The Working Class

Abstract

In This Issue: • Vimal Ranadive Memorial Lecture • Editorial: Reigning In The Venom • May Day Manifesto of CITU 2003 • Comrade L. B. Gangadhara Rao • 21st May All India General Strike Day: NPMO Call For Staging Rail/Rasta Roko • 3-Day Strike by HPCL and BPCL Workers – Swadesh Dev Roye • What the War is All About – Tapan Sen • Why INTUC Opposes 21st May Nationwide Strike? – M. K. Pandhe • Com. E K Μenon • Economy Derailed, Down The Disaster Lane • • Whither Sustainable Growth? • • GDP Gloom.… • • Foodgrain Output Tumbles By 13.2% • • Return (?) Of Hunger! • • Joblessness On The Rise… • • Failed Monetary Policy! • • Reduction In Organised Workforce • • Who Will Explain – Why? • • Sri Lanka: Congress Of Socialist Workers Unions • Comrade Lakshmi Dey • Reports & Events • • 30th Conference Of All India Kisan Sabha: Call For Massive Peasant Upsurge On May 21 • • Coal Workers Hold All India Conference - (Report from Ardhendu Dakshi) • • United Struggles In Tamilnadu - (Report from A. K. Padmanabhan) • • Anganwadi Employees' Meet Plans Actions • • J & K Anganwadi Employees State Convention • • Anganwadi Employees: Supreme Court Case • • Assam Prepares For General Strike • • Delhi: Workers Go On Industrial Strike • The Ruin of Russia – Joseph Stiglitz • Will this design of Slavery Pass?