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In This Issue: • The Spectre of Crisis • Countrywide Movement Of Coal Workers’ Planned • Enhancement of Stipend of Apprentices • Railway News: Demonstration Before British High Comnission • CITU Denounces Increase In Railway Fare & Freight • Sucessful Strike By Quarry Workers • CITU’s Complaint To I.L.O. On Assam Jute Mills • Barbarous Lathi Charge On Kanpur Biscuit Factory Workers • SAIL Management’s Production Policies Criticised • Delaying Tactics of HSCL Management • Spate of Victimisations After January 19 : Workers’ Resistance • All India Movement by L.I.C. Employees • West Bengal Jute Workers Preparing For Indefinite Strike • Movement By Teagarden Workers • CITU Congratulates Govt. Employees • Rajasthan, UP Govt. Employees’ Indefinite Strike • National Compaign Committee Condemns Impounding of DA, HRA and CCA • Simla Hotel Workers Fight Victimisation • LRSA’s complaint to ILO • Kerala Convention Of Women Teachers • International Women’s Day • All India Lawyer’s Union • AITUC-CITU Oppose Productivity Linked Wages In Steel Industry • All China Federation of Trade Unions Thanks CITU (Letter dated February 6) • Glorious Strike of Bombay Textile Workers • Stay Order In Cement Arbitration • The World Trade Union Congress • Down With The Capitalist Path Of Development • Uphold The Banner Of Proletarian Internationalism • Appeal Of The Congress To Workers And Trade Unions Of All Countries

1 Apr 1982

Ranadive, B. T.

In This Issue: • Against the Black Ordinance. Massive Countrywide Protests • Strike in Kerala • Antulay Government’s Brutal Assault • Struggle Continues in J. K. Rayon • Massive Morcha And Courting Arrest By Delhi Women • Attempt to Murder Com. Ajeya Rout • Com. C. Govindarajan Stabbed • Jute Workers Observe Total Strike • Attack on CITU Union in Tamil Nadu • All India Demands Day by C.G. Employees • Kerala Tea Estates lock-out • Railway News: Samar Mukherjee Indicts Railway Board for Accidents • Dharna by Loco Running Staff • For Prompt United Intervention by the Working Class. CITU General Council Reiterates the Call for Confederation • Stirring Call by P. Ramamarti: Strengthen Organisation—Build up United Struggle • Grasp United Front Tactics • Successful T.U. Convention in Maharashtra • A Supplement to the Working Class September 1981 issue: Presidential Address by Com. B. T. Ranadive, General Council Meeting, Bally-Howrah, August 21-24, 1981 • Condition of Workers in the Arab Territories Occupied by Israel • Coal India Management Responsible for Stagnation in Production • Steel Industry Settlement of Anomalies Question • In South Zone Movement for Minimum Wage Mounts UP • Mass Retrenchment in Kalta Iron Mines • HSCL Management’s Dilatory Tactics Opposed • Beedi Workers To Demonstrate

1 Sept 1981

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • New Menace Of Higher Taxation And Railway Fare • Forward To New Militant Struggles / Ranadive Addresses CITU General Council • Central Government Employees Prepare For Countrywide United Mass-Action • Railwaymen: National Convention Serves Ultimatum On Govt. • Deadlock In Electricity Wage Negotiations : All India Strike Planned • State Government Employees Prepare For Strike Of April 9 • Jute Tripartite And After • Legislators Propose But … / Legal Notes • Ceat Tyre Workers In Bombay On Indefinite Strike • Joint Trade Unions Council Formed In The Andamans • Goa / Coca Cola Workers Continue Struggle • Newsletters: Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu • West Bengal: CITU Supports Striking Doctors & Engineers • Other Regular Features

1 Apr 1974

Ranadive, B. T., Sen, Sukomal

In This Issue: • May Day 1984 – B. T. Ranadive • Slogans of CITU for the May Day—1984 • Road Transport Worker’s Conference to be held in Madras • Workers’ March to Parliament • Victory of the Jute Workers • Victory of Port and Dock Workers • Coal Workers to Strike Again • Steel Workers Convention • Demands Day Central Government Employees • Bank Employees Struggle • Annual Meeting of Reserve Bank Employees Association • Around The States: Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Karnataka, Bihar, Orissa, Tripura, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Haryana • Convention of Opposition Parties • Peace Day Observed • Conference of AICAPEF • CITU Demands More Power To States • Seminar on National Transport Policy • Memorandum by Plantation Workers’ Federation • HSCL Joint Forum at Breaking Point • Seamen Hold Protest Demonstrations • Strike by Medical Representatives • CiTU Demands Implementation of Labour Laws by Brick-Kiln Owners • CITU Secretariat Meeting • Monopoly Houses Thrive at the Cost of People • Of Membership Of Trade Unions: The Present Procedure for Verification • M.Ps. Demand Recognition of Sahrawi Democratic Republic • Railwaymen’s Struggle: 48-Hour Strike in Chittaranjan Locomotive Works • Railway Budget Evades Responsibility for Poor Performance • Warm Reception to Chinese T.U. Delegation • Tripartite Committee On D.A.: Delay in Convening Meeting • Demand of Bonus and Interim Relief by the State Government Employees: The background and perspective – Sukomal Sen, General Secretary, All India State Govt. Employees Federation • CITU & AITUC Protest Against Verification Process • State Government Employees to Strike • Library and Reading Room for Steel Workers • Women’s Struggle: Third Convention of Working Women • Seminar on Workers’ Participation in NTC • Comments on the Delhi Recognition of Trade Unions Bill, 1983 • Comrade Santosh Mitra • Comrade Golak Pati Roy • On the Government’s Scheme for Employees’ Participation in Management • International Struggles

1 May 1984

Chatterjee, A. P., Sharma, Vijender

In This Issue: • Fight for Peace and Against Warmongers – Vijender Sharma • Victory of Port and Dock Workers • All India Coal Workers Convention : 4-5 April • Soviet TU Greets CITU on Republic Day • Bonus to LIC Employees. A New Perspective in Industrial Law | Legal Notes – Arun Prokas Chatterjee • Beedi Export Markets will not Benefit Workers • Women Workers Face Enmasse Retrenchment • All India HSCL Workers to Strike on 19 February • TUs Criticise Labour Policy in Steel Industry • Public Sector Employees Indefinite Strike Continues • Bank Employees Federation, West Bengal : A Militant Organisation Formed: Bank Employees Revolt Against the Policies of AIBEA • Delhi CITU Demands End to Closures, Police Repression • Com. S. Venkatram • Railway News: Efforts for Unity Continues • Plight of MES Workers in Andaman • CITU Demands Takeover of B & C Mills • Road Transport Workers to Organise All India Conference • More trade union schools by CITU • Orissa CITU Meets • Haryana CITU Meets • West Bengal Newsletter • All India Strike Planned by ITC Workers on 5 February • Tripartite Meeting of Beedi and Cigar Workers • News in Brief • CITU Demands Reinstatement of Dismissed IB Employees • CITU Condemns Repression on Blind • CITU Condemns Repression on State Govt Employees of Punjab

1 Feb 1981

Ranadive, B. T., Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • New Dangers! – B. T. Ranadive • Before discharging workmen enquiry is a mus. An Important Decision on Industrial Law | Legal Notes • LIC employees’ historic victory in Supreme Court • Government betrays port and dock workers. All India indefinite strike from Jan. 5 • CITU demands acceptance of public sector employees’ demands • Long March of Maharashtra peasants braves police repression • 5th Conference of Punjab CITU • Rise of agricultural workers membership of AIKS • Crisis of capitalism and the Working Class • Andaman and Nicobar workers prepare for struggle • All India Coal Workers Convention at Raniganj • Fifth Conference on Safety in Mines • Railway News: Railwaymen intensify struggle • Comrade Alexei Kosygin • Over half world’s working women are in Asia but they have a long road to equality • Fraternal TU leaders visit CITU office • News in Brief • Bihar bandh : Massive response • Indian seamen demand end of discriminatory wages

1 Jan 1981

In This Issue: • Strike in Public Sector on 11 March. Countrywide Demonstrations on 3 March • CITU Condemns LIC Ordinance • CITU Opposes Increase In Rail Tariff • Locomen’s Struggle Withdrawn, But Fighting Spirit Not Quelled • Continuous Strike in Hindustan Cables • Pfizer Workers Force Multinational Company for Settlement • Plight of Woman Construction Workers • Slate Pencil Industry in Mandasaur. For Survival Workers Forced to Choose Work Which Kills • Railway Budget : To Subsidise a Corrupt, Inefficient and Anti-Working Class Bureuacracy • West Bengal Newsletter • For the First Time Pay Scales Recommended for Jute Workers • Indian Seamen Win Their Just Demands • News in Brief • Growing Influence of Lal Jhanda Union in Delhi • Assam CITU Meets • AINEF to Fight Back Wage Freeze Policy

1 Mar 1981

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • CITU’s Stand On Proposed Constitution Amendments • Industrial Disputes in the Private Sector • CITU Condemns Racial Attacks In U.K. And Sonth Africa • Tatas Pocket Rs. 11 Crores! • Inflation Benefits Whom? • Railwaymen: NFIR Convention at Triupati • Annual Meeting of Eastern Railwaymen’s Union • Other Froms of Bonus | Legal Notes • Finances And Working Of Big Business In 1973-74 • ILO Admits CITU’s Complaint • What Caused Second Chasnala Disaster ? • Tamilnadu Newsletter • Andhra Pradesh Newsletter • Retrenchment In Bunge & Co. • Book Review: Bharater Shramik Andolaner Itihas Vol. 1 and II By Sukomal Sen • WFTU And Solidarity with Brazilian Workers • INTUC And Tea Plantation Wages • Other Regular Features

1 Jul 1976

Nguyen Trong Con, Chatterjee, A. P.

n This Issue: • The Economic Survey And The Budget • General Strike In Ceylon In Support Of Govt. Press Workers • Thirty Years Of Vietnamese Trade Unions | Nguyen Trong Con [Continued from previous issue] • Railway Board On Railwaymen’s Strike • Railway Budget – Between The Lines • Again On The Meaning Of “Industry” | Legal Notes • Tamil Nadu Newsletter • Karnataka Newsletter • Com. Gerald Pereira • Other Regular Features

1 Apr 1976

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Scrap The Bonus Ordinance | Jyoti Basu • For A New International Labour Standard. CITU Memorandum to ILO. • Greetings To Th: Working Class And People of USSR • Review of Implementation Of Tenancy Legislation In India • CITU Condemns Execution Of Spanish Patriots • Nature And Extent Of Mass Poverty In Asia • The Doctrine Of Loss Of Confidence | Legal Notes • Trade Unions In Sri Lanka Fight For Nationalisation Of Plantations • CITU Convention On Bonus & Flood Relief • DA Formula For Central Government Employees • Newsletters | Kerala, Tamil. Nadu • Mills Facing Crists • Other Regular Features

1 Nov 1975

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Overseas Organisation Of Spanish Workers Appeals For Solidarity • Freedom Of Association : An International Survey • Background Of Japanese Spring Struggle 1975 • The Girijans And Harijans In Andhra • Recession In Western Countries • Japanese Railwaymen Fight Against Victimisation And For “Right To Strike” • Agriculture And Industrial Disputes Act | Legal Notes • Successful General Strike In Argentina • New Secretariat And General Council Of CITU • CITU Foundation Day Observed • Other Regular Features

8 Jul 1975

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Suspension Of Seven Freedoms And Working Class • Comrade Chou En-Lat • Chasnala Disaster • Multi-National Cartels In Drug Indusiry • Magistrate Orders Thorough Enquiry • Declining Trend In Utilisation of Industrial Capacity • Output of 50 Industries Declines In 1975-76 • Regional Rural Banks And The Bank Employees • Chasnala Tragedy | Legal Notes • Railwaymen Win Their Cases • In Parliament • J. K. Jute Mill Workers Submit Memorandum To U. P. Governor • ClTU Application On Pre-Censorship In Calcutta High Court • Unequal Wages Still Continue In Plantations • Anti-Labour Agreement In Ritz Continental Hotel • Other Regular Features

1 Feb 1976

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Message Of Fraternal Solidarity From Vietnam Trade Union Federation • Ernst Thaelmann In Nazi Prison • Kerala’s Cashew Industry In Crisis • Job Seekers : An Analysis • Share of Wages In Production • Safety In Textile Industry • Dispute Between Co-operative Society And Its Employees | Legal Notes • Ruthless Exploitation By Money Lenders In The Dhanhad Coalfields • Agreement In Steel Industry • BCMU Protests Against Anti- Worker Practices of Jute Mills • Other Regular Features

1 Sept 1975

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • EDITORIAL A Futile Exercise To Hoodwink The Workers • Long Live The Great November Revolution • CITU Greets People’s China • Deceptive Explanation Of Fraudulent Index • Successful One day Strike By Ranigunj Colliery Workers • The CITU Secretariat Meets • Calcutta Dock Workers’ Struggle For Bonus And Other Demands • CITU Condemns Police Firing In Bihar • Report Of The Bonus Review Committee / Legal Notes • Bangladesh Jute Workers On Strike • Demands Week Observed By Road Transport Workers • W. Bengal Jute Workers Prepare For Continuous Strike • Durgapur Steel Workers’ Strike In Support Of Contract Workers • RAILWAYMEN: Loco Running Staff To Intensify Struggle • Struggle Of Calcutta Corporation Workers & Employees • CITU Condemns Police Firing in Bihar • Central Govt. Employees & Railwaymen Observe 19th September • Massive Anti-Wage Freeze Demonstration In Bharatpur • CITU Andhra Pradesh Committee Meets • Newsletters : Tamilnadu • Other Regular Features

1 Nov 1974

Ranadive, B. T., Chatterjee, A. P., Ghosh, Samarjit

In This Issue: • A Menacing Situation – B. T. Ranadive • CITU Memorandum To The Workers Education Review Committee • Movement Against Wage-Freeze All Over India • Newspaper Employees Need Action Programme – by Samarjit Ghosh, • Court Set Aside Removal Orders/Railwaymen • Absolute Liability/Legal Notes • West Bengal Beedi Workers To Go On Strike On Charter Of Demands • Maharashtra Bundh Of October 30—A Grand Success • Newsletters: Tamilnadu, Rajasthan, Kerala, West Bengal • Second Conference Of West Bengal CITU • SIMCO Workers join CITU • Scindia Employees Win Significant Victory • Other Regular Features

1 Dec 1974

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Sinister Move For More Attacks On Workers’ Wages • CITU’s Note On Social Status Of Women In India • DIR And Right To Strike / Legal Notes • Ruthless Suppression Of T.U. Rights Of Spanish Workers • Protest Week Against Wage Freeze Ordinance • Infringement Of T. U. Rights In Japan, Complaint Lodged With I.L.O. • CITU Condemns Firing On Bharatpur Workers • All India Road Transport Workers’ Federation Formed • National Convention Against Wage Freeze • Country-wide Protest Actions Against Wage Freeze • CITU—Andhra Pradesh Committee Meets • CITU— Maharashtra Committee Executive Meets • Newsletters : Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan • Other Regular Features

1 Sept 1974

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Editorial: The Calculated Inaction Of The Union Labour Ministry • The Second Conference of Kerala State Committee of CITU • Legal Victory of Railwaymen / Legal Notes • Resolutions Adopted At the All India Convention of Working People Against Wage Freeze • General Strike In Kerala Against Wage Freeze • Bhilai Convention Against Wage Freeze & For Bonus • RAILWAYMEN: N.C.C.R.S. Goes Ahead • Convention of Power Workers To Plan Bigger All India Struggle • Successful All India Strike By Provident Fund Employees • Succesful One-day Strike By W. Bengal Jute Workers • Workers Demand Take-over of Sick & Closed Plantations • Ramamurii’s Reply To AITUC’s Slander • Chile Day Observed By Workers • All Over India Workers Demand Take-over of Sick & Closed Plantations • Newsletters: Tamilnadu, Kerala, Maharashtra, Goa • Other Regular Features

1 Oct 1974

Slater, Jim

In This Issue: • West Bengal Bank Employees Call for Fight Against Disruptive Role of AIBEA Leadership • Who Rules : Delhi or Westminster? By Jim Slater • Port and Dock Workers Prepare for Indefinite Strike from Nov. 18 • Greetings to the Working Class and People of USSR • Mockery of Committee on ILO Conventions • CITU Criticises Sixth Plan Basic Policies • Syndicate Bank Staff Call for Unity and Struggle • Massive Rally at Faridabad • Tamilnadu Workers Protest Against Black Ordinances • Mass Protest Actions against Rising Prices • All India Construction Workers Demands Day on Nov. 20 • CITU Protests Against Preventive Detention Ordinance in Karnataka • Jute Workers Form All India Federation • Bihar State CITU Meets • West Bengal Newsletter • Jute Workers Struggle for 20 cent Bonus • CITU Organises Workers’ Education Programme • Growing Struggles of Railwaymen • CITU Calls for Drastic Improvement in Working of CIL • Steel Contract Workers Demands Day on Nov. 20 • Newspaper Employees Warn the Govt. • CITU Condemns Retrenchment in HSCL • News in Brief • Third Conference of Tamilnadu CITU • Central Government Employees Prepare for Further Action • Statewide Bandh in Maharashtra

1 Nov 1980

Nguyen Trong Con

In This Issue: • The Safety And Healthiness Of The Working Environment • Thirty years of Vietnamese Trade Unions – Nguyen Trong Con • Size And Distribution Of Land Holdings In India • How New China Keeps Commodity Prices Stable • Status of Women Workers • 32 Women Workers Retrenched in Ritz Continental Hotel • A Total Ban On Closures • Situation in Bihar Martin Railways • Kota Atomic Power Workers Face Retrenchment • Anti-Worker Move Of J. K. Rayon Management Foiled • Tamilnadu Newsletter • Death Toll Since Chasnala Disaster • CITU Appears Before Chasnala Court Of Enquiry • TUI Body Protests Against Victimization Of Hotel Workers • Other Regular Features

1 Mar 1976

Nguyen Minh Vy, Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Greetings To The Working Class And People Of China • Comrade Bhairav Bharati • The Struggle Of The Working Class And Urban Popular Masses In South Vietnam | Nguyen Minh Vy • Trade Unionists And Black Money • Part-time Employment of Workers—An International Survey • ILO Convention On Freedam of Association And Protection Of Right to Organise • BCMU Submits Memorandum On All-Round Attack On Jute Workers • Dearness Allowance For Workers / Legal Notes • Indebtedness Of Ahmedabad Textile Workers • Closures, Lay-offs And Retrenchments In Engineering Industry In West Bengal • Maharashtra State Committee of CITU Meets • Tamil Nadu Newsletier | State Committee Meets • Money Lending In Chhattisgarh Region Of Madhya Pradesh • Crisis In Kanpur Textile Mills • Other Regular Features

1 Oct 1975