60 SOCIAL SCIENTIST dispassionate study of the history of workers' struggles and of the course of the trade union movement in India, shows that the overwhelming majority of protest actions has originated not because of the intransigence of the workers but because of the failure of the employers, whether individual capitalists or the government, to implement the agreements arrived at with the workers. Instead of taking steps to remedy this root cause of "strifes and conflicts", the ruling classes are con centrating their efforts on the forcible maintenance of 'peace' to help the employers to perpetuate conditions of misery and exploitation, f MP 10-VOLUME INDEX SOCIAL SCIENTIST completes 10 volumes with December 1982 issue. January 1983 issue of the journal will include a supplement of index of all the articles published in SOCIAL SCIENTIST from 1972 onwards.