Agriculture

Ranadive, Vimal, Umanath, R., Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Forward To The Third Conference Of CITU • Condition of Indian Women in the International Women’s Year | Vimal Ranadive • Industrial Accidents And Role of Trade Unions | R. Umanath • Hospital And Industrial Law | Legal Notes • Arithmetic Of Agricultural Workers’ Life • Assam P.F. Scheme—A Fraud On Tea Garden Workers • Tamilnadu Committee of CITU Meets • National Campaign Committee Against Wage Freeze To Meet On April 9 • For Delegates To 3rd CITU Conference • State Govt. Employees & Teachers On Strike | Tripura • Port & Dock Workers And Seamen Observe Demands Day • Newsletters Goa, Gujarat • Other Regular Features

1 Apr 1975

In This Issue: • Forward to the Mighty Mobilisation of the Working Class. All India Day on November 3 • Assam Plantation Workers Fight Repression • The CITU General Council to Meet in Howrah • CITU Criticises Prime Minister’s Statement • Women Protest Against Price Rise • Joint Trade Union Convention in States • Struggle in J.V. Electronics, Faridabad • Coal Workers Demonstrate • Govt. Employees Struggle for TU and Democratic Rights • CITU Condemns Repression on Simplex Workers at Bhilai • CITU Delegation Visits USSR • CITU Delegation to China • Settlement in Neyvelli Lignite Corporation • Memorandum to Sonepat D.C. • The Woes of the Rural Unorganised Labour • Beedi, Cigar Workers on Path of Struggle • Tamilnadu Textile & Handloom Industry : Low Wages & High Workloads • CITU Blames SAIL Management for Low Production • All India Demands day by HSCL Workers • Third Conference of Orissa State CITU • Labour Aristocracy in South Korea • Observe August 17 as Black Day • Railway News: Samar Mukherjee Assails Policy of Victimisation • Bihar CITU Meets • U.P. CITU Meets • Delhi Workers Demand Better Wages • Jute Workers’ Massive Agitation • Jute Workers Donate for Biharsharif Victims • Petrol Price Rise Condemned • Tamilnadu Govt. Policy Hit 2 Lakh Handloom Workers • Victory of Medimpex Workers • Gruesome Murder of Jaiprakash in Modinagar • Yet Another Attack on Sirsa Textile Workers

1 Aug 1981

Ranadive, B. T.

In This Issue: • Working Committee Meeting Of CITU, Kalyani, September 4-6, 1989: Presidential Address - B. T. Ranadive • Sugar Workers Decide for Indefinite Strike • Massive Preparations for Bharat Bandh • Central Trade Unions Call for Industrial Strike and to Join Bharat Bandh on August 30, 1989 • On Minimum Wage: UP Decides for Three-Day Strike • Bihar to Hold State Convention • Conventon in Bombay • Secretariat Decisions • Massive Jail Bharo Movement at Kanpur • Conference of Steel Plant Contract Labour Union • 26th Conference of Kerala NGO Union • Closure of Rajgarh Jute Mills • Conference of Mercantile Employees’ Confederation • HSCL Workers on Path of Agitation • Demands Day Observed by Aganwadi Women • Punjab Peasants Launch Struggle Demanding Flood Relief • Railwaymen’s Struggle: Chittaranjan Workers Stage Dharna at Boat Club • Powerloom Convention held at Sholapur • CITU Union Wins Verification Case in Bhaskar Textiles, Orissa • Protest Rally at Bhubaneshwar against Anti-Socials • CITU Delegation’s Visit to China

1 Sept 1989

In This Issue: • January 19 The Red Letter Day • Move to Split LIC : A Motive to Split the Workers • Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Central Rules, 46 • International Conference on Economic and Social Aspects of Disarmament • AUCCTU Greets CITU on Republic Day • Comrade Malor Jaipal Singh • Comrade Jyotirmoy Bosu • Successful All India Steel Workers Convention • Management Hirelings Unleash Reign of Terror in M.P. Collieries • Supreme Court Judgment on LIC Hits at Collective Bargaining • CTU’s Force ECL To Sign Agreement • Central Advisory Board Meeting On Limestone And Dolomite Labour Welfare Fund • Against Automation: A. I. Move By Newspaper Employees • West Bengal Newsletter: BCMU Conference Calls for Strike Action • All India Convention of HSCL Unions • On Rural Unorganised Labour

1 Feb 1982

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

In This Issue: • Right to Work And Unemployment Problem – B. T. Ranadive • National Seminar on Agricultural Workers – P. K. Ganguly • CITU Calls for Observance of May Day Centenary • CITU Delegation meets Labour Minister in respect of restarting Raja Mills, Bangalore • International Women's Day Celebrations at Delhi • Railwaymen’s Struggle: Railway Canteen Employees are Railway Employees—Supreme Court • Steel Plant Unions Review Safety Activities • Demands Day by Assam Plantation Workers • Mass Dharna by Bank Employees • 29th I.L.C: CITU Delegation Meets Labour Minister • Conference of Tripura Rickshaw Shramik Union • Against Unemployment: Statewide Campaign in Tamilnadu • Massive Raily at Palwal against Police Firing and Closure • Central Budget • CITU Criticises Railway Budget • Civil Aviation Minister Assures to End All Discrimination Against Air Hostesses • Public Sector Unions To Launch Movement on Pending Issues • Bharat Electronics Workers to Protest Against Arbitrary Bifurcation and Victimisation • CITU Union Accorded Recognition in Salem Steel Plant • Sugar Workers to Stage Dharna before Labour Ministry • International Struggles • Namibia is Free

1 Apr 1990

Pandhe, M. K., Ghosh, Jayati, Mitra, Ashok +18

In This Issue: • Globalisation And Neo-Liberalism • World Capitalism To-Day Under Globalisation – M. K. Pandhe • Globalisation and national economic policy: Myths and responses - Jayati Ghosh • No Alternative? - Ashok Mitra • IMF And World Bank: Genesis, Functioning And Role Today - Arun Ghosh • International Trade, WTO and International Labour Standards: The Debate On Social Clause - Sukomal Sen • Globalisation - Myth And Reality – N. M. Sundaram • Erstwhile Socialist Countries And Globalisation - Chittabrata Majumdar • Without- Comments: Poor Have Become Poorer: UN Report • Liberalised Foreign Trade And Deindustrialisation In India – Dr. (Ms.) Anjali Kulkarni, Dr. (Ms.) Rucha Ghate • “Privatise And Perish". Genesis Of The Game Plan - Swadesh Dev Roye • The New Phase Of Global Capitalism – M. R. Appan • Seeds of Suicide : The Ecological and Human Costs of Globalisation of Agriculture - Dr. Vandana Shiva, Afsar H. Jafri • Globalisation - Labour And Quality Of Life - Jibon Roy • Globalisation and the Informal Sector – P. K. Ganguly • Globalisation and Liberalisation: Impact on Women and Children - Ranjana Nirula • Globalisation, Shipping Services And Seafarers – M. M. Lawrence • Banking Sector: Reforms or Ruination? Ashis Sen, Asit Das Gupta • On Power Policy - K. R. Unnithan • Civil Aviation: Pressures And Policy Options - R. Ramanathan • Globalisation and Telecom Industry – V. A. N. Namboodiri

1998-06(2) Supplement

Mukherjee, Dipankar, Balanandan, E., Pandhe, M. K. +3

In This Issue: • The Steal Deal - Dipankar Mukherjee • Advocacy Of Ordinance Raj Reprehensible! • NATO Offensive In Yugoslavia: A Threat To Sovereignty Of Nations – E. Balanandan • Economy In Decline, Workers In Misery – M. K. Pandhe • Elections And Tasks Of The Working Class • FDI Investment In Asia Decline • Labour Legislations: Alarming Picture Of Absolute Anarchy - Tapan Sen • Repulse Attack On Collective Bargaining - Swadesh Dev Roye • Globalisation Or Economic Subjugation? – W. R. Varada Rajan • Xv World Congress: On Occupational Safety And Health • T N: Welfare Scheme For Unorganised Workers • WB: Unique Scheme To Help Workers • CITU Leaders Murdered In Assam Teagarden • Kerala: Cashew Workers’ Struggle • Ap: Leaf-Plate Making Women Revolt • Rourkela: Workers’ Oppose Sale Of PSU Assets • Delhi: Rally By FCI Workers • GIC Move For Productivity Linked Wages • Bihar: Successful Strike By Govt Staff • Kanpur: Ramasrey Memorial Inaugurated • Regional Rural Bank Employees’ Conference • May Day Celebration In TN • CPSTU Meets • May Day In Maharashtra • Move To Privatise Indian Airlines Condemned • World Energy Meet In France • Globalisation And Migration • Vizag: CITU Workers Join Struggle For Land

1 Jun 1999

Dutt, Rajani Palme, Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • CITU Working Committee Reviews Situation • The System Of Fascism by Rajni Palme Dutt • Resolutions Adopted At The CITU Working Committee Meeting • Nutrition And Calory-gap Among Agricultural Workers In India • Magnificent Unity Of J. K. Jute Workers Against Management Attacks • Working Of A Public Sector Mine—A Case Study • Setilement— On What Terms? • All India Bidi and Cigar Workers’ Committee Meets • Equal Wages for Women Workers • The Out-Moded Doctrine Of Master And Servant | Legal Notes • Tamilnadu Newsletter • Other Regular Features

1 Dec 1975

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • CITU Working Committee On Govt.’s Scheme Of “Participative Management” • Japanese Workers’ Struggle For Right To Strike • Employment Of Child Labour In Indian Agriculture • 37th Annual Conference Of Bengal Chatkal Mazdoor Union • Increasing Mechanisation In Indian Agriculture • The Turn About/Legal Notes • Industrial Disputes Highest During 1974 • Victory Of CITU Union In Andhra Paper Mill • Big Victory For Adityapur Engineering Workers • Workers In Capitalist Countries On Struggle Path • Contractor Workers In M. P. Fight Retrenchment • 8000 Railwaymen Awaiting Reinstatement • Tamilnadu Newsletter • Salary Payment By Cheque : How Will lt Work? • Other Regular Features

1 Jan 1976

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

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., Chakraborty Nripen, Ranadive, Vimal +3

In This Issue: • May Day 1982 – B. T. Ranadive • Hungarian TU Delegation Visits CITU Office • May Day Manifesto of the CITU—1982 • Tamil Nadu State Committee Meets • Rally Against Imperialist War Danger – Nripen Chakraborty, Chief Minister, Govt. of Tripura • War and Women – Vimala Ranadive • Problems of Construction and Contract Labour – Nrisingha Chakrabarty • Land Reforms in West Bengal – Benoy Chowdhury, Minister-in-charge, Land and Land Reforms Deptt., Government of West Bengal • The Year of Productivity—An Attack on Werkers – M. K. Pandhe • National Compaign Committee Calls For All India Protest Day on June 4 • Successful Maharashtra Bundh Textile Strike Enters Fourth Month • Left Front Government And People: Achievements of Left-Front Govt in West Bengal (Small Scale and Cottage Industries) • P. K. Moitra Acquitted • West Bengal Assembly Demands Nationalisation Of Jute Industry • J.K. Jute Workers’ Strike Enters Third Month • Engineering Workers Move For Need Based Minimum Wage • Anti Working Class Industrial Disputes (Amendment) Bill Introduced in Lok Sabha • Reserve Bank Employees’ Strike • Govt’s Labour Policy Assailed • News Paper Employees’ Struggle Against Automation • CITU’s Memorandum on Sick Industrial Undertakings • Railway News: Rail Budget Criticised • National Convention Oppose LIC Split • Stop Delinking Calcutta-Haldia Ports • Kanpur Annapurna Biscuit Workers on Indefinite Strike • Kerala L.D.F.—Pledged to Serve the People • Hissar — Escalation of Attacks on CITU Activists • BHEL Production Policies Assailed • Successful Strike by Rajasthan Government Employees • Cement Workers to Fight Cement Barons—INTUC Conspiracy • AGB of BHEL Workers’ Union • Teleprinters Workers to Fight Productivity Linked Wage • Income Tax Employees Attacked by Anti-socials • Barbarous Lathi Charge on Workers at Ujjain • TUs Oppose DA Freeze by HSCL Management • CITU Supports Textile Workers’ Strike in Paraguay • Attack on CITU Union • Steel Workers to Fight Productivity Linked Wages • Attempts to Curtail ESI-Benefit • News In Brief

1 May 1982

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., Mukherjee, Samar, Pandhe, M. K.

In This Issue: • Goodwill Delegation of CITU to China • Working Committee Meeting of CITU, Jamshedpur, November 30-December 2, 1983, Presidential Speech—B. T. Ranadive • Asian Metal Workers’ Seminar • Call Of CITU Working Committee: Step Up Peace Struggles, Fight Against Lockouts, Closures, Price-rise • General Secretary's Report (Abridged Form)—Samar Mukherjee • Resolutions: On Danger of War and Struggle for Peace, On Sri Lanka, On Movement for Restoration of Democracy in Pakistan, On Bangladesh, On Price Rise, On Growing Lockouts, On Closures, Industrial Sickness & Denotification, On Struggle Against Divisive Forces, On Struggles of the Peasants & Agricultural Workers, On Nationalisation of the Jute Industry, On Nationalisation of the Textile Industry, On Working Women, On the Struggle of Central Government Employees, On the Struggle of Railway Employees, On the Struggle of Coal Mine Workers, On the Bank Agreemont, On the Assam Industrial Relief Undertaking (Special Provisions) Bill, 1983, On the Trade Union (West Bengal) Amendment Bill, 1983, On Gangster Attacks on CITU Activists, On Hindusthan Pilkington Glass Factory, On Kalidaspur & Kankar Tala Coal Project, On the Struggle of the Metal Box Workers, On Supply of Coal to Small Scale Industries & for Domestic Use, On Closure of Bengal Paper Mill • Glorious Tripura Bundh • Medical Representatives to Strike • I.D.P.L. Federation Formed • Bank Employees’ Struggle • Com. Sadashiv Bagaitkar • Convention Against Lockouts, Closures • Observance of December 4 • Convention of Working Women • Social Welfare Women Workers on Struggle • Meeting of CITU Secretariat • Coal Workers to Intensify Struggle • Samar Mukherjee Addresses AITUC Conference • FDGB Delegation Meets CITU • WFTU General Secretary Visits CITU • Indefinite Strike in Jute Industry • Port & Dock Workers Prepare For Struggle • LIC Workers’ Strike • Tripartite Meeting in Brick Kiln • Around The States: Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh, Tripura • Conspiracy to Perpetuate Fraudulent Price Index – M. K. Pandhe • Railway News: Strike in Protest of R.P.F. Brutality • Appeal of the 30th Session of the WFTU Bureau: To Workers and TUs in all Countries; CITU’s Reply • Com. Durga Das Shirali • Comrade P. K. Kurane • International Struggles Against Euromissiles

1 Jan 1984

Ranadive, B. T., Ramamurti, P.

In This Issue: • Resolution of the Convention • Call of the Second National Convention: Forward to Second Phase of Movements – Step up United Struggles, Defeat Divisive Forces, Fight Against Lock outs and Closures, Struggle For Peace • Working Women’s Meeting Decide Parliament March • The Holocaust in Sri Lanka – P. Ramamurti • Railwaymen’s Struggle: National Campaign Committee of Railwaymen • Moscow Seminar on Women’s Participation in Peace Struggle • HSCL Workers’ Struggle • Trade Union Rights Day Observed • DA Committee: Govt. Refuses to Revise Terms • Water Front Workers to step up Struggles • Over Thirty Lakh Agricultural Workers Join Strike • Bank Employees to Strike • Against War – B.T. Ranadive • Appeal By the Central Trade Unions: Observe September 1 as Day of Peace • LIC Employees Strike • Around The States: Kerala, Bihar, Orissa, Tripura, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Assam • Jute Workers Demand Day • Bengal Bundh — Sept. 28 • The Gujarat Convention • Rajasthan Govt in the Service of Singhanias • Agreement Signed in NTPC • Wage Revision of ONGC Employees • International Struggles: France, United States, Brazil, Great Britain, 15 per cent Americans Below Poverty Line

1 Sept 1983