The Working Class

In This Issue: • Coal Miners Restive Over Govt. Inaction • Editorial: Ring In 2003 With Intensified Struggles! • Gujarat Polls and Beyond – W. R. Varada Rajan • CITU Working Committee Meeting: Towards Massive Countrywide United Action… - Tapan Sen • Russian Workers Defend T.U Rights – M. K. Pandhe • CITU Discussions on Working Women • Second National Commission on Labour and Working Women: Advocacy for Organising or Pitching for Gender Divide? • AIFAWH Delegation Meets PM • 2002 in Retrospect • Parliament Debate on PSU sell-Off – excerpts from the interventions of Jibon Roy and Dipankar Mukherjee • Against Privatisation: Petroleum Workers to go for Strike • Reports & Events • • Tamil Nadu: Struggle Against Transport Privatisation - (Report from A.K. Padmanabhan) • • IISCO Colliery Workers Strike Successful • • Solapur: 60th Death Anniversary Of Dr. Kotnis • • Present Crisis In Tea Plantations - (Report From P. Lalaji Babu) • • Anganwadi Workers Plan Actions • • Massive Strike At Bokaro Steel Plant • • Joint Trade Union Convention In Delhi • Coffee Plantation Workers Win Confidence