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

In This Issue: • All Unions Oppose "Reform Package" For Banking Industry – M. K. Pandhe • ILO Session of Joint Committee on the Public Sector - Sukomal Sen • Steel Workers Prepare For Resistance To Iisco Privatisation - Tapan Sen • Joint Rally By Textile Workers Before Parliament – P. K. Ganguly • 8th Delhi CITU State Conference Held At Ghaziabad On 28th To 30th January, 1994 • Seventh Maharashtra State Conference Of CITU - Ashok Dhawale • Conference Of Rajasthan State CITU • State CITU Conference Of Gujarat • Symposium Against Dunkel Draft • Patna Prepares For 8th CITU Conference - Sarvodaya Sarma • CITU Calls For Intensification Of Struggles • CITU Denounces Govt. Move To Liquidate Sick PSUs • Rice And Wheat Pices Increased Under Fund-Bank Dictates • Successful Nationwide Strike By Coal Miners • CITU Condemns Nanjundappa Committee Recommendation For Massive Manpower Cut • Kisan Sabha Protests Against Signing Of Dunkel Draft • China: Employment Objectives and Strategies 1994-2000 - By Xiao Shi (Social Development Department, State Planning Commission, China) • In The Capitalist Wonderland • Support To The Mexican Uprising • United Strike Preparation By Transport Workers • Return Of The TUs

1 Mar 1994

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

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

Ganguly, P. K., Majumdar, J. S., Pandhe, M. K. +2

In This Issue: • Mammoth Rally of Textile Workers – P. K. Ganguly • Trade Unions Demand Change In Fiscal Policies • CITU Denounces Police Firing at Kerala and Calls for Countrywide Protest Actions • Joint Convention on Scooter India • Bihar State CITU Conference – J. S. Majumdar • Jute Workers Prepare for Strike • Thirteenth Congress Of The WFTU – M. K. Pandhe • Joint Statement by Indian and Pakistani TU leaders • Com. BTR’s 90th Birthday: Seminar on formation of a Confederation of all Central Trade Unions • Women Hit Hardest in Russia • Conference of Tamilnadu Construction Workers • Contract Workers of Steel Industry Demanded Wage Revision and Interim Relief • TUs Demands Implementation of Prasar Bharati Act • Accident in Bokaro Steel Plant; 10 workers injured • World Meeting on Solidarity with Cuba – J. Ballabh • Regionwide TU Initiative for Workers’ Right Planned From the Third Indian Ocean Region Trade Union Conference - Chittabrata Majumdar • CITU representative at International Trade Union Seminar, Seoul – S. Dev Roye • BEFI Opens Punjab State Unit • Kathmandu: International Trade Union Conference Against IMF-World Bank Structural Adjustment Programme

1 Jan 1995

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

In This Issue: • Mount Resistance To The Policies Ruining The Country: CITU Working Committee Call • Forward To Intensification Of Struggles – M. K. Pandhe • World In Recession, Nation In Crisis Intensify Fight Against Anti People Policies – E. Balanandan • Strike: Nation-Wide General Strike, A Massive Success, Severest Indictment Of BJP Govt. • Condemn US Bombing On Iraq: CITU • Strike: West Bengal Report • Strike: Kerala Report • Strike: Karnataka Report • Strike: CGT Message To CITU • Value Of Rupee • Strike: Tamil Nadu Report • Strike: Delhi Report • Strike: Maharashtra Report • The World Of Hungry People • Strike: Bihar Report • 11 Dec. Strike And INTUC Leadership • Strike: Assam Report • Strike: Manipur Report • Strike: Tripura Report • Strike: Orissa Report • Strike: Gujrat Report • Strike: Andhra Pradesh Report • Strike: Madhya Pradesh Report • Strike: Haryana Report • Strike: In Different Sectors • Combat Liberalisation: Struggle For Social Change - Chittabrata Majumdar • Price Rise - Whom Does ‘Sultani’ Serve? - Dr. Vandana Shiva • West Bengal: Recognition Of Trade Unions By Secret Ballot - Kali Ghosh • Amending The Patent Act: Volte-Face By BJP – P. K. Ganguly • BTR Memorial Fund • Labour Issues In Parliament: PSUs: Revival And No Winding Up, Is The Need • 94th Birth Anniversary of B. T. Ranadive

1 Jan 1999

Prasada Rao, N., Balanandan, E., Pandhe, M. K. +2

DOCUMENTS: 1. Documents • Welcome Address | N. Prasada Rao • Presidential Address | E. Balanandan • General Secretary’s Report | M. K. Pandhe • Tasks on Organisation • Tasks on Working Women’s Front • Credential Committee Report • Concluding Speech by the President • Office Bearers & General Council/ Working Committee Members List 2. Documents (Hindi) • स्वागत भाषण | एन. प्रसाद राव • अध्यक्षीय भाषण | ई. बालानंदन • महासचिव की रिपोर्ट | एम. के. पंधे • संगठन पर हमारे कार्य • कामकाजी महिला के मोर्चा पर हमारे कार्य • क्रीडेंशियल समिति की रिपोर्ट • अध्यक्ष का समापन भाषण • सी आई टी यू के नए पदाधिकारी तथा जनरल कौंसिल/कार्य समिति के नामों की सूची 3. Policy Papers • Imperialist Ideological Offensives • Imperialist Economic Offensives • Fight Against Communalism • Casteism and Social Oppression • Working Women, A Class Perspective • Informal Sector and Challenges • Unemployment and Trade Unions 4. Policy Papers (Hindi) • साम्राज्यवाद के विचारधारक हमले • साम्राज्यवाद के आर्थिक हमले • साम्प्रदायिकता के विरुद्ध संघर्ष • जातिवाद तथा सामाजिक उत्पीड़न • अनौपचारिक क्षेत्र तथा श्रमिक आंदोलन के समक्ष चुनौतियां • बेरोजगारी तथा श्रमिक आंदोलन • कामकाजी महिलाएं: एक वर्गीय दृष्टिकोण 5. Report of All India Plantation Workers Federation | Ananda Pathek, Working President and Adv. P. Lalaji Babu, General Secretary

1 Dec 2000

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

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

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

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

Ganguly, P. K., Pandhe, M. K., Sen, Tapan +3

In This Issue: • Com. Robin Sen • Editorial: The World Summit On Social Development • CITU Extends Solidarity to Khazaksthan TU • Indian Labour Conference Exposes Govt’s Policy to Scuttle Employments – P. K. Ganguly • "Liberalisation" Hits Indian Shipping Industry – M. K. Pandhe • Three Years’ NEP : A Sad Commentary - Tapan Sen • CITU Demands Urgent Steps To Revive Sick Units – A. K. Padmanabhan • Textile Workers To Intensify Struggle • Com. Joe Solvo • Com. B. K. Banerjee • Com. Gopilal Siwalia • Com BTR’s Birth Anniversary Observed • Coal Strike Deferred • Pakistan Trade Unions Form Confederation • Disinvestement Programme Of PSUs • Airlines Employees Demonstrate Against Privatisation • NAM Labour Ministers’ Conference - An Appeal From The Central Trade Union • Organisations Of India To The Fifth Conference Of Labour Ministers • Of Non-Aligned And Other Developing Countries, New Delhi, Vigyan Bhawan, 19-23, January 1995 • Enron Project: Unveiling The Truth • Enron: Environmental Sell-Out - By Sulabha Brahme • CITU Supports FMRAI’s Action Programme against Amendment of Patents Act • CITU Condemns Ordinance Amending The Patent Act • CITU Denounces MOU with MNC in Telecom • Railwaymen’s Struggle: AIREC demands Further Interim Relief, 100% merger of DA, early submission of Pay Commission Report • World Summit for Social Development - Hemant Kumar • WFTU Rejects inclusion Social Clause in International Trade • The Mexican Crisis : Warning Bells For Economic policy

1 Feb 1995

Balanandan, E., Pandhe, M. K., Varada Rajan, W. R. +3

In This Issue: • 50 Years of Democracy in India – E. Balanandan • Mother Teresa • Standing Labour Committee Meeting: An Exercise In Futility – M. K. Pandhe • CITU Delegation Visit to China – W. R. Varada Rajan • Com. Harisadhan Mitra • China : Acftu Overview • Com. N. Vasudevan • Com. M. Farooqui • India’s Freedom Struggle: Revolutionary Role Of Working Class - Sukomal Sen • Against Fraudulent Govt Pension Scheme: Massive Parliament March Of Workers; All India Strike On 17th December • CPSTU Meet In New Delhi: Public Sector Workers On To A Nationwide Strike Struggle • Accord On Pay Commission - Kanai Banerjee • The Economic Reforms And Working Women In Asia – Dr. K. Hemalatha • Govt. Notifications And Ordinances • Maharashtra: Struggle Of 40,000 Powerloom Workers In Ichalkaraji • Maharashtra CITU To Launch State Wide Campaigns • Tamilnadu: Statewide Strike In Unorganised Sector • Tamilnadu Sugar Workers Conference • Jhansi: BHEL Workers Observe Martyrdom Day: Late Com. Bundiwal Remembered • Nationwide Strike By Electricity Workers • Martyrs Day Observed In Dugda Coal Washery, Bokaro • 3 Day’s Bank Strike In December • Fertilizer Workers To Strike On 11.11.1997 • NTC Mills: Govt. Goes Back On Turn Around Strategy • Bihar: Rally Against Petrol-Price Hike • Vizag Inferno

1 Oct 1997

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., 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

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

In This Issue: • September 2 : Delhi Chalo! Workers March To Parliament Against The Fradulent Pension Scheme • Good News for The Workers against Government Pension Scheme • Golden Jubllee Of Indian Tedependence - W. R. Varada Rajan • Com. A. Nallasivan • Working Class And 50 Years Of Indian Independence – M. K. Pandhe • Sick Industries Rally To Block The Black Bill - Swadesh Dev Roye • Hanoi Conference For Solidarity With Cuba – P. R. Krishnan • The Paramountary Of TU Rights - Saroj Chowdhury • National Platform Of Mass Organisations Call For Countrywide Actions Against Economic Reforms • The Decisions Of The CITU Secretariat • In The International Arena: Whither Russia; UK: Human Cost Of Industrial Injuries; South Africa: Employment Bill & COSATU’s stand; New TU lnternational Founded; Repression in Bolivia • Reports & Events: Tamilnadu News Letter: Transport Workers Go on Protest Strike; Sep 9 Unorganised Sector Strike; Protest Rallies And Dharnas • Save IISCO Convention Demands Modernisation • Calcutta: Rally Protests Stopping Construction Work By Metro • Water Front Federation • Air Hostesses Raise Banner Of Revolt • Trade Union Convention at Port Blair • Bank Employees and Officers to Intensify Struggle • Textile Workers Rally • BHEL Workers Demonstrate Countrywide • PM Assures Time Bound Negotiation On All Demands: Coal Workers Strike Deferred • CITU Activities In Hindi Speaking States Reviewed

1 Aug 1997

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

Roy, Jibon, Balanandan, E., Pandhe, M. K. +4

In This Issue: • Editorial: Raise Higher the Banner of October Revolution • CITU Secretariat Calls for Massive Participation for March to Parliament on November 25, 1992 • Make 25th November Parliament March A New Turning Point of Resistance - Jibon Roy • For ‘March to Parliament’ on 25th November 1992 Some Important Points to be noted • The Road to Foreign Bondage - E. Balanandan • CITU Unmasked Krishnamurthy 15 years Ago • Railwaymen’s Struggle: 25 Nov. March to Parliament. Railwaymen Preparing for Massive Participation • Steel Workers Prepare for Parliament March of 25th November ‘92 • CITU mourns the death of Col. Sehgal, Com. Bhalchandra Trivedi, Com. K.M. Mathews • World Bank Team Visits CITU Centre • Meeting of the PWTUC • Sale of Spinning Mills Opposed • World T.U. Movement at Cross Roads – M. K. Pandhe • FACT Workers to Launch Joint Movement • Pubiic Sector Workers Observes CPSTU Programmes • 8th Annual Meeting of Asia-Pacific National Safety Council • CITU Secretariat Calls for Observance of October Revolution Week • Third EEFI Conference: Clarion Call to March Ahead - Rathin Sen • Durgapur Employees Donate Car to African National Congress • A. P. State CITU Council Meeting • CITU Express Solidarity with British Coal Miners • Special Session of the General Council, Bangalore, 16-18 December, 1992 • MP Workers Ask Patwa Govt. to Quit - Badal Saroj • Punjab: Massive Strike For Minimum Wages Revision - Charan Singh Virdi • Development (?)—IMF Style: Latin American Experience - Tapan Sen

1 Nov 1992

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

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