People's Democracy

On Strengthening and Consolidating Working Class Unity

THE 14th conference of the CITU being held on April 4-8, 2013 in Kannur, congratulates the working people all over the country and across the sectors for magnificently responding to the call of two-day countrywide general strike given by united platform of all central trade unions and employees’ federations on the ten point demands relating to the burning issues facing the workers and the people. The conference also gratefully acknowledges the all out support given by the people at large to this united struggle of the trade unions.

The conference also hails the trade union movement of the country for coming together in the common platform of united action for the common cause of the working class and the people to demonstrate unprecedented unity in the field of action. It is not merely the unity of the central trade unions, almost all major employees’ federations from almost all the sectors of industries and services, both in the organised and the unorganised sectors came together on a united single platform of struggle which represents all the sections of working people in the country.  The conference pledges to play its frontline role in strengthening and widening this historic unity of the trade unions and federations further in the days to come.

The conference strongly believes that in view of the mounting attacks on the lives and livelihood of the working people flowing out of the faulty economic policies being aggressively pursued by the government, the unity of the working class must be further broadened and strengthened and the united struggle of the trade unions must be further intensified. For defending the rights and livelihood of the workers and the people and also for defending the interests of national economy, such broader and intensified united struggles of the working people must be carried out throughout the length and breadth of the country reaching the yet unreached sections of the working people, both in the organised and unorganised sectors.

This 14th conference of the CITU notes with great satisfaction that the all-in unity of the trade unions has created such enthusiasm among the working people that the workers in many establishments where trade unions could not yet be formed and workers under many independent and unaffiliated trade unions have also joined the last two days general strike in a big way. We must bring all these sections of workers into the joint platform of struggle. We have also to draw the mass of the people affected by the neo-liberal economic policy regime in the joint platform of struggle. That is the need of the hour.    

This conference while expressing gratitude to the leadership of the fraternal trade union centres present in the conference for their solidarity, pledges to work together in percolating the unprecedented unity achieved among the entire trade union movement through the joint struggles into wider united initiative at the workplace level throughout the country and thereby further cementing the unity of the working people for heightened struggles in the days to come.

Long live working class unity! Mazdoor Ekta Zindabad!