Editorial Board: P. Ramamurti, Manoranjan Roy, Niren Ghosh, M. M. Lawrence, P. K. Ganguly, M. K. Pandhe

Ranadive, B. T., Chakrabarty, Nrisingha

In This Issue: • Make the National Integration Day a Success – B. T. Ranadive • Comrade Le Duan • CPI(M) M.P.s Demand India's Withdrawal from Common­wealth Games • CITU Delegation to China • Central Govt Employees And the Fourth Pay Commission - Nrisingha Chakrabarty • CPI(M) M.P.s Visit Riot Affected Ahmedabad • Newspaper Employees Plan Demonstration • CITU Demands Release of Nelson Mandela • Jute Strike On August 7 • Delhi Textile Strike Continues • Railwaymen’s Struggle: Protest Action by Railwaymen • Bank Employee's Struggle • CPI(M) M.P.s Visit Kansara Village • Airline Employees' Agitation • Meeting of NJCS • Around The States: Bihar, Karnataka, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Kerala, Orissa, Haryana • Karnataka Convention Against Unemployment • Conference of CSIR Employees' Federation • Convention of South Regional Construction Workers • Conference of NPCC Workers • Book Review: “The Story Of The Past. How We Became Communists in Jails”, English Version of “Ateeter Katha: Karagare Communist Habar Kahini” (Bengali) Author: Sudhansu Das Gupta • Mass Dharna by Electricity Workers • On Paper Jute & Textile Industries: West Bengal All Party Delegation Meets Union Ministers • Secretariat Decisions • Demand For Decasualisation of Cargo Workers • Meeting of Women Workers in Coffee Curing • CITU's Fraternal Bond with Nicaraguan Workers • CITU's Support to BATA Workers Acknowledged • August 6, The Hiroshima Day

1 Aug 1986

Ranadive, B. T., Mukherjee, Samar

In This Issue: • Seventh November Greetings – B. T. Ranadive • Call of CITU General Council Meeting: Fight Authoritarianism; Consolidate Working Class Unity; Expose Imperialist Conspiracies; Save Democracy; Defeat Divisive Forces; Struggle for Peace • General Council Meeting, Jaipur, September 28-30, 1984: Report of the General Secretary (Abridged Form) – Samar Mukherjee • Com. Bhaskara Rao • General Council Meeting, Jaipur, September 28-30, 1984 – Resolutions: On Martyrs; Homage to Com. Yuri Andropov; Com. D.D. Vashist; On Condolences; On Danger of War and Struggle for Peace; On Struggle of the Working Class in Advanced Capitalist Countries; On Repression of Political Workers in Iran; On Divisive Forces and National Integration; On Punjab; On the Seventh Five Year Plan; On Struggle Against Authoritarianism; On Movement Against Lockouts and Closures; On Price Rise; On: Repression; On United Action of the Working Class; On Struggles of Peasants and Agricultural Workers; On Nationalisation of Jute Industry; On Nationalisation of Textile Industry; On Workers Participation in Management; On the Struggle of the Central Govt. Employees; On Support to Railway Workers Struggle; On Struggle of Working Women; On the Struggle of the State Govt. Employees; On Solidarity with Coal Mine Workers; On the Struggle of the Workers in J. K. Group of Industries; On HEC Workers Strike; On the Successful Strike of P&T Employees; On Maharashtra Powerloom Workers’ Struggle; On ILO Convention Concerning Hours of Work (Industry); On Demands of Indian Seamen; On Struggle of Kerala Traditional Industries Workers; On Struggle of Project Workers in| Punjab and Haryana; On Production Cut in Tyre Industry; On Struggle of Modistone Employees; On Closure of ILTD Branches; On Struggle of Bharat Gold Mine Workers • Airlines Employees on Struggle • On Agricultural Workers: Government Refuses Central Legislation • Railwaymen’s Struggle: 48 Hours Hunger Strike by the LRSA Leaders • Samar Mukerjee’s Letter to Indira Gandhi • CITU Denounces Repression on Loco Running Staff • Excerpts from AILRSA Memorandum • CITU Denounces Banning of Recruitment in Central Government Services • Women’s Struggle: Conference of Andhra Pradesh AIDWA • JBCCI Meeting: CIL’s Subterfuges Rejected • Ban on Strike in Coalmines Condemned • Secretariat Meeting • Canara Bank Staff Union Conference • Seminar On ILO Convention: Government's Attempt to Sabotage International Standards • Tripartite Committee Meeting: Workers’ Participation in Management • Central Government Evading Wage Parity • Around The States: Maharshtra, Kerala, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal • International Struggles

1 Nov 1984

Ranadive, B. T.

In This Issue: • Not To Be Forgotten: June 22, 1941 • Central Trade Unions Observe Anti-Apartheid Day • Central Trade Union Delegation Visits Punjab • West Bengal State CITU Conference • T.U.s Observe Save Public Sector Day • Meeting of Advisory Council of Industry • Stop Privatisation of Public Sector • CITU Denounces Repression on Kerala Teachers • CITU Greets the Working Class and People of West Bengal • Stop Massacre of Labour Laws and the Workers in Haryana • CITU Supports the Struggle of Journalists • CITU Denounces South-African Attack on Angola • Secretariat Decisions • Railwaymen's Struggle: Successful End of LRSA Hunger Strike • United Strike of Delhi Textile Workers • Unemployment and the Working Class – B. T. Ranadive • Capitalism Generates Unemloyment! • Resolutions of the General Council: On Nationalisation of Peerless Co.; On the Situation in Bharat Gold Mines; On Accident in Godavari Khani; On Struggle of Titagarh Paper Mill Workers; On Struggle of U P. Cement Workers; On the Proposed Strike by Defence Employees • BHEL Voluntary Retirement Scheme Kept in Abeyance • CITU Denounces Government's Plan to Close Down Textile Mills • Port & Dock Strike Withheld • May Day Celebrations Abroad

1 Jul 1986

In This Issue: • Central Trade Unions Observe National Integration Day • Attack On Workers Observing National Integration Day • Protest by Central Govt. Employees • Resolution Adopted by the Central Trade Unions: National Integration Day — 9th August, 1986 • N.C.C. Decides to Fight the Government's Policy on Public Sector • Secretariat Decisions • Successful Jute Strike and Rural Bengal Bundh • Meeting of Study Group for Construction Workers • Meeting of Study Group on Leather Workers • Electricity Workers Court Arrest • Movement Against Unemployment • Railwaymen's Struggle: Protest Against Pay Panel Award • Rural Bank Employee's Struggle • Bilateral Relations between CITU and TUC • M.P.s on Problems of Workers • Protest Against Closure Threat of HSCL • Visit of COSATU Delegation Cancelled • Around The States: Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, Goa, Assam • Industrial Strike in Haryana • Nagasaki Day at Udaipur • T.U.s Agree on Verification Procedure • Observance of Hiroshima Day • South Africa: 1986 — The Year of Umkhonto We Sizwe • CITU Condemns Highhandedness of Cong (I) M.P. • CITU's Solidarity With Nicaraguan Workers • International Struggles

1 Sept 1986

Ranadive, B. T., Chakrabarty, Nrisingha, Bhattacharjee, Kedarnath +4

In This Issue: • Stalin’s May Day Speech, Moscow, May 1, 1945, After Victory Over Fascism • Revolutionary Traditions of May Day – B. T. Ranadive • May Day Manifesto, 1986 • Hundred Years of Achievements of the Working Class - Nrisingha Chakrabarty • World Conquering March of the Proletariat - Kedarnath Bhattacharjee • May Day and Struggle for Eight Hours' Day in India – M. K. Pandhe • First Observance of May Day in India - Sukomal Sen • May Day and Proletarian Internationalism – P. K. Ganguly • May Day and Fight for Peace - Samar Mukherjee • CITU's Message to CGIL

1 Apr 1986

Ranadive, B. T., Karat, Prakash, Ranadive, Vimal +3

In This Issue: • Assassination and After – B. T. Ranadive • CITU Denounces the Dastardly Assassination of the Prime Minister • When Hyaenas Roamed the Streets of Delhi – Prakash Karat • Delhi Ruled by Gangsters for Four Days – Vimal Ranadive • Hindu, Sikh, Muslim, Christian—Let Us Unite Together • List of Congiess (I) Men Involved • Carnage Led by Congress(I) in Other States: Bihar – J. S. Majumdar; Madhya Pradesh; Uttar Pradesh – Ram Sumer Yadav • West Bengal: People Safeguard Communal Amity – Sampad Pal • People’s Aid Committee in Delhi • Delhi Peace March by Artists • Asian and Pacific Region T.U. Leaders Visit CITU • Comrade Arabindo Ghosh • The Organised Communal Holocaust: Press Reports Point to Congress (I) • Fallout Of Riots: Casualty Of Jobs • Railwaymen’s Struggle: Guard Council's Annual Meeting • “Progress’’ Under Congress Rule—At a Glance • “Expert Committee” in Textiles • Around The States: Bihar, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Maharshtra, Kerala, Assam, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, • On Indira Gandhi's Assassination: Condolence Message from International Trade Unions • Conference of Water Transport Workers Federation of India • International Struggles

1 Dec 1984

Ganguly, P. K., Pandhe, M. K.

In This Issue: • Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Fallouts of the Holocaust – P. K. Ganguly • Unions Which Adopted Resolution on Bhopal • International Symposium on Environment and Industrial Safety • CITU Demands. Basic Changes in Motor Vehicles Laws • Trade Unions Meet on Verification • Round Table Conference on Steel Industry - M.K. Pandhe • Jute Workers on Struggle • Working Women must be Protected • St. Stephen's College Incident Condemned • Medical Representatives to go on Strike • Public Sector D.A. Question remains Unresolved • Foreign T.U. Delegates Visit CITU Office • TU’s Pre-Budget Discussions with Finance Minister • This is Capitalism: Modernisers of Violence, Exploiters of Progress • Solidarty with the British Coal Miners • The Coal Advisory Committee Meets After Four Years • AUCCTU Accepts CITU’s Invitation • International Struggles

1 Mar 1985

Ranadive, B. T., Ganguly, P. K.

In This Issue: • Comrade P. Sundarayya • Working Committee Meeting Of CITU, Trivandrum, May 31-June 2, 1985: Presidential Address— B. T. Ranadive • Protest by Central Govt. Employees • Second Conference of SWFI • Railwaymen’s Struggle: Revoke Illegal Break in Service: LRSA • Leader Valve Workers Struggle • Seminar on Bhopal Gas Tragedy • All India Day Against Lockout, Closure, Retrenchment and Denotification • Conference of Insurance Employees • Meeting on Workers’ Participation in Management • Around The States: Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Orissa, Delhi, Maharashtra • Women’s Struggle: Tamilnadu Co-ordination Committee Meets • Victory Over Fascism: Celebration of the 40th Anniversary in Indla • International Trade Union Conference: On 40th Anniversary of Victory Over Fascism — P.K. Ganguly • Comrade Saradish Roy • CITU Extends Support to Sau Paulo Metal Workers Strike • CITU’s Response to Appeal by Bulgarian Trade Union • CITU’s Solidarity to British Coalminers • Contribution to British Coalminers’ Struggle • International Struggles

1 Jun 1985

Pandhe, M. K., Gupta, Ramnika

In This Issue: • Comrade Konstatin Ustinovich Chernenko • Expert Committee On Textiles: Sinister Conspiracy Against Workers – M. K. Pandhe • On Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Central Trade Unions to Hold Seminar • CITU Secretariat Decisions • Book Review: “Panorama of P&T Union Movement” by N. J. Tyer • Railwaymen’s Struggle: LRSA Working Committee decides for Agitation • The Budget for Fleecing the People • Concessions to Big Business with a Populist Stance • CITU Denounces the Anti-People Railway Budget • Around The States: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh • Contribution To British Coalminers’ Struggle • Joint Movement by Jute Workers • Unfair Labour Practice by Kala Kendra Management • Reception to ACFTU Delegation • Comrade Parimal Mitra • Illegal Activities of Central Coal Limited - Ramnika Gupta • No Unanimity on D.A. • Conference of SWFI • Demand for Nationalisation of Bengal Potteries and National Tannery • International Women’s Day: Greetings by AICCWW • International Struggles

1 Apr 1985

Ranadive, B. T., Ganguly, P. K.

In This Issue: • The Elections and After – B. T. Ranadive • CITU For Movement on Bhopal Holocaust • The Holocaust In Bhopal. Stranglehold of Multinationals in India – P. K. Ganguly • CITU Condemns Violation of Safety Rules • Protest Demonstrations Against Union Carbide • CITU Memorandum on Workmen of Inland Water Ways • National Workshop On Productivity and Trade Unions • The AIRF Annual Convention • Bihar State CITU Meeting • LIC Management Adamant Against Settlement • SAIL Management Backs Out from Commitments • Violation of ILO Standards by SAIL • Trade Union School at Ghaziabad • Delhi Cong(I) Bosses Conspire Against Public Sector for Selfish Gains • Around The States: Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Meghalaya • International Struggles

1 Jan 1985

In This Issue: • Countrywide Protest Actions: Government Guillotined Against Price Rise • All India Strike of Coal Miners • Indian Labour Conference: CITU Rejects Government's Conclusions • In Support of DUTA Strike • Railwaymen's Struggle: Towards Broad Based Unity • Book Review: "May Diwas Ki Gourab Gatha" By Kedarnath Bhattacharya • Meeting of Steei Advisory Committee • Increasing Demand to Amend Art. 311(2) • NBCC Locked Out: Vandalism by NBCC Management • CITU Opposes Increase in Tuition Fees • Secretariat Decisions • Meeting of Water Transport Workers Federation • General Council Meeting • Working Committee Meeting • Around The States: Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andaman & Nicobar, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi • Parliament Member Condemns Repression on Kishans • Women’s Struggle: AIDWA Takes Struggle Programmes • CITU Denounces Shooting Down Drought Stricken People of Rajasthan • Demand for Take over of Titagarh Paper Mill • Observe May Day This Year To Commemorate The Centenary Of Chicago Hay­ Market Massacre Of Workers • For Peace, National Integration And Against Apartheid: Declaration by Central Trade Unions • Meeting of Coal Advisory Council • Request for May Day Posters from Yugoslavia • Appeal of AUCCTU to the Working People and Trade Unions of the World • International Struggles

1 Mar 1986

Ranadive, B. T., Ranadive, Vimal, Guha, Amitava

In This Issue: • The Trade Unions and Assembly Elections – B. T. Ranadive • CITU Secretariat Decisions: Observe Bhopal Day on February 4 • The Bhopal Holocaust: Government's Attempt to Suppress Facts • ILO Session On Food and Drinks Industries Committee • Gramin Bank Employees on Strike • Rail Strike in England • Greetings From AUCCTU • Women Workers in Plantation Industry – Vimal Ranadive • Stop These Atrocities on Women • Interim Order of the Supreme Court in Anjora Case • Scope of Herb Based Drug Industry - Amitava Guha • CITU In The Eyes Of A Trade Unionist Of England • Railwaymen’s Struggle: Railwaymen to Decide Future Course: AIREC • Around The States: Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi • Pharmacutical Workers on Strike Struggle • Employees’ State Insurance (Amendment) Act, 1984 • The Workmen’s Compensation (Amendment) Act, 1984 • International Struggles

1 Feb 1985

Ranadive, B. T.

In This Issue: • New Textile Policy – B. T. Ranadive • Working Committee Of CITU: Calls to Resist the New Attacks • Working Committee Meeting Resolutions • Women’s Struggle: Meeting of AICCWW • Seminar on Dalit Women • JMS Campaign on Women’s Decade • Public Sector Unions’ Meet: Tools to Divide the Working Class • CITU Greets SOHYO Conference • Railwaymen’s Struggle: Unite, Meet the Challenge • Secretariat Decisions • International Struggles

1 Jul 1985

Ranadive, B. T., Chakrabarty, Nrisingha

In This Issue: • Joint Communique by All Union Central Council of Trade Unions, Moscow, USSR and Centre of Indian Trade Unions, New Delhi, India • May Day Appeal of CITU • Convention of Public Sector Unions • 40th Anniversary of Anti-Fascist Victory – B. T. Ranadive • On The Occasion Of The 40th Anniversary Of The Victory Over Fascism: On the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union • World Peace Council: Declaration of the Presidential Committee • No to “Star Wars”! Appeal to the Peoples of the World • FSUI Condemns Malpractices by Authorities • State Govt. Employees to Observe National Demands Day • Social Security for Building and Construction Workers • BEFI General Council Meeting • National Campaign Committee Calls for Protest Movement Against Central Govt’s New Policies • Extravaganza by BHEL • Workers Fight Back Attempts of Closure • Conference of AIPEU • Women’s Struggle: Convention of Working Women • Conference of FMRAI • Asian Seminar On Rural Workers’ Problems • Conference of Steel Workers • Movement Against Budget • New Labour Policy or Old Wine in a New Bottle - Nrisingha Chakrabarty • Two Hours for Twenty Crores of Rural Unorganised Workers • Working Committee Meeting • Railwaymen’s Struggle: AIREC Streamlines Organisation • CITU Secretariat Decisions • Communal Harmony Week in Punjab • Strike in Bokaro Blast Furnace • CITU Supports Struggle of Polisario Front • Achievement of Higher DA by Public Sector Employees • CITU Denounces Joint US-Korea Manoeuvres Against DPRK • Seminar On Bhopal Gas Tragedy • International Struggles

1 May 1985

Ranadive, B. T.

In This Issue: • On May Day Centenary CITU General Council's Stirring Call • CITU General Council Meeting, Calcutta, March 31-April 2, 1986: Presidential Address - B.T. Ranadive • CITU General Council Meeting, Calcutta, March 31-April 2, 1986: Stirring Call to Strengthen Organisation • General Council Meeting, Calcutta, March 31-April 2, 1986: Resolutions • M.Ps' Memorandum to U.S. President • Convention Against Communalism • American Brinkmanship – B. T. Ranadive • Conference of Water Transport Workers • Dharna by BEFI • Around The States: Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Maharashtra, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh • Glorious Strike of Coal Workers • Railwaymen's Struggle: "Meet the Challenge to Job Security Unitedly"—Calcutta Convention • Working Committee Meeting of SWFI • Massive Rally Against Muslim Women's Bill • CITU Hails Successful Bharat Bundh • On Labour in Parliament • National Convention against Communalism and Divisive Forces • NCC Calls for Countrywide Struggle against Economic Policy of Central Government • Save Public Sector Day — May 21 • Joint May Day Appeal by CITU and AITUC to the Working Class of India • WFTU Message of the First of May, 1986

1 May 1986

Ranadive, B. T.

In This Issue: • Fight the Computer Offensive – B. T. Ranadive • Bank Employees Struggle Against Computerisation • Convention of Sugar Workers • On Closures, Sickness: West Bengal all Party Delegation Meets Union Ministers • Protest by SWFI • Women’s Struggle: AIDWA Delegation to Bhopal • Resolutions of the Working Committee Meeting • Secretariat Decision • Central Trade Unions Meet Planning Commission • Kota Workers Fight Repression • CITU Denounces Retrenchment and Repression in Punjab • Railwaymen’s Struggle: AIREC Plans Mass Dharna • Around The States: Tamilnadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Himachal, Haryana • Com. P. Laxmidas • Declaration of Socialist Countries on the Position in the International Labour Organisation

1 Aug 1985

Ranadive, B. T., Chakrabarty, Nrisingha

In This Issue: • CITU General Council, Jaipur, Sept 28-30: Presidential Speech – B. T. Ranadive • Political Propaganda Defeated In A.P.: Victory of the Democratic Forces • CITU Condemns Violation of Safety Rules in Sounda Mines • State Govt. Employees’ Countrywide Strike • Movement by Central Government Employees • Successful Strike by Postal Employees • Working Journalists on the Path of Struggle • Stalemate in Tripartite DA Committee Continues • Hoax of New Grievance Settlement Authority Opposed • Railwaymen’s Struggle: Clarion Call for Unity of Railwaymen • Women’s Struggle: Reinstate the NTR Ministry • Women Court Arrest in Tamilnadu • CITU Congratulates the Workers for Their Struggle • HEC Workers’ Rebuff to Agreement with Scab Union • International Symposium on Environment and Industrial Safety • Govt. Withdraws Age-old Customary Bonus of State Bank Employees • Stop Bankers’ Move to Reduce Maternity Leave • Secretary General Metal TUI Visits CITU Office • Demand for Nationalisation of Bengal Potteries and National Tannery • Ranchi Women’s Solidarity with HEC Workers • Cochin Port workers Contribute to CITU Fighting Fund • Pharmaceutical Workers’ Struggle: Strike Preparation on Raptakos Issue • IDPL Workers on Struggle • Around The States: Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Bihar, Orissa, Kerala, Andaman & Nicobar, Assam • Peace Day Observed • Implement ILO Convention on Hours of Work – Nrisingha Chakraborty • Proposal of NCC: Modification of the Procedure for Verification • International Struggles

1 Oct 1984

In This Issue: • Strike Call By NCC On Save Democracy Day — August 25 • Coalminers’ Solidarity Day • Struggle In Coal Industry: Joint Action Committee Serves Ultimatum • Eight Days Wage Deduction Illegal • Violation of Safety Rules in Coal Mines • Railwaymen’s Struggle: Indefinite Strike Decision by AIRF • INTUC Wiped Out By Complete Strike in Heavy Engineering Corporation • CITU Demands Central Govt. Intervention • Dharna by Central Government Employees • No Settlement on DA in Public Sector Undertakings • CITU Protests Against BHEL Circular • Textile Workers Demand Nationalisation of Textile Industry • CITU Congratulates Workers For Participation In Save Democracy Day • Road Transport Workers’ Conference • Multinationals Violate the Labour Laws • Agricultural Workers’ Convention • CITU Secretariat Meeting • Workers Observe Punjab Week • Stalemate in Wage Talks in 67 Public Sector Units • Around The States: Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu • General Council Meeting • Raptakos Brett Field Workers Court Arrest • CITU Condemns Banning of Strikein I.E.L. • SWFI Office Bearers Meeting • Govt. Ignores Workers Proposal on Chairman of NSC • Electricity Workers Observe Anti-repression Day • Steel & Coal Workers Contribute to CITU Solidarity Fund • Workers Court Arrest Against Sale of Public Undertaking to Private Hands • CITU Supports Junior Doctors’ Struggle • CITU Delegation Visits China • International Struggles

1 Sept 1984