheme • CITU Reiterates Opposition To Govt Draft On Pension Scheme And The Ordinance In The Meeting With Labour Minister • Agitation Spread All Over Against Pension Scheme And The Ordinance • Fisheries Workers To Go On Conuntrywide Strike • Trade Union School For The Steel Workers • Indian Labour Conference: Government Guillotined for Casual Approach to Labour Problems – P. K. Ganguly • Conclusions of the 32nd Session of the Indian Labour Conference (ILC): Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi: 23rd and 24th November, 1995

1 Dec 1995

Sharma, Santosh., Ghosh, Kali, Banerjee, Kanai +2

In This Issue: • CITU Holds Child Labour Rally • Com. Godavari Parulekar • Com. Satyabrata Sen • CITU Condemns Burning Of CITU Office By RSS Hoodlums At Gwalior • Trade Unions And Mass Organisations To Relaunch United Movement • PLB for all on Railways An Achievement for Rail Trade Union Movement • Trade Unions Contradict Labour Ministry’s Statement on Minimum Wage in ILC • Workers’ Rally Denounce Economic Policy Of The Govt.: Demand Reversal Of Decisions On Disinvestment • CITU Strongly Opposes Off-loading shares of VSNL & IOC • CITU Gains In Secret Ballot In BHEL • CITU Demands Inclusion Of Trade Union Representatives In The Official Delegation Of WTO Meeting • FMRAI Holds Protest Rallies • FMRAI To Observe A.I. Protest Day Against Amendment Of Patent Act • Resolution adopted in the Convention: Federation Of Medical & Sales Representatives’ Association Of India • Anganwadi workers staged dharna in front of Secretariat - Santosh Sharma • Madhya Pradesh State Conference Anganwadi Workers • Joint Convention of Unorganised Sector and Agricultural Workers • No Unanimity on Raising the Income Ceiling for ESI Benefits - Kali Ghosh • Workers, Peasants Rally Against Drought And Privatisation And For Minimum Wage In Orissa • Employment Generation: The Real Challenge - Kanai Banerjee • Massive Rally Of Beedi Workers • Memorandum Of Understanding In Coal • Will The Consumer Court Consume Workers’ Right To Strike? - Saroj Choudhuri • Indefinite Countrywide Strike By Central Government Employees • National Convention Of Textile Workers • Thirty-Third Session Of The ILC: Only Debate - No Conclusions! – M. K. Pandhe

1 Nov 1996

Dhar, S. K., Sen, Tapan, Choudhary, Saroj +1

In This Issue: • Joint TU Convention And Rally Before Parliament Denounces Retrograde Pension Legislation: Calls For Preparing For Strike Action • Editorial: August 15, 1996 • Widespread Resentment Against the Passage of Black Pension Bill • Assam CITU State Committee Decides Movement Against Anti-Worker Pension Scheme • Trade Unions Protest Enactment Of Employees Provident Fund Amendment Bill • The Railwaymen Protest Against Unprecedented Delay In Publication Of 5th Pay Commission’s Report – S. K. Dhar • Pension Debate In Parliament • Pension Debate : Exposure Of Reality - Tapan Sen • CITU Denounces Govt’s Move To Disinvest PSU Shares • 50 years of independence and more than 50 scams and scandals • Privatisation of anganwadi projects stopped in andhra pradesh • Reserve bank employees to observe all india strike on 9th september ’96 • Silver Jubilee lectures organised by O.S.R.U. • Tamil nadu CITU Prepares For Organisational Conferences • Rally By Powerloom Workers • Trade Unions Demand Immediate Step For Revival Of Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC) Ranchi • Insurance Sector — For Whom The Bell Tolls - Saroj Chaudhuri • CITU Delegation In South Africa – M. K. Pandhe

1 Sept 1996

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

Pandhe, M. K., Roy Chowdhury, Tarapada, Choudhary, Saroj +2

In This Issue: • Editorial: Ramification Of The Hawala Scam • Nation Wide Magnificent Strike Observed Against Government’s Pension Scheme • AIDWA Demonstrates Against Govt. Pension Scheme • JAC Of Textile Workers Calls For Mass Dharna Before Parliament On 11th March, 1996 • AITUC’S Unfounded Criticism Of The CITU’S Stand On Pension Scheme – M. K. Pandhe • Sixth State Conference Of West Bengal CITU - Tarapada Roy Chowdhury • The Employee's Pension Scheme—1995: The True Pictures - A Few Selected Thought Provoking Cartoons/Caricatures Depicting the Evils of the Employees’ Pension Scheme • Gujarat Textile Convention Takes Rasta Roko, Rail Roko Programme • CITU Supports the Struggle of Insurance Employees for Just and Proper Wage Revision • Andhra Pradesh Child Labour Workshop • Meeting of AICCWW • The Infamous Press Note - Saroj Choudhuri • Jungle Rule In NEPZ, Noida – K. M. Tewary, General Secretary CITU Distt. Committee Ghaziabad, U.P. • Unprecedented Resentment over Air India Wage Pact – R. Ramanathan • Report Of Standing Committee On Energy – V • International Solidarity • On Coal Miners Strike in Russia and Ukraine • WFTU Urges IMF, World Bank And G-7 Countries To Draw Appropriate Lessons From Memorandum Of Mexican Parliamentarians For An End To Imposition Of Neoliberal Economic Policies • Workers Protest At Pakistan Against Government Policies Price Hike, Unemployment And Privatization

1 Mar 1996

Ganguly, P. K., Choudhary, Saroj, Padmanabhan, A. P. +4

In This Issue: • From Countrywide Civil Disobedience Forward to the Countrywide Strike and Hartal on 29th September – P. K. Ganguly • Book Review: A Welcome Newcomer - Saroj Choudhuri • Anti-Victimisation Day Observed in Bihar • Aviation Sector Employees to join strike and hartal on Sep. 29 • BHEL Workers to Participate In 29th September Strike • Textile Workers’ Convention At Kanpur • Powerloom Workers to join 29th Sep. Strike • Campaign Against Malhotra Committee Recommendations • Indefinite Strike in Nagda Grasim Industry • Massive Rally Of Women Beedi Workers • CISF Attack on Neyveli Workers – A. P. Padmanabhan • Conference of ABK Metal & Engg. Workers Union • Arrears Of P.F. And ESIC Dues • Foreign Investment In Power Sector: An Avoidable Disaster – K. R. Unnithan & R. Saradambika • Role of Trade Unions to Improve Safety, Occupational Health and Environment in India – P. K. Das • Symposium at Japan: Workers rights, Human Rights and the Democratic Control of Multinationals - Hemant Kumar • DPRK News Letter: Labour Laws In Socialism • In The Capitalist Wonderland: Birthrate of unmarried women rises sharply in US

1 Sept 1994

Balanandan, E., Ranadive, Vimal, Pandhe, M. K. +1

In This Issue: • Com. V. G. Bhaskaran Nair • Editorial: The Post Election Scenario and the Working Class • Victorious Leaders Of CITU In Elections • CITU Expresses Concern At The Installation Of Communal Party Govt At The Centre • Manifestos of Major Political Parties on Labour • May Day Rally at Jammu • The Basic Problems Of Trade Unions Today – E. Balanandan • State Conference of Tamilnadu Nutrition Meal Employees Association • Child Labour - Blot on Our Society - Vimai Ranadive • Fourteenth World Congress on Occupational Safety and Health – M. K. Pandhe • Summary of Discussions of the Round Table Meeting of TUS at Cairo • ILO Press Communique • Bihar Anganwadi Workers Demonstrate against Privatisation • 17th Congress of the Central Trade Union Organisation of Cuba • Structural Adjustment Policy and Unemployment • GFTU Greets CITU’s 26th Foundation • Autobiography Of Consumer Price Index – L. H. Bhawnani • Who Is Responsible For Increasing Tension In Korean Peninsula? • Seminar Of Wood & Wood Material Workers • Russian Trade Unions on Struggle Path • South African Trade Unions Fight for Social Equity and Against Market Economy

1 Jun 1996

Sen, Tapan, Ranadive, Vimal, Dev Roye, Swadesh

In This Issue: • Editorial: The Country’s Black Day • Appeal by the Secular Forces: Defeat the Communal Forces: Safeguard National Unity • Sponsoring Committee Calls for Sustained Struggle Against Communal Forces • Trade Unions Condemn Destruction of Babri Mosque at Ayodhya • Massive March for Communal Harmony at Calcutta • CITU Supports Tamilnadu Textile Strike Despite Ban • The Vandalism at Ayodhya: What the Press say • President Decries Vandalism • Listen to the Voice of India’s Future • The Count Down December 6, 1992 • Public Sector Workers to Strike for 72 Hours in April • Central Trade Unions Jointly Welcome Madam Kotnis • Special General Council Meeting—Bangalore 19-21 February, 1993 • Delhi Police Arrested Workers Participating in Peace March • CITU Wins HSCL Election • CITU Demands Dismissal of U.P. Government • Strenghthen Solidarity and Co-ordination—2nd Indian Ocean Region TU Conference - Tapan Sen • CITUC Urges upon INTUC For Joint Movement in Public Sector • Railwaymens Struggle: Why Not Fight the Menace of Privatisation Unitedly • Conference of Women Workers in Beedi Industry - Vimal Ranadive • Com. Biren Datta • Com. Ganesh Ghosh • International Struggles • Glorious Victory of Chittivalasa Jute Mill Workers • OECD Report: Feeble World Recovery to Swell Jobless Ranks in 1993 • Oil and Petroleum Industry: Worst Victim of New Economic Policy - Swadesh Dev Roy • Com BTR’s Birth Anniversary Observed • Delhi March For Communal Harmony

1 Jan 1993

Pandhe, M. K., Sen, Tapan, Sen, Ashis +2

In This Issue: • Bharat Bandh On 9th September: A Spectacular Success – M. K. Pandhe • Message From WFTU • CGT, France, supports Bharat Bandh and Industrial strike on September 9 • CITU Repudiates Fernandes’s Statement On Bharat Bandh And Trade Union Unity • The Steel Workers’ Strike On 7th September - Tapan Sen • CITU Congratulates Steel Workers For Successful Strike Against Privatisation Of IISCO • Magnificent Strike In Financial Sector - Ashis Sen • Petroleum Industry Employees to Launch Massive Campaign Programme All Over The Country • CITU Congratulates Bank And Financial Sector Strike • Oil Cartels.Staging Comeback In India - Swadesh Dev Roye • Conversion Of ONGC Into A Corporation (Abridged version of the speech of Com. E. Balanandan in the Parliament) • Excerpt Of Speech Of Jibon Roy, MP In The Parliament In The Debate On Sick PSU • Sponsoring Committee supports strike decision by Central Govt. Employees • Comrade Sukumar Sengupta • A.P. State Beedi Workers Convention - Dr K. Hemalata • Kisan Sabha to Launch Movement For Land Reform • North Zone Conference of Peerless Employees • Important Decision by P.F. Authority in favour of Workers of Closed and Locked out Factories

1 Oct 1993

Balanandan, E., Raman Kutty, P. S., Krishnan, P. R.

In This Issue: • Comrade Deng Xiao Ping • Com. Sitaram Gupta • Public Sector Workers Strike on 2nd April • JAC Decides for Dharna before Prime Ministers Place on February 25 and 26 for Revival of NTC Mills • CITU Demands Judicial Enquiry Over Police Firing On Textile Workers Killing Three Workmen In Bangalore • Letter written by E. Balanandan M.P • Letter by Jibon Roy, MP • March To Parliament By AIAWU • CITU Demands Disbursal of Wages and Working Capital in IDPL • Total Strike of Powerloom Workers in Ahmedabad • CITU Opposes Retrograde Recommendations Of Fifth Pay Commission • Confederation of Central Govt Employees & Workers • Statement of the Leaders of the Confederation of Central Govt Employees & Workers • All India State Govt Employees Federation • Blessed he is who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed ...(Pope) – P. S. Raman Kutty • Bank Employees and Officers to Strike on April 4 • Maharashtra: CITU 8th Successful State Conference At Nasik – P. R. Krishnan • 7th State Conference: State Wide Campaign in Tamilnadu • 7th Conference of Singareni-Collieries Employees Union • Working Womens Convention at Vishakhapatnam • First State Conference of Punjab-Chandigarh Medical Representatives Union • The Writing on the Wall: It's Still Poverty, Stupid! • National Workshop Of Central Public Sector Trade Unions On Charter Of Demands • CITU Union Wins Works Committee Election

1 Mar 1997

Pandhe, M. K., Sen, Tapan, Varada Rajan, W. R.

In This Issue: • International TU Meeting Against Neo-liberalism and Globalisation – M. K. Pandhe • Message from the Embassy of the Democratic People’s of Korea on Golden Jublee of Indian Independence • Against Retrograde Govt, Pension Scheme: Workers' March To Parliament On 2nd September • Great Setback For The Govt. Of India: Supreme Court Upholds Stay On Govt. Pension Scheme • Japan: The Bubble Shock And The Aftermath - Tapan Sen • Trade Unions Demand Withdrawal Of Sicab'97 • Message from Council of Trade Union Federation of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, greeting CITU on the Golden Jubilee of Indian Independance • In Parliament: MPs Protest Non-Payment Of Workers’ Statutory Dues; Walk Out Over Finance Minister’s Evasive Reply • Kerala High Court Judgement On Bandh: Judicial Activism In Wrong Direction – W. R. Varada Rajan • Fifth Pay Commission. Report: Employees Firm On Strike Decision • Reports & Events: Massive Industrial Strike In Delhi And Adjoining Areas • Strike In Up • Phillipines Massive Strike In Transport Sector • BHEL Workers Stage Dharna • Brutal Atrocities On Textile Workers At Kathua (J&K) Police Rampage In Workers’ Colony • West Bengal: Strike In Howrah Engineering Units • Hotel Workers’ Procession Attacked By Employer • Government Forced To Withdraw Insurance Regulatory Authority Bill • Sick Fertilizer Units • Govt. Jettisons Revival Decision MPs Oppose Closure Move • Revival Of IDPL: Govt. Decision • Contract Workers At Airport Struggle For Regularisation • NPCC Workers Stage Dharna Before Parliament • HAL: Contract Workers Organise to fight • Himachal Pradesh: 50th Anniversary Of Independence Celebrated • Message From The World Federation Of Trade Unions, Prague, • Greeting CITU On Golden Jubilee Of Indian Independence • Situation In Korean Peninsula

1 Sept 1997

Pandhe, M. K., Kundapura, Vishwa, Kothari, Ashish

In This Issue: • Eighty Fifth Session Of The ILO– M. K. Pandhe • Com. Yamuna Prasad Shastri is No More • Countrywide Bank Employees' Strike On 4th July • BEFI Resolutions and COD • All Support To Bank Strike On 4th July • CITU Welcomes united resolve of the Five Federations to fight back the move to privatise the Coal Mines • 7th Bihar State Conference Of CITU • First J&K State CITU Conference • Delhi State CITU Conference • CITU Denounces The Ordinance On Out Of Turn Allotment Of Govt Quarters • Working Women’s Karnataka State Convention - Vishwa Kundapura • CITU Centre Observes Foundation Day • LIC Employees’ Contributions • CITU Delegations Visiting Abroad • International Labour Standards In Hong Kong To Be Continued • Three Years Of Mobilization Of Trade Unions • Declaration on the Occasion of the 6th Anniversary of Jan-17, 1991 Aggression Against lraq • International Struggle • Environment vs The Poor - Ashish Kothari

1 Jul 1997

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