The Working Class

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In This Issue: • Economic Survey Findings: A Reality Check • Editorial: Churning Phase in Indian Polity: Time for Working Class to Assert! • People of India Greet Killer Bush with 'Go Back!' Slogan • Women Garment Workers Wounded – N. M. Muddappa • Is Ministry of Labour Only for Dismantling Labour Rights? – Chittabrata Majumdar • Railway Budget: Large Scale Private Penetration Deplored • CPSTU Workshop: Unitedly Struggle Against Privatisation, Defend Workers' Rights • International Symposium on Safety in Mines • How Has the Tax-GDP Ratio Gone Up? – C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh • Budget: Anganwadi Workers Disappointed • Power Tariff & Megapower Policies – K. R. Unnithan • Asia-Pacific Seminar Calls for Worldwide Campaign to Ban Asbestos – B. Madhava • Reports & Events: • • Punjab: Demonstration Against Police Atrocities • • Andhra Pradesh: Anganwadi Workers' March • • Mass Rally in Patna Planned for 18th April • • U.P: Anganwadi Workers Plan Actions • • Dharna by Railway Porters • • Major Victory for CITU Unions in NTPC Secret Ballot (with a results table on page 220) • • France Ablaze Against 'Hire and Fire' Law • • Meeting of CITU Leaders from Hindi States • • 75th Anniversary of Bhagat Singh's Martyrdom • Consumer Price Index: Arbitrary Release of New Series • Budget 2006-07: Common Man Has Nothing to Cheer