The Working Class

Abstract

In This Issue: • Viva Chavez! • Editorial: UPA Government Must Act Fast! • All India Demands Day: Countrywide Demonstration On August 20 • The Call For United Action • WTO Meet At Geneva, A Retreat From Cancun – Tapan Sen • EPF Interest: Is The Demand For 12 Per Cent Unjustifiable? – W. R. Varada Rajan • Centaur Hotel: Discomforting Aspects Of Privatisation • Fraudulent Sale of Centaur Hotel – Dipankar Mukherjee • In Parliament • • On Right To Strike • • Govt Refuses To Ratify Core ILO Conventions • • On Payment Of Dues To PSU Workers • Comrade Hiren Mukherjee • BALCO: Stop Sale of Residual Govt. Shares • EPF Interest Rate Reduction Unacceptable: CITU • Reports & Events • • Orissa: State Level Rally Before Assembly House • • Beedi Workers Demonstration • • Jammu and Kashmir: TU Coordination Committee Meets • • Govt Employees To Hold National Convention And March To Parliament • • Himachal Pradesh: Joint Trade Union Convention • • Punjab: Massive Rally Of Cycle Industry Workers • • Truckers Strike: Transport Workers Seek Representation In Talks • • Tripura: CITU Observes Campaign Week • • Tamilnadu CITU Observes Campaign Week • • State Conference Of TNMSRA • • Strike Threat Compelled British Airways to Agree Wage Rise • • Domestic Workers Unite and Organize to Fight • • Bombay High Court Directive: An Unwarranted Incursion Into Democratic Rights • BTR on Casteism & Untouchability • CITU Organises All India TU Classes