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The Working Class
1997Pandhe, M. K., Padmanabhan, A. K., Sanyal, B.
In This Issue: • The Immediate Tasks Ahead - E. Balanandan, MP (President, CITU) • Mammoth Rally By CITU Beedi Workers • Finance Minister Assures to Gradually Raise Excise Duty in Mini- Cigarattes to give Succour to Beedi Industry • Labour Minister Assures to Call Meeting to Discuss Beedi Workers’ Demands • Sop For The Poor, Bonanza For The Rich • Not Much Cheer For The Common Man – M. K. Pandhe, General Secretary, CITU • Prime Minister fails to give Assurance on Revival of NTC Mills: Workers to Launch Demonstration Again • Save IDPL Convention Calls For Central Demonstration at Delhi on 29th April • Resolution of the Convention • Police Lathi Charges and Arrests several Thousands NTC workers • Selling of Cement Corporation units unwarranted: CITU Delegation tells the Industries Minister • In The Parliament: On Secret Ballot: UP Govt Must Keep Its Commitment • Sick PSUs Must Not Be Referred To BIFR; Govt Must Revive It • Fourth Indian Ocean Region Tu Conference • HSCL Workers’ Struggle • CITU 7th State Conference In Tamilnadu – A. K. Padmanabhan • Protest Against Denationalisation of Coal Industry • Thousands arrested in Tamilnadu – A. K. Padmanabhan • Purchase Preference Facility To PSUs By Govt Deptt Must Continue • Fifth Pay Commission Report: Intellectual Slavery of the Bankrupt Economic Policies – B. Sanyal • Over One Hundred IDPL Workers Arrested • Change Of Govt Pension Scheme Demanded • Insurance Women Celebrate International Women’s Day • Memorandum Of Beedi Workers' Demands
1 Apr 1997
The Working Class
1997Balanandan, 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
The Working Class
1998Pandhe, M. K., Sen, Tapan, Majumdar, Chittabrata +1
In This Issue: • Total Industrial Strike in West Bengal: Nation-wide Massive Protest Demonstration • CITU Seminar: On 150th Anniversary of the Communist Manifesto • Curtains Down: 50th Anniversary Of Independence – M. K. Pandhe • National Seminar On Steel Industry - Tapan Sen • Labour Issues In Parliament: Dunlop: Govt Cornered In Rajya Sabha • Lok Sabha: Revive Sick PSUs In National Interest • Public Sector Undertakings – Asset Or Burden Of The Country? - Chittabrata Majumdar • All Are Equal, But Are Some, More Equal? – K. P. Rao • Comrade Madhu Guha • Tamil Nadu Workers Face Serious Crisis • Tamilnadu: CITU Victories • Com. A Nallasivan Ninaivagam Declared Open • Martyr’s Widow Contributes Rs 5000 To BTR Memorial • National Safety Council • Several Thousands Demonstrate Against Anti-People Central Budget • Minimum Wages Act: Notification • Strike By Postal Employees • Textile Workers Demonstrate • Haryana Nurses On Strike • Maharashtra State CITU Meets • Workers Lay Siege On CM’s Residence • Cement Workers Stage Dharna In Front Of UP Assembly • Himachal Pradesh CITU Plans Campaign • The Striking Hospital Workers Lathicharged • Cuban Delegates Call On CITU • Vietnam Delegation Visits India • 1st International Conference of the Workers Against Globalisation and Neoliberalism, Brazil-August 1999 • Women and Neo-liberal Globalisation
1 Aug 1998
The Working Class
1999Monterio, Vivek, Dakshi, Ardhendu
In This Issue: • Working Women: 20 Years' Review • Let Us Back Our Valiant Jawans! • CITU General Council Meeting At Ghaziabad • Comrade Saroj Chaudhury Passes Away. A Vacuum Difficult To Fill Up • Public Sector Employees Prepare For Strike • Defeat The Anti-PSU Policies • Demonstration Before DPE Office • ESIC Procedural Problems Raised • ENRON: Endwrong Project – Vivek Monterio • Nationwide Protest Against Assam Murders • Contributions To Assam State Committee • Protest Rally At Mornoi Tea Estate • On Brutal Murder Of Tea Garden Workers • International Labour Conference • The Worst Forms Of Child Labour • Takes Aim At Abusive Forms Of Child Labour • Is There Any Alternative - Ardhendu Dakshi • Tamil Nadu News Letter: Local Body Workers’ Conference • Bokaro - Where Mafia Rule Supreme • Delhi: CITU Emerging As A Major Force • U.P: BJP Govt. Attack On Noida Workers • Embichi Bhava Smaraka Inaugurated • Kerala: FMRAI Conference • SAIL: McKinsey Proposals Opposed • M. P: Coal Workers’ Conference • Demonstrations In Port Blair • Against Privatisation: Salem Steel Workers Strike On June 24 • H.P: NAPTHA-Jhakri Project Workers On Strike • Yugoslavia: 600,000 Workers Rendered Jobless • Labour Law Changes: Plight Of Japanese Women Workers • Philippines-EPZ Workers Defeat ‘Union Busting’
1 Jul 1999
The Working Class
2000Varada Rajan, W. R., Arjun, N. S., Dakshi, Ardhendu +1
In This Issue: • UN Must Save World From Warfare And Under-Development (Speech by Fidel Castro Ruz, at the Millennium Summit, United Nations, on September 6, 2000) • Editorial: A Swadeshi’s Videsh Yatra • 6th All India Conference Of Working Women • Working Women: Organisational Issues & Tasks • Andhra Pradesh: Reforms By The Bullet – W. R. Varda Rajan & N. S. Arjun • Massive Delhi Rally On 27th September • Anti Union Repression Worldwide • Without Comments: Hypocrisy Thy Name Is World Bank! • Economy On Rails! Heading Where? • Public Sector Workers Decide On Future Actions • Attacking Poverty! World Bank Style – A. Dakshi • CITU Protests Coal Settlement • Country Wide Movement By Textile Workers • Kanpur: Textiles Convention • Tamilnadu CITU State Conference • Bank Employees Fight Privatisation/VRS • Privatisation Of Marine Engineering Institute Opposed • Massive Rally By FMRAI • “Revive Winter Sports Project” • Pension Case In Supreme Court • Wage-Agreement For BHEL Employees • NPCC Revival Urged • Ichalkaranji Powerloom Workers Repression • Telecom: Struggle Against Corporatisation • Verdict On Hartal - Ninan Koshy
1 Oct 2000
The Working Class
1998Pandhe, M. K., Raghunatha Reddy, A.
In This Issue: • Forward To A Countrywide Struggle Against BJP Govt's Economic Policies And Communalism – M. K. Pandhe • Insurance Sector: Implications Of Opening Up – A. Raghunatha Reddy • National Platform Of Mass Organisations: Call For All India General Strike On 11.12.98: Declaration • Abolish Bonus Act Ceilings: CITU • Call Of National Convention Of PSU Workers: All India Strike In PSUs On 10 & 11.12.1998: Declaration • TUI World Congress • 1998 World Conference Against A&H Bombs • Financial Assistance To Workers: West Bengal Scheme • WB: All TUs Demand Repeal Of Bonus Ceiling • Mumbai TU Convention Plans State Wide Action • Jabalpur Earthquake Victims: Insurance Employees Organise Relief • Bihar State CITU Meets • Tamil Nadu: Campaigns And Struggles • Karnataka CITU Steers NPMO Activities • West Bengal: PSU Workers’ Convention • Postal Workers’ Strike Gains • Unions Urge Revival Of CIWTC • Bank Strike: 18.9.1998 • Central TUs Oppose Tata Airlines Proposal • Govt. Notifications • Coordinated Struggle At Calcutta Airport • Himachal: Convention At Parwanoo • MP: CITU Opposes BALCO Privatisation • Workers Fight Sale Of CCI Units • All India Convention Of Anganwadi Workers • CITU Condemns Denial Of IR To Sick PSUs • Massive Strike By Industrial Workers At Delhi • South Korea: Workers’ Resistance • “Reverse” Migration In Asia • CITU Greets GFTUK • USA: 54 Days - Strike In General Motors • Tell Tale Figures On Labour Cost • Japan Women Workers’ Study Tour
1 Sept 1998
The Working Class
1990Roy, Jibon, Dhawale, Ashok
• • Right to Work Convention in Bihar • Joint Initiative on Employment to All • CITU's Complaint to ILO Against Fluid Control Research Institute • Mammoth Rally Against Communal Forces at Lucknow – Rajendra Sharma • Conference of Chowgule Employees Union • CITU Welcomes The Reinstatement of Victimised Railway Employees • Glorious Traditions of Great October Revolution • Massive Rally by Unorganised Workers in W. Bengal • Conference of CSIR Employees Federation • Demonstration by Plantation Workers • FCI Employees to Hold All india Convention • Non-Coal Workers to Observe Demands Day • Women’s Struggle: Kerala Working Women's Convention – A. Nazimunniza • High Court Judgement in Favour of Contract Labour • CITU Delegation’s Visit to China – Kali Ghosh • Left Trade Unions Reject Ramanujam’s Report on New Industrial Relations Law • ANC Press Statement on The Wave of Violence, 13 September, 1990
1 Nov 1990
The Working Class
1991Balanandan, E., Umanath, R., Basu, Somesh +1
In This Issue: • CITU Secretariat’s Call: Intervene to Stop Communal Riots • CITU Condemns Murderous attack on NF Leaders • Movement Against the Communal Forces Continues • Forward to The Seventh Conference – E. Balanandan • 1990-—A year in Retrospect – R. Umanath • Public Sector Workers to Observe 15 March as Defend Public Sector and Self Reliance Day – Somesh Basu • Convention of Working Women in Public Sector • Tamilnadu Unorganised Workers Prepare for Strike • Convention of Road Transport Workers • State CITU Conferences: Top Priority to Fight Against Communal Forces • Seven Lakh Coal Miners to go on Strike on 7th January • CITU condemns Imposition of Additional Taxes • Deceptive Pension Scheme for Air-India Employees • Tripura Fund • Railwaymen’s Struggle: AIREC Plans Agitation • Fourth Calcutta District Conference of CITU • Chandra Shekhar Govt. and the INTUC – M. K. Pandhe • International Struggles: Woldwide Strike Actions by the Working Class • The Palestinian Struggle for Homeland • Job Cuts In USA • Unemployment In Yugoslavia
1 Jan 1991
The Working Class
1989Ranadive, B. T., Ranadive, Vimal, Padmanabhan, E.
In This Issue: • Forward to the Election Struggle – B. T. Ranadive • CITU Calls for Dethroning Rajiv Government • Govt of India Flayed for Non-Ratification of ILO Conventions • Electricity Workers to Step up Struggles • Working Committee Meeting of CITU, Kalyani, September 4-6, 1989 - Resolutions • On Unorganised Workers • CITU Co-ordination Committee of Public Sector Unions Calls for Stepping up Struggle against Privatisation • Steel Workers Demand Ouster of Rajiv Govt • 7th November 1989 – B. T. Ranadive • Clarion Call to World Working Women by 5th Conference at Sofia – Vimal Ranadive • Air Hostesses Achieve Victory • Tamilnadu State CITU’s Proposals on Labour in Draft Project Paper on Eighth Plan • Railwaymen’s Struggle: AIRF: 63rd Annual Convention • BEFI Calls for United Struggle by Bank Employees • Vietnamese Trade Union is Fully Sixty Years of Age • CITU Delegation visits Bulgaria – E. Padmanabhan
1 Nov 1989
The Working Class
1992Ganguly, P. K., Balanandan, E., Pandhe, M. K.
In This Issue: • Call Of National Convention: Forward to June 16 Countrywide Strike – P. K. Ganguly • Declaration of the National Convention of Trade Unions Against the Government’s Economic & Industrial Policies, Mavalankar Hall, New Delhi, May 10, 1992 • In Defence Of National Sovereignty: Join the 16th June Strike Enmasse - E. Balanandan • May Day Observations • Massive May Day Rally at Moscow • Why BMS Opposes All India General Strike - M. K. Pandhe • The CITU Expresses Solidarity with the Striking German Public Sector Employees • CITU Opposes Govt’s Move to Provide Security to Private Sector by CISF • Unprecedented Strike in Financial Sector on 30th April • CITU Congratulates ITC Workers for All India Strike on 28 April 1992 • CITU Denounces USA’s Threat Under Special 301 • Prime Minister Promises Increase in Honorarium of Anganwadi Women • Convention of Working Women • Industry Minister Agrees to Settle Demands of EPI Site Workers Amicably • CITU Condemns Steps to Abolish Govt Posts and Privatise Airlines • CITU Participates in ‘Solidarity Affairs’ at Philippines • Cement Workers Plan Joint Action • CITU Warns Government against any Retrograde Change in Labour Laws • HSCL Workers Preparing for Strike • CITU Condemns Steel Price Hike • CITU Condemns the Breach of Trust by the Government of India on Central Employees on Question of Merger of D.A. with Pay • CITU Denounces USA for Imposing Sanctions Against ISRO • Workshop on India’s Power Sector • Seminar at Madras • CITU Condemns USA For Racial Violence • Steel Workers’ Meet Calls for Preparation of Strike • The Railwaymen and the Coming Industrial Strike - Kanai Banerjee • Working Class in Building Socialism in China - Chittabrata Majumdar • Railwaymen’s Struggle: AIREC Conference • Workers Lathi-Charged and Fired at Haryana • Workers’ Unrest in the First World • Inside South Korea • NF-Left Combine Calls for Hartal by Mass Organisations on June 16
1 Jun 1992
The Working Class
1991Balanandan, E., Pandhe, M. K., Dev Roye, Swadesh
In This Issue: • The Elections and After – E. Balanandan • Com. P.K. Kunjachan • Struggle Against Increase in Working Hours In Sail Offices • Meeting of CITU Secretariat • Left Gains in Working Class Areas in W. Bengal • Firing At Dalla Cement Factory: Workers Martyred to Save Public Sector – P. K. Ganguly • CITU Condemns Killing of Dalla Cement Workers • Public Sector Workers to Observe All India Solidarity Day For Dalla Cement Workers on 2nd July, 1991 • CITU Supports Indefinite Strike in Sonebhadra Districts Against Dalla Firing from June 24 • Towards United Movement of Cement Workers • Harassment to Airhostess Leads to Safety Danger • Contract System Plunders Bokaro Workers • Com. Sukhdev Singh • Com. Varinder Kumar Gagan • J. K. Bose • Com. K. George • Meeting Pays Homage to S. A. Dange • List of CITU Special Fund Receipts • May Day in Punjab—Workers Demonstrate against Governor • CITU Publications • Bangladesh Relief Fund Receipts • Caretaker Govt. has no Right to Constitute Women’s Commission • Victorious Left Candidates in 10th Lok Sabha • CITU Holds CIL Management Responsible for Singrauli Mine Accident • Pension As A Third Retirement Benefit – M. K. Pandhe • Defeat the Move to Privatise Vayudoot – S. Dev Roye • First Bihar State Conference of Anganwadi Women • Dandeli Paper Mills: CITU Wins Secret Ballot • CITU Foundation Day Observed • Prime Minister Advocates Appeasement to World Bank and the IMF • CITU Supports Struggle of Korean People for Unification • Complaint to ILO by the Confederation of Public Sector Officers’ Associations
1 Jul 1991
The Working Class
1990Ganguly, P. K.
In This Issue: • The President’s Address • Victory of CITU led Refinery Workers • Com. Gurcharan Singh Randhawa • Conference of Akhil Bharatiya Cha Mazdoor Sangh • CITU Welcomes Formation of National Front Government • CITU Delegate Meets Labour Minister • New Public Sector Agreements • Unorganised Labour And The Question of Minimum Wage—P. K. Ganguly • Assam CITU Demands Representation in Tripartite Wage Committee • Call of Fidel Castro: “The Banners of Revolution and Sociali are not Surrendered Without a Fight. Only the Cowards and the Demoralised Surrender—Never the Communists and Revolutionaries” • Orissa Bamboo Cutters on Struggle • Executive Committee Meeting Of The Fertilizer Workers’ Federation Of India • Railwaymen Hail New Govt; Hope Fair Deal • BEFI Launches Struggles • Wage Settlement In IDPL Delayed • Was it a Disaster • CITU Wins in BEL Secret Ballot • US Invasion on Panama • Air Hostesses meet Minister of Civil Aviation
1 Jan 1990
The Working Class
1990Choudhary, Saroj
In This Issue: • Secretariat Calls for Massive Participation in Convention against Communalism on September 19 • Bank, Insurance Employees Demand Pension as Third Retiremental Benefit • TUs Demand Reinstatement of Bangladesh Biman Workmen by Air India • CITU Condemns Lathi Charge on AIIMS Employees and Docors • Retrenched Employees of Food Corporation to be Reinstated • Secretariat Communique: CITU Denounces US Military Build up in the Gulf Region • On Reservations for Backward Classes • Right to Work: A Powerful United Struggle in the Offing • Massive Rally by CITU at Patna • Powerful United Protest Against Super-301 – Saroj Chaudhuri • General Council Resolutions (Kanpur July 21-23, 1990) • NPCC Management Compelled to Negotiate with CITU Union • Agreement in NBCC • North Zonal Convention of AIPWF • Railwaymen’s Struggle: Will the Assurance be Fulfilled • Massive Dharna by Haryana CITU Workers • Annual Convention of HSCL Co-ordination Committee • Joint Movement in ONGC • Dharna by ICF Workers • Massive Dharna Against IDPL • Hunger Strike by Hindustan Aeronautics Workers • Victory of CITU in Salem Steel • Women’s Struggle: Prime Minister's Assurance to Anganwadi Delegation • The National Commission on Women : A New Opening in the Struggle for Equal Status – Malini Bhattacharya • DPRK’s Proposols For Peaceful Reunification of Korea
1 Sept 1990
The Working Class
1993Pandhe, M. K., Das, P. K., Choudhary, Saroj +1
In This Issue: • Forward To Countrywide Preparation for Historic Bharat Bandh on September 9 – M. K. Pandhe • CITU President Opposes Privatisation of IISCO in Parliament • Trade-Unions decides to Launch Strike Jointly to Oppose Privatisation of IISCO • ACFTU Delegation Visits India • Loot of Public Wealth —Fact Behind IISCO Privatisation • International Congress of Miners – M. K. Pandhe • Foil Game to Legalise Arbitrary Closure of Factories. Mobilise in Thousands against the Anti-Workers Move to Change Labour Laws - Jibon Roy • Tamilnadu State Conference Of CITU Pledges To Intensify Fight Against Twin Danger of New Economic Policy and Communalism • 9th Punjab State Conference of CITU • Karnataka State Beedi Workers’ Conference • 13th World Congress on Occupational Safety & Health Exposed Problems of Developing Countries – P. K. Das • A Glimpse Of Public Sector Performance - Saroj Chaudhury • Struggle of Working Women: Tamilnadu Politics and Arbitrary Attitude of Ministers • Railwaymen’s Struggle: AIRF Strike Ballot by July end for Indefinite General Strike in September 1993 • Jute Workers of West Bengal are on the path of Struggle • CITU/CTUC Workshop On Trade Union Education • CITU Calls for United Trade Union Action against Conditionalities On Wage Negotiations Imposed by the Govt. • One Lakh Workers March in Bombay Against Economic Policies & Communalism - Ashok Dhawale • CITU Opposes DA And Wage Freeze • Working Class Struggle all over the World • Oliver Tambo Passed Away
1 Jun 1993
The Working Class
2000Varada Rajan, W. R., Dev Roye, Swadesh
In This Issue: • Red Salute To Comrade Benoy Chowdhury • Editorial: Stop Not Till The Disastrous Policies Are Reversed • Massive Countrywide Strike On May 11th • NPMO Congratulates People • General Council Meeting at Kozhikode: CITU Charters Further Campaign • Intensive Campaign Programme • Pension Case In Supreme Court • Indian Labour Conference: A Sterile Debating Exercise On Labour Issues – W. R. Varada Rajan • CITU's Criticism Of Govt. Inaction • CITU Comments On Industrial Sickness • Industrial Sickness: The BIFR Views • Labour Issues In Parliament: Bharat Gold Mines: Govt. Ultimatum On VRS • “Unambiguous Policy” To Throw Away PSU Shares? • Minimum Age For Employment • On Sale Of PSU Assets • The Lot Of Pensioners/ Retirees • Sell-Out Of SAIL! • On Draft Electricity Bill, 2000: Shift To Anti-People Power Policy - Swadesh Dev Roye • Electricity Federation Conference • Voltas Employees Organise Conventions • May Day Celebrated In Tamilnadu • NPMO Rally In Port Blair • IDPL Workers Demonstrate • CITU Appeal For Drought Releif • Coal Workers Score A Major Win • Trike By Newspaper Employees • Passing Of Major Ports Bill Denounced • Affiliation Fees : Attention State Committees • Anganwadi Workers March To Parliament • CITU Greetings To DYFI 6th Conference
1 Jun 2000
CITU Mazdoor | सीटू मजदूर
1979Ranadive, B. T.
इस अंक में: • सभी ट्रेड यूनियनों का संयुक्त मंच बनाने के लिए सीटू का आह्वान • श्रमिक महिला मांग दिवस - 30 मई • रिजर्व बैंक कर्मचारी संघर्ष की राह पर • दिल्ली नगर निगम के कर्मचारियों का संघर्ष • शोक समाचार • केरल के श्रमिकों को सीटू की बधाई • सीटू द्वारा एसोसिएटेड जरनल्ज के मज़दूरों की मांग का समर्थन • औद्योगिक संबंध बिल के खिलाफ संघर्ष और तेज किया जाएगा - राष्ट्रीय अभियान समिति • राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा पुरस्कार और श्रमवीर राष्ट्रीय पुरस्कार योजनाएं • रेलवे: रेल कर्मचारियों और यात्रियों में एकता प्रयास • रेल कर्मचारियों की कनफेडेरशन द्वारा नियमानुसार काम • हड़ताल सफल • ए आई आर एफ द्वारा हड़ताल के लिए मतदान का फैसला • बी आर एम एस द्वारा मान्यता की मांग • रेलवे बोर्ड ने एल आर एस ए के साथ हुए समझौते को लागू करने में देर की • रेल कर्मचारियों के खिलाफ क्षेत्रीय सेना के प्रयोग की सीटू द्वारा निंदा • रेलवे ठेका मजदूरों की संघर्ष की तयारी • दिल्ली के कपडा मजदूरों के साथ हर साल चार करोड़ रूपये की ठगी • कपडा मजदूरों की हड़ताल का समर्थन • आटो पिन्ज एम्प्लॉईज़ यूनियन, फरीदाबाद - सवा साल बाद भी मजदूरों का मनोबल बरकरार • सीटू द्वारा दिल्ली के कपडा मजदूरों के संघर्ष का समर्थन • सार्वजनिक क्षेत्र की यूनियनों का कनवेंशन बैंगलोर में • सीटू द्वारा पंजाब में पुलिसकर्मियों की गिरफ़्तारी की आलोचना • चौथे सीटू सम्मलेन को बिरादराना संदेश • बम्बई कपडा मजदूरों का नया वेतन समझौता
1 Jun 1979
The Working Class
1984Ramamurti, P., Pandhe, M. K., Chakrabarty, Nrisingha
In This Issue: • Comrade Yuri Andropov • Com. D.D. Vashist • AUCCTU Secretary Visits CITU Day on December 4 • Programme of Opposition Parties: Countrywide Response to Demands Day • Jute Strike Enters Second Month • Stalemate in D.A. Committee: Struggle for Enhanced D.A. • Demands Day by Agricultural Workers • Central T.Us. Protest Against Verification Results • NCC Protests Against New CPI Series • Doctors’ Call Against Nuclear War • National Seminar on Safety in Industry • Port & Dock Workers to go on Indefinite Strike • CITU Appeals for Peace in Punjab and Haryana • NCC Appeals for Peace • Massive Demonstration by Coal Workers • The United Movements – P. Ramamurti • Rural Bank Employees Struggle • Around The States: West Bengal, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh • Opposition Parties Appeal for Peace • TU Classes for Coal Miners • The Spectre of Unemployment • New Scheme of Workers’ Participation in Public Sector – M. K. Pandhe • Women’s Struggle: Convention of Kerala P&T Women • Meeting of AIDWA • Activities of the Public Financial Institutions – Nrisingha Chakrabarty • CITU Secretariat Meeting • Appeal by TUs of European Socialist Countries • International Struggles
1 Mar 1984
The Working Class
1992Roy, Jibon
In This Issue: • Pre-budget discussion: Fiscal and Economic Policies Criticised • CAT Judgement on hours of Work: A Significant Victory for Loco Running Staff • TUs Say ‘No’ to Retrenchment • CITU Condemns ‘Ekta Yatra’ by BJP • Trade Union Reject Government Note on National Renewal Fund • Indefinite Strike in Bihar NTPC Unit • New Economic Policy—Revealing Itself - Jibon Roy • CITU Secretariat Communique: Dunkel Proposals Seek Complete Surrender of India’s Sovereignty • All India State Govt. Employees to Observe Protest Day • Jute Workers Strike from Jan. 28 • Plantation Workers Conference at Jalpaiguri • Seminar on National Transport Policy • CITU Supports The Striking J& K Government Employees • CITU Condemns the Terrorist Killing of 20 Workers in Punjab • Workshop on Drug and Alcohol Abuse Held • On Developments in Orissa • CITU General Council Meeting • A Study on India’s Power Sector: Problems and Prospects. Theme and content of the proposed study by Industries Research & Services • Can They Hit Back • On the Assets of Monopoly Houses • USA: Recession and Restructuring Plays Havoc With Workers’ Jobs
1 Feb 1992
The Working Class
1986In This Issue: • Central Trade Unions Observe National Integration Day • Attack On Workers Observing National Integration Day • Protest by Central Govt. Employees • Resolution Adopted by the Central Trade Unions: National Integration Day — 9th August, 1986 • N.C.C. Decides to Fight the Government's Policy on Public Sector • Secretariat Decisions • Successful Jute Strike and Rural Bengal Bundh • Meeting of Study Group for Construction Workers • Meeting of Study Group on Leather Workers • Electricity Workers Court Arrest • Movement Against Unemployment • Railwaymen's Struggle: Protest Against Pay Panel Award • Rural Bank Employee's Struggle • Bilateral Relations between CITU and TUC • M.P.s on Problems of Workers • Protest Against Closure Threat of HSCL • Visit of COSATU Delegation Cancelled • Around The States: Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, Goa, Assam • Industrial Strike in Haryana • Nagasaki Day at Udaipur • T.U.s Agree on Verification Procedure • Observance of Hiroshima Day • South Africa: 1986 — The Year of Umkhonto We Sizwe • CITU Condemns Highhandedness of Cong (I) M.P. • CITU's Solidarity With Nicaraguan Workers • International Struggles
1 Sept 1986
The Working Class
1999Ghosh, Kali, Dakshi, Ardhendu, Varada Rajan, W. R. +1
In This Issue: • Com Sukhdev Singh • Yugoslavian Embassy Thanks CITU • To The People For A New Mandate! • CITU Manifesto For May Day 1999 • 35th Session Of ILC: Workers’ Side Protests ‘Tailking Shop’ Exercise • CITU Highlights Workers’ Resentment • Industrial Sickness And Employment Generation: Strident Criticism Of 35 Session Of ILC: Govt Indifference • Alternative Approach Outlined Before ILC: "Review Policy Of Mindless Privatisation And Liberalisation" • Crisis Of Indian Railways And The Status Paper • Employees State Insurance Scheme (ESI) - Need For Speedy Overhauling - Kali Ghosh & Ardhendu Dakshi • ‘Oasis’: Code Name For Milking Workers’ Funds To Quench The Greed Of Big Business – W. R. Varada Rajan • Diversion of PF/Pension Funds to Private Sector Mutual Fund flayed • Southern Initiative Against Globalisation • Nationwide Strike Of Coal Miners On 11-12 May – M. K. Pandhe • CITU Himachal Pradesh Decides Future Action • Steel Workers Federation Conference • Newspaper Employees Strike • All India Locomen Meet • Construction Workers’ Conference • Rajasthan: CITU Workshop On Organisation • HP: Anganwadi Workers • Committee Of Public Sector Trade Unions Notice • Tamilnadu: CITU - ILO Training Camp • Demands Of SAIL Contract Workers • High Court Reinstates Contract Workers • International Demand For Halt To Liberalisation, Review Of WTO Role • Supreme Court Upholds Contract Workers’ Right To Regular Job • Denial Of Subsistence Allowance, Inhuman: SC
1 May 1999