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Arka Rajpandit
THE working committee of CITU, which met in Hanumakonda, Telangana from February 2-3, has called upon the working class of India to intensify decisive class actions to isolate and defeat the corporate-communal nexus running the government. The working committee has also called upon the working class across the country to actively participate in nationwide joint protest actions, rural bandh, and sectoral strikes called by the central trade unions (CTUs) and the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) on February 16.
K Hemalata, president, CITU hoisted the red flag and presided over the meeting. Ragula Ramesh, chairman of the reception committee and secretary of Telangana state committee of CITU delivered the welcome address.
In her presidential address, Hemalata highlighted the failure of capitalist system and its ever growing greed for profits and its resultant pitfalls in reducing labour demand, drop in real wages, unprecedented unemployment, and worsening inequality. Governments in the capitalist countries are blatantly working on behalf of the big corporates and the super rich. The sham neutrality of bourgeois governments is being increasingly exposed by the policies they formulate and measures they adopt to facilitate restructuring employer-employee relations at the workplace to ensure maximisation of profits and weaken united resistance by the workers. Mentioning the contemporary imperialism led wars, she said, imperialist countries led by the USA are fuelling wars in different parts of the globe. By weaponising and funding Ukraine, USA led NATO is prolonging the war with an aim to weaken Russia for its expansionist manoeuvres. USA continues to support the genocidal war by Israel in which more than 25,000 people have reportedly been killed, nearly half of them children and women. Every 10 minutes, one child is being killed and a woman in every two hours. Israel continues to target hospitals, refugee camps and crowded residential areas for bombing. She noted, present global developments re-establish the fact that imperialism walks on two legs – one, economic, through the imposition of neoliberal reforms and two, political, intervening and coercing governments to toe its dictates.
Hemalata pointed out the experiences of international working class movement to stall this barbaric assault of capitalism in their growing resistance movements across the globe. Workers in Sweden, Germany, France, USA, Greece, Belgium, UK etc are thronging to the streets and participating in strike actions, mass demonstrations. She also mentioned that despite the struggles against the policies, workers often support the right wing forces that pursue these calamitous policies. She underscored the importance of politicisation of working class in order to identify the real enemy.
On national developments, Hemalata said, Modi led BJP government has failed on every front, it is the most anti-worker, anti-people and anti-national government the country has ever seen since independence. It is blatantly working for the benefit of the big corporates, domestic as well as foreign. Defeating this corporate-communal nexus in governance is the most important task before us today and it can be achieved by cementing the class unity between workers and peasants by further developing it as a formidable force. She said, our campaign against these policy onslaughts has to be taken to all our members, families and neighbourhoods. Grassroots level campaign with micro planning is the key for taking our message to the mass of the workers and toiling people.
Tapan Sen, general secretary of CITU placed the general secretary’s reports which dealt in detail the developments at the global as well as national level and the activities of CITU during the intervening period. Tapan Sen pointed out that the corporate-communal nexus ruling at the centre is executing the ever aggressive hegemonic divisive experiment to polarise the Indian society and to rip off all the hard earned rights of Indian people. The authoritarian attack of this ruling dispensation on all segments of governance – economic, political and societal, is devastatingly mutilating the diverse fabric of India, attempting to paralyse the united striking capacity of the working class and perpetually destabilising and dismantling the economic sovereignty of our country.
On contemporary capitalism, the general secretary’s report identified two striking features. First, the trend of investment in low-productive and infrastructural sectors (with government’s fiscal infusion in majority of cases) resulting in slow productivity growth overall with ever increasing concentration of global profit in fewer corporate hands, thus resulting in vulnerability and drop of real wages and incomes. It has furthered large sectoral disparity of earnings and within-country income inequality. The second feature is the labour market imbalance originating from the skewed and precarious nature of employment where the recruitment in sectors with essential workers like manufacturing, construction, ICT, care, transportation or retail work is meagre. The restructuring of employment relations with recruitment in gig, trainee or apprentices or fixed term nature in addition to outsourcing and contractorisation, is devastatingly impacting upon the quality of employment and stability and balance of labour market.
On the national situation, the general secretary’s report talks about the measures undertaken by the Modi government that expose the true class character of this regime. The present regime wrote off corporate loans, legalised loot by bringing in insolvency code, introduced PLI scheme as a free gift to corporates, handed over monopoly rights of national assets in the name of monetisation, amended MMDR act to facilitate monopolised commercial mining, handed over huge coal reserves of CIL to corporates, dismantled the public health care sector and brought in insurance driven health care model in tandem with the US model. To understand the real picture of Indian economy, quoting the RBI report, the general secretary’s report mentioned that the bank deposits, cash and equity investments fell down sharply to 5.1 per cent of GDP in the fiscal year ending March 2023 from 7.2 per cent of the previous year. On the other hand, the household debt surged to 5.8 per cent of the GDP in FY23, (the second-highest annual increase since independence, the highest growth was at 6.7 per cent of GDP in FY07).
Placing the report Tapan sen said that the Modi government has utterly failed in delivering what it had promised with regard to the livelihood issues of Indian citizens during the last ten years. To cover it up, it is increasing the diversionary mechanisms to distract the people from their real agenda and has handed over the steering of governance to its corporate crony partners. As the leading class oriented trade union of India, it is the task of CITU now to expose the failures of the Modi government on every agenda and issue, its fake promises and claims, in order to bring the people’s real agendas to the centre of discourse and discussion and to bring all sections of India’s producing classes and toiling masses together to identify their real enemy, the corporate communal nexus in governance and to oust the Modi regime – to save the people, and to save the nation.
CITU treasurer M Saibabu placed the statement of accounts and the details of the membership and annual returns received until the meeting. 48 members deliberated upon the general secretary’s report.
Summing up the report, Tapan Sen said, it needs to be collectively understood with clear conviction that the combat with this neo-liberal-neo-fascist regime will be a protracted one and the working class has to gear up for this in all aspects, has to construct and develop various alternate modes of social intervention and progressive working class culture and create multidimensional mechanisms to bear social responsibility not only in the sphere of production, but also in the daily social life of the working people – not only in the work place but also in the working class neighbourhoods. This persistent work must be linked with our militant presence and movements on the street, in its concrete form, with continuity. In this direction, the February 16th action programme including rural strikes and sectoral strikes is of paramount importance, it is our class duty to raise it to a historic militant action of workers and farmers throughout the country.
THE working committee of CITU, which met in Hanumakonda, Telangana from February 2-3, has called upon the working class of India to intensify decisive class actions to isolate and defeat the corporate-communal nexus running the government. The working committee has also called upon the working class across the country to actively participate in nationwide joint protest actions, rural bandh, and sectoral strikes called by the central trade unions (CTUs) and the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) on February 16.
K Hemalata, president, CITU hoisted the red flag and presided over the meeting. Ragula Ramesh, chairman of the reception committee and secretary of Telangana state committee of CITU delivered the welcome address.
In her presidential address, Hemalata highlighted the failure of capitalist system and its ever growing greed for profits and its resultant pitfalls in reducing labour demand, drop in real wages, unprecedented unemployment, and worsening inequality. Governments in the capitalist countries are blatantly working on behalf of the big corporates and the super rich. The sham neutrality of bourgeois governments is being increasingly exposed by the policies they formulate and measures they adopt to facilitate restructuring employer-employee relations at the workplace to ensure maximisation of profits and weaken united resistance by the workers. Mentioning the contemporary imperialism led wars, she said, imperialist countries led by the USA are fuelling wars in different parts of the globe. By weaponising and funding Ukraine, USA led NATO is prolonging the war with an aim to weaken Russia for its expansionist manoeuvres. USA continues to support the genocidal war by Israel in which more than 25,000 people have reportedly been killed, nearly half of them children and women. Every 10 minutes, one child is being killed and a woman in every two hours. Israel continues to target hospitals, refugee camps and crowded residential areas for bombing. She noted, present global developments re-establish the fact that imperialism walks on two legs – one, economic, through the imposition of neoliberal reforms and two, political, intervening and coercing governments to toe its dictates.
Hemalata pointed out the experiences of international working class movement to stall this barbaric assault of capitalism in their growing resistance movements across the globe. Workers in Sweden, Germany, France, USA, Greece, Belgium, UK etc are thronging to the streets and participating in strike actions, mass demonstrations. She also mentioned that despite the struggles against the policies, workers often support the right wing forces that pursue these calamitous policies. She underscored the importance of politicisation of working class in order to identify the real enemy.
On national developments, Hemalata said, Modi led BJP government has failed on every front, it is the most anti-worker, anti-people and anti-national government the country has ever seen since independence. It is blatantly working for the benefit of the big corporates, domestic as well as foreign. Defeating this corporate-communal nexus in governance is the most important task before us today and it can be achieved by cementing the class unity between workers and peasants by further developing it as a formidable force. She said, our campaign against these policy onslaughts has to be taken to all our members, families and neighbourhoods. Grassroots level campaign with micro planning is the key for taking our message to the mass of the workers and toiling people.
Tapan Sen, general secretary of CITU placed the general secretary’s reports which dealt in detail the developments at the global as well as national level and the activities of CITU during the intervening period. Tapan Sen pointed out that the corporate-communal nexus ruling at the centre is executing the ever aggressive hegemonic divisive experiment to polarise the Indian society and to rip off all the hard earned rights of Indian people. The authoritarian attack of this ruling dispensation on all segments of governance – economic, political and societal, is devastatingly mutilating the diverse fabric of India, attempting to paralyse the united striking capacity of the working class and perpetually destabilising and dismantling the economic sovereignty of our country.
On contemporary capitalism, the general secretary’s report identified two striking features. First, the trend of investment in low-productive and infrastructural sectors (with government’s fiscal infusion in majority of cases) resulting in slow productivity growth overall with ever increasing concentration of global profit in fewer corporate hands, thus resulting in vulnerability and drop of real wages and incomes. It has furthered large sectoral disparity of earnings and within-country income inequality. The second feature is the labour market imbalance originating from the skewed and precarious nature of employment where the recruitment in sectors with essential workers like manufacturing, construction, ICT, care, transportation or retail work is meagre. The restructuring of employment relations with recruitment in gig, trainee or apprentices or fixed term nature in addition to outsourcing and contractorisation, is devastatingly impacting upon the quality of employment and stability and balance of labour market.
On the national situation, the general secretary’s report talks about the measures undertaken by the Modi government that expose the true class character of this regime. The present regime wrote off corporate loans, legalised loot by bringing in insolvency code, introduced PLI scheme as a free gift to corporates, handed over monopoly rights of national assets in the name of monetisation, amended MMDR act to facilitate monopolised commercial mining, handed over huge coal reserves of CIL to corporates, dismantled the public health care sector and brought in insurance driven health care model in tandem with the US model. To understand the real picture of Indian economy, quoting the RBI report, the general secretary’s report mentioned that the bank deposits, cash and equity investments fell down sharply to 5.1 per cent of GDP in the fiscal year ending March 2023 from 7.2 per cent of the previous year. On the other hand, the household debt surged to 5.8 per cent of the GDP in FY23, (the second-highest annual increase since independence, the highest growth was at 6.7 per cent of GDP in FY07).
Placing the report Tapan sen said that the Modi government has utterly failed in delivering what it had promised with regard to the livelihood issues of Indian citizens during the last ten years. To cover it up, it is increasing the diversionary mechanisms to distract the people from their real agenda and has handed over the steering of governance to its corporate crony partners. As the leading class oriented trade union of India, it is the task of CITU now to expose the failures of the Modi government on every agenda and issue, its fake promises and claims, in order to bring the people’s real agendas to the centre of discourse and discussion and to bring all sections of India’s producing classes and toiling masses together to identify their real enemy, the corporate communal nexus in governance and to oust the Modi regime – to save the people, and to save the nation.
CITU treasurer M Saibabu placed the statement of accounts and the details of the membership and annual returns received until the meeting. 48 members deliberated upon the general secretary’s report.
Summing up the report, Tapan Sen said, it needs to be collectively understood with clear conviction that the combat with this neo-liberal-neo-fascist regime will be a protracted one and the working class has to gear up for this in all aspects, has to construct and develop various alternate modes of social intervention and progressive working class culture and create multidimensional mechanisms to bear social responsibility not only in the sphere of production, but also in the daily social life of the working people – not only in the work place but also in the working class neighbourhoods. This persistent work must be linked with our militant presence and movements on the street, in its concrete form, with continuity. In this direction, the February 16th action programme including rural strikes and sectoral strikes is of paramount importance, it is our class duty to raise it to a historic militant action of workers and farmers throughout the country.
The general secretary’s report and accounts’ report were unanimously adopted.
The meeting of the working committee tier of the All India Coordination Committee of Working Women (CITU) met on February 1, 2024, prior to the CITU working committee meeting. 29 participants took part in the discussions on the report placed by AR Sindhu, convenor of AICCWW. The CITU working committee meeting endorsed the decisions of the AICCWW, which includes ensuring maximum participation in the February 16th actions, observance of International Women’s Day from March 6-9, exposing the BJP government’s fake claims as ‘Modi’s guarantee’.
The meeting ended with the concluding remarks by the president and the vote of thanks. The working committee heartily thanked the Telangana state committee of CITU, the Hanumakonda district committee and all the volunteers for their efforts in making the working committee meeting a success.
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