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

In This Issue: • On the Foundation Day of the CITU, 1931 — B. T. Ranadive • Foundation Day of the CITU was celebrated at the CITU Central Office in New Delh • A Plea For Immediate Legislative Amendment | Legal Notes - Arun Prokas Chatterjee • Babcock and Wilcox Workers on Continuous Strike • Government of India’s Callousness Towards the ILO Conventions • Retrograde Recommendations of Ramanujam Committee • May Day Celebrations in Moscow — Nrisingha Chakrabarty • Second Conference of Sonepat District CITU • International Health Hazard Alert on 2 Nitro Propane. Concerned Unions Must Note • Comrade Soong Ching Ling • Comrade Bal Dandavate • Kolar Goldfields • Tripartite Meeting in Drug Industry

1 Jun 1981

Nguyen Trong Con, Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • May Day Manifesto Of The CITU—1976 • An Unprecedented Legislation | Legal Notes • Anti Social Elements Arrested In Bisrampur Collieries • Thirty Years of Vietnamiese Trade Union | Nguyen Trong Con [Continued from previous issue] • Apartheid on the High Seas • CITU’S Statement Before Chasnala Court Of Enquiry • Whither National Apex Body? • Big Victory For CITU Union In Durgapur Co-operative Elections • Andhra Newsletter • Other Regular Features

1 May 1976

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • CITU’s Stand On Proposed Constitution Amendments • Industrial Disputes in the Private Sector • CITU Condemns Racial Attacks In U.K. And Sonth Africa • Tatas Pocket Rs. 11 Crores! • Inflation Benefits Whom? • Railwaymen: NFIR Convention at Triupati • Annual Meeting of Eastern Railwaymen’s Union • Other Froms of Bonus | Legal Notes • Finances And Working Of Big Business In 1973-74 • ILO Admits CITU’s Complaint • What Caused Second Chasnala Disaster ? • Tamilnadu Newsletter • Andhra Pradesh Newsletter • Retrenchment In Bunge & Co. • Book Review: Bharater Shramik Andolaner Itihas Vol. 1 and II By Sukomal Sen • WFTU And Solidarity with Brazilian Workers • INTUC And Tea Plantation Wages • Other Regular Features

1 Jul 1976

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

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

Roy, Jibon, Balanandan, E., Pandhe, M. K. +4

In This Issue: • Editorial: Raise Higher the Banner of October Revolution • CITU Secretariat Calls for Massive Participation for March to Parliament on November 25, 1992 • Make 25th November Parliament March A New Turning Point of Resistance - Jibon Roy • For ‘March to Parliament’ on 25th November 1992 Some Important Points to be noted • The Road to Foreign Bondage - E. Balanandan • CITU Unmasked Krishnamurthy 15 years Ago • Railwaymen’s Struggle: 25 Nov. March to Parliament. Railwaymen Preparing for Massive Participation • Steel Workers Prepare for Parliament March of 25th November ‘92 • CITU mourns the death of Col. Sehgal, Com. Bhalchandra Trivedi, Com. K.M. Mathews • World Bank Team Visits CITU Centre • Meeting of the PWTUC • Sale of Spinning Mills Opposed • World T.U. Movement at Cross Roads – M. K. Pandhe • FACT Workers to Launch Joint Movement • Pubiic Sector Workers Observes CPSTU Programmes • 8th Annual Meeting of Asia-Pacific National Safety Council • CITU Secretariat Calls for Observance of October Revolution Week • Third EEFI Conference: Clarion Call to March Ahead - Rathin Sen • Durgapur Employees Donate Car to African National Congress • A. P. State CITU Council Meeting • CITU Express Solidarity with British Coal Miners • Special Session of the General Council, Bangalore, 16-18 December, 1992 • MP Workers Ask Patwa Govt. to Quit - Badal Saroj • Punjab: Massive Strike For Minimum Wages Revision - Charan Singh Virdi • Development (?)—IMF Style: Latin American Experience - Tapan Sen

1 Nov 1992

Pandhe, M. K., Mukherjee, Dipankar, Balanandan, E. +2

In This Issue: • Relevance Of The November Revolution For The Working Class – M. K. Pandhe • Editorial: One Year Of BJP Governance.... Down The Disaster Lane • Petroleum Price Hike - Height Of Deceit And Deception - Dipankar Mukherjee • CITU Denounces Oil Price Hike • 13 Oct 2000: Protest Day Observed • ‘Wishing Away’ The Trade Unions – E. Balanandan • Linking Of Labour Standards With International Trade • An open letter to Mr. Mark Brown, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Ardhendu Dakshi • "Vimal Ranadive Reminiscences" • Egyptian TU Federation Condemns Israel • World Conference Against Nuclear Bombs – M. M. Varghese • CITU Appeals For Flood Relief For West Bengal • State CITU Conference Calls For Struggles • Wage Agreement In N.B.C.C. • Protest Day Against Globalisation • Defence Employees National Convention • BEFI Demands Fresh Option For Pension • Maruti Udyog Locked Out: Repression Let Loose • Bharat Gold Mines Winding Up Stayed • BEL Employees Dharna • Com. M. S. Krishnan • Against anti-people, anti-national economic policies; Against Communalism: Massive Workers’ Demonstration At Delhi; Mass Petition Carrying Crores of Signatures Submitted to President of India

1 Nov 2000

Pandhe, M. K., Latha, T. A., Banerjee, Kanai +3

In This Issue: • Prepare For A Nationwide Struggle To Resist Anti-People Policies Of Nda – M. K. Pandhe • South Asian Workshop On Health And Safety – T. A. Latha • Editorial: Struggle Is Ahead • The Two Revolutions - Kanai Banerjee • Offensive Ahead On Labour Rights - Tapan Sen • Election And The Working Class - Chittabrata Mazumdar • CITU Delegation To International Conferences • The Seattle Conference Of WTO – P. K. Ganguly • Economy On Rails Heading Where ? • Trade Liberalisation In India Who-Gains ? • The Supply Side Of Global Bribery • Rajasthan: Workers’ Dharna Before ESI Office • Punjab: Hossiarpur Workers Brave Brutal Attacks • Bank-Employees To Protest Verma-Panel Recommendations • Strike At BHEL Trichy Plant • Trade Unions Denounce Privatisation Move • Sponsoring Committee Of Trade Unions Meet • Workers Abroad: Massive Job Cuts In US Companies • Boeing Co. Workers Won The Struggle • Canadian Miners In Struggle • Nissan Motor To Slash Down 21000 Jobs • Anganwadi Federation Call For Countrywide Campaign • AIFAWH Workshop on Organisation • Naked Discrimination Against Public Sector • Pension Case: Latest Development • Elected Left MPs In 13th Lok Sabha

1 Nov 1999

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

Ranadive, B. T.

BUILD UP UNITED STRUGGLE FOR SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHANGES AND DEFENCE OF DEMOCRACY - Presidential Speech | B. T. Ranadive

1 Jun 1978

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

In This Issue: • New Dangers! – B. T. Ranadive • Before discharging workmen enquiry is a mus. An Important Decision on Industrial Law | Legal Notes • LIC employees’ historic victory in Supreme Court • Government betrays port and dock workers. All India indefinite strike from Jan. 5 • CITU demands acceptance of public sector employees’ demands • Long March of Maharashtra peasants braves police repression • 5th Conference of Punjab CITU • Rise of agricultural workers membership of AIKS • Crisis of capitalism and the Working Class • Andaman and Nicobar workers prepare for struggle • All India Coal Workers Convention at Raniganj • Fifth Conference on Safety in Mines • Railway News: Railwaymen intensify struggle • Comrade Alexei Kosygin • Over half world’s working women are in Asia but they have a long road to equality • Fraternal TU leaders visit CITU office • News in Brief • Bihar bandh : Massive response • Indian seamen demand end of discriminatory wages

1 Jan 1981

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

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

Pandhe, M. K., Das, P. K., Choudhary, Saroj +1

In This Issue: • Forward To Countrywide Preparation for Historic Bharat Bandh on September 9 – M. K. Pandhe • CITU President Opposes Privatisation of IISCO in Parliament • Trade-Unions decides to Launch Strike Jointly to Oppose Privatisation of IISCO • ACFTU Delegation Visits India • Loot of Public Wealth —Fact Behind IISCO Privatisation • International Congress of Miners – M. K. Pandhe • Foil Game to Legalise Arbitrary Closure of Factories. Mobilise in Thousands against the Anti-Workers Move to Change Labour Laws - Jibon Roy • Tamilnadu State Conference Of CITU Pledges To Intensify Fight Against Twin Danger of New Economic Policy and Communalism • 9th Punjab State Conference of CITU • Karnataka State Beedi Workers’ Conference • 13th World Congress on Occupational Safety & Health Exposed Problems of Developing Countries – P. K. Das • A Glimpse Of Public Sector Performance - Saroj Chaudhury • Struggle of Working Women: Tamilnadu Politics and Arbitrary Attitude of Ministers • Railwaymen’s Struggle: AIRF Strike Ballot by July end for Indefinite General Strike in September 1993 • Jute Workers of West Bengal are on the path of Struggle • CITU/CTUC Workshop On Trade Union Education • CITU Calls for United Trade Union Action against Conditionalities On Wage Negotiations Imposed by the Govt. • One Lakh Workers March in Bombay Against Economic Policies & Communalism - Ashok Dhawale • CITU Opposes DA And Wage Freeze • Working Class Struggle all over the World • Oliver Tambo Passed Away

1 Jun 1993

Varada Rajan, W. R., Dev Roye, Swadesh

In This Issue: • Red Salute To Comrade Benoy Chowdhury • Editorial: Stop Not Till The Disastrous Policies Are Reversed • Massive Countrywide Strike On May 11th • NPMO Congratulates People • General Council Meeting at Kozhikode: CITU Charters Further Campaign • Intensive Campaign Programme • Pension Case In Supreme Court • Indian Labour Conference: A Sterile Debating Exercise On Labour Issues – W. R. Varada Rajan • CITU's Criticism Of Govt. Inaction • CITU Comments On Industrial Sickness • Industrial Sickness: The BIFR Views • Labour Issues In Parliament: Bharat Gold Mines: Govt. Ultimatum On VRS • “Unambiguous Policy” To Throw Away PSU Shares? • Minimum Age For Employment • On Sale Of PSU Assets • The Lot Of Pensioners/ Retirees • Sell-Out Of SAIL! • On Draft Electricity Bill, 2000: Shift To Anti-People Power Policy - Swadesh Dev Roye • Electricity Federation Conference • Voltas Employees Organise Conventions • May Day Celebrated In Tamilnadu • NPMO Rally In Port Blair • IDPL Workers Demonstrate • CITU Appeal For Drought Releif • Coal Workers Score A Major Win • Trike By Newspaper Employees • Passing Of Major Ports Bill Denounced • Affiliation Fees : Attention State Committees • Anganwadi Workers March To Parliament • CITU Greetings To DYFI 6th Conference

1 Jun 2000

Ganguly, P. K., Bhattacharjee, Shanti, Roy, Jibon

In This Issue: • From Jail Bharo To Bharat Bandh And Industrial Strike On September 9 – P. K. Ganguly • Massive Countrywide Court Arrest • Trade Unions unitedly oppose IISCO Privatisation. Protest strike in Steel Industry on 7th September 1993 • CITU Condemns Killing Of CPI(M) Leader In Bihar • All India Coal Workers’ Federation meet on 30th July. Coal Miners Prepare For Bharat Bandh On 9th September • Railwaymen’s Struggle: Railwaymen’s Convention/Conferences upheld Bharat Bandh on 9th September 1993 • Kisan Sabha Condemns Brutal Murders • Com Bhag Singh Sajjan • Com. T. N. Siddhanta • Citu Mourns Utpal Dutta’s Passing Away • Com. S. K. Bishoyee • Citu Condemns Vandalism By Rss-Bjp-Vhp • Com Achintya Bhattacharya • Sugar Workers Start Mobilisation • Bank And Financial Institutions Decide For Indefinite Strike • Convention Of The L.I.C. Working Women Visakhapatnam Division • Anganwadi Workers to Join Bharat Bandh • CITU Welcomes Supreme Court Order for Reinstatement of Dismissed/Removed Railwaymen • Working Committee Meeting Of E.E.F.I • Power Workers’ Federations Extend Support to DESU Workers in their Struggle Against Privatisation • Technology Upgradation and New Economic Policy - Jibon Roy (Speech read in seminar organised by national productivity council held on 22 & 23rd April 1993 at New Delhi) • Privatisation of Nationalised Insurance Industry Why and In Whose Interest! - Shanti Bhattacharjee • Miners In Continuous Hunger Strike in East Germany to Resist Closure

1 Sept 1993

Pandhe, M. K., Sen, Tapan, Ganguly, P. K. +1

In This Issue: • Japanese Peace Delegation Visits India • Defeat This Fanaticism! • NPMO To Intensify Struggle • Com Z A Ahmed • II National Commission on Labour: Move To Usher In Deregulated Labour Market – W. R. Varada Rajan • Comrade K M Haribhat • Overhaul Economic Policy Reforms: CITU • Pre Budget Consultations, 1999-2000: CITU Memorandum • “Is There A Govt. Functioning Here At All?”: BMS • IRA Bill: Halt This Madness • Sexual Harassment Is A Violation Of Fundamental Right: Supreme Court Verdict • Com. Gopal Basu • To Save Coal Industry PSUs Coal Miners’ Prepare For Movement – M. K. Pandhe • Amartya Sen Honoured - Tapan Sen • Haryana: Unprecedented Repression • BHEL Hyderabad : INTUC, BMS Defeated • 8th Conference Of AP CITU • West Bengal: Organising New Area • Goa: Repression & Terror On Mine Workers • Com Radhika Banerjee • J&K State Govt Employees’ 18 Days’ Strike • Com. Naresh Dasgupta • Karnataka: Panchayat Employees’ Meet • Revive NPCC In National Interest • Construction PSUs Facing Serious Crisis • Delhi: State CITU Meets • Tamil Nadu CITU Intensifies Campaign • Manipur Employees On Strike • CITU Denounces Cabinet Decisions • U. S. Barbarism – P. K. Ganguly • International Seminar : World Energy Scenario On The Eve Of 21st Century • Day Of The Fat Wallet: Spiffy Growth In Top Income Bracket - Rich Get Richer In Post-Reforms India, Lower Income Crowd Thins

1 Feb 1999

Choudhary, Saroj, Sindhu, A. R., Roy, Jibon +2

In This Issue: • Elections 1998: CITU Appeals To The Working Class • Without Comments: Whither Communal! • WTO Pact On Financial Service: Who Cheers! - Saroj Chaudhuri • Com. B. P. Kashyap • Quarry Workers Of Faridabad - A tale of woes and agony • Trade Unions Denounce Disinvestment Of Public Sector Shares, National Meet At Bangalore Calls For United Struggle • Women Workers Organise in Monica Electronics, Delhi – A. R. Sindhu • Whither Public Sector! • Elections 1998: Rid Factory Gates Of Communal & Caste Divide - Jibon Roy • More on Judgement Against Bandhs: A Pedantic Rhetoric of Anglo Saxon Jurispudence - Har Dev Singh, Bar-at-Law, Supreme Court of India • M.P: Nightmare Of BJP Rule - Badal Saroj • Madhya Pradesh BJP’s Tendu Leaf Scam • Of Bofors Connection! • ILO Sounds Alarm On Unemployment • Whither Globalisation! IMF To Bail-Out Or Sell-Out • Central TUs On IISCO Modernisation • Total Bandhin Burdwan • Police Repression On Dalli - Rajhara Mine Workers • C.S.E.U. Celebrates Silver Jubilee • Save Cement Corporation: TUs Call • FMRAI Rally In Mumbai • HMS Conference • Employees’ Rally Against HVP-BJP Govt. • Demonstration before US Embassy • Japan: Yamaichi Securities Co. To Close • Part-Time Workers Demonstrate • Japanese Govt Attacks On Hospital Workers • Mass Protest Against Govt. • Against Reforms and Deregulation • Joint Programme for Spring Struggle • Australia: Workers Win Better Wages • Fighting Health Hazards • All European Ports Paralysed • CITU Demands abrogation of Sanctions against Libyan Arab Jamahiriya • WFTU Calls For Worldwide Action • Multilateral Agency For Unilateral Benefit!

1 Feb 1998

इस अंक में: • बैंक इजारेदारों की मांगें पंच-फैसले के लिए सौंपी गई • सीटू कार्यकर्ता की हत्या • 21 अप्रैल: अखिल भारतीय दिवस के रूप में मनाया गया • ट्रेड यूनियन नेताओं के कर्नाटक से निष्कासन की सीटू द्वारा भर्त्सना • दक्षिण अफ्रीका में खान मजदूरों का शोषण • महाराष्ट्र व गुजरात के अध्यादेशों की सीटू द्वारा निंदा • समूचे देश में मई दिवस ममनाया गया • आसाम में वार्ता द्वारा समझौता करने का अनुरोध • कामगार महिला मांग दिवस मनाया गया • भारत में लगातार बढ़ते औद्योगिक विवाद • बहुराष्ट्रीय कंपनियों और हथियारबंदी के खिलाफ संघर्ष - विकास पर विश्व ट्रेड यूनियन सम्मेलन • हरयाणा: मिल्टन साइकिल मजदूरों की मांग • दुर्घटनाओं में वृद्धि: मुनाफे के लिए मजदूरों की जाने न्यौछावर • पटाखों की फैक्ट्री में विस्फोट से 50 से अधिक मजदूर मरे • अकेले फैक्ट्रीयों में 1977 में तीन लाख मजदूर घायल • प्रबंधकों की लापरवाही से दो मजदूर मरे • खान दुर्घटना में तीन मजदूरों की जानें गई • खान के गीत जाने से सात मजदूर मारे गए • बम्बई विस्फोट में मिल मजदूरों की मृत्यु • रेल समाचार: रेलकर्मियों द्वारा दमन के खिलाफ विरोध • पश्चिम बंगाल समाचार : सी टी ए का 12वां सम्मेलन • वन-मजदूरों का 11वां सम्मेलन • सरकारी कर्मचारियों का सम्मेलन • प्रगतिवादी ताकतें एक होकर संघर्ष करें • वस्त्र उद्योग के श्रमिक हड़ताल पर • ग्लैक्सो की चीज़ों का बायकाट • तमिलनाडु: राज्य सरकार कर्मचारियों की हड़ताल समाप्त • कीमत-वृद्धि और विक्टिमाइजेशन के खिलाफ प्रदर्शन • कामरेड जोसिप ब्रोज टीटो

1 Jun 1980

In This Issue: • Resist Imposition Of Wage Freeze • Violations Of Trade Union Rights In India • Central Trade Unions Expose Government’s Anti-People Policies • ILO Committee on Work on Plantation • CITU Denounces Notification On N.S.A. • CITU Condemns Increase In P. & T. Service Charges • Chowgule Matrix Hobs Workers on Indefinite Strike • Steel Workers to Launch Country Movements • Dilatory Tactics Of BHEL Mangement • Country Wide Response On January 19 • Railway News: Indian Locomen Express Solidarity With British Locomen • World Medical Association President Calls For Nationalisation Of Multinational Drug Companies • Turmoil In J. K. Industries At Kanpur • Philippines Workers Congratulate Indian Workers For 19th January Strike • Conference of Bangladesh Agricultural Farm Labour Federation • CITU Condemns Repression on Workers in Turkey and Colombia • Sixth Congress of Korean Trade Unions • Tenth World Trade Union Congress • A Resolute ‘No’ To War • In Parliament: Bombay Textile Strike • Union Bank Employees’ Strike • Standing Committee Meeting On Bonded, Migrant And Casual Labour • Tripartite Settlement In Medimpex • Indefinite Strike In Barsua Mines

1 Mar 1982