A Comrade’s Blog

The International Class-oriented Trade Union Movement, the workers, and the militant unions all over the globe honor with struggles the 139th anniversary of the workers’ struggle in Chicago in 1886.  The World Federation of Trade Unions, the most historic international trade union organisation, representing more than 105 million workers all Read more…

On this May Day 2025, CITU extends revolutionary greetings to the working people of theworld who are bitterly fighting to defend the hard-earned rights and combating the aggressive onslaught of the neoliberal capitalist order engulfed in systemic crisis. CITU holds high its commitment to proletarian internationalism and stand in solidarity Read more…

Sudip Dutta National Secretary, CITU The use of the term Neo-fascism by a section of Left to characterize the current ruling political dispensation in India has ignited a serious debate within the Left as well as other political camps and social groups. Some of them want to put the label Read more…

Nationwide General Strike on May 20, 2025 Tapan Sen  General Secretary The Indian Working Class movement is facing  an unprecedented and challenging situation, stemming from the deepening systemic crisis of contemporary capitalism. The ruling class’s response has become increasingly aggressive and brutally authoritarian, systematically stripping people of their democratic rights Read more…

K. Hemalata President, CITU Despite passing the Labour Codes in Parliament, the Modi led BJP government could not notify them for implementation for more than four years. The united working class movement strongly opposed and resisted their implementation through country wide struggles including general strikes. Returning to power for the Read more…

Since India’s economic liberalization in 1991, the Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions (CTUs)—comprising 10 major unions like Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC), All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS), Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), All India United Trade Union Centre (AIUTUC), Trade Union Coordination Read more…

New Delhi, March 18, 2025 – In a powerful display of solidarity, the Joint National Convention of Workers, held at Pyare Lal Bhavan, brought together Central Trade Unions and Independent Sectoral Federations (excluding Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh) to denounce the government’s anti-worker policies and announce a two-month nationwide campaign culminating in Read more…

– Vo Nguyen Giap The Marxist Vol 20, 01 January-March 2004 Dien Bien Phu is a large plain 18 kilometers long and  six to eight kilometers wide in the mountainous zone of the North-West. It is the biggest and richest of  the four plains  in this hilly  region  close  to Read more…

Comrade Iraniyan, Comrade Sivaraman, and Comrade Arumugam bravely fought against the oppression and the injustices of marginalized people towards land rights and other self respect. They actively participated in the struggle against landlords and oppressors who were against land reforms and tenant rights. Comrade Sivaraman, fought against oppression and led Read more…

On 4th May 1950, three leaders of the Communist Party of India, Comrade Rairu Nambiar, Comrade Kuttiyappa and Comrade Manjeri Veettil Gopalan Nambiar were shot dead by the police at Padikunnu, Kannur District, Kerala. The Second Congress of the undivided Communist party of India was held in Kolkota in 1948. Read more…