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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

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

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

Rangnekar, P. B., Pandhe, M. K., Roy, Jibon

In This Issue: • Homage to Com. B.T.R: Condolence Meetings in the Country • Tribute to Comrade B.T.R. – P. B. Rangnekar • National Convention Against Communalism • Donation to Tripura Struggle Fund • CITU Extends Support to National Convention Against Communalism • Indian Labour Conference-29th Session – M. K. Pandhe • Comrade Ho Chi Minh • Observance of Centenary May Day • Demand for New Textile Policy • Railwaymen’s Struggle: When will the Victimised be Back to their Jobs? • Conference of State Government Employees Federation • Meeting of TUs With Finance Minister • Right to Work Convention at Durgapur – Jibon Roy • CITU’s Message to Vietnamese Trade Unions on Birth Centenary of Ho Chi Minh

1 Jun 1990

Ranadive, B. T., Karat, Prakash, Ranadive, Vimal +3

In This Issue: • Assassination and After – B. T. Ranadive • CITU Denounces the Dastardly Assassination of the Prime Minister • When Hyaenas Roamed the Streets of Delhi – Prakash Karat • Delhi Ruled by Gangsters for Four Days – Vimal Ranadive • Hindu, Sikh, Muslim, Christian—Let Us Unite Together • List of Congiess (I) Men Involved • Carnage Led by Congress(I) in Other States: Bihar – J. S. Majumdar; Madhya Pradesh; Uttar Pradesh – Ram Sumer Yadav • West Bengal: People Safeguard Communal Amity – Sampad Pal • People’s Aid Committee in Delhi • Delhi Peace March by Artists • Asian and Pacific Region T.U. Leaders Visit CITU • Comrade Arabindo Ghosh • The Organised Communal Holocaust: Press Reports Point to Congress (I) • Fallout Of Riots: Casualty Of Jobs • Railwaymen’s Struggle: Guard Council's Annual Meeting • “Progress’’ Under Congress Rule—At a Glance • “Expert Committee” in Textiles • Around The States: Bihar, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Maharshtra, Kerala, Assam, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, • On Indira Gandhi's Assassination: Condolence Message from International Trade Unions • Conference of Water Transport Workers Federation of India • International Struggles

1 Dec 1984

Ranadive, B. T.

In This Issue: • New Textile Policy – B. T. Ranadive • Working Committee Of CITU: Calls to Resist the New Attacks • Working Committee Meeting Resolutions • Women’s Struggle: Meeting of AICCWW • Seminar on Dalit Women • JMS Campaign on Women’s Decade • Public Sector Unions’ Meet: Tools to Divide the Working Class • CITU Greets SOHYO Conference • Railwaymen’s Struggle: Unite, Meet the Challenge • Secretariat Decisions • International Struggles

1 Jul 1985

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: • Fight Out The Victimisation Of Railwaymen With All Our Might • The Glorious Railway Strike And After, Repression Continues Even After Withdrawal • The AITUC Leadership And The Railway Strike • Amendments To The Constitution Of The CITU • Who Scuttled Central T.U.’s Solidarity With Railwaymen? • Who Are Patronising Gangsters In Durgapur? CITU Union’s Open Letter To Steel Minister • West Bengal Forest Workers Realise Demands Through Struggle • Closure Of Plantations Lead To Large Scale Unemployment • Law For Victimised Railway Employees / Legal Notes • Deihi ‘Statesman’ Workers Face Management & Goonda Attacks • Newsletters / Kerala, Tamilnadu, Goa, Maharashtra • CITU Demands Recognition of PRG of South Vietnam • Rising Working Class Struggles In Great Britain • Karnataka Textile Workers Get Wage Rise • Big Strike by M. P. State Transport Workers • Other Regular Features

1 Jul 1974

Balanandan, E., Pandhe, M. K., Ganguly, P. K. +2

In This Issue: • Calls for All Round Mobilisation for 29th September Strike – P. K. Ganguly • Working Committee Meeting New Delhi, July 24-26,1994: Address By The President – E. Balanandan • State Convention of Mass Organisations at Bhubaneswar • Successful Strike of Public Sector Workers and Officers on July 14 – M. K. Pandhe • Fifth Conference Of Madhya Pradesh CITU • Workers of Unorganised Sector to Join 29th Sept. Strike • Workshop On Unorganised Sector Workers – P .K. Ganguly • Textile Workers Decide to March to Parliament • Contract Workers in Steel Industry to Strike on Sept. 12 in All Steel Centres - Manini Chatterjee • Approach To Fifth Central Pay Commission • Meeting Of Standing Labour Advisory Committee • Comrade Kim Il Sung • Struggle Against Privatisation Surges Ahead • CITU Celebrates 25th Anniversary • Com. Erich Honecker • Wagon Policy Of Indian Railways Designed To Doom Wagon Building Units - Dipankar Mukherji • Com S. K. Sanyal

1 Aug 1994

Pandhe, M. K., Balanandan, E., Ganguly, P. K. +1

In This Issue: • Magnificient Response to Nationwide Industrial Strike on 29th November - M. K. Pandhe • CITU Congratulates Working Class for Magnificent Strike; Condemns Statement by Sangma and T.V. for Misleading Propaganda • CITU Condemns World Bank Grant to Facilitate Exit Policy • CITU Condemns Firing on Textile Workers at Abohar • CITU Condemns Police Firing on Workers at Sangrur • CITU Protests against Government Circular Obstructing Wage Negotiations in Public Sector • Comrade Abdulla Rasul • Com. Swaran Singh Cheema • Com. A. B. Sawant • Com. O. J. Joseph • The 29th November Strike - E. Balanandan • 29 November Strike: A Landmark in Working Class Struggle - P. K. Ganguly • 74th Anniversary of October Revolution—New Perspective of Trade Union Movement - Jibon Roy • Working Women's Convention of Thanjavur Division • Massive General Strike in South Africa • Book Review: ‘One Union in Railways’—a Compilation—Published by Guruswami-Alamelu Labour Research Centre, Madras • CITU Denounces U.S. Aggression in Irak • CITU Protests against Staff Reduction in Railways • Anganwadi Women Promised a “Token Benefit” • Workshop of Public Sector Unions: Common Approach on the New Charter of Demands, Expressed Firm Resolve to Defend Public Sector

1 Dec 1991

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

Pandhe, M. K., Sen, Sukomal, Sen, Tapan +3

In This Issue: • All Unions Oppose "Reform Package" For Banking Industry – M. K. Pandhe • ILO Session of Joint Committee on the Public Sector - Sukomal Sen • Steel Workers Prepare For Resistance To Iisco Privatisation - Tapan Sen • Joint Rally By Textile Workers Before Parliament – P. K. Ganguly • 8th Delhi CITU State Conference Held At Ghaziabad On 28th To 30th January, 1994 • Seventh Maharashtra State Conference Of CITU - Ashok Dhawale • Conference Of Rajasthan State CITU • State CITU Conference Of Gujarat • Symposium Against Dunkel Draft • Patna Prepares For 8th CITU Conference - Sarvodaya Sarma • CITU Calls For Intensification Of Struggles • CITU Denounces Govt. Move To Liquidate Sick PSUs • Rice And Wheat Pices Increased Under Fund-Bank Dictates • Successful Nationwide Strike By Coal Miners • CITU Condemns Nanjundappa Committee Recommendation For Massive Manpower Cut • Kisan Sabha Protests Against Signing Of Dunkel Draft • China: Employment Objectives and Strategies 1994-2000 - By Xiao Shi (Social Development Department, State Planning Commission, China) • In The Capitalist Wonderland • Support To The Mexican Uprising • United Strike Preparation By Transport Workers • Return Of The TUs

1 Mar 1994

Ganguly, P. K., Balanandan, E., Pandhe, M. K. +1

In This Issue: • Editorial: The Telecom Strike • CITU Supports Telecom Strike • Call of CITU General Council: Prepare for Next Phase of Actions against NEP – P. K. Ganguly • Resolution on Struggle Against the New Economic Policies of the Government of India • General Council Meeting Howrah, 31st May- 2nd June, 1995: Presidential Address - E. Balanandan • Delhi And U.P. Prepare For 24th June Strike • Massive Rally By Rajasthan CITU Against Anti-Labour Policies Of BJP Government • Joint National Convention Of Textile Workers At Calcutta • Raw Deal For The Coal Miners—NCWA-V X Rayed – M. K. Pandhe • CITU Greets FMRAI For Strike Against Amendment Of Patent Act • The CITU Surging Ahead Through Struggles - E. Balanandan • CPSTU Holds All India Convention on Contract Workers • Anganwadi Women Protest Against Privatisation - Vimal Ranadive

1 Jul 1995

Pandhe, M. K., Roy Chowdhury, Tarapada, Choudhary, Saroj +2

In This Issue: • Editorial: Ramification Of The Hawala Scam • Nation Wide Magnificent Strike Observed Against Government’s Pension Scheme • AIDWA Demonstrates Against Govt. Pension Scheme • JAC Of Textile Workers Calls For Mass Dharna Before Parliament On 11th March, 1996 • AITUC’S Unfounded Criticism Of The CITU’S Stand On Pension Scheme – M. K. Pandhe • Sixth State Conference Of West Bengal CITU - Tarapada Roy Chowdhury • The Employee's Pension Scheme—1995: The True Pictures - A Few Selected Thought Provoking Cartoons/Caricatures Depicting the Evils of the Employees’ Pension Scheme • Gujarat Textile Convention Takes Rasta Roko, Rail Roko Programme • CITU Supports the Struggle of Insurance Employees for Just and Proper Wage Revision • Andhra Pradesh Child Labour Workshop • Meeting of AICCWW • The Infamous Press Note - Saroj Choudhuri • Jungle Rule In NEPZ, Noida – K. M. Tewary, General Secretary CITU Distt. Committee Ghaziabad, U.P. • Unprecedented Resentment over Air India Wage Pact – R. Ramanathan • Report Of Standing Committee On Energy – V • International Solidarity • On Coal Miners Strike in Russia and Ukraine • WFTU Urges IMF, World Bank And G-7 Countries To Draw Appropriate Lessons From Memorandum Of Mexican Parliamentarians For An End To Imposition Of Neoliberal Economic Policies • Workers Protest At Pakistan Against Government Policies Price Hike, Unemployment And Privatization

1 Mar 1996

Sen, Tapan, Pandhe, Pramila, Pandhe, M. K. +3

In This Issue: • Editorial: Liberalised Recipe for Economic Offenders • Joint Appeal by Scope and National Trade Unions • Com. Sagarika • National Convention Against Economic Reforms On December 16 • Anniversary Celebration of Pension Scheme Condemned by Workers • Com. Amiya Das Killed by Miscreants • Govt. Pension Scheme: Illusory Defence And Hard Reality - Tapan Sen • Textile Workers’ Demonstration at Delhi on December 5 • Memorandum By Women’s Committee Of Insurance Employees On Reservation Of Woman • Women Demonstrate Before Parliament Demanding 33% Reservation in Assemblies and Parliament - Pramila Pandhe • The Glorious Seven Day Strike by Central Govt. Employees • MP CITU Assails Govt’s Move to Curb Right to Strike by Govt Employees • Indefinite Strike By Guwahati Municipal Corporation Employees • PWD Muster Roll Workers Meet • CITU Calls For Country Wide Movement For Removal Of Ceiling On Bonus • New Challenges Before Bank Employees Movements – M. K. Pandhe • NGOs in India (A report on activities of some NGOs in the country) • Successful Bonus Struggles in Tamilnadu – A. K. Padmanabhan • Workers Struck Work in Russia Over Non Payment or Wages • Mumbai Conference Of Central Govt. Employees & Workers – P. R. Krishnan • Japan… Facing Stagnation - Swadesh Dev Roye • Joint Trade Union Delegation Visit China • ILO Calls for Immediate Action Against Intolerable forms of Child Labour • Demonstration Against Anti-Labour Policies of BJP Govt

1 Dec 1996

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

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

Ranadive, B. T.

इस अंक में: • सभी उद्योगों में एक दिन की हड़ताल की तैयारियों पर - बी टी रणदिवे • राष्ट्रिय सम्मेलन द्वारा एक दिन की हड़ताल का आह्वान: एकजुट ट्रेड यूनियन आंदोलन में एक स्मरणीय घटना • कोल्हापुर में श्रमिक महिला सम्मेलन • आसाम सीटू की गतिविधियां तेज • मई दिवस • चाय बागान मजदूरों पर भरी दमन • भारत में संगठन की स्वतन्त्रता और सामूहिक सौदेबाजी के अधिकार का उलंघन • जूट मजदूरों ने देशव्यापी मांग दिवस मनाया • सीटू द्वारा दुर्घटनाओं के लिए रेल मंत्रालय की निंदा • कानपूर होजियरी मजदूरों की अनिश्चितकालीन हड़ताल • बिहार के उद्योगों में तालाबंदी की चाहत • संक्षिप्त समाचार • चाय बागान मजदूरों का सम्मेलन • दसवीं विश्व ट्रेड यूनियन कांग्रेस, 1982 हवाना के प्रति : जी डी आर में औद्योगिक दुर्घटनाओं में कमी • रेल समाचार: लोको कर्मियों के कार्य के अमानवीय घंटे • समूचे भारत में मई दिवस की धूम • तमिलनाडु में बागान मजदूरों पर हमले • तमिलनाडु चमड़ा उद्योग के मजदूरों का सम्मेलन • हरयाणा में पुलिस दमन जारी • 20 मई को एक दिन की सफल हड़ताल

7 Jun 1981

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