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Pandhe, M. K., Hemalata, K., Padmanabhan, A. K. +2

In This Issue: • Editorial: Defeat Congress(l), BJP. Ensure Victory of the Left, Democratic and Secular Forces • Massive Response To Pension Strike, Feb. 23 – M. K. Pandhe • State Govt Employees Contribution to Cuba Solidarity and Relief Fund • CITU’S Appeal To President Not To Repromulgate Pension Ordinance • Massive Rally of Unorganised Sector Workers at Bhopal • Beedi Workers to launch countrywide picketing on 2nd April • NTC Workers Stage Dharna Demanding Writing Off Loans • Victory for Anganwadi Employees in Andhra Pradesh – K. Hemalatha • Release DA to 15 lakh Industrial Workers Immediately • Coal Unions at Dhanabad are on the Path of Joint Movement Against the Declaration of BCCL as sick industry by BIFR • Massive Struggles of Workers in Tamilnadu – A. K. Padmanabhan • Kalakot Coal Mine Workers’ Strike • Demonstration by Safai Karmacharis of Air Port Authority • Condition Of Safety In Coal Mines – S. Kumar • Railway Accidents Do Not Happen, But are Caused – S. K. Dhar, Secretary General, All India Loco Running Staff Association and CWC member of AIREC • Whither India under Congress(l) Rule! • Carry On Struggle Against Govt Pension Scheme • Madhya Pradesh Forms State Federation of Beedi Workers

1 Apr 1996

Dakshi, Ardhendu, Pandhe, M. K., Dey, Gopinath +2

In This Issue: • NPMO Calls For Nationwide Campaigns • CITU General Council Meeting Notice • CITU Working Committee Meeting Notice • CITU Secretariat Meeting Notice • An Year Of All Round Ruination • Budget 1999-2000: People To Suffer, Economy To Continue To Sink – Ardhendu Dakshi • Port & Dock Workers Fight Against Port Privatisation – M. K. Pandhe • March 8: International Women’s Day: Indian Women Seek Equality, Empowerment • National Seminar On Coal Industry - Gopinath Dey • Buyback Shares By Public Sector: “Dig Your Own Grave !": Govt to PSUs - Swadesh Dev Roye • Central Budget And PSUs - Dipankar Mukherjee • Second National Commission On Labour • Standard Chartered Bank Attempt At De-Unionisation • Himachal Pradesh: Braving Police Repression And Mass Scale Arrest - NAPTHA Jhakhri Workers On Continuous Strike • Tamil Nadu: State Level Campaigns • Captive Power Plants Sale By Sail Opposed • Assam: CITU On The Move • Transport Federation Meets • Maharashtra: Misuse Of Professional Tax • ILC Meets On 3-4 April 1999 • Navi Mumbai Port: CITU Win • Working Women Committee Meeting • Save Rubber Plantations • CITU-ILO TU Training Activity • CPSTU Call • ESI Supplies Contaminated Fluids • Multifarious Campaign By BEFI • Multinational Way Of Recovery • Accord On Wage Revision For Bank Employees • Cement Workers Oppose Sale Of Units • Anganwadi Workers • ILO Criticises Australian Govt. • Alloy Steels Plant, Durgapur, Languishing • Struggle Against CEL Privatisation

1 Apr 1999

Balanandan, E., Pandhe, M. K., Choudhary, Saroj +3

In This Issue: • May Day Manifesto of The CITU, 1995 • Fight The Policy Of Liberalisation - E. Balanandan • Recent Trends In TU Movement In India – M. K. Pandhe • May Day 1995 - Saroj Chowdhuri • Fight Unitedly For The Cause Of Working Women - Vimal Ranadive • May Day and the Struggle Against Fascism – P. K. Ganguly • Economic Policy, Development and Social Justice—Creeping Crisis of “Free Market" (A revised version of The Presentation made at the workshop organised by the AITUC.) - Kanai Banerjee • Notes And Comments – M. K. Pandhe • Special Tripartite Committee Ends Without Conclusion • National Workshop Demands: Central Legislation For Construction Workers – P. K. Ganguly • FMRAI Launches Agitation Against Amendment Of Patent Act • Public Sector Workers to Launch Countrywide Agitation: Declaration Adopted in the Extended Meeting at New Delhi on 28-29, March, 1995

1 May 1995

Umanath, R., Roy, Jibon, Pandhe, M. K. +3

In This Issue: • Com. Mohd. Ismail • Nation in danger: Working Class of India—Gird up your Loins save the nation – R. Umanath • Coal Unions Condemn CIL Agreement with INTUC • No Unanimity on new Industrial Relations Law-INTUC Joins with Employers to Assign Formalism in Trade Union movement. Five National Trade Unions Dissent Bipartite Committee Report – Jibon Roy • Stop The War Mania • Trade Unions Condemn VHP’s Decision to Start Kar Seva Again • Railwaymen’s Struggle: The reinstatement order must be implemented • Submission of Annual Returns • Nationalise Jute Industry • Secular Forces Ready to Face The Challenge • Atrocities Against Women and Girl Child—Kumudini Behera, Orissa • 12th Congress of The WFTU - M. K. Pandhe • Trade Union Delegation to UK - Tapan Sen • All India Convention of Public Sector Workers and Working Women at Bangalore—19-21 Dec ‘90 - Swadesh Deveroye • International Meeting of Trade Unions • Workers Oppose Privatisation Move

1 Dec 1990

Balanandan, E., Pandhe, M. K., Varada Rajan, W. R. +2

In This Issue: • CITU General Council Meets At Chennai • Com. Bimal Singha • Com P G K Krishnan • Capitalism : Enemy Of Open Society - E. Balanandan • Comrade K. L. Malabade • Interim Wage Increase For Coal Workers • The New Situation, Dangers And Tasks Ahead – M. K. Pandhe • Pseudo Swadeshi Stands Exposed – W. R. Varada Rajan • Capital Misery • CITU Highlights Pressing Issues Of Labour • Union Labour Minister called a meeting of Central Trade Unions and Employers organisations. The points made by M.K. Pandhe, General Secretary, CITU, at the meeting • Pre-budget consultation with Finance Minister: CITU Flays Fund-Bank Dictated Economic Policies • Towards A Two Days Nation Wide Strike. Public Sector Workers Plan Campaign & Agitations • Take Lead, For Successful Implementation: CITU Call • What Ails Employees' State Insurance Scheme? How To Remedy? - Kali Ghosh • WFTU Memorandum To WTO • Historic Struggle Of Delhi Nurses – A. R. Sindhu • Vajpayee Govt. On Contract Awarding Spree; CITU Expresses Serious Concern • ZENROREN’s May Day Message To CITU • 3 Days-Strike By FMRAI • Major Win For Maritime Union Of Australia

1 Jun 1998

Ganguly, 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

Pandhe, M. K., Ranadive, B. T., Sen, Tapan +2

In This Issue: • A Blueprint For Whole Sale Privatisation – M. K. Pandhe • BMS. Also Lashes Out At Mania Of Privatisation • Vrs Galore! • Remembering Comrade B.T.R.: Unemployment And The Working Class – B. T. Ranadive Tapan Sen Justice B. P. Jeevan Reddy Kanai Banerjee • Closure Of PSUs - Swadeshi Style - Tapan Sen Justice B. P. Jeevan Reddy Kanai Banerjee • Com. Jadhav Prasad • Economic Liberalisation And Human Development - Justice B. P. Jeevan Reddy Kanai Banerjee • Foil The Conspiracy Against Coal Industry • Threat From Foreign Funded NGOs – Kanai Banerjee • 8th National Congress Of VGCL • Vietnam: Situation Of Workers • TUI Of Public And Allied Employees: Ninth World Congress • Coal Miners To Join Strike On 10-11 December • M. K. Pandhe Elected Vice Chairman • CITU Orissa State 7th Conference • HSCL Union Conference • Bihar: Massive CITU Rally • Country Wide Strike By Sugar Workers • Strike By Telecom Employees • Without Comments. Too Many Holes In PM's Economic Package • Himachal: Anganwadi Conference • CPSTU Denounces Closure Of Eight PSUs • HSCL: Joint All India Convention • Assam NPMO Convention • Bangalore: JAF Convention • Uttar Pradesh: NPMO Convention • Day Long Meetings, Rally In Patna • South Korea’s ‘IMF Orphans’ • 13th National Congress Of ACFTU

1 Dec 1998

Pandhe, M. K., Latha, T. A., Banerjee, Kanai +3

In This Issue: • Prepare For A Nationwide Struggle To Resist Anti-People Policies Of Nda – M. K. Pandhe • South Asian Workshop On Health And Safety – T. A. Latha • Editorial: Struggle Is Ahead • The Two Revolutions - Kanai Banerjee • Offensive Ahead On Labour Rights - Tapan Sen • Election And The Working Class - Chittabrata Mazumdar • CITU Delegation To International Conferences • The Seattle Conference Of WTO – P. K. Ganguly • Economy On Rails Heading Where ? • Trade Liberalisation In India Who-Gains ? • The Supply Side Of Global Bribery • Rajasthan: Workers’ Dharna Before ESI Office • Punjab: Hossiarpur Workers Brave Brutal Attacks • Bank-Employees To Protest Verma-Panel Recommendations • Strike At BHEL Trichy Plant • Trade Unions Denounce Privatisation Move • Sponsoring Committee Of Trade Unions Meet • Workers Abroad: Massive Job Cuts In US Companies • Boeing Co. Workers Won The Struggle • Canadian Miners In Struggle • Nissan Motor To Slash Down 21000 Jobs • Anganwadi Federation Call For Countrywide Campaign • AIFAWH Workshop on Organisation • Naked Discrimination Against Public Sector • Pension Case: Latest Development • Elected Left MPs In 13th Lok Sabha

1 Nov 1999

Sen, Tapan, Pandhe, Pramila, Pandhe, M. K. +3

In This Issue: • Editorial: Liberalised Recipe for Economic Offenders • Joint Appeal by Scope and National Trade Unions • Com. Sagarika • National Convention Against Economic Reforms On December 16 • Anniversary Celebration of Pension Scheme Condemned by Workers • Com. Amiya Das Killed by Miscreants • Govt. Pension Scheme: Illusory Defence And Hard Reality - Tapan Sen • Textile Workers’ Demonstration at Delhi on December 5 • Memorandum By Women’s Committee Of Insurance Employees On Reservation Of Woman • Women Demonstrate Before Parliament Demanding 33% Reservation in Assemblies and Parliament - Pramila Pandhe • The Glorious Seven Day Strike by Central Govt. Employees • MP CITU Assails Govt’s Move to Curb Right to Strike by Govt Employees • Indefinite Strike By Guwahati Municipal Corporation Employees • PWD Muster Roll Workers Meet • CITU Calls For Country Wide Movement For Removal Of Ceiling On Bonus • New Challenges Before Bank Employees Movements – M. K. Pandhe • NGOs in India (A report on activities of some NGOs in the country) • Successful Bonus Struggles in Tamilnadu – A. K. Padmanabhan • Workers Struck Work in Russia Over Non Payment or Wages • Mumbai Conference Of Central Govt. Employees & Workers – P. R. Krishnan • Japan… Facing Stagnation - Swadesh Dev Roye • Joint Trade Union Delegation Visit China • ILO Calls for Immediate Action Against Intolerable forms of Child Labour • Demonstration Against Anti-Labour Policies of BJP Govt

1 Dec 1996

Sen, Tapan, Pandhe, Pramila, Pandhe, M. K. +3

In This Issue: • Forward To 7th December Strike For A Genuine Pension Scheme • Public Sector More Investor Friendly! • Govt. Pension Scheme: Farcial Review, Paltry Relief, Indexation Denied Fradulent Pension Scheme -Who Abetted Imposition? • A Cruel Slap On Democratic Rights • 92nd Birthday of Com. B. T. Ranadive: Com. B.T.R. on His Early Days in T.U. - excerpts from the interview by Sri B.N. Datar • Electricity Employees & Engineers to strike on. 17.12.1997 • Central TUs Oppose Govt. Move On Price Index • In Japan Interacting With Working Women… - M. Rajeswari • Status Of Japanese Women Today • The Class Bias Of The Bourgeois Press - E. Balanandan • Expedite Action On Pf Related Issues • B.T.R. Memorial Trust: Unique Symbol Of Working Class Dedication • Contributions To B.T.R. Memorial • Successful Countrywide Strike By BPCL Workers • Fertilizer Workers Observed Countrwide Strike On 11.11. 1997 • November Revolution Day Observed In Durgapur • Bihar : TU Class • International Symposium On Health Safety And Environment In Iron And Steel Industry • 36th Conference Of AITUC • WFTU Asian Regional Seminar • General Council Meeting Of WFTU Asia Pacific Region • International Relations • CFTU Conference • Meeting Of Hindi Speaking States • Attention All Concerned, Please! • For United Action - interview with M. K. Pandhe

1 Dec 1997

Pandhe, M. K., Dev Roye, Swadesh, Varada Rajan, W. R. +2

In This Issue: • Pro-Capital, anti-People, MNC--Friendly Budget – M. K. Pandhe • CPSTU Call • Bengal Strike • Coal Workers To Strike • Central TUs Call For Intense Struggle • Com. Ajit Sarkar • NPMO Calls • Electricity Tariff Regulatory Commission: Whom It Serves? - Swadesh Dev Roye • Hidden Agenda Explodes At Pokhran – W. R. Varada Rajan • Reopening Of Dunlop India Ltd • Save Hindustan Fertiliser • Payment Of Gratuities (Amendment) Bill • On Amendments To P.F. Act • Overdue Wages For HSCL Workers • West Bengal: Industrial Relations—Recent Trends & Issues - Santhi Ghatak • Resist Globalisation Of Capital. Move Against Capitalist System Itself - Chittabrata Majumdar • May Day’98 In The Philippines: Workers Celebrate Militant Struggle • Anganwadi Women Plan For Struggle • MP Mine Worker Killed In Police Firing • ASSAM: CITU On The Move • Coalmine Disaster: Enquiry Abandoned • IDPL Workers Court Arrests • Textile Rally On 15.7.98 • Maruti Sell Out Condemned • Kanpur: Struggle Against Closures • NBCC Workers Denied Wages • May Day In Tamil Nadu • Working Women • Kailash Prasad Felicitated • Visaka Steel Plant • Water Transport Federation • Bank Employees On Struggle • Transport Federation • Retirement Age Move Opposed • Insurance Privatisation Opposed • CITU Foundation day • Endangering Lives At Sea • Implement Dprk-Us Accord: CITU • End Inhuman Sanctions Against Iraq: CITU

1 Jul 1998

Ranadive, B. T., Chakraborty Nripen, Ranadive, Vimal +3

In This Issue: • May Day 1982 – B. T. Ranadive • Hungarian TU Delegation Visits CITU Office • May Day Manifesto of the CITU—1982 • Tamil Nadu State Committee Meets • Rally Against Imperialist War Danger – Nripen Chakraborty, Chief Minister, Govt. of Tripura • War and Women – Vimala Ranadive • Problems of Construction and Contract Labour – Nrisingha Chakrabarty • Land Reforms in West Bengal – Benoy Chowdhury, Minister-in-charge, Land and Land Reforms Deptt., Government of West Bengal • The Year of Productivity—An Attack on Werkers – M. K. Pandhe • National Compaign Committee Calls For All India Protest Day on June 4 • Successful Maharashtra Bundh Textile Strike Enters Fourth Month • Left Front Government And People: Achievements of Left-Front Govt in West Bengal (Small Scale and Cottage Industries) • P. K. Moitra Acquitted • West Bengal Assembly Demands Nationalisation Of Jute Industry • J.K. Jute Workers’ Strike Enters Third Month • Engineering Workers Move For Need Based Minimum Wage • Anti Working Class Industrial Disputes (Amendment) Bill Introduced in Lok Sabha • Reserve Bank Employees’ Strike • Govt’s Labour Policy Assailed • News Paper Employees’ Struggle Against Automation • CITU’s Memorandum on Sick Industrial Undertakings • Railway News: Rail Budget Criticised • National Convention Oppose LIC Split • Stop Delinking Calcutta-Haldia Ports • Kanpur Annapurna Biscuit Workers on Indefinite Strike • Kerala L.D.F.—Pledged to Serve the People • Hissar — Escalation of Attacks on CITU Activists • BHEL Production Policies Assailed • Successful Strike by Rajasthan Government Employees • Cement Workers to Fight Cement Barons—INTUC Conspiracy • AGB of BHEL Workers’ Union • Teleprinters Workers to Fight Productivity Linked Wage • Income Tax Employees Attacked by Anti-socials • Barbarous Lathi Charge on Workers at Ujjain • TUs Oppose DA Freeze by HSCL Management • CITU Supports Textile Workers’ Strike in Paraguay • Attack on CITU Union • Steel Workers to Fight Productivity Linked Wages • Attempts to Curtail ESI-Benefit • News In Brief

1 May 1982

Mukherjee, Samar, Pandhe, M. K., Ranadive, Vimal +3

In This Issue: • May Day Manifesto of the CITU 1991 • Com. Jamini Saha • Revive Revolutionary Traditions of May Day – Samar Mukherjee • Conditions of Working Class In U.S.A. – M. K. Pandhe • Comrade Satwant Singh • Appeal to Women For the Elections – Vimal Ranadive • Unity Week Observed in Tamilnadu • CITU Condemns Peerless Management’s Highhandedness and Injunjunction against Demonstration • Demand For Nationalisation Of Jute Industry • Meeting of Assam State Committee • Meeting of Orissa State Committee • Haryana Brick-Kiln Workers Carry Forward Struggle • Demand for Accountability by the Former IDPL Chairman • Conference of Karnataka Plantation Workers • NPCC Management Plays Fraud with CITU Union • Meeting of Coal Federation • On First Death Anniversary: Remembering Comrade B.T.R. – E. Balanandan • Death Anniversary of Com. BTR Observed All over India • Challenges before the Working Class – P. K. Ganguly • Stability and Social Justice – Jibon Roy • Seventh Conference of CITU, Calcutta, February 12-17, 1991: Resolutions - On Unorganised Workers, On Workers Participation in Management, On Right to Work, On Construction Workers, On Contract Workers, On Textile Industry, On Coal Industry, On Steel Industry, On Oi} & Petroleum Industry, On Fertilizer Industry, On Struggle Against Illiteracy, On Child Labour, Other Resolutions • Tamilnadu State CITU’s Call to Defeat Cong(l)—ADMK Alliance • Homage to Com. BTR • One Day Strike in Madras

1 May 1991

Pandhe, M. K., Balanandan, E., Majumdar, Chittabrata +3

In This Issue: • On Enforcement, amendment of Minimum wages Act, Enactment of Law on Agricultural Labourers: Parliament Committee Lashes Out At Govt • Editorial: As The Millennium Unfolds • NPMO Sounds The Bugle: Oppose Retrograde Govt. Policies! Prepare for nationwide struggle! • CPSTU Call: Nationwide Struggles By PSU Workers • Public Sector Employees’ National Referendum 11-1-2000 • Economy On Rails ! Heading Where? • Govt Capitulating To MNC’s Muscle Flexing • Human Rights And Working Women • Energy Is A Human Right - Ardhendu Dakshi • Labour Issues In Parliament: Second Labour Commission: Design To Impose Slavery On Labour • Labour Issues In Parliament: On Mines And Minerals Bill • Disinvestment: Get The Money At Any Cost! • Sale Of GAIL Shares Loot On Public Wealth • Assault On PF Interest Also? • “Gaida’s Mother!” – W. R. Varada Rajan • Seattle: WTO Meet Fails • International Conference Of Oil & Gas Workers • Protest Rally In Port Blair • NPCC Union Delegation Meets PM • Successful Strike By Merind Fieldworkers • FDC Field Workers On Indefinite Strike • T.N. CITU Plans Campaign And Struggles • Indefinite Strike By Port & Dock Workers • Construction Workers’ Federation Meeting • Prime Minister Urged To Revive IDPL • Trade Union Class For Anganwadi Employees • IT Employees’ Conference • Zonal Conference Of Peerless Employees • CITU-ILO All India Training Programme • Yet Another Strike By Insurance Employees • Campaign On Working Women’s Demands • Public Sector Workers Demonstration • Airport Workers Demonstration • State Level Convention Of Haryana CITU • Calcutta: Electricity Employees’ Rally • CII Recipe For Closure Of 3 Banks Condemned • Supreme Court Ruling: "EPF Scheme Member A Consumer" • 95th Birth Anniversary of B. T. Ranadive

1 Jan 2000

Pandhe, 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

Pandhe, 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

Ranadive, B. T., Choudhury, Benoy, Chakraborty, Nripen +3

इस अंक में: • मई दिवस 1982 - बी टी रणदिवे • सीटू का मई दिवस घोषणापत्र - 1982 • पश्चिम बंगाल में भूमि सुधर - बिनॉय चौधरी, मंत्री, भूमि एवं भूमि सुधर विभाग • सम्रज्य्वादी युद्घ के खतरे के खिलाफ लामबंद हो - नृपेन चक्रबर्ती, मुख्य मंत्री, त्रिपुरा • युद्ध और महिलाएं - विमल रणदिवे • उत्पादकता वर्ष : मजदूरों पर हमला - एम के पंधे • निर्माण व ठेका मजदूरों की समस्याएं - नृसिंह चक्रवर्ती • पश्चिम बंगाल की वाममोर्चा सरकार तथा जनता • पश्चिम बंगाल का लघु व कुटीर उद्योग : वाममोर्चा सरकार की उपलब्धियां • सीमेंट मजदूर सीमेंट मालिकान व इंटक की साजिश के खिलाफ संघर्ष करेंगे • पश्चिम बंगाल विधान सभा द्वारा: जूट उद्योग के राष्ट्रीयकरण की मांग • जे के जूट मजदूरों की हड़ताल अब तीसरे महीने में • केरल का वामपंथी जनवादी मोर्चा: जनता की सेवा के लिए कटिबद्ध • सफल महाराष्ट्र बंद - टेक्सटाइल हड़ताल अब चौथे महीने में • रिजर्व बैंक कर्मचारियों की हड़ताल • कलकत्ता-हल्दिया पोर्ट को अलग करना बंद करो • मजदूर वर्ग विरोधी आद्योगिक विवाद (संशोधन) विधेयक लोक सभा में पेश • राजस्थान के सरकारी कर्मचारियों की सफल हड़ताल • राष्ट्रिय अभियान समिति का आह्वान : 4 जून को अखिल भारतीय प्रतिरोध दिवस • ई एस आई की सुविधाओं में कटौती की कोशिश • पी के मोइत्रा बरी • समाज-विरोधी तत्वों द्वारा आयकर कर्मचारियों पर हमला • सीटू यूनियन पर हमला • उज्जैन में मजदूरों पर बर्बर लाठीचार्ज • भेल की उत्पादन नीतियों की निंदा • राष्ट्रिय सम्मेलन द्वारा एल आई सी के विभाजन का विरोध • सरकार की श्रम नीति की निंदा • जरूरत के आधार पर न्यूनतम वेतन के लिए इंजीनियरिंग मजदूरों का आंदोलन • हिसार में सीटू कार्यकर्ताओं पर हमलों में वृद्धि • टेलीप्रिंटर कर्मचारी उत्पादकता से जुड़े वेतन के खिलाफ संघर्ष करेंगे • बीमार आद्योगिक संस्थानों पर सीटू का ज्ञापन • स्वचालन के खिलाफ समाचारपत्र कर्मचारियों का संघर्ष • रेल बजट की आलोचना • भेक वर्कर्स यूनियन का सालाना सम्मेलन • एच एस सी एल प्रबंधकों द्वारा महंगाई भत्ता जाम का ट्रेड यूनियनों द्वारा विरोध • उत्पादकता से जुड़े वेतन के खिलाफ इस्पात मजदूरों का संघर्ष • कानपूर के अन्नपूर्णा बिस्कुट मजदूरों की अनिश्चितकालीन हड़ताल • पैरागुआए में टेक्सटाइल मजदूरों की हड़ताल का सीटू द्वारा समर्थन • हंगरी के ट्रेड यूनियन प्रतिनिधि मंडल का सीटू कार्यालय में आगमन • संक्षिप्त समाचार • छपते-छपते : जे के जूट की हड़ताल को गैरकानूनी घोषित किए जाने का चौतरफा विरोध

1 May 1982

Dev Roye, Swadesh, Pandhe, M. K., Menon, N. C. +3

In This Issue: • Farewell Com. EMS! • Chennai Prepares For CITU General Council • “National Agenda” Of The BJP-Led Combine: Labour Totally Ignored - Swadesh Dev Roye • Historic Significance Of The Communist Manifesto – M. K. Pandhe • Vulture Capitalism – N. C. Menon • Domestic Workers or Slaves? - Ranjana Nirula • South Asian Workshop on Occupational and Environmental Health – P. K. Ganguly • Suspension Of Work In Dunlop Factories: A Conspiracy By Management • Protect Domestic Industry - Says ASSOCHAM • Coal Washery Workers Agitate Against Closure • Workers Demand Judicial Enquiry • Rajasthan: Workers Agitate At Atomic Energy Plant • INDAL Workers Oppose Take-Over Bid • Conference Of BHEL Mazdoor Union, Jhansi • BPCL Workers To Go For Countrywide Strike • J&K Govt. /PSU Employees’ Strike • Steel Workers Expresses Concern On VRS in SAIL • Bank Employees Opposed Privatisation And Merger • 5th Conference of Bangla Desh Agricultural Farm Labour Federation - Vimal Ranadive • Iraq: Facing The Brunt Of US Gangsterism • Srilankan Plantation Workers’ Strike • Draft Declaration On Social Standards – A Dubious Move In ILO To Help MNCs – M. K. Pandhe

1 Apr 1998

Ganguly, 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

Pandhe, M. K., Ghosh, Jayati, Mitra, Ashok +18

In This Issue: • Globalisation And Neo-Liberalism • World Capitalism To-Day Under Globalisation – M. K. Pandhe • Globalisation and national economic policy: Myths and responses - Jayati Ghosh • No Alternative? - Ashok Mitra • IMF And World Bank: Genesis, Functioning And Role Today - Arun Ghosh • International Trade, WTO and International Labour Standards: The Debate On Social Clause - Sukomal Sen • Globalisation - Myth And Reality – N. M. Sundaram • Erstwhile Socialist Countries And Globalisation - Chittabrata Majumdar • Without- Comments: Poor Have Become Poorer: UN Report • Liberalised Foreign Trade And Deindustrialisation In India – Dr. (Ms.) Anjali Kulkarni, Dr. (Ms.) Rucha Ghate • “Privatise And Perish". Genesis Of The Game Plan - Swadesh Dev Roye • The New Phase Of Global Capitalism – M. R. Appan • Seeds of Suicide : The Ecological and Human Costs of Globalisation of Agriculture - Dr. Vandana Shiva, Afsar H. Jafri • Globalisation - Labour And Quality Of Life - Jibon Roy • Globalisation and the Informal Sector – P. K. Ganguly • Globalisation and Liberalisation: Impact on Women and Children - Ranjana Nirula • Globalisation, Shipping Services And Seafarers – M. M. Lawrence • Banking Sector: Reforms or Ruination? Ashis Sen, Asit Das Gupta • On Power Policy - K. R. Unnithan • Civil Aviation: Pressures And Policy Options - R. Ramanathan • Globalisation and Telecom Industry – V. A. N. Namboodiri

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