The Working Class

In This Issue: • Whither Shining in Shipping Industry in India? – M. K. Pandhe • Editorial: May-Day Pledge: Prepare To Fight Fortcoming Challenges • May Day Manifesto Of CITU – 2004 • Attack On Govt Services Under NDA Regime • Non-Performing Assets Of Banks: Swept Under The Carpet • Govt Of The Manipulators, For The Manipulators – Dipankar Mukherjee • Noise On Growth Rates! Figures Speak.. • No 'Feel Good' When Bad Guys Are At The Helm They Deserve Only Contempt • 9.5 Per Cent Interest Rate On EPF For Last Year Not Cleared By Govt. Of India • Economy Derailed ...Down The Disaster Lane! • • Foreigners Hold 30 Per Cent Shares In Top Indian Cos • • Where Do We Stand? • • Employment Loses Shine.… • • Whither Research & Development (R&D) • • Reality Or Hype ? • • Power Generation Growth: Dark Spots In The Shine! • Republic Of Hunger – Utsa Patnaik • US Out Of Iraq! • Reports & Events • • Bihar: Anti-Imperialist Demonstration • • Himachal Pradesh: PWD Workers' Struggle Against Retrenchment • • Events Worldwide: Regional Election In France: A Referendum Against Anti-Worker 'Reform'! • • British Railways: Backtracking From Privatisation! • • Countrywide Strike In Italy • • Trade Union Actions In Europe • • Civil Service Employees' Strike In Britain • • U.S.A: Organised Labor Fights For Bush's Defeat • • Fourth Vimal Ranadive Memorial Lecture • Stampede Death In Lucknow: Exposure Of Ugly Faces Of Vote-Catchers • BTR Centenary: B. T. Ranadive On Revolutionary Traditions Of May Day