The Working Class

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In This Issue: • Oil Price Hike: Standing Committee Recommendation Ignored • Editorial: Halt This Drift Towards Disaster! • B T Ranadive - A Life Profile – M. K. Pandhe • All India Mass Convention of Working Women • Yasser Arafat • Beedi Workers Gear Up For Struggle – B. Madhava • Opposing Oil Price Hike, Tu Agitation On 24 Nov 2004 • Legislation to set up Pension Fund Regulator Opposed • Foreign Investment: Not At The Cost of Sovereignty & Self-reliance – Chittabrata Majumdar • Unorganised Sector Coordination Committee Meeting • FTA: License to Ruthless Exploitation – Ardhendu Dakshi • Reports & Events • • Jammu & Kashmir: Construction Workers' Strike Entered 4th Month • • West Bengal: Jute Workers To Go For Indefinite Strike Unitedly • • Madhya Pradesh: Massive Dharna Of Workers At Rewa • • Punjab: PCMSRU Conference • • Tamil Nadu: Workers On The Move… • • Uttranchal: SRTC Workers To Hold Dharna And Hunger Strike • • Rajasthan: Police Firing On Peasants' Rally • • Jharkhand: Demonstration Against Outsourcing • • Delhi: Demonstration Before Airport HQ • • Seoul In Turmoil, Korean People On Warpath • • International Conference On Health Care • Oil Price Hike: UPA Government Insensitive To People's Sufferings • All India Workshop For Working Women