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On Working Women - Policy Documents of CITU
(CITU, 2010-08)
CONTENTS 1. Foreword 2. CITU Foundation Conference - Resolution on Working Women 3. Report of the First Convention of Working Women with Foreword by B. T. Ranadive 4. From the Bhubaneswar document on Organisation 5. From the Report to the Special Session of 6th Conference of CITU on Working Woman 6. 10th Conference of CITU - Commission on 'Working women – A Class Perspective' 7. 13th Conference of CITU - Commission on 'Organising Working Women – Our Objectives' 8. 13th Conference of CITU - Resolution on 'Centenary of International Women's Day'
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B. T. Ranadive on Trade Union Movement Vol. 3
(CITU, 1991-12) Ranadive, B. T.
Editorial Board : M. K. Pandhe, Vimal Ranadive, Kanai Bannerjee, P. K. Ganguly, Jibon Roy, Ranjit Basu CONTENTS 1. Unemployment and The Working Class 2. Make The National Integration Day A Success 3. Presidential Address, Working Committee Meeting, New Delhi, September 24-26, 1986 4. 11th Congress of The World Federation of Trade Unions - An outstanding Event 5. Greetings To The Working Class of Soviet Union 6. On To 21st January 7. Address To The Orissa CITU Conference, 9-12 December, 1986 8. 21st January Strike 9. Presidential Address, Working Committee Meeting, Calcutta, February 6 & 7, 1987 10. Greetings to West Bengal and Kerala 11. May Day To May Day 12. Presidential Address, 6th Conference at Bombay, May 18-22, 13. The Sixth Conference of CITU 14. Save The Peasants 15. Greetings to the Peasants, Agricultural Workers and Youths 16. Greetings to The Working Class of Soviet Union 17. Inaugural Speech, All India Coal Workers Federation Third Conference, 18-20 November 1987 18. Presidential Address, Working Comittee Meeting, Chandigarh, December 1-3, 1987 19. The Indomitable PR 20. On To 15th March 21. World Capitalist Crisis 22. Concluding Speech, General Council Meeting, Calcutta, March 31-April, 1986 23. "History of Railway TU Movement" 24. The Successful 15th March Bandh 25. May Day and Immediate Task 26. Questions Useful for The P & T Workers 27. Forward to Further Victories 28. A New Step Forward in Trade Union Unity 29. Express Solidarity With The Peasant Masses 30. Presidential Address, General Council Meeting of CITU, Dhanbad, Sep. 23-25, 1988 31. Anniversary Of October Revolution 32. On The Trade Union Movement in Research Institutions 33. Comrade Gorbachev's Visit 34. Contemporary Challenges and The Trade Union Movement 35. Speech To The Jute Workers Conference in Calcutta 36. Central Budget 37. The Working Class and The Peasantry 38. Sino-Soviet Summit 39. The Mighty Working Class Protest 40. The Great French Revolution 41. Presidential Address, Working Committee Meeting of CITU, Kalyani, September 4-6, 1989 42. Address to the Tamil Nadu State Conference of CITU 43. Forward to the Election Struggle 44. The Ninth General Elections 45. Right To Work And Unemployment Problem 46. Unpublished Tape-Recorded Memoirs 47. Inaugural Speech in the 5th Conference of the All India Plantattion Workers' Federation Held at Kalpetta Waynad Dt. Kerala on April 1986 48. Impact of Religion On Our Present Day Society 49. Fight Unitedly For the Cause of the Indian Working Women 50. Message on Publication of Working Women Bulletin 51. May Day Greetings 52. President CITU Greets Women on May Day 53. On Working Women 54. Last Message to Durgapur Steel Plant Workers Conference 55. A Youth Has to be a Rebel in Every Sense Extracts from Com. B.T.Ranadive's Address to 3rd DYFI, All India Conf. at Madras in Dec. 1987)
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B. T. Ranadive on Trade Union Movement Vol. 2
(CITU, 1991-04) Ranadive, B. T.
Editorial Board : M. K. Pandhe, Vimal Ranadive, Kanai Bannerjee, P. K. Ganguly, Jibon Roy, Ranjit Basu CONTENTS 1. The Last Manuscript 2. The Present Economic Situation In India 3. Tasks Before The Trade Union Movement 4. New Dangers! 5. Rising Attacks Growing Struggles 6. Defend The Left-Led Governments 7. ESI Scheme-A Hoax 8. On the Foundation Day of the CITU, 1981 9. Forward to Preparation for One Day Strike in All Industries 10. Presidential Address, General Council Meeting, Howrah, August 1981 11. Opening of A New Phase 12. Defeat Imperialist Conspiracies Against The Socialist World 13. On To One Day Strike 14. All Parties And Organisations Hail The 19th January Call 15. May Day 1982 16. Ressults of Elections 17. On Present Situation 18. Presidential Address, Working Committee Meeting, July 23-25, 1982, Bangalore 19. War And Working Class 20. Seamen's Strike 21. Presidential Address, General Council Meeting, Hind Motors, January 21-23, 1983 22. Death Centenary of Karl Marx 23. Issues before the coming CITU Session 24. Presidential Address, 5th Conference of CITU, April 13-17, 1983, Kanpur 25. On Foundation Day 26. Against War 27. Denounce U.S. Provocation 28. 7th November, 1983 29. Presidential Speech, Working Committee Meeting of CITU, Jamshedpur, Nov. 30-Dec. 2, 1983 30. The Peace Convention 31. May Day 1984 32. The Working Class and The Divisive Forces 33. Presidential Speech, CITU General Council, Jaipur, Sept. 28-30, '84 34. Seventh November Greetings (1984) 35. Assassination and After 36. The Elections and After 37. Trade Unions & Assembly Elections 38. Looking Ahead 39. 40th Anniversary of Anti-fascist Victory 40. Trade Unions & Public sector 41. Presidential Address, Working Committee Meeting, Trivandrum May-31-June 2, 1985 42. New Textile Policy 43. Fight Computer Offensive 44. Trade Union Movement in Public sector 45. New Economic Policy & Strategy 46. Sixty-eighth Anniversary of November Revolution 47. New Economic Policy & The Working Class 48. Speech Before Conference of Water Transport Workers Federation 49. Revolutionary Traditions of May Day 50. American Brinkmanship 51. Presidential Address. General Council Meeting, March 31-April-2, 1986 at Calcutta
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B. T. Ranadive on Trade Union Movement Vol. 1
(CITU, 1990-12) Ranadive, B. T.
Editorial Board : M. K.Pandhe, Vimal Ranadive, Kanai Bannerjee, P. K. Ganguly, Jibon Roy, Ranjit Basu CONTENTS 1. Resolution of the Goa Convention 2. Foundation Conference of CITU, Concluding Speech 3. On United action of the Working Class 4. Let everyone help The Working Class' 5. Indian Working Class & Bangladesh 6. The Govt. Employees & the people 7. Bangladesh is born - what next? 8. Resist the New offensive 9. A new blue print for Class Collaboration 10. Let the Indian Working Class unitedly defeat rising fascism in West Bengal 11. May Day Manifesto of CITU, 1972 12. The National Council of Trade Unions -what it means to the Working Class 13. On unemployment 14. Minimum Bonus Achieved Struggle for Bonus to all 15. Let Workers and Peasants Rise in Defence 16. Unitedly Fight and Defeat the Government's Wages & Income Policy 17. Presidential Address, General Council Meeting of CITU, Bombay, January 1973 18. May Day Manifesto of CITU, 1973 19. Presidential Address, 2nd Conference of CITU, Kerala May 1973 20. Right to Work must be a Fundamental Right 21. Tasks before the Convention of Central and State Government Employees 22. A Great and Victorious Strike 23. Prevent Sabotage of Railway Agreement 24. Presidential Address, W.C. Meeting of CITU, New Delhi October 1973 25. All Support to Loco Workers 26. Let All TU's unitedly Fight attack on IA Employees 27. Address to the 3rd National Congress of the Vietnamese Trade Unions 28. Presidential Address, G.C. Meeting of CITU, Vishakapatnam, April 1974 29. Notes on Visit to Hanoi 30. All Help to the Valliant Railway Workers 31. Fight the Wage Freeze 32. A menacing Situation 33. Presidential Address, W.C. Meeting, Howrah, January 1975 34. Against Crisis Burden 35. Presidential Address, 3rd Conference of CITU, Bombay, May 1975 36. Concluding Speech of the 3rd Conference 37. Presidential Address, G.C. Meeting, Calcutta, August 1977 38. New Industrial Relations Bill 39. The West Bengal Elections and the Working Class 40. The Problem of One Union in One Industry 41. Wages and Income Policy 42. Wage and Income Policy 43. All Hands For West Bengal 44. Presidential Address, W.C. Meeting, June 1978
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Com. V. J. K. Nair in conversation with N. Sooraj
(CITU, 2025-11-09) Nair, V. J. K.; Sooraj, N.
V. J. K. Nair was born in 1938. A veteran leader of the working class movement in Karnataka and India, he served as General Secretary and President of the CITU Karnataka state committee, Vice President of the CITU, CPI(M) Karnataka State Secretary and a Central Committee member. He joined the public sector Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) in Bangalore in January 1958 at the age of 20. He entered as a typist, a white-collar worker, transformed himself into a blue-collar worker, and was dismissed for participating in a strike in 1967. He became a full-time worker of the Bharat Electronics Employees' Union (BEEU) and eventually dedicated nearly six decades of his life as a full-time activist of CITU and the CPI(M). The interview was conducted by N. Sooraj, CITU activist, on 9 November 2025 at V. J. K. Nair’s house in Jalahalli, Bangalore. Included here: 1 DOCUMENT: V. J. K. Nair interview Key Points 2 VIDEO Video Interview link: https://citu.s.gy/vjknair To view the video, click the first link below under URI.