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

In This Issue: • Against Wage & DA Freeze, Victimisation & Repression. UCTU Calls For All India Protest Strike Action • Homage To The Memory of Comrade K. G. Bose • Fight Unitedly New Offensive Of Capitalists And Landlords—B. T. Ranadive • West Bengal Jute Workers To Go On Continuous Strike From January 6 • The CITU Working Committee Reviews Struggles • The Coal Agreement—A Balance Sheet • CITU Working Committee Denounces The Bonus Review Committee Report • CITU Opposes Arbitrary Introduction of New Index Series • Conventions Against Wage Freeze • West Bengal Jute Workers To Go On Continuous Strike From January 6 • Permanency of A Worker | Legal Notes • Kerala Newsletter • Other Regular Features

1 Jan 1975

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

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • New Menace Of Higher Taxation And Railway Fare • Forward To New Militant Struggles / Ranadive Addresses CITU General Council • Central Government Employees Prepare For Countrywide United Mass-Action • Railwaymen: National Convention Serves Ultimatum On Govt. • Deadlock In Electricity Wage Negotiations : All India Strike Planned • State Government Employees Prepare For Strike Of April 9 • Jute Tripartite And After • Legislators Propose But … / Legal Notes • Ceat Tyre Workers In Bombay On Indefinite Strike • Joint Trade Unions Council Formed In The Andamans • Goa / Coca Cola Workers Continue Struggle • Newsletters: Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu • West Bengal: CITU Supports Striking Doctors & Engineers • Other Regular Features

1 Apr 1974

Nguyen Minh Vy, Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Greetings To The Working Class And People Of China • Comrade Bhairav Bharati • The Struggle Of The Working Class And Urban Popular Masses In South Vietnam | Nguyen Minh Vy • Trade Unionists And Black Money • Part-time Employment of Workers—An International Survey • ILO Convention On Freedam of Association And Protection Of Right to Organise • BCMU Submits Memorandum On All-Round Attack On Jute Workers • Dearness Allowance For Workers / Legal Notes • Indebtedness Of Ahmedabad Textile Workers • Closures, Lay-offs And Retrenchments In Engineering Industry In West Bengal • Maharashtra State Committee of CITU Meets • Tamil Nadu Newsletier | State Committee Meets • Money Lending In Chhattisgarh Region Of Madhya Pradesh • Crisis In Kanpur Textile Mills • Other Regular Features

1 Oct 1975

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Government’s Labour Policy In The Dock • Locomen’s Demands—Stalemate Continues • Women Workers Fight Police and Goonda Attacks. • All India Jute Strike From January 14 • INTUC, AITUC And HMS Leaders Betray Sugar Workers • UCTU Secretariat Meets • All India Token Strike of LIC Employees On December 28 • The Law of Master & Servant / Legal Notes • Andhra Pradesh Unit of UCTU Formed • Struggle of IAC Employees Continues • CITU Invited To T. U. Congress Vietnam • TUI Body Extends Solidarity For Bengal Paper Mill Workers • Brutal Police Repression on Workers in Himachal Pradesh • Tamil Nadu Newsletter • Newsletters / Maharashtra, Kerala, West Bengal, Assam • Other Regular Features • Comrade Muzaffar Ahmed

1 Jan 1974

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: • 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: • Against Crisis Burdens Against One Party Dictatorship | B. T. Ranadive • May Day Manifesto Of The CITU, 1975 • Com. S. Y, Kolhatkar Attacked By Siva Sena Goondas • Government, Jute Barons Trying To Shift Burden Of Crisis On Workers • National Campaign Committee Decides To Intensify Anti-Wage Freeze Campaign • Anti-Emergency Day Observed Throughout India • L.R.S. A. Demands Reactivise NCCRS | Railwaymen • Anti-Wage Freeze Demonstrations & Conventions Held • Representation Of Parties Under Section 36 Of The Industrial Disputes Act | Legal Notes • Tisco Karmachari Union Joins The CITU • Hesalong Colliery 1 Worker Killed, 56 Injured By AITUC Goondas • CITU Hails The Liberation Of Cambodia • Newsletters | Kerala, Goa, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal • Other Regular Features

1 May 1975

Ranadive, B. T., Ramamurti, P.

इस अंक में: • सीटू की जनरल काउंसिल की बैठक 21-24 अगस्त, बेलूर, हावड़ा - बी टी रणदिवे का अध्यक्षीय भाषण • पी राममूर्ति द्वारा जोरदार आह्वान : संगठन को मजबूत करो: एकजुट संघर्ष का निर्माण करो • मजदूर वर्ग द्वारा तुरंत एकजुट हस्तक्षेप के लिए : कनफेडेरशन के लिए सीटू जनरल काउंसिल द्वारा पुनः आह्वान • ए यू सी सी टी यू से शुभकामनाएं • अजेय राउत की हत्या करने की कोशिश • जूट मजदूरों की सफल हड़ताल • गोविंदराजन को छुरा घोंपा गया • रेलविभाग में जारी अनियमितताओं के सिलसिले में : प्रधान मंत्री के नाम का. समर का पत्र • धामपुर में सीटू कोआर्डिनेशन कमेटी बनी • टिस्को के ठेका मजदूर संघर्षरत • कोयला मजदूरों की लगातार जीत • तार कंपनी और जेम्को मजदूरों का सम्मेलन • रोहतक सीटू की बैठक • नीमच में अफीम चुंबक कांड, मजदूरों को फांसने की कोशिश • जे के रेयान कानपूर में गैरकानूनी बैठकी • काले अध्यादेश के खिलाफ देशव्यापी भरी प्रदर्शन • हिसार के टेक्सटाइल मजदूरों की अनिश्चितकालीन हड़ताल

1 Sept 1981

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Editorial: The Calculated Inaction Of The Union Labour Ministry • The Second Conference of Kerala State Committee of CITU • Legal Victory of Railwaymen / Legal Notes • Resolutions Adopted At the All India Convention of Working People Against Wage Freeze • General Strike In Kerala Against Wage Freeze • Bhilai Convention Against Wage Freeze & For Bonus • RAILWAYMEN: N.C.C.R.S. Goes Ahead • Convention of Power Workers To Plan Bigger All India Struggle • Successful All India Strike By Provident Fund Employees • Succesful One-day Strike By W. Bengal Jute Workers • Workers Demand Take-over of Sick & Closed Plantations • Ramamurii’s Reply To AITUC’s Slander • Chile Day Observed By Workers • All Over India Workers Demand Take-over of Sick & Closed Plantations • Newsletters: Tamilnadu, Kerala, Maharashtra, Goa • Other Regular Features

1 Oct 1974

Nguyen Trong Con, Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Surmount Difficulties With United Effort Of Workers • Salary And Bonus As Property | Legal Notes • The INTUC In Banking Industry • Thirty Years of Vietnamiese Trade Union | Nguyen Trong Con [Continued from previous issue] • P. F. Deposit Insurance For Railmen • CiTU-Andhra Pradesh Committee Meets • May Day Observed • Automation In Calcutta Electric Supply Company • Parliamentary Committee Endorses Plantation Workers Demands • West Bengal Tripartite Meet On Jute Industry • Take-over Of Sick Tea Gardens And The Workers • News From Sri Lanka • Former Chasnala Surveyor Says He Warned The IISCO Management • Other Regular Features

1 Jun 1976

Ganguly, P. K., Majumdar, J. S., Pandhe, M. K. +2

In This Issue: • Mammoth Rally of Textile Workers – P. K. Ganguly • Trade Unions Demand Change In Fiscal Policies • CITU Denounces Police Firing at Kerala and Calls for Countrywide Protest Actions • Joint Convention on Scooter India • Bihar State CITU Conference – J. S. Majumdar • Jute Workers Prepare for Strike • Thirteenth Congress Of The WFTU – M. K. Pandhe • Joint Statement by Indian and Pakistani TU leaders • Com. BTR’s 90th Birthday: Seminar on formation of a Confederation of all Central Trade Unions • Women Hit Hardest in Russia • Conference of Tamilnadu Construction Workers • Contract Workers of Steel Industry Demanded Wage Revision and Interim Relief • TUs Demands Implementation of Prasar Bharati Act • Accident in Bokaro Steel Plant; 10 workers injured • World Meeting on Solidarity with Cuba – J. Ballabh • Regionwide TU Initiative for Workers’ Right Planned From the Third Indian Ocean Region Trade Union Conference - Chittabrata Majumdar • CITU representative at International Trade Union Seminar, Seoul – S. Dev Roye • BEFI Opens Punjab State Unit • Kathmandu: International Trade Union Conference Against IMF-World Bank Structural Adjustment Programme

1 Jan 1995

Krishnan, P. R., Pandhe, M. K., Amin, Mohammed +3

In This Issue: • More than 12 lakh workers strike work in Maharashtra Against Govt Pension Scheme – P. R. Krishnan • Editorial: The New Year • Mounting Opposition Against Pension Scheme And Ordinance: Protest day observed on 4th December all over • National Press On The Pension Scheme – M. K. Pandhe • Massive Dharna against New Economic Policies • CITU Opposes Pension Ordinance, Demands For Right Of Option By The Workers To Pension Scheme • 8000 Textile Workers Court Arrest Before Parliament • Jute strike Rebuffs Canards, Wins Major Demands - Mohd Amin • Unprecedented Industrial Strike in Delhi • National Consensus? • CITU Congratulates Coal Miners for massive strike on 18th December • CITU Condemns Governments Refusal To Provide Funds For Modernisation Of IISCO • Fertilizer Workers Court Arrest Before Parliament • Bihar State Workshop On Child Labour – J. S. Majumdar • CITU-ILO Child Labour Workshop in Rajasthan • ILO\UNDP Workshop On Unorganised Sector • World Development Report 1995 - Saroj Chaudhuri • Com. K. M. Bhadra • Viva La France! • Privatisation And Unemployment: A Global Review – P. K. Ganguly

1 Jan 1996

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Message Of Fraternal Solidarity From Vietnam Trade Union Federation • Ernst Thaelmann In Nazi Prison • Kerala’s Cashew Industry In Crisis • Job Seekers : An Analysis • Share of Wages In Production • Safety In Textile Industry • Dispute Between Co-operative Society And Its Employees | Legal Notes • Ruthless Exploitation By Money Lenders In The Dhanhad Coalfields • Agreement In Steel Industry • BCMU Protests Against Anti- Worker Practices of Jute Mills • Other Regular Features

1 Sept 1975

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

Pandhe, M. K., Majumdar, Chittabrata

In This Issue: • Com. M. Basavapunniah • National Trade Union Convention on 10th May at New Delhi • Trade Unions Condemn the Central Govt’s Move to Reintroduce ESMA and MISA • May Day Manifesto of the CITU, 1992 • Against the Economic Policy: CITU Calls for Launching Strike Preparations • Countrywide Demonstrations Against the Economic Policy of the Government • Bank Unions Joint Committee for Movement against Privatisation of Banks, Boat Club Rally—7th April, 1992 • Cement Workers on Agitation Path • CITU to Boycott Reconstituted Industrial Committee on Jute Industry • Trade Unions Congratulate Jute Workers • Convention of Unorganised Workers in Bihar • Homage to Satyajit Ray • New Exim Policy • Powermen’s Workshop Extends Support to Striking Rajasthan Power Engineers • NTC Workers’ Convention • Calcutta Rally Protests Economic Policies • Labour Ministers’ Meeting • Process of Dismantling of Public Sector in India - M. K. Pandhe • CITU Condemns EPI Management for Apathy to end the 27 Days old Strike • CITU Condemns Further Reduction in Custom Duty on Capital Goods Imports • CITU Denounces Rajasthan Government for imposing ESMA against Electricity Engineers Strike • Japanese Working Class Are on the Offensive • CITU Calls for Contribution to Cuba • Working Class in Building Socialism in China - Chittabrata Majumdar

1 May 1992

Pandhe, M. K., Saroj, Badal, Ganguly, P. K.

In This Issue: • Editorial: The Year That Was • Textile Workers’ March to Parliament on December 15 • 53rd Annual Conference of BCMU • 7 Lakh Coal Workers To Prepare For Indefinite Strike • Super Profits Through "Liberalisation" – M. K. Pandhe • AP State CITU Conference • Conference Of Anganwadi Workers • Road Transport Workers Convention • Dr. A. R. Desai • Massive Rally By Daily-Wage Workers - Badal Saroj • Observe Com. BTR’s Birth Anniversary • Contribute To Com. BTR Memorial Trust Fund • Standing Labour Committee Meeting: Trade Unions Reject Linking of Social Ciause to • International Trade – P. K. Ganguly • The Spectre of 301 • Massive Youth Rally Against Unemployment • Massive Rally By Jammu Workers • Tripura Jute Mill Reopens • Russian Trade Unions Launch Mass Action • Support of CITU • World Conference On Solidarity With Cuba • 13th Congress of WFTU • News from WFTU Flashes • Declaration Adopted In The National Convention Of Railwaymen At Himachal Bhavan, New Delhi, Sept. 12, 1994 • Nagpur Killings • Italy: Million Strong Protest Action Against Budget • Strike Struggles Sweeping France • Spain: Sole Reliance on TNCs for Industrial Development was wrong, Say Unions

1 Dec 1994

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Suspension Of Seven Freedoms And Working Class • Comrade Chou En-Lat • Chasnala Disaster • Multi-National Cartels In Drug Indusiry • Magistrate Orders Thorough Enquiry • Declining Trend In Utilisation of Industrial Capacity • Output of 50 Industries Declines In 1975-76 • Regional Rural Banks And The Bank Employees • Chasnala Tragedy | Legal Notes • Railwaymen Win Their Cases • In Parliament • J. K. Jute Mill Workers Submit Memorandum To U. P. Governor • ClTU Application On Pre-Censorship In Calcutta High Court • Unequal Wages Still Continue In Plantations • Anti-Labour Agreement In Ritz Continental Hotel • Other Regular Features

1 Feb 1976

Silva, L., Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Lessons Of Port And Dock Strike • CITU’s Letter To ILO On Suppression of Trade Union Rights in West Bengal • Kuneitra In Ruins—L. Silva • Real Face of Nationalisation of Sick Textile Undertakings • Central Govt. Employees Defrauded • On The Question of D.A. • Second CITU Conference of West Bengal • First Conference of Orissa CITU • Jute Workers’ United Strike Continues • Railwaymen Continue The Struggle • W. Bengal T.U.’s Plan United Movement • Civil Court & Industrial Law/ Legal Notes • Real Face of Nationalisation of Sick Textile Undertakings • Indian Rare Earth Strike Ends In Victory • Newsletters: Kerala, Tamilnadu, Goa • CITU Criticises Port & Dock Agreement • Other Regular Features • 8-page Supplement On The Exploitation Of Indian Seamen

1 Feb 1975

Ranadive, B. T.

In This Issue: • Forward to Preparation for One Day strike in All Industries — B. T. Ranadive • National Convention Call For All India One Day Strike. A Memorable Event in United TU Movement • Bihar Glass and Potteries Workers Conference • Speedcraft Workers Attacked • Working Women’s Conference at Kolhapur • Assam CITU Gears Up its Activities • Violation of Freedom of Association and Right to Collective Bargaining in India • Jute Workers Observe Countrywide Demands Day • CITU Condemns Railway Ministry for accidents • Kanpur Hosiery Workers on Indefinite Strike • In Brief • Conference of Chabagan Mazdoor Union • Forward to the Xth World Trade Union Congress at Havana, 1982. Downward Trend of Industrial Accidents in GDR • Railway News: Inhuman Duty Hours for Locomen • May Day Celebrated Throughout India • Attack on Plantation Workers in Tamilnadu • Tamilnadu Tannery Workers Conference • Police Repression Continues in Haryana • Successful One Day Strike on May 20

1 Jul 1981