The Working Class

In This Issue: • National Consultation Meeting Of Trade Unions, New Delhi, 12 March, 2003: Resolution • Editorial: Halt This Global Gangsterism • May 21: Forward to All India General Strike – W. R. Varada Rajan • U.S.: 1 million to Lose Unemployment Benefits • Arbitrary & Whimsical Ways of Labour Ministry • Report of the 2nd World Conference of Oil, Gas & Refinery Trade Unions – Swadesh Dev Roye • Economy Derailed, Down The Disaster Lane • • No Growth Impulses In Budget: Ncaer • • Budget: No Application Of Mind: Dr. Manmohan Singh • • Budget For Growing Inequities • • Union Budget: The Myth Of Investment Growth… • • Job Losses Galore • Budget 2003-04 Excels in Deception of the People – K. Hemalata • Blood Thirsty War for Iraq's Oil – M. K. Pandhe • Reports & Events • • Heroic Struggle of APSRTC Staff and Worker's Federation • • Steel Workers In Dharna Against Privatisation • • Chenab Hydro Project Workers' Struggle • • International Women's Day Observed • • Anganwadi Workers' Indefinite Mass Dharna • • Corporate Bankruptcies Exhaust US Pension Guaranty Fund • • Strike Brings Much of Algeria to a Halt • Red Salute To Rachel Cory • Sigtur Statement Against War And Terror • South Asian Regional conference of Women Trade Unionists