HOLD ALOFT THE BANNER OF STRUGGLE! FIGHT FOR JOBS AND IN DEFENCE OF JOBS! FIGHT FOR REGULARISATION OF JOBS! “The first and great necessity of the present, to free labour from capitalist slavery, is the passing of a law by which 8 hours will be the normal working day.”This was […]
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Organize May Day Meetings on the occasion of Bi-centenary birth anniversary of Karl Marx
INTENSIFY WORKING CLASS STRUGGLES Three years before the events that took place in 1886 in Chicago leading to the May Day, one of the worlds greatest teachers of the working class, one who said that the source of capitalist profit was the surplus value produced by the unpaid […]
Immediately Release IFTU Leader Com. Sujan Chakravorty
Mamata Banerjee Govt. has intensified attacks against communist revolutionaries and people’s struggles. In one such case it has arrested IFTU National Committee Secretary and a well known leader of revolutionary trade union movement of Srirampur Industrial Belt in Hoogly district in West Bengal on totally baseless and fabricated charges of […]
IFTU Call on May Day 2017
Long Live May Day Uphold the Tradition of Struggle FIGHT FOR FREEING MARUTI UNION LEADERS FIGHT FOR EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK FIGHT FOR THE PROTECTION OF WORKERS RIGHTS On May 1, 2017, the working class the world over will be organizing the 131st anniversary of May Day recalling the […]
ORGANISE PROTEST PROGRAMMES ON APRIL 4th, 5th IN SUPPORT OF THE MARUTI WORKERS’ STRUGGLE, AGAINST THE COURT JUDGEMENT SENTENCING 13 WORKERS TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT
On the 18th of March 2017, the Gurgaon Additional Sessions Court convicted 13 Maruti Suzuki workers to life imprisonment for the killing of a manager on 18 July, 2012. 117 workers who already spent four years in jail were acquitted earlier while another 14 were given a three year sentence […]
Protest against Conviction and Sentences to Maruti Suzuki Workers
Conviction and sentencing of workers of Maruti Suzuki plant in Manesar, Haryana by Gurgaon Sessions Court is a serious blow to the attempts of MNC workers to organize themselves. The trial and prosecution demonstrated a clear nexus between management of MNC and police and administration. While 13 workers were convicted […]
An Anti-worker Judgement On the Maruti Suzuki Workers Issue
March 10th 2017 is a dark day for the working class of India and its struggle to keep alive the right to unionize. It is also a dark day for the democratic rights movement. Almost five years earlier, as the workers of the Manesar unit of Maruti Suzuki fought for […]
2nd International Conference of Mining Workers Held at Godavari Khani, India
From the 2nd to the 5th of February, the coal town of Godavari Khani, part of the Singareni coal belt in Northern Telengana, resounded with slogans and working class songs. It was the venue of the 2nd International Mining Workers’ Conference and delegates from 16 countries spanning 4 continents gathered […]
Demonetization – A Cruel Joke on the Working Class
Aparna The Anna Hazare Movement in Delhi showed how the serious issue of corruption in governance could be inverted to lay all the moral blame at the door of the ordinary citizen. Making the people defensive helped bypass the twin question of corrupt, anti people rulers and policies of sale […]
Successful One Day Strike Emphasizes the Need To Intensify Struggle
The National Committee of the Indian Federation of Trade Unions extends revolutionary greetings to the working class of India for the successful one day strike on 2nd September 2016. IFTU calls on the Modi Govt. to heed the voice of the working class and to withdraw the anti- worker, anti- […]