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INTRODUCTION

CITU is a National level Trade Union in India politically attached to the Communist Party of India(Marxist). The Centre of Indian Trade Unions is today one of biggest assembly of workers and classes of India. It has strong unchallengeable presence in the Indian states of West Bengal, Kerala and Tripura besides a good presence in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. It has presence in almost all of the Indian states.

Full name Founded Members Country Key people Office location Website

Centre of Indian Trade Unions 1970 3.2 million India A.K.Padmanabhan , President New Delhi, India

www.citucentre.org

A.K.Padmanabhan , President

ABOUT CITU
The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) is one of the major Central
Trade Unions (CTU) in India. The CITU is progressive trade union Centre, opposed to imperialist globalization, championing the cause of working class and defending economic sovereignty of the country. the workers in industrial and service sectors like Coal, Electricity, Steel, Heavy Engineering, Construction, Electronics, Oil & Natural Gas production and refining, Petrochemicals, Fertilizers, Pharmaceuticals, Rail, Road, Air & Water Transport, Port & Docks, Telecommunications, Textile, Financial & other service sectors, Plantation, etc. country is the working women. Organizing the working women is a priority agenda of CITU. The All India Coordination Committee of Working Women (CITU) had been functioning for over two decades, focusing its attention on mobilizing the women workers and promoting women cadres to leadership position in the trade unions.

The CITU represents workers in every field of trade activities including

Another important segment of the trade union movement in the

HISTORY OF CITU
Beginning can be traced in the joint convention of the CPSU workers
held at Hyderabad on 23-24 December 1977.

significant for the reason that a new political situation emerged in

the country with defeat at the most atrocious avowedly anti-worker authoritarian Internal Emergency (June 1975 to November 1977) regime of Indira Gandhi

On track during the ruling of Independent India by Janata Party

Government

CPSU was formed by joining CITU, BMS, AITUC and HMS. Later struggles and rivalry occurred between the trade unions, that
led for the disintegration of CPSU

Cont..
Fights aroused against: Wage freeze steps of the Government, against anti-worker
unilateral guidelines issued by Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE). Atrocious Industrial Relations Bill designed to take away the trade union rights of the workers, opposition to Compulsory Deposit Scheme (CDS) etc.

Rajiv Gandhi Government, in the mid-eighties, took concrete steps to

ideologically and financially weaken public sector in the country. The ground work was done by the infamous Arjun Sengupta Committee Report which recommended taking away the workers collective bargaining rights among other steps. CITU took initiative to defeat this design and unify the public sector workers against such moves.

Convention of the CPSU trade the unions affiliated to CITU and also the
unions friendly to CITU was held at Bangalore on 27-28 May 1985 which was attended by 284 delegates representing 84 trade unions from different CPSU workers.

NAME & FLAG

The name of the organization
shall be CENTRE OF INDIAN TRADE UNIONS (to be designated in abbreviated form as the CITU).

The flag of the CITU will be red

in color with hammer and sickle in Centre in white color, with the letters CITU vertically on the left.

AIMS & OBJECTS

The CITU believes that the exploitation of the working class can be
ended only by socializing all means of production: distribution and exchange and establishing a Socialist State.

The CITU fights: against all encroachments on the economic and social rights of
workers and for enlargement of their rights and liberties

for the recognition of trade unions on the basis of secret ballot for security of full employment, right to work and against the hazards
of unemployment

for equal wages for equal work for the protection of the democratic rights of the minorities for proper vocational training for elimination of illiteracy

Cont.
In the fight for the immediate interests of the working class the CITU
demands:

nationalization of all foreign monopoly concerns who barbarously exploit our working class industry who garner huge profits at the expense of the workers

nationalization of all concerns owned by Indian monopolists and big

The CITU promotes relations of solidarity with the peasants and

agricultural workers in the fight for land, against usury and rent, and high taxation and lend every help to the forces of agrarian revolution countries in the common fight for socialism, promote fraternal relations and deep bonds of unity with workers and people of socialist countries. aggression and render all assistance to national liberation movements against imperialism.

It promotes international solidarity and unity with the workers of other

It helps peoples in their fight against imperialist domination and

Cont.
The CITU fights for the maintenance of world peace, against all
imperialist plots for unleashing world war, against nuclear war and for the abolition of all nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction. different social system

It fights for peaceful co-existence between states belonging to It fights for a foreign policy based on friendly relations with The CITU co-operates with international trade union
neighboring countries, opposing war and supporting peace and national liberation movements. organisations for the furtherance of the common aims of the trade union movement. be brought about without class struggle and shall constantly repel attempts to take the working class along the path of class collaboration.

It firmly adheres to the position that no social transformation can

COMPOSITION OF THE CITU

The CITU consists of:

i. ii.

The affiliated unions, The delegates assembled at the triennial or special session of the CITU Conference.

iii. The General Council, iv. The Working Committee or the General Council,
and

v.

The State Conference, the State Committees and State Councils.

CONFERENCES OF THE CITU

No: 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th Venue Date President Calcutta Mumbai Chennai Kanpur Mumbai Calcutta Patna Kochi 28-31 May 1970 21-25 May 1975 11-15 April 1979 13-17 April 1983 18-22 April 1987 3-7 March 1994 21-26 April 1997 B.T. Ranadive B.T. Ranadive B.T. Ranadive B.T. Ranadive B.T. Ranadive B.T. Ranadive E. Balanandan E. Balanandan E. Balanandan Ernakulum 18-22 April 1973

General secretary P. Ramamurti P. Ramamurti P. Ramamurti P. Ramamurti Samar Mukherjee Samar Mukherjee M.K. Pandhe M.K. Pandhe M.K. Pandhe M.K. Pandhe Chittabrata Majumdar

13-17 February 1991 E. Balanandan

Hyderabad 27-31 December 2000 Chennai

9-14 December 2003 M.K. Pandhe

12th
13th

Bangalore
Chandigar h

17-21 January 2007

17-21 March 2010

M.K. Pandhe

Mohammed Amin

A.K.Padmanabhan Tapan Sen

ALL INDIA OFFICE BEARERS

President : A.K.Padmanabhan General Secretary : Tapan Sen Treasurer : Ranjana Nirula

VICE PRESIDENTS

SECRETARIES

M.K.Pandhe
Md. Amin Kanai Banerjee T.K.Rengarajan

Jibon Roy
S. Devroye Kali K.Hemlata (F)

K. N. Ravindranath
P. K. Gurudasan Shyamal Chakraborty

Dipankar Mukherje
M. M. lawrence R. Sudha Bhaskar

List of Office Bearers

Arati Dasgupta (F)

K.L. Bajaj V. J. K. Nair S.K.Bakshi

A. Soundararajan
K.O.Habeeb D Bhattacharya Raghunath Singh

Mercykutty Amma (F)

S. Veeraiah Basudeb Acharia Sukomal Sen S. Punyavati (F)

K. K. Divakaran
Manik Dey Kashmir Singh Thakur S. Varalaxmi (F) Malathi Chittibabu (F)

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MONTHLY JOURNALS

The working class The voice of working

women

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