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The Working Class
1985Ranadive, B. T., Ganguly, P. K.
In This Issue: • Comrade P. Sundarayya • Working Committee Meeting Of CITU, Trivandrum, May 31-June 2, 1985: Presidential Address— B. T. Ranadive • Protest by Central Govt. Employees • Second Conference of SWFI • Railwaymen’s Struggle: Revoke Illegal Break in Service: LRSA • Leader Valve Workers Struggle • Seminar on Bhopal Gas Tragedy • All India Day Against Lockout, Closure, Retrenchment and Denotification • Conference of Insurance Employees • Meeting on Workers’ Participation in Management • Around The States: Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Orissa, Delhi, Maharashtra • Women’s Struggle: Tamilnadu Co-ordination Committee Meets • Victory Over Fascism: Celebration of the 40th Anniversary in Indla • International Trade Union Conference: On 40th Anniversary of Victory Over Fascism — P.K. Ganguly • Comrade Saradish Roy • CITU Extends Support to Sau Paulo Metal Workers Strike • CITU’s Response to Appeal by Bulgarian Trade Union • CITU’s Solidarity to British Coalminers • Contribution to British Coalminers’ Struggle • International Struggles
1 Jun 1985
The Working Class
1995Ganguly, 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
The Working Class
1995Pandhe, 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
The Working Class
2000Pandhe, M. K., Ganguly, P. K., Dev Roye, Swadesh
In This Issue: • CITU General Council Call: Make 11th May General Strike A Historic Success! • Editorial: No Mr. Prime Minister! • CITU Manifesto For May Day, 2000! • All India Workshop On Organisation • Facilitating Loot By MNCs - Swadeshi Way • Forward To Long Drawn Struggles – M. K. Pandhe • 14th World Trade Union Congress – M. K. Pandhe • Economy On Rails! Heading Where? • Without Comments: Globalisation Could Mean Recolonisation; Prostrating At The FIT Altar… • A.P: Brutal Police Attack On Anganwadi Women • S. K. Nambiar • CITU Deplores AP CM’s Comments • Globalisation And The New Textile Policy – P. K. Ganguly • Port & Dock: PM’s Intervention Sought • Steel Workers Against Privatisation • PSU Wage Negotiation: Workers Protest • Brick Kiln Workers Militant Struggle • Human Chains In Mumbai • Pondicherry Govt Employees Rally • Massive CITU Rally In Chennai • CITU-ILO Training Programmes • BTR Fund (Receipts since Jaipur Working Committee Meeting) • New Exim Policy: Abject Surrender To Imperialism - Swadesh Dev Roye
1 May 2000
The Working Class
1994Ganguly, P. K., Dev Roye, Swadesh, Pandhe, M. K. +1
In This Issue: • Centre Of Indian Trade Unions Working Committee Meeting, Guwahati, December 13-15, 1993: Presidential Address • CITU Working Committee Meeting Denounces Govt for Signing Dunkel Draft: Calls For Countrywide Agitation – P. K. Ganguly • Working Committee Meeting Of CITU, Guwahati 13-15 December, 1993: Resolution Against The Economic Policies and on The Next Phase of Movement • Massive Rally In Capital Denounce Dunkel Draft: Thousands Court Arrest In Protest • Workers Dharna Protests Proposed IR Bill • CITU Demands Reversal Of Economic And Fiscal Policies • Beedi Worker’s Conference Decides for Countrywide Movement – P. K. Ganguly • 7th Convention of LIC Working Women, Coimbatore • Working Women Demand withdrawal of the Amendment to the Maternity Benefit Act • Countrywide Movement Plan By Textile Mill Workers Against Closures • Successful struggle by Unorganised Workers • Victorious Strike of Haryana Govt Employees • Successful Strike Of Postal Employees • Coal Unions To Strike On 31st January, 1994 • Hundreds of Fertilizer Workers Court Arrest Before Parliament House - Swadesh Dev Roye • Asian Employment Planners Meet Highlights Growing Unemployment – M. K. Pandhe • 89th Birth Anniversary of B T Ranadive: National Symposium On Trade Union Unity - Jibon Roy
1 Jan 1994
The Working Class
1999Pandhe, M. K., Sen, Tapan, Ganguly, P. K. +1
In This Issue: • Japanese Peace Delegation Visits India • Defeat This Fanaticism! • NPMO To Intensify Struggle • Com Z A Ahmed • II National Commission on Labour: Move To Usher In Deregulated Labour Market – W. R. Varada Rajan • Comrade K M Haribhat • Overhaul Economic Policy Reforms: CITU • Pre Budget Consultations, 1999-2000: CITU Memorandum • “Is There A Govt. Functioning Here At All?”: BMS • IRA Bill: Halt This Madness • Sexual Harassment Is A Violation Of Fundamental Right: Supreme Court Verdict • Com. Gopal Basu • To Save Coal Industry PSUs Coal Miners’ Prepare For Movement – M. K. Pandhe • Amartya Sen Honoured - Tapan Sen • Haryana: Unprecedented Repression • BHEL Hyderabad : INTUC, BMS Defeated • 8th Conference Of AP CITU • West Bengal: Organising New Area • Goa: Repression & Terror On Mine Workers • Com Radhika Banerjee • J&K State Govt Employees’ 18 Days’ Strike • Com. Naresh Dasgupta • Karnataka: Panchayat Employees’ Meet • Revive NPCC In National Interest • Construction PSUs Facing Serious Crisis • Delhi: State CITU Meets • Tamil Nadu CITU Intensifies Campaign • Manipur Employees On Strike • CITU Denounces Cabinet Decisions • U. S. Barbarism – P. K. Ganguly • International Seminar : World Energy Scenario On The Eve Of 21st Century • Day Of The Fat Wallet: Spiffy Growth In Top Income Bracket - Rich Get Richer In Post-Reforms India, Lower Income Crowd Thins
1 Feb 1999
The Working Class
1996Balanandan, E., Ganguly, P. K., Sundaram, N. M. +2
In This Issue: • Working Committee Meeting, New Delhi, June 7-9, 1996: Address by the President - E. Balanandan • CITU Working Committee Supports UF Government; With The Right To Oppose The Negative Points In The Minimum Programme – P. K. Ganguly • Main Resolution of the Working Committee: The Present Situation and the Trade Union Movement • CITU Working Committee Observes Second Death Anniversary Of Com. Kim Il Sung • CITU Opposes Govt Guideline To Reduce Manpower • Joint Statement issued by various organisations of Central Government employees on the Statement made by Shri P Chidambaram, Minister of Finance • CITU Opposes Any Move To Close Down 40 NTC Mills • State Level Convention of Textile Workers in Orissa • Report on Working Women in West Bengal • All India Plantation Workers’ Conference in Assam in December • AIIEA Opposes Insurance Reforms – N. M. Sundaram • Report of AP Anganwadi Workers and Helpers Union - K. Hemalata • TUs Demand Immediate Steps for Revivial of Sick Units Within PSU Framework in the Meeting with Prime Minister • Meeting With Finance Minister • Wage Negotiation in Cement Industry Workers to get an increase of minimum Rs 900.00; Proposed strike from 24th June deferred • Joint Forum Of South Asian Trade Unions - Swadesh Dev Roye • Question of Politicalisation of the Working Class - Sukomal Sen • Japan Newsletter: 78000 Strong Rallies on May Day ’96 in Japan • South African Labour Movement Proposes to Govt
1 Jul 1996
The Working Class
1995Ganguly, P. K., Choudhary, Saroj, Padmanabhan, A. P. +3
In This Issue: • Magnificent All India Strike By Coal Workers: Six Workers Killed During All India Coal Worker Strike • CITU Condemns Blatant Murder Of Six Striking Coalminers • Meeting of State Govt. Employeees Federation • Report of full Secretariat meeting held on August 12, 13, 1995 • CITU-ILO Workshop on Child Labour • Child Labour In Brick Kiln Industry • MP CITU To Take Out Textile Workers Jatha • Save IDPL Convention • Madhya Pradesh Forms Regional Committees • Kerala News letter: Regional Jathas Against Economic Policies of the Govt. • Report of Standing Committee on Energy • India Observes 50th Anniversary of Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki • CITU Commemorates Comrade Kim Il Sung • Contract Labour System In Air Transport In India - Hemant Kumar • China played an important role in defeating fascism in World War-lI • Fifty Years After Hard-Won Triumph: Things To Remember - Israel Epstein
1 Sept 1995
The Working Class
1998Pandhe, M. K., Varada Rajan, W. R., Ganguly, P. K. +3
In This Issue: • The Midterm Poll And Working Class – M. K. Pandhe • 34th Session Of Indian Labour Conference - A Hoax To The Unorganised Sector Workers – P. K. Ganguly • State of Unorganised Sector Workers: Grim Reality Admitted • Elections, Big Business And Saffron Scribes – W. R. Varada Rajan • Pact Of Financial Services In WTO: American Invasion In Third World Market • The Supreme Court Verdict on Bandh – P. K. Ganguly • The CITU deeply mourns the passing away of Com. Tridib Chowdhury • The CITU strongly denounces the dastardly attack with the intention to murder on Com. Gulab Singh • Closure Of Gas Victims’ Rehabilitation Centres Deprive Victim Women Of Their Livelihood - Zulekha Zabin • Against SC Verdict On Bandh • South Korea: Severe Fall Out Of IMF Package - Tapan Sen • Agricultural Workers: Health Risks • On A Visit To Sri Lanka – A. K. Padmanabhan • Bihar: Electricity Workers Agitate • Coal Ash and Parcel Workers on the move • Successful Bandh Against Bathe Killings in Bihar • lISCO: Steel Workers Demonstrate • Western Hemisphere Workers’ Conference: NAFTA Privatisation And Deregulation • Pension: Settlement of Claims • Workmen Compensation Act • Paternity Leave for Govt Employees • Strike Hits Israel • National Platform Of Mass Organisation • Asia Pacific Graphical Federation • ILO Proposal for a Declaration on Fundamental Rights • Maharashtra : Protest Against Repression • PF: Government Notification • Foundation Stone For BTR Bhavan Laid
1 Jan 1998
The Working Class
1994Ganguly, P. K., Choudhary, Saroj, Pandhe, M. K. +2
In This Issue: • On The Graveyard Of Apartheid Glorious Banner Of South Africa Unfurled – M. K. Pandhe • Biography Of Nelson Mandela • CITU Greets ANC on its Grand Victory • The Freedom Charter (Adopted at the Congress of the people, Capetown, South Africa, on 26th June 1955) • The People Shall Govern! – P. K. Ganguly • The Dawn That Killed The Night - Saroj Chaudhury • The Public Sector or Whatever Remain of it in 1992-93 • Govt concedes to consider IISCO modernisation by SAIL • Confederation and Organisational Unification of T.U. Movement - M.K. Pandhe • Pandhe Elected Vice President JCSSI • Birth Centenary Celebration Of R. S. Ruikar • Forward To Bigger, Stronger Decisive Battles - E. Balanandan • Meeting On V.D.A. For Central PSU Workers • Successful Beedi Workers Conference In Tamilnadu – A. K. Padmanabhan • Textile Workers For Countrywide Industrial Action – P. K. Ganguly • Joint Action Committee Of Textile Workers: National Convention Of Textile Mill Workers, New Delhi, 5th May, 1994: Resolution • Promotion of Women on the Union’s Committee • Railwaymen’s Struggle: Chittaranjan Locomotive Workers - Authorities forced to withdraw suspension order on TU workers • ILO move to reduce deaths in mining • Round Table meeting on Tripartism at ILO office • 8th Conference Resolutions: Resolution On US Offensives Against Cuba; Against Unilateral Change in Recognition Rule of Unions of Central Govt. Employees; Against Repealing Air Corporation Act • TUs Protest against stripping of Air Hostesses • SAARC Countries Transport Workers’ Unions / Federations Conference: A Promising beginning • Preliminary Observations of the Citu on the Proposed Trade Unions (amendment) Bill, 1994 Alongwith Relevant Recommendations of the Ramanujam Committee • Excerpts From The Ramanujam Committee Report On Trade Unions Act- (Chapter 5) • Vishakhapatnam District CITU calls For massive Struggles In Unorganised Sector • May Day message by the DPRK TUs to the Workers all over the World • On Kanoria Mills Problem
1 Jun 1994
The Working Class
1997Pandhe, M. K., Balanandan, E., Patnaik, Prabhat +4
In This Issue: • Clarion Call of the Ninth Conference of CITU: Towards Big Battles Against Globalisation And Liberalism – M. K. Pandhe • Welcome Speech Delivered by Com. M. M. Lawrence, Chairman, Reception Committee, 9th Conference of the CITU Kochi • Centre of Indian Trade Unions, 9th All india Conference, 20-26 April, 1997, V.G. Bhaskaran Nair Nagar, Cochin: Presidential Address - E. Balanandan • Report Of The General Secretary – M. K. Pandhe • Condolence Resolution • Resolutions: On Solidarity with International Working Class Struggle; Struggle Against • Communal And Divisive Forces; Workers-Peasant Alliance; On Working Women; Industrial Sickness; Recognition Of Trade Unions Through Secret Ballot; On Pension Scheme; Resolution On Contract Labour; Unemployment And Demand For Right To Work; On Price Rise; Bonus; Esi Scheme; In Support Of Strike Of State Govt. Employees At Bihar; On Headload Workers; On Fifth Central Pay Commission • 9th Conference Of CITU: Discussions In Commissions • Proceedings Of The 5th Conference Of Working Women • List Of Foreign Delegates Participating In The 9th CITU Conference • Message from World Federation of Trade Unions • National Canfederation of Trade Unions • Message from General Federation Trade Unions Iraq • National Federation of Postal Employees • Message for CITU’s 9th Conference from Com. KKN Kutty, Secretary General, Income tax • Employees’ Federation Message from the Cuban Trade Union (CTC) • United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America • National Union of Mineworkers, Barnsley • Ceylong Federation of Trade Unions • Message from KMU • Canadian Labour Congress • Message from Palestine Trade • Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia • National Association of Teachers in Further & Higher Education • All Poland Alliance of Trade Unions • Message from Congress of South African Trade Unions • Message from General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea (DPRK) • Speech Of Com. E.K. Nayanar, Chief Minister Of Kerala At The All India CITU Conference • 9th All India Conference Of CITU Cochin, 21-27 April 1997: Report Of Credential Committee • Proposed Amendment To The CITU Constitution At The Ixth Conference • Seminar en Globalisation of Economy: On The Current State Of The World Capitalist Economy - Prabhat Patnaik • Globalisation, the International Economy and Policy Options - Jayati Ghosh • “Globalisation” And Its Impact (Speech at Seminar on “Trends in the World Economy” at Cochin on 21 April, 1997) - Prakash Karat • May Day Manifesto of the CITU, 1997 • Government Giving Second Thought Over the Move to Close down NTC Mills – P. K. Ganguly • Central Trade Unions Demand Early Action On IISCO Modernisation • CITU Denounces The Move For Retrograde Amendment Of SICA • Whither Revival Of Fertilizer PSUs - Tapan Sen • Revival Of Sick PSUs Demanded By MPs • Fate of IDPL Hangs in Balance – P. K. Ganguly
6 May 1997
The Working Class
1994Ganguly, P. K., Pandhe, M. K., Sen, Tapan +8
In This Issue: • Forward to the 8th Conference of CITU – P. K. Ganguly • Against the Govt’s Economic Policy: March to Parliament on April 5 • The Coal Workers For A Nation Wide Struggle – M. K. Pandhe • Behind IISCO Privatisation - Tapan Sen • Malhotra Committee: A Doctored Report - Saroj Chaudhuri • Com. Motilal Sharma • Magnificent Strike by Air Employees Against Privatisation - Hemant Kumar • ESI Sub-Committee Recommendations Entrancement of Existing benefit Rates to the Insured Persons • De-Rating Of Name-Plate Capacity Can Make HFC Economically Viable - Swadesh Dev Roye • Workshop on Organising Women Workers in South Asia – V. V. Presenna Kumari • Kanoria Jute Mill : The Facts Beyond Fiction - Chittabrata Majumdar • Jute Workers To Resist Management Offensives Unitedly • 8th National Conference Of All India State Government Employees’ Federation - A Challenging Success - Sukomal Sen • Telecom Employees Exhibit Exemplary Unity - Moni Bose • CITU Delegation In China amidst Com. Mao Zedong Birth Centenary Celebration - Kanai Banerjee
1 Feb 1994