The Working Class

In This Issue: • Why Not Five Vs. Five Mr Prime Minister? – Dipankar Mukherjee • Editorial: Defeat The Damned Liars! • February 24 Countrywide General Strike • While Real India Bleeds, Only 'Reel' India Shines • It's Supreme Court Again! • Defend Right to Strike – P. Ramamurti • Lok Sabha Dissolution & Snap Polls: Trounce the BJP Combine, Save India – M. K. Pandhe • Forget Not These Onslaughts by the NDA Regime • Verification Of Membership Of Central TUS • New Social Security Scheme: A Cruel Fraud on Unorganised Workers – W. R. Varada Rajan • Economy Derailed, Down The Disaster Lane ! • • Farmers Face Credit Drought • • India's Economy Surges Ahead? • • Quality Of Statistics! • • GDP Growth Fails To Check Plunge In Jobs • • Shiningwallahs Or 420wallahs? • Document: Call of Social Movements & Mass Organisations • WSF To Return To Porto Alegre In 2005 • 24th February Countrywide General Strike: Working People Assert Right To Strike – Tapan Sen • Reports & Events • • Post Privatisation Delhi Vidyut Board: Employees Being Denied Their Retirement Dues • • Andaman: Joint TU Initiative For General Strike • • Gujarat: Preparatory Activities For General Strike • • Punjab: Statewide Campaign For General Strike • • Assam: Statewide Preparations For 24th Strike • • Against Privatisation Move Of Eastern Railway Press: Railway Workers Demonstrates In Thousands • • Steel Workers Meeting At Kolkata • • Tamil Nadu: Working Women Plan Actions • March 8th: International Working Women's Day – K. Hemalata • BTR Centenary: B. T. Ranadive on Working Women