The Working Class

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In This Issue: • Vizag EPZ: Successful United Struggle • Editorial: Under BJP, Governance At Its Lowest Ebb • November 9: Action Day Against Globalisation • Globalisation Promotes Monopolies: Chomsky • Mockery Of Expenditure Reforms - II – M. K. Pandhe • CPSTU Meet Calls For Countrywide Action • POTO: Descent To A Police State? • Economy Derailed! Disasters Ahead! • • Business Confidence Down: Ncaer • • Decline In Agriculture… • • Gloom, Doom And.....Boom! • • Industrial Growth Slips To 1.6% In September • • Rethinking Privatisation? • • Reforms Disappointment • Sigtur Congress In Seoul • Reports & Events • Andhra Pradesh: Transport Workers' Victorious Strike • Against Judgment On Contract Labour: Demonstration Before Supreme Court • Against Judgment On Contract Labour: Massive Demonstration In Mumbai • National Railway Mazdoor Union • Global Jobs Crisis • Coal Industry: Countrywide Three-Day Strike • M.P. Koila Shramik Sangh Conference • Demonstration Against Power Tariff Hike • Assam: Conference Of Tea Workers • Andhra Pradesh: Fisheries Workers Convention • Indefinite Strike By Transport And Civil Supply Workers: Statewide General Strike In Tamilnadu • AICCTU Holds 5th Conference • Unorganised Sector Workers' Convention • CITU - ILO Child Labour Project • Salem: Steel Workers' Resist Privatisation • Doha: Developing Countries Lose The Battle – W. R. Varada Rajan • Without Comments: World Bank: India Pays Out More; Gets Less Assistance