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Balanandan, E.

The New Situation and The Challenges Ahead - E. Balanandan, Presidential Address

1 Mar 1992

Balanandan, E.

Published in ‘The Working Class’, October 1997

1 Oct 1997

Rajeswari, M., Balanandan, E.

In This Issue: • CITU General Council Calls for Intensified Actions by the Working Class – P. K. Ganguly • General Council Meeting, January 5-8, 1997, Vishakhapatanam: Presidential Address – E. Balanandan • NPMO Reschedules Rail Roko/Rasta Roko Programme • General Council Meeting of CITU, Vishakhapatnam, 5-8 January, 1997: Main Resolution • Resolution: On the Fifth Central Pay Commission • JAC Congratulates Textile Workers For Successful Rail Roko/Rasta Roko • Govt Pension Scheme opposed at grassroot level: INTUC, AITUC Unions Resent Demanding Change • Comrade Shiv Varma • Datta Samant • Pre-Budget Discussion With Trade Unions An Annual Ritual • Rally of Unorganised Sector Workers • Meeting of AICCWW • Railmen’s Movement: The AILRSA Fourteenth Biennial General Meeting has Decided Action Programme • Kerala State CITU General Council Meeting – N. Padmalochanan • A Winter Of Acute Discontent: Asian Tiger In Turmoil Unprecedented Upheaval of South Korean Working Class

1 Feb 1997

Ganguly, P. K., Balanandan, E.

In This Issue: • Call Of CITU Working Committee: Raise Mass Struggles To New Heights – P. K. Ganguly • Working Committee Meeting, Bhilai, 2-4 November, 1995: Presidential Address - E. Balanandan • RESOLUTIONS: On Forthcoming programmes of National Platform of Mass Organisations, On Sell Out Of Bailadila Mine, On Amendment Of Payment Of Bonus Act, Resolution On Beijing Conference On Women, On Solidarity With Cuba, On Wage Revision Of Central Govt Employees And The Fifth Central Pay Commission, Resolution in support of the decision on launching indefinite strike in Jute Industry from 29th Nov., 1995 by all Central Trade Unions operating in Jute Industry, 12th December Jail Bharo By Textile Workers, Resolution On US-Pakistan Arms Deal: Demand immediate scrapping of the said Indo-US Cooperation deal, Resolution On Fishing Worker Struggle, On Bank Strike, On Accident In Bhilai Steel Plant On 2nd Nov. 1995, Resolution On Pension Scheme • CITU Reiterates Opposition To Govt Draft On Pension Scheme And The Ordinance In The Meeting With Labour Minister • Agitation Spread All Over Against Pension Scheme And The Ordinance • Fisheries Workers To Go On Conuntrywide Strike • Trade Union School For The Steel Workers • Indian Labour Conference: Government Guillotined for Casual Approach to Labour Problems – P. K. Ganguly • Conclusions of the 32nd Session of the Indian Labour Conference (ILC): Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi: 23rd and 24th November, 1995

1 Dec 1995

Balanandan, E., Pandhe, M. K.

In This Issue: • Two Days Strike In Telecom Sector • CITU Working Committee Meeting Cancelled • Editorial: Will The Prime Minister Act? • 12 Dec: Electricity Employees Strike – E. Balanandan • President’s Address To The Nation • Labour Issues In Parliament: PSU Disinvestment: The Country On Auction! • Strikes And Lockouts Revealing Facts • Where Is The Country Heading Towards ? (Speech of Jibon Roy, MP in Rajya Sabha on 28-07-2000) • Comrade Naren Sen Is No More • Economy On Rails! Heading Where? • Rallyby Electricity Employees & Engineers • Bankmen On War-Path • Handloom Workers On To Struggle • Struggle By State Government Staff • NPCC Workers’ Union On Revival Plan • Wage Board For Newspaper Employees • Birla Textile Workers On Warpath • Bhopal: Industrial Workers’ Struggle • United Movement In Plantation Industry • Kanpur Textile Workers Demonstration • West Bengal CITU Calls For One Hour Strike • Parliament March By FCI Employees • Whither Port & Dock Settlement? – M. K. Pandhe • Nationwide PSU Strike Deferred • Massive Workers’ Rally At Delhi On 27th September

1 Sept 2000

Balanandan, E., Pandhe, M. K.

• Presidential Address – E. Balanandan • Documents 1. Report of the General Secretary – M. K. Pandhe 2. Report of Workshop on Organisation 3. Resolutions ▪ On Condolence ▪ On Homage to Martyrs ▪ On 11th May Countrywide General Strike ▪ On Working Women ▪ Against Vajpayee Govt.’s Surrender to Imperialist Machination 1. Treasurer's Report & Statement Of Accounts • महासचिव की रिपोर्ट - एम के पंधे

1 Apr 2000

Balanandan, E., Pandhe, M. K.

• Presidential Address – E. Balanandan • Documents 1. Resolution on Condolence 2. Report of the General Secretary – M. K. Pandhe 3. On Membership 4. BTR Memorial Trust 5. Accounts

1 Jan 1997

Balanandan, E., Pandhe, M. K.

CITU General Council Meeting 19-21 Feb 1993 Bangalore • Documents: 1. Presidential Address – E. Balanandan 2. Report on Organisation – M. K. Pandhe 3. Resolutions – Com. Ganesh Ghosh 4. Minutes of the General Meeting held at Nagpur from 13-15 March, 1992 5. Annexure-1 Functioning of the Office Bearers in the State Committees 6. Annexure-2 Meetings of the State Committees 7. Annexure-3 Work Among Working Women 8. Annexure-4 Statement on Circulation of CITU Journals • Report on Organisation (As adopted in the General Council Meeting held at Bangalore, on 19-21, February 1993)

1 Feb 1993

Balanandan, E., Pandhe, M. K.

• Documents 1. Presidential Address – E. Balanandan 2. Report Of The General Secretary – M. K. Pandhe 3. Condolence Resolution 4. Discussion Paper - Two Decades Of The All India Coordination Committee Of Working Women: A Review 5. Accounts • Documents (Hindi) 1. अध्यक्षीय भाषण - ई बालानंदन 1. महासचिव की रिपोर्ट - एम के पंधे 2. शोक प्रस्ताव 3. परिचर्चा पेपर: अखिल भारतीय कामगार महिला समिति के दो दशक 4. लेखा रिपोर्ट

1 May 1999

Balanandan, E., Pandhe, M. K.

• Documents 1. Presidential Address – E. Balanandan 2. Report Of The General Secretary – M. K. Pandhe 3. Condolence Resolutions – Com. Susheela Gopalan, Com. N. Prasada Rao, On Condolences, On Homage To Martyrs 4. Treasurer’s Report - Ranjit Basu 5. Statement Of Accounts - 2000 And 2001 6. Special Discussion On “United Struggles And Organisational Consolidation Of Trade Union Movement” • Documents (Hindi) 1. महासचिव की रिपोर्ट - एम के पंधे 2. संयुक्त संघर्षों तथा श्रमिक आंदोलन की संगठनात्मक मजबूती पर विशेष परिचर्चा

1 Apr 2002

Sen, Tapan, Moghe, Kiran, Balanandan, E.

In This Issue: • National Trade Union Convention Calls for Massive March to Parliament on 25th November • Public Sector Workers to Prepare for Continuous Strike • Hoax of Falling Inflation Rate: A Mathematical Jagglery – Tapan Sen • Anganwadi Workers Stage Large Demonstration in Bombay - Kiran Moghe • 2nd All India Conference of Construction Workers Federation of India • Chelliah Report Echoes IMF Design in India • CITU Calls for Nationwide Campaign against Govt Policy of hiking prices • Massive General Strike in West Bengal • Struggles in Tamilnadu • AICCWW Condemns Unpardonable Negligence of Shivkasi Cracker factory Owner • Management—BJP Govt Combine Attack on TU at Gwalior • CITU Denounces Hike in Petroleum and Cooking Gas Prices • All India Convention of Unorganised Workers • Successful Kerala Bandh • Meeting of All India Coordination Committee of Textile Workers • Multinationa! Entry to Capital Market Will Destabilise India’s Self-Reliance • Thirtieth Session of the Indian Labour Conference • 30th Session of Indian Labour Conference: (Text of the Speech of E. Balanandan, President, CITU at the 30th Session of Indian Labour Conference on September 7-8, 1992) • CITU Demands Immediate Meeting of the Special Tripartite Committee • TU’s demand meeting of the Tripartite Industrial Committee on Textile Industry • NFL Panipat Gas Tragedy, CITU Condemns Callous Management • ILO Committee’s Observation On India: Words and Deeds Differ Much • Railwaymen’s Struggle: AIRF Revives Strike Ballot Decision

1 Oct 1992

Balanandan, E., Sen, Tapan, Maran, Murasoli

In This Issue: • Kerala High Court Assault: On Democratic Rights, Once Again • CITU Flays Cabinet Decision On Disinvestment • Editorial: External Vigilance, Ever Needed! • ILO In The Shadow Of Globalisation • Should Ministers Dole Out Freebies • Lessons Of May 11 Strike - E. Balanandan • Extending Favouritism To BMS • The PM And Trade Unions • Mass Signature Campaign By CITU: Text Of Petition To President Of India • CITU Contribution For Orissa Cyclone Relief • Economy On Rails! Heading Where? • Closure Of Six PSUs Condemned • Growing Concerns Over Agonising Globalisation • Freedom To Import: Road To Disaster - Tapan Sen • “We Knelt Down, Succumbed To Pressure, Signed On Dotted Lines?” - Murasoli Maran • Delhi: State Level Workshop On Organisation • Textile Minister On Satyam Committee Report • All India Convention Of Handloom Workers • Convention On Power Sector Reforms • Kerala Plantation Workers Conference • Mass Dharna At Kanpur • Rajasthan: Workshop On Unorganised Sector • CITU Campaign Materials Just Released • Some Important Decisions Of The ESI Corporation • Preparation For CITU All India Conference

1 Jul 2000

Balanandan, E., Ganguly, P. K., Guha, Amitava

In This Issue: • General Council Meeting of CITU, Bangalore, Feb., 19-21, 1993: Presidential Address - E. Balanandan • CITU Secretariat’s Call • Coal Workers to Demonstrate Before CIL Head Quarters • CITU General Council Resolves to Strengthen Organisation - P. K. Ganguly • Finance Commission Meets Trade Unions – P. K. Ganguly • The Communal Riots in Bombay • BEFI Condemns Bank Privatisation • Workers Hold Rally in Orissa Against Communal Danger • Countrywide Strike by Financial Institutions on March 29 • Air India Continues Discrimination Against Air Hostesses • CITU Condemns Decision for Entry of Private Sector in Banking Industry • General Council Meeting of CITU, Bangalore, Feb. 19-21, 1993: Resolutions • Total Strike in Oil India • CITU Condemns Hike in Railway Freights and Fares • CiTU Condemns Price Hike of Sugar & Coal • Budget will Hit Indian Industries and the Common People • Review Article: A Peep into the Bombay Textile Strike • Com. Nilima Roy No More • Himachal T.U. Class • International Convention on People’s Approach to GATT Negotiation - Amitava Guha

1 Mar 1993

Balanandan, E., Dev Roye, Swadesh, Majumdar, Chittabrata

In This Issue: • Seattle Ministerial Meet: TUs Demand • Editorial: ‘Second Generation Reforms’ Shall Not Pass! • CITU Working Committee Call: Unleash Countrywide United Struggle • Resisit Imperialist Machinations – E. Balanandan • CITU On The Move • Diesel Price Hike: An Act Of Deception! • BJP’s ‘Second Generation Reform’: Financial Sector Top In The Hit List - Swadesh Dev Roye • 5th Conference of SIGTUR Call: Strengthen Struggles Against Globalisation - Chittabrata Majumdar • Economy: On Rails: Heading Where ? • Workers Got A Raw Deal! 57000 Jobs Lost In One Year In Textile Sector Alone: Closures Galore • Document: Second National Commission On Labour • Comrade Dhaniram Khosla • WFTU Memorandum To Seattle Ministerial Meet • Call For Countrywide United Action • Jyoti Basu Greets AIRF Jubilee • Orissa Relief Efforts By FMRAI • Maharashtra CITU On The March • CITU Condemns Privatisation Move In SAIL • PSU Workes, On To Nationwide Struggles • Assam: Tea Garden Struggle Fund • International Conferences • South Korea: Massive Workers' Rally Against Privatisation • Training Programme For Plantation Women • Iraqi TU Federation Congress

1 Dec 1999

Balanandan, E., Ganguly, P. K., Majumdar, Chittabrata

In This Issue: • General Council Meeting, Nagpur, March 13-15, 1992: Presidential Address - E. Balanandan • Against Economic Policies Government: Calcutta Convention Calls for Countrywide Strike • General Council Meeting of CITU, Nagpur, March 13-15, 1992: Call for Preparation of Countrywide Strike against the Economic Policy of the Government - P. K. Ganguly • Railwaymen’s Struggle: Co-ordinated Joint Broad Based Action is the need of the hour—AIRF • CITU Calls Upon Trade Unions to Protest against the Budget 1992-93 • Glorious Victory for Jute Workers of West Bengal • Trade Unions Condemn the Central Govt’s Move to Reintroduce ESMA and MISA • Oppose this Anti-People and Anti-Labour Railway Budget • CITU Congratulates Jute Workers for Successful Struggle • General Council Meeting, Nagpur, March 13-15, 1992: Resolutions • Nicaragua 1992 • Working Class in Building Socialism in China - Chittabrata Majumdar

1 Apr 1992

Balanandan, E., Pandhe, M. K., Prasad, Chandi

DOCUMENTS: 1. Documents • Presidential Address | E. Balanandan • General Secretary's Report | M. K. Pandhe 2. Documents (Hindi) • स्वागत भाषण | चण्डी प्रसाद • अध्यक्षीय भाषण | ई. बालानंदन • महासचिव की रिपोर्ट | एम. के. पंधे 3. Commission Papers (1) New Imperialist Offensive and the Trade Unions (2) New Economic Policies and Our Tasks (3) Technology (4) Workers of Unorganised Sector (5) Right to Work (6) Communalism (7) Social Security Schemes in India (8) Working Women (9) Organisation 4. Commission Papers (Hindi) (1) साम्राज्यवाद के नए हमलें और ट्रेड यूनियनें (2) नई आर्थिक नीतियाँ तथा हमारे कार्य (3) प्रौद्योगिकी सम्बन्धी आयोग (4) असंगठित क्षेत्र के श्रमिकों का आयोग (5) 'काम के अधिकार' सम्बन्धी आयोग में विचारार्थ दस्तावेज़ (6) साम्प्रदायिकता सम्बन्धी आयोग का दस्तावेज़ (7) भारत में सामाजिक सुरक्षा कार्यक्रमों पर आयोग का दस्तावेज़ (8) कामकाजी महिलाों सम्बन्धी आयोग का दस्तावेज़ (9) संगठन सम्बन्धी आयोग का दस्तावेज़ 5. Condolence Resolutions 6. Treasurer’s Report

1 Mar 1994

Ganguly, P. K., Balanandan, E., Pandhe, M. K.

In This Issue: • 8th Conference Of CITU: Call To Step Up United Actions By All Mass Organisations Against IMF Dictated Economic Policies – P. K. Ganguly • Presidential Address – E. Balanandan • Obituary: Com S Y Kolhatkar, Com. Kshiti Burman, Com. T M Mohammed • Report Of The General Secretary – M. K. Pandhe • Condolence Resolutions: Com M Basavapunnaiah, Comrade Monoranjan Roy, Comrade Kamal Sarkar, On Condolence, On Homage To Martyrs • Resolution No.1: On 5th April Rally In Delhi • Resolution No.2: On The Textile Workers’ Struggle • Resolution No.3: Attacks On Trade Union And Democratic Rights • Resolution No.4: On The Heroic Struggle Of Peasantry In Bihar • Resolution No.5: On Kashmir Situation • Resolution No.6: Greetings To The Left Front Government Of West Bengal And Tripura • On Centre State Relations • CITU Office Bearers • General Council And Working Committee Members • Report Of The Credential Committee

1 Apr 1994

Ganguly, P. K., Pandhe, M. K., Balanandan, E.

In This Issue: • The Killing of Rajiv Gandhi • CITU Condemns the Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi • Sixth CITU Andhra Pradesh State Conference • AIDWA Condemns Attack on CPI(M) Activists in Tripura • Special 301, an Attack on India’s Sovereignty - P K Ganguly • Air India Pilots Fight Back Victimisation – M. K. Pandhe • CITU Condemns U.S. For Imposition of Special 301 • CITU Condemns Declaration of Pilots’ Strike as Illegal • Appeal For Bangladesh Cyclone Relief • Air Employees Condemn Air India’s Action • General Council Meeting of Air Corporation Employees • Vayudoot Employees Oppose Privatisation • Com. M. K. Kelu • CITU’s Note on ILO Convention on Equal Remuneration • Com. Prabhas Roy • Observance of Com. BTR’s Death Anniversary • Wage Settlement in HSCL—a Big Victory • CITU Condoles The Passing Away of Com. S. A. Dange • CITU Protests against Stoppage of Publication of Collected Works of Marx and Engels • CITU Publications • Convention on Self-Reliance • Com. A. D. Shastry • Renew the Pledge to Uphold the Revolutionary Traditions of May Day – E. Balanandan • Lock out at Hoograjuli Tea Estate, Assam • Metro Lockout Withdrawn • Successful Struggle of the Unorganised Workers • Massive Rally Marks Dr. Ambedkar Birth Centenary in Bombay • May Day Celebrations

1 Jun 1991

Ganguly, P. K., Balanandan, E., Pandhe, M. K.

In This Issue: • Call Of National Convention: Forward to June 16 Countrywide Strike – P. K. Ganguly • Declaration of the National Convention of Trade Unions Against the Government’s Economic & Industrial Policies, Mavalankar Hall, New Delhi, May 10, 1992 • In Defence Of National Sovereignty: Join the 16th June Strike Enmasse - E. Balanandan • May Day Observations • Massive May Day Rally at Moscow • Why BMS Opposes All India General Strike - M. K. Pandhe • The CITU Expresses Solidarity with the Striking German Public Sector Employees • CITU Opposes Govt’s Move to Provide Security to Private Sector by CISF • Unprecedented Strike in Financial Sector on 30th April • CITU Congratulates ITC Workers for All India Strike on 28 April 1992 • CITU Denounces USA’s Threat Under Special 301 • Prime Minister Promises Increase in Honorarium of Anganwadi Women • Convention of Working Women • Industry Minister Agrees to Settle Demands of EPI Site Workers Amicably • CITU Condemns Steps to Abolish Govt Posts and Privatise Airlines • CITU Participates in ‘Solidarity Affairs’ at Philippines • Cement Workers Plan Joint Action • CITU Warns Government against any Retrograde Change in Labour Laws • HSCL Workers Preparing for Strike • CITU Condemns Steel Price Hike • CITU Condemns the Breach of Trust by the Government of India on Central Employees on Question of Merger of D.A. with Pay • CITU Denounces USA for Imposing Sanctions Against ISRO • Workshop on India’s Power Sector • Seminar at Madras • CITU Condemns USA For Racial Violence • Steel Workers’ Meet Calls for Preparation of Strike • The Railwaymen and the Coming Industrial Strike - Kanai Banerjee • Working Class in Building Socialism in China - Chittabrata Majumdar • Railwaymen’s Struggle: AIREC Conference • Workers Lathi-Charged and Fired at Haryana • Workers’ Unrest in the First World • Inside South Korea • NF-Left Combine Calls for Hartal by Mass Organisations on June 16

1 Jun 1992

Balanandan, E., Pandhe, M. K., Dev Roye, Swadesh

In This Issue: • The Elections and After – E. Balanandan • Com. P.K. Kunjachan • Struggle Against Increase in Working Hours In Sail Offices • Meeting of CITU Secretariat • Left Gains in Working Class Areas in W. Bengal • Firing At Dalla Cement Factory: Workers Martyred to Save Public Sector – P. K. Ganguly • CITU Condemns Killing of Dalla Cement Workers • Public Sector Workers to Observe All India Solidarity Day For Dalla Cement Workers on 2nd July, 1991 • CITU Supports Indefinite Strike in Sonebhadra Districts Against Dalla Firing from June 24 • Towards United Movement of Cement Workers • Harassment to Airhostess Leads to Safety Danger • Contract System Plunders Bokaro Workers • Com. Sukhdev Singh • Com. Varinder Kumar Gagan • J. K. Bose • Com. K. George • Meeting Pays Homage to S. A. Dange • List of CITU Special Fund Receipts • May Day in Punjab—Workers Demonstrate against Governor • CITU Publications • Bangladesh Relief Fund Receipts • Caretaker Govt. has no Right to Constitute Women’s Commission • Victorious Left Candidates in 10th Lok Sabha • CITU Holds CIL Management Responsible for Singrauli Mine Accident • Pension As A Third Retirement Benefit – M. K. Pandhe • Defeat the Move to Privatise Vayudoot – S. Dev Roye • First Bihar State Conference of Anganwadi Women • Dandeli Paper Mills: CITU Wins Secret Ballot • CITU Foundation Day Observed • Prime Minister Advocates Appeasement to World Bank and the IMF • CITU Supports Struggle of Korean People for Unification • Complaint to ILO by the Confederation of Public Sector Officers’ Associations

1 Jul 1991