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Ranadive, B. T.

इस अंक में: • मजदूर वर्ग में क्रांतिकारी नीतियों के प्रचार के लिए एक और कदम — बी टी रणडिवे • जनता सरकार ने भी मजदूर वर्ग विरोधी नीतियां अपनाई • बंगाल की पूरी सहायता करो • हरियाणा रंग उद्योग, बहालगढ़: लड़ाई संगठन के अधिकार की है • बहुदेशीय कंपनियों द्वारा घातक हमला • इस्पात मजदूर संघर्ष की राह पर • गैरकानूनी हड़ताल तालाबंदी की घोषणा के लिए आधार नहीं हो सकती • सीटू की बैंक कर्मचारियों को बधाई • बंगाल के ढाई लाख चटकल मजदूरों की लगातार हड़ताल • ईस्टर्न कोलफील्ड के 25000 मजदूरों की रैली - कोयला उद्योग के मजदूरों का शानदार संघर्ष • दिल्ली क्षेत्र की रपट, संयुक्त संघर्ष सीटू की भूमिका, औद्योगिक संबंध विधेयक के खिलाफ विराट प्रदर्शन, मजदूर वर्ग की एकता की प्रतीक सीटू और उसका फैलाव, मालिक सरकार एक हैं—भूलो मत, जुझारू प्रदर्शन और लम्बे संघर्ष • औद्योगिक सम्बन्ध विधेयक के खिलाफ एकजुट हो • नेशनल टेक्सटाइल कॉरपोरेशन के अध्ययन दल में सीटू का प्रतिनिधित्व • अणुशक्ति और हेवीवाटर प्रोजेक्ट — राजस्थान के कर्मचारियों के साथ विश्वासघात • दुनिया में बढ़ती बेरोजगारी – पूंजीवाद की देन • बिहार के राज्य कर्मचारी: सांकेतिक हड़ताल के लिए मजबूर • केरल के रबड़ बागान मजदूरों की शानदार जीत

1 Jan 1979

Ranadive, B. T., Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Resist The New OFFENSIVE – B. T. Ranadive • Simpson Workers put DMK Government in the Dock • CITU calls upon Trade Unions to observe Anti-Repression Day • A recent case an Minimum Wages Act / Legal Notes • While taking over closed units Government hits workers • Growing militancy among workers in Andhra • Naval Dockyard workers win through united struggle • Ruthless repression continues on AVB workers • Rising tide of protest against dismissal and assaults in Kerala • Unitedly we must fight menace of US imperialism • Delhi workers struggle for Demands against Police Zoolum • CITU State Committees meet • AITUC & INTUC unions favoured by Management • CITU denounces US bombing on North Vietnam • Memorandum submitted to Sri A. L. Dias, Governor of West Bengal

1 Feb 1972

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • The National Council Of Trade Unions. WHAT IT MEANS TO THE WORKERS • The Menace Of Unemployment • May Day Rallies • Spectacular Victory Of Jute Workers • LIC Employees Prepare for Bigger Struggles • Legal Notes / Select Committee Report On Gratuity Bill • West Bengal, U. P. And Goa State Committees Meet • Recommendations Of The Banking Commission—A Critique • Newsletters /Tamilnadu, Kerala, Maharashtra, And Rajasthan • CITU denounces US Blockade Of Vietnam • Bengal Colliery Workers To Strike • Disruptive Tactics in AIDEF Foiled • Other Regular Features • Special 8-Page Supplement On Repression in West Bengal

1 Jun 1972

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • What Prevents United Action? Historic Strike and Hartal of August 27 • Will Waterfront Federation Leadership Give Up Inaction? • Calcutta High Court Decision Makes Industrial Disputes Act More Retrograde / Legal Notes • CITU’s Appeal to AITUC and HMS to Implement Decisions of Deihi Conference • Whither Bank Employees’ Movement • CITU Decisions of the Office Bearers’ Meeting • Bombay Textile Workers For General Strike • Birla Employees’ Struggle Against Closures • TISCO Workers Boycott Bonus • Lessons Of August 27 Bundh • First Conference Of West Bengal CITU • Police Repression On Railway Workers • Khadilkar’s New Bonus Recipe • Calcutta High Court Decision Makes I. D. Act More Retrograde • Spotlight On Coal Industry • And Other Features

1 Oct 1971

Ranadive, B. T., Ichikawa, Makoto, Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Bangladesh Is Born. WHAT NEXT? – B. T. Ranadive • The 1971 Spring Struggle of Japanese Workers • P & T Employees struggle for Organisational Unity • CITU Memorandum on Unemployment • Earnings of Factory Workers in 1968 • CITU calls upon Working Class to denounce US Imperialist blackmail • On Pakistani Aggression and the Working Class • Govt.’s bid to impose Industrial Truce foiled • Another paltry Interim Relief by the Third Pay Commission • How a Section is repealed by Judicial Interpretation / Legal Notes • United struggle of Kerala toilers in the face of Repression • Anti-social Elements run amock in Raniganj Collieries • DIR used against Hindustan Teleprinters Workers • Murderous attack on T.U. Leaders by anti-socials

1 Jan 1972

Ranadive, B. T., Ranadive, Vimal, Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • LET THE INDIAN WORKING CLASS Unitedly Defeat Rising Fascism In West Bengal – B. T. Ranadive • Fight back the Fascist Menace in West Bengal • Working class struggle in Turkey • Indian Women in search of employment – Vimal Ranadive • The Supreme Court's new definition of Industrial Dispute / Legal notes • The Railway Budget, the people and the Railway’ employees • Reign of terror in Durgapur • Consumer Price Index Numbers • P&T employees continue their struggle for Organisational unity • Historic Struggle by Coimbatore Textile Workers • The Cetral Budget—Robbery through high taxation and Deficit financing • Some samples of ‘Free and Fair’ Election in West Bengal • CITU M. P. Seeks to amend I. B. Act • Attempt to sabotage Simpsom Agreement failed • Kerala Newsletter • Other regular features

1 Apr 1972

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Fight The New Menace Of Automation • West Bengal State Council Of CITU Meets • Durgapur Still Dogged By Many Ills • The Courts And The Determination Of The Wages / Legal Notes • Condition Of Central Government Employees • Stop This Gross Insult To Indian Seamen • Minister’s Assurance No Help To CSTC Employees • CITU Day Observed • Persecution Of Govt. Employees In West Bengal • CITU Condemns Moratorium On Strikes In Bangladesh • AITUC Leadership As Strike Breakers in S. E. Rly. • Newsletters / Tamilnadu, Kerala, Assam • Oil And Chemicals (WFTU) Solidarity For Durgapur Workers • Massive Port Strike In U.K. • Other Regular Features

1 Jul 1972

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Against Closure And Rising Prices, For Higher Bonus and Gratuity, Observe A Day Unitedly During December 5—12 • The Government Employees and the People • Congress Government Unconcerned about Workers’ Problems • West Bengal Jute Workers Prepare for Another Struggle • Delhi Workers on the Path of Struggle • A Piece of Hypocrisy / Legal Notes • New Upswing of Struggle in Kerala • Former HMP Leader’s Treacherous agreement at East Nimcha Colliery • Decisions of CITU office bearers’ Meeting • Strike Struggles of Cotton Textile Workers for Higher Bonus • Tasks Facing the Cuban T. U. Movement • Other Features

1 Dec 1971

Ranadive, B. T., Chatterjee, A. P., Hoang Quac Viet

In This Issue: • United Action Alone Will Win Workers’ Demands • West Bengal’s Mighty Protest Victimisation of Government Employees • Indian Working Class and Bangladesh | B. T. Ranadive • Legal Notes • Onward March of Vietnamese Workers | Hoang Quac Viet • West Bengal ESI Enquiry Committee Findings • United Struggles of Tamilnadu Workers • Kerala Newsletter • West Bengal Cotton Textile Industry Pays Lowest wage • CITU Statements • NCDC Workers Fight Calious Attitude of Bureaucrats • United Struggle in Ranchi

1 Nov 1971

Ranadive, B. T., Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Historic Strike and Hartal of August 27 • Let Everyone Help “The Working Class” To Discharge Its Reponsibilities – Message from B. T. Ranadive • Repression on AVB and Graphite Workers • Should Preference Be Given To Local Persons In All New Recruitments? – CITU Standpoint Explained • Repression on the Eve of West Bengal State CITU Conference • CITU Demands Need-Based Minimum Wage for The Central Government Employees • Labour Minister’s Evasive Replies • Supreme Court on customary and festival bonus / Legal Notes • CITU Greets The Japanese Workers • Labour Ministry Protects Contractors In Coal Mines • Railmen On the March • Facts For Agitators • West Bengal Engineering Workers on the Path of Struggle • AITUC and HMS Giving Up Concept of Secret Ballot? • CITU Wins IOC Co-operative Election • Recognise Bangladesh Here And Now • West Bengal Jute Workers Prepare for Another General Strike • And Other Features

1 Sept 1971

Ranadive, B. T., Chatterjee, A. P., Ramamurti, P.

In This Issue: • Rally Behind The Central Government Employees • Greetings To Soviet Working Class & People • Greetings To Peoples China • Resist The Capitalist Offensive / B.T. Ranadive’s Call To The CITU Working Committee • Defeat The Line Of Disruption And Suppression—P. Ramamurti’s Report To Working Commitiee • CITU Demands Better Deal For Plantation Workers • Report Of The CITU Working Committee Meeting • Judicial Logic Vs. Facts Of Life / Legal Notes • Agreement With Loco Running Staff Being Sabotaged • Token Strike By Jute Workers On November 5 • Newsletters / Kerala, West Bengal, Tamilnadu • Other Regular Features

1 Nov 1973

Ranadive, B. T., Chatterjee, A. P., Roy, Biren +1

In This Issue: • Let the Rising Struggles Shatter the Foundations of Congress Regime! • Lessons of All India Jute Strike • Grenade Thrown At Durgapur Steel Union Leaders • The Struggle And Wage Settlement In LIC • Stop This Exploitation of Workers • British Courts And Trade Union Rights / Legal Notes • One Union In Railway Industry Or An Attempt To Stem The Rising Struggles • Doctors And Engineers On Struggle • Valiant Struggle By Coca-Cola Workers • Bombay Textile Workers’ Strike Betrayed • Forty Lakhs State Govt. Employees To Observe Token Strike On April 9 • Indefinite Strike By Textile Workers Continues / Tamilnadu • Other Regular Features • 8-Page Supplement On The Third National Congress Of The Vietnamese Trade Unions – B. T. Ranadive • Apartheid-Worst Form Of Racial Discrimination • British Miners On Strike

1 Mar 1974

Ranadive, B. T., Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • VOTE FOR LEFT & DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES • A new blue print for class Collaboration – B. T. Ranadive • Struggles of South Vietnam Workers • Tea plantation workers in West Bengal win Wage rise • A recent case on Industrial Disputes Act / Legal Notes • Indian Workers observe Anti-Repression Day • Jute Workers’ United Struggle • CITU expresses solidarity with British Miners • Massive Rally in Calcutta against Repression & Terror in West Bengal • Workers & Employees intensify struggles – Kerala • A new upsurge in militant united struggles – Tamilnadu • Bhilai Steel Construction Workers fight for job security • Rajesthan State Govt. Employees strike for Interim Relief • Bombay Workers condemn U.S. Role

1 Mar 1972

Ranadive, Vimal, Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Fight The Skyrocketing Of Prices • Twentyfifth Anniversary Of Indian Independence • Mockery Of Maternity Benefits In India —Vimal Ranadive • CITU Note To The Bonus Review Committee • Newsletters/Tamilnadu And Kerala • Semi-Fascist Terror In Durgapur Condemned • Samyukta Trade Union Council Of Maharashtra Formed • Stop Attacks On Workers And Trade Unions / CITU’s Telegram To President • Reports From Unions • More On Wages / Legal Notes • Plug The Loopholes Of The Mines Act • Report On Railwaymen’s Struggles • Working Class Struggle In Spain • Other Regular Features

1 Aug 1972

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., Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Fight The Wage Freeze – B. T. Ranadive • Comrade Harekrishna Konar • Unite All Workers! Develop Fraternal Relations with the People! (Extracts From B. T. Randive's Speech Given At The A.L.R.T.W. Convention) • Against Victimisation of Railwaymen And Wage Freeze Ordinance : United Movement of Entire Working Class Planned • Railwaymen : United Struggle to Continue Under The Banner of NCCRS • CITU’s Activities In Defence of Railway Employees • A New Orientation? / Legal Notes • CITU State Committees Meet / Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, West Bengal • Newsletters / Kerala, West Bengal • West Bengal Jute Workers Observed Demands Day • Convention of Chemicals And Pharmaceutical Unions • Other Regular Features

1 Aug 1974

Ranadive, B. T., Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • A Great And Victorious Strike By B. T. Ranadive • Victory For Locomen • Central and State Govt. Employees’ United Move • Another Successful Bundh / Kerala • Bombay Textile Workers Convention • Resident Doctors on Strike In Bombay • Need based Minimum Wage For Powermen Demanded • Seminar On Productivity and T.U. Movement • CITU’S Suggestions To Planning Commission • University Employees’ Conference • Supreme Court Creates Army Of Non-Workers / Legal Notes • Newsletters) West Bengal, Andhra, Tamilnadu • Other Regular Features

1 Sept 1973

Kolhatkar, S. Y., Ranadive, B. T., Ramamurti, P. +2

DOCUMENTS: 1. Welcome Speech | S. Y. Kolhatkar 2. Presidential Address | B. T. Ranadive 3. अध्यक्षीय भाषण | बी॰ टी॰ रणदिवे (Hindi) 4. General Secretary's Report | P. Ramamurti 5. General Secretary's Report | P. Ramamurti (Hindi) 6. Review Of Struggles | M. K. Pandhe 7. Review Of Struggles | M. K. Pandhe (Hindi) 8. CITU Faces Repression And Gangsterism 9. CITU Faces Repression And Gangsterism (Hindi) 10. Work Report | M. K. Pandhe 11. Report on Organisation And Struggles | M. K. Pandhe (Hindi) 12. Resolutions 13. Resolutions (Hindi) 14. Statement Of Accounts For The Years 1973 & 1974 | Samar Mukherjee 15. President's Concluding Speech | B. T. Ranadive - Unite All Sections Against Recession & Unemployment For T.U. & Democratic Rights 16. Presidential Address | B. T. Ranadive (Marathi)

1 May 1975

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Rally to the Support of Bengal’s Working Class • Jute Workers Prepare For Industriai Strike From May 8 • Phoney War Against Unemployment • Ruthless Repression Continues In CLW • Kerala State Council Meets • The Supreme Court Reverts To First Principles / Legal Notes • West Bengal Industrial Tribunal Awards May Day As Compulsory Paid Holiday • While Railmen’s Grievances Accumulate In-Fighting Galore In NFIR • Call For United Struggle Given By Four Central Trade Unions • Repression On Coalmine Workers in West Bengal • Tamilnadu Newsletter / Militant Struggles Continue • Barbarous U.S. Bombing On North Vietnam • British Mine Workers’ Union Thanks CITU For Support • CITU Condemns Brutal Firings On Spanish Workers • Other Regular Features • MAY DAY MANIFESTO OF THE CITU 1972

1 May 1972