Our country, India, owns a vast treasure of mineral resources, raw materials, technical manpower and workforce. It is a matter of great privilege that our country is endowed with huge natural resources and ranks as one of the most resourceful countries of the world.

However, these resources have not been domestically exploited and properly utilized for the industrial development of our country. Rather, these resources are being exploited by the imperialists with the help of their domestic allies in the interest of their profits and plunder. Even such development in a fairly limited sphere has brought India on the industrial map of the world.

Though India owns such vast resources, the stranglehold of imperialist capital over all important branches of industrial activity blocks the path of industrial development of India. Industries are set up in our country not with the view to planned industrialization of the country, not in accordance with the needs of the people, but with a view to extract superprofits and plunder India. As a result, stagnation and constraints plague our industrial life.

Even with this crippled and imperialist-dominated industrialization, our ind8stries employ a large number of workers. They contribute nearly 15% of the country’s income. Industrial goods of large varieties are produced in the country.

History of Working Class Movement in India

Indian working class has a long history of class struggle. The modern industrial proletariat came into existence in India through the setting up of industrial enterprises by the British imperialists who had succeeded in defeating the first war of Indian Independence in 1857 and had tightened their control over almost the whole of India. Colonial power was superimposed over feudal India and further economic life was conditioned accordingly. Workers employed in the industries set up by the colonialists in order to exploit India more thoroughly, suffered from crude exploitation, brutal repression, inhuman conditions of work and lack of organization.

Against these slave-like conditions of living and work, the working class rose in struggle incessantly but in an isolated way e.g., at Nagpur, Howrah, Bombay and other industrial centres throughout the later half of nineteenth century. Though localized, poorly organized and isolated, the workers faced the repression of colonial rulers with courage and at times emerged victorious. Naturally the workers at the preliminary stage lacked the regular organizational structure and the orientation of political struggle against colonial rule over India.

Actually the trade union movement started organizing the working class in India, though sporadically, since the beginning of twentieth century. By that time capitalism had entered the stage of imperialism and was witnessing repeated global crises. The working class of the developed capitalist countries had launched sharp and intense struggles which had their worldwide impact surpassing territorial boundaries.

In India, a number of reformist leaders from middle classes came forward to organize the workers against the inhuman living and work conditions and expose their slavish existence. This proved to be a mixed blessing as these leaders did help in organizing the workers but were to severely restrict the scope of working class movement. They did propagate among the workers against the social evils, but many of them took that to be the main aspect of the working class movement.

The workers in India rose in several glorious struggles and began to stand by their leaders and organizers. It was the beginning of a new consciousness. The workers of Bombay launched a heroic and historical strike-struggle in protest against the arrest of Tilak in 1908. A new stage had dawned in the working class movement of India.

After World War I, inspired by the Great October Socialist Revolution, the workers, struggle against British colonialism and for their rights, burst forth throughout the length and breadth of the country. The need was felt for an All-India central organization and AITUC was born in 1920. It was after many strikes and the martyrdom of its many brave sons and daughters that the working class won for itself the right to organize in trade unions and the right to strike. Every right many workers today take for granted- whether it be minimum wage, hours of work, D.A. or bonus- were won only after prolonged, stubborn and protracted struggles. In 1926, India Trade Unions Act was enacted.

After the victorious October Revolution and under its impact, the ideology of scientific socialism came to exert an influence over the working class movement in India and articulate the immediate and political demands of the working class. Big protest actions were organized by the working class when Simon Commission visited India. The working class played a glorious role in the national movement against British colonialism. The workers of Sholapur stormed the fortress of British rule and establish workers’ power for the first time in India the heroic Sholapur Commune. The working class movement faced terrible prosecution at the hands of colonial rulers and its leaders were detained in Meerut conspiracy case.

However, along with the British rulers, the moderate leaders of the Trade Union movement also got scared of these political strivings of the working class and split AITUC for the first time. These who were part and parcel of the capitulationist Congress leadership of the national movement were opposed to the development of a full and independent sweep of the working class movement and wanted the workers to merely trail behind the Congress leadership.

The Indian working class continued its heroic struggles and on the outbreak of imperialist war (2nd World War) in 1939, the workers opposed the war through a series of strikes. Worldwide anti-imperialist struggles of the oppressed nations and people; establishment of rule of under working class leadership in one third of the globe; defeat of fascist powers and the glorious role of working class in that , created favourable conditions for the growth of anti-imperialist struggles throughout the world including in India , in the nationwide post and telegraph strike the Bombay general strike in support of Naval mutiny and street battles in many parts of the countries shook British rule and demonstrated the power of the working class. In the princely feudal states, the working class supported the Telengana armed struggle and was in the forefront of Punnapra-Vyalayar struggle. 

Considerably weakened after the second world war and greatly shaken by the growing tide of Indian peoples movement the British colonialism in league with compromising leadership of the congress and Muslim League drowned the people’s movement in the communal blood bath and handed over power to their trusted allies thereby keeping India safe for their imperialist exploitation. With the transfer of power on 1947 to the representatives of big bourgeois big landlord classes India changed from a colonial country to a semicolonial one.

Throughout anti-British struggles in pre1947 period, though the working class displayed great heroism and made countless sacrifices the leaders of the working class by and large trailed behind the compromising congress leadership they failed to establish worker peasant alliance and failed to establish leadership of working class in the national movement.

   With the advent of congress rule and the imperialist rule becoming indirect, a section of the leadership sought to split the working class movement as it now did not need the support of the working class movement as it now did not need the support of the working class to secure concessions from the British but rather needed a pliant working class to stabilize their rule and to continue the exploitative system. They having failed to secure the support of AITUC for anti-people policies of the congress ministries split the working class movement and setup INTUC in 1947.

      Since 1947, the history of the working class has been one of ceaseless struggles in defence of its livelihood, for civil liberties and in support of other sections of struggling masses of India. It has waged many struggles against imperialism and domestic reactionaries and has supported the peasantry anti feudal struggles. But the dominant reactionary, reformist and revisionist leadership always betrayed the working class struggles and tried to restrict it within narrow confines.

      In many places unions broke the narrow limits set by the reactionary, reformist and revisionist leaderships. In 1966 in west Bengal the working class paralyzed the whole state with a three day general strike. In and after Naxalbari blazed, the working class supported the peasantry in revolutionary struggles. The working class in Punjab played its role in turning the Moga student struggle into a people movement against police tyranny. In the historic railway strike of 1974 and in many other strikes the workers bravely resisted the attacks of the state. Many unions fought against denial of democratic rights and fascist repressions during emergency. In some places, workers established regular links with the peasantry and helped in organizing the peasant struggles.

        It was the working class which came out first and most vigorously against the anti-people policies of Janata Party Govt. and facing bullets, pressed forward with courage and determination. After Mrs. Gandhi’s return to power, the working class again was in the forefront of struggles. The workers held all-India strike in January 1982 against black laws and textile workers of Bombay went on the very long strike against the owners and the Govt. under the Congress(I) rule, there have been ceaseless struggles of the workers. Even in the states where non-Congress Govts. are ruling, whether with left trappings or without them, the working class has repeatedly risen in struggles.

In the post 1947 period very many splits have taken place within the trade union movement, mostly engineered y the ruling classes to divide the workers. After the formation of INTUC in 1947, HMS was born with the slogan of ‘free’ trade unions. TUCC, UTUC and UTUC(LS) came into existence. Subsequently BMS was also established. In the meanwhile, the dominant AITUC leadership also took to a collaborationist lien and became one of the apologists of the present system. In 1970, the with further split in AIUTC< CITU was born with an apparent lien of class struggle but it all too soon came out in its true colours and dedicated itself to the defence of this decadent system, thus betraying the working class. The revolutionary who at an earlier had withdrawn themselves the trade union movement, wrongly taking the entire trade union work as revisionism soon corrected their mistake and started working in the trade union movement. IFTU was born in 1978 to meet the needs of working class movement, to develop “a new kind of trade unionism that combines both revolutionary struggle and defence of the workers’ immediate interests, and places the building of revolutionary struggles as the prime task.” The formation of IFTU injected a new element in the trade union movement, urging upon and organizing the workers to march forward for building revolutionary struggles and calling for relentless struggles for the defence of economic and political rights of workers. NO wonder the ‘acclaimed’ messiahs of working first tried to ignore and then boycott IFTU.

The entire history of Indian trade union movement is in fact a history of struggles between capitulation and struggles, class collaboration and class struggle, reformism and revolution, compromise and rebellion; only legally permissible struggles and militant struggles’ so-called free trade unions and unions imbued with revolutionary politics, and thus is a history of struggle between right trends manifesting in various hues and genuine left trend. The history of Indian working class is rich in traditions of glorious and determined struggles which must be carried forward and enriched. The worker-peasant alliance should be strengthened and working class should establish its leadership over the anti-feudal and anti-imperialist struggles of Indian people.

IMEPRIALIST EXPLOITATION AND FEUDAL OPPRESSION IN INDIA

The domination of imperialism, led by the sole superpower US imperialism, over the world in the main source of tensions, war and disturbances in various parts of the world. However, the crisis of imperialism- the crisis of overproduction- has resulted in a worldwide new economic offensive. Its purpose is to increase superprofits under the package of polices called imperialist globalization. It has also resulted in military attacks on third world countries by imperialist countries, led by the sole superpower, USA. Oil rich counties are special targets in a bid to exercise complete rights over oil resources. The effects of Imperialist Globalization have been to take unemployment to new heights, especially in third world countries, to kill productive capacity outside imperialist countries and to intensify neo-colonial plunder.

Since 1990, the policies of imperialist globalization have led to a further attack on industries in India, in a bid to concentrate further all productive capacity in the world in the hands of Multinational Corporations. These imperialist sponsored policies are an attempt to maintain and increase super-profits and overcome the deep-seated economic crisis of imperialism. Structural reforms comprising globalization, liberalization and privatization, have led to closures and selling off of the public sector built with public money. The small scale private sector has been crippled to make way for MNCs; the very tiny sector and traditional collage industries are being wiped out to the same end. The so called ‘new’ economic policies have led to fall in wages, increase in working hours or in productivity for the same wages, increase in contractual and casual workforce, all round unemployment and further entry of MNCs with opening up of even sensitive sectors to imperialist capital.

The working class of India have to fight their battle of emancipation in a country ravages by imperialist loot and plunder. The main of industrial activity, the economic lifelines of the country, are under increasing imperialist control.

Not only are there out and out foreign multinational enterprises, but there are companies with Indian signboards in which domestic capitalists aligned to them share the enterprise and held the imperialist capital to plunder our country, its rich resources, cheap labour and markets. They impose unequal treaties, and make our country indebted in a number of ways by way of ‘aid’ ‘grant’, ‘subsidy’ ad thus exercise their control over our economy. Besides, through aid, loans form IMF, and other international financial institutions, on harsh terms contrary to the interests of the people of our country, they make the Indian economy subservient to their imperialist interests. They withhold the technological know how, condition and dictate even the research work and development of engineering techniques and through all means try to keep our country dependent on them. 

If we view the economic landscape of our country, almost all the sectors are under imperialist domination. The essence is that the imperialist countries are in a position to dictate their terms to Indian ruling classes which they easily do to plunder our country. They dump their obsolete technology and machines in India and the projects set up by them are so expensive that the ultimate product has little competitiveness in the international market.

A handful of big monopoly houses and bureaucratic bourgeoisie have been cooperating imperialists and plunder our country to earn superprofits at the expense of our country and our people. The capital of leading twenty industrial houses has registered tremendous increase since 1947. The bureaucrats and political managers of the ruling classes earn huge commissions through foreign trade and case India to be more and more indebted to imperialists.

In the countryside, semifeudal relations prevail causing ruthless oppression of the vast masses of rural populace and also blocking the development of agriculture. Despite much flaunted land reforms, the ownership of land continues to be in the hands of landlords. Nearly 20% of rural population owns 80% of the land while nearly 50% of the rural people are practically landless. The stagnation in agriculture and lack of agriculture based industries force these people to migrate to cities in search of means of livelihood. Agriculture remains ignored by the ruling classes with proportionately very small proportion offing in for the rural development. Irrigation projects remain mostly on paper. The potential of our agriculture can be judged by the simple fact that over 90% of the agricultural income comes form the irrigated areas which constitute just about 19% of the total area under cultivation. The prices of agricultural produce are also fixed in a way that the peasants face great hardships. The development of agriculture is a must for proper industrialization of the country, because a booming agricultural economy will provide the vast markets for Indian industries which are now going for export oriented growth at the mercy of imperialists while the vast Indian population continues to suffer form the wants of basic necessities of life. Semifeudal relations are the cause of ruthless oppression of landless and poor peasants at the hands of feudals who, in league with the local officials and police, ruthlessly crush the slightest resistance and attempts by the rural poor to organize themselves. In India all types of primitive relations continue to exist like bonded labour, though the successive Govts. have claimed its abolition.

These backward relations have their influence over the cultural life. While caste oppression continues with all ferocity, it assumes different forms and functions. The working class suffers from social evils and this cultural backwardness, and the ruling classes take advantage of this to divide them on caste and communal lines, thereby dealing blows the unity of the working class. The colonial influence over he people also continues, with urban people looking at every thing foreign as superior even it may just have the foreign label.

While the control of imperialist capital blocks the path of industrial development, the semi-feudal relations act as a further check, resulting in an almost stagnant economy. The number of unemployed is registering a big increase. The policies of imperialist globalization are exacerbating the unemployment situation especially as their o jobless growth. In fact, all these policies have nothing to do with the interests of industrial development or of the people of this country and rather are against them, but these policies are being implemented t please imperialist masters.

The economic mismanagement of the country is resulting in steep rise in prices, thereby adding to the miseries of the people including the working class. The prices over the last twenty five years have up nearly twenty times, the manipulated calculations of the price-index notwithstanding.

The people of India – almost all sections- are rising in struggle against this anti-people system. Afraid of this and in order to stem its tide, the ruling classes are laying stratagems to divide the people on caste and communal lines. They are fanning all sorts of chauvinism in order to further their divisive games. The ruling classes are misrepresenting and ruthlessly suppressing the democratic demands of the people of various nationalities and branding their agitations as anti-national. They slander and communalize their just and democratic struggles and try to pit one section of people against the other, thus dividing the ranks of people; working class in particular. They are mouthing slogans of unity and integrity and dangers of foreign hands only to cover up their brutal repression and exploitation and to prevent the people from uniting in big movements which may overthrow their unstable anti-people rule. The revisionists who have made the running of this system better than the ruling class parties as their aim, and who have now started singing praises of the investment by multinational corporations, are also resorting to these divisive tactics to sustain themselves in power wherever they are riling, like the attitude of CPM Govt. towards just demands of the Gorkha people for a separate province. As the crisis is deepening, the ruling classes are intensifying their divisive policies.

Faced with the rising struggles of the people, the Central as well as State Govts. are ruthlessly crushing the people’s struggles, particularly the struggles of peasantry and workers. The repression of revolutionary peasant struggles in Andhra Pradesh and Bihar are shining examples which give lie to the democratic façade of the present rule. The fake encounters, and killing of revolutionary activists continues while the people continue to be deprived of their basic right to even organize. Democratic rights of people are under attack form the ruling class parties with the so-called left parties not lagging behind in crushing democratic struggles. Police is being given more powers to liquidate the revolutionary activists.

CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASS

Workers in India live and work under severe conditions. The much hailed minimum wage as was agreed in principle by the 15th Indian Labour Conference in 1957 has remained an empty phrase till date. They Pay Commissions for Central Govt. employees have refused to accept the principle of need-based minim wage for the Govt. employees. The recommendations of the commission are beneficial only to the high echelons of bureaucracy, while the group C & D employees have been given a raw deal. The State Govts. have refused to implement even these recommendations. Though written in the Constitution, the principle of equal work equal pay has not been implemented, despite demands and struggles.

The employees of public sector are also facing concerted attacks form the Govt. The Govt. is refusing to negotiate new wage agreements though considerable time has elapsed since the expiry of the earlier ones. Attempts are being made to regulate the increase in the wages of the workers of public sector industries through the anti-worker guidelines of Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) which puts irrational limitations on the wage increases, insists on longer duration of operation of agreements, blocks payment of arrears though the delay is caused by the Govt. and virtually bans wage increase in a large number of industries on the plea of their incurring losses. This is in addition to fraudulent manipulations of the price-indices by the government and now the Govt. Is proposing to change the base year of the price index without correcting the discrepancies of the earlier index. Through all these tricks, the real wages of the workers are kept artificially low.

The condition of the workers of private industries is much worse. Excepting some very large enterprises, where also workers are denied their legitimate rights, the conditions in the small and medium industries where workers are mostly unorganized are inhuman. They work in most unsafe conditions and live in medieval of slave-like conditions. Half-clothed and half-starved, these workers face crude exploitation and to organize them is an urgent task. In almost all the states the minimum wages applicable to them are abysmally low and that too are seldom given. The Central and state governments turn a blind eye to their problems.

In spite of many pieces of legislation, the number of child labour in our country is the highest in the world. At a tender age, they are squeezed of their labour power and very vitals, and are coerced to work on extremely low wages and under inhuman conditions. They remain a very valuable source of profits for the greedy entrepreneurs.

Women workers are also very crudely exploited and oppressed. They are paid very low wages, and are denied even basic facilities, being made to work uninterruptedly for long hours. Their number in industrial enterprises is rising, as the owners feel that they can extract much more surplus value from women labourers and with less chances of their organizing themselves.

The number of casual, badli, apprentice, probationer, temporary and contract labourers is mounting every day. Let alone abolition of badli and contract system, more and more workers are employed under these categories. In order to lessen the labour cost and to increase their profits, the owners employ large number of contract and casual workers and utilize their job insecurity to break the unity of workers during struggles. This has become a regular practice even in public sector where too large a number of casual and contract labourers are being employed, in order to get more production at less cost. And all these are for the interests of domestic and foreign big capitalists, and for their profits and superprofits.

Labour laws are there of course, but only on paper. They are implemented more in their violations. Though they often provide for punishment to offender managements and employers but all that being in the hands of eager-to-oblige officials, they remain only as show pieces. The officials charged with the responsibility to ensure their implementation, collude in their violation. The laws stipulating the minimum wages for the agricultural workers are also not implemented.

Despite a large number of unemployed in the country, the ruling class parties are advocating policies which will only generate further unemployment. Already there is a great influx from the villages due to the conditions prevailing there, a large number of industries are growing sick and their workers are facing danger of losing their jobs. Lockouts, layoffs, closures and the like have become a regular feature of industrial life. And still the Govts. are advocating senseless computerization, mechanization and automation which are bound to have adverse effect on the industrial development of the country an is bound to lead to increase in unemployment, with some workers in employment also losing their jobs. 

In the context of imperialist globalization, it is clear that gradually since 1990s there is consensus among ruling classes of India regarding pro-imperialist policies. As a result apart from the Central Govt. every state govt. is also implementing similar policies. These policies are totally anti-worker and are aimed at increasing the miseries of the workers and are leading to rising contractualization, loss of permanent jobs and loss of hard won working class rights.

ATTACK ON THE DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS OF THE WORKERS

The ruling classes ad their Govt. are attacking the democratic rights of the workers. They are systematically attacking the trade union rights of the workers, and have armed themselves to crush the workers’ struggles whenever and wherever the workers raise their heads. Through NSA the Govt. armed itself with the powers to arrest the trade union activists and through ESMA assumed the right to declare almost any strike as illegal, ban it and crush it. The trade Union Act has been amended thereby further restricting the rights of the workers to organize themselves. Attempts are repeatedly made for anti-worker amendments to the I.D. Act and other labour laws to further restrict the rights of workers to strike ad other democratic rights of workers.

These systematic attacks by the Govt. at the democratic rights of the workers are meant to take away their very right to organize and to fight for their economic and political rights. The Central and State Govts. ruthlessly crush workers’ struggles where-ever they break out. Notorious retired police officers are appointed in the enterprises only to intimidate and unleash repression on the workers. Prohibitory orders, perpetually remain in force in many industrial areas. They are part and parcel of the attack on the democratic rights of the Indian people at large. The working class must unitedly oppose these black acts and repressive measures.

ROLE OF OTHER TRADE UNIONS

The substantial part of the Indian working class is still unorganized. The organized workers are mainly divided among the central trade unions led by various reactionary ad revisionist parties.

The leader of these central trade union i.e. INTUC, HMS, AITUC, BMS, CITU etc. has repeatedly betrayed the working class interests and has followed the policy of class collaboration. Leave alone the objectives of overthrowing this anti-people system, the leadership of these unions has betrayed even the minor economic demands of the workers. They have given sham support to certain demands while their parties were in opposition, and promptly rejected them when their party came to form the Govt. Even at the same point of time, these unions are supporting a demand in one state and opposing the same in another state where their party is in power. So much for their principled stand on any issue.

The leadership of these unions has left the workers defenseless in the face of attacks by the bourgeoisie and State. Instead of exposing the nature of the bourgeois laws and breaking their confines, they have continually tried to restrict the workers’ struggles to the limits permitted by the law i.e. the limits acceptable to the ruling classes.

The leadership of these unions has tried to restrict the workers’ struggle only to the narrow confines of their economic demands. They have made their trade unions adjuncts to their parliamentary scramble for power, and tried to turn the working class into a tail of big bourgeois, big landlord ruling classes. They have gone to the extent of supporting even direct attacks upon the working class as during the Emergency. They at times shamelessly support lathicharge, arrests and other repressive acts against the workers.

The leadership of these unions have not only betrayed the working class, they have also betrayed the country. They support the interests of one or other imperialist power and support the policies of the ruling classes of mortgaging the country to the imperialists and justifying the exploitation of our country. They have supported the divisive slogans of the ruling classes and have supported repression of the democratic struggles of various nationalities.

INTUC is the most discredited agent of the ruling classes. It has worked mainly to sabotage the working class struggles and tailor them to the needs of the reactionary ruling classes.

The two revisionist trade union centres, AITUC and CITU, have not lagged behind the reactionary centres in betraying the working class. The AITUC shamelessly supported the attacks on workers during emergency. While giving sham support to the workers demands these centres have become mere bargaining agents. The CITU in Bengal strives hard to prevent workers’ struggles. CITU now considers ‘gherao’ to be illegal. The CITU practises black-legging and every form of intimidation to break strikes and other unions in West Bengal.

In order of save their foothold among the workers, these central trade unions sometimes give a call for struggle but cunningly refrain form waging any determined struggle on any issue. They even go to the extent of asking their members to break strikes for which they themselves had given call. They let the issue lie and move on to the nest. Thereby they avoid any precipitation of the struggle whereby they will lost their privileges and become less acceptable to the ruling classes. They have been giving calls for All-India struggle once in five years like parliamentary election. These centres are collaborating with the Govt. in imposing wage freeze on the organized working class.

TASKS OF IFTU

In the prevailing conditions, wherein the ruling classes are intensifying their economic and political offensive against the working class and are severely restricting the democratic rights of the workers, the workers throughout India are rising in struggles. The workers are learning their lessons in course of struggle and are appreciating the inadequacy of their existing leadership in leading them in struggles. The working class is appreciating the need for strengthening an All India revolutionary trade union centre.

The present phase of struggle has its own limitations as it is being fought within the narrow confines of the economic demands and is mostly led by capitulationist leadership. However, a large number of workers have participated in the struggles in various states. It is for the revolutionary trade union centre to lead them decisively, to widen the horizons of their struggle sand to make the workers conscious of their long term revolutionary demands. It is necessary to wage determined fight against economism in the working class movement, give revolutionary perspective to the trade union movement, mobilize the working class in support of the struggles of various sections of people particularly peasantry and to draw the workers in political struggles.

IFTU calls upon the working class to launch their struggles and an offensive against the reactionary ruling classes:

(1)     Fight for confiscation of all imperialist capital; withdrawal of India from WTO and roll back of ‘new’ economic policies’ defense of sovereignty of the country form the attacks of imperialists.

(2)     Destruction of feudalism through agrarian revolutionary struggle on the basis of land to the tiller; support to the anti-feudal struggles of the peasantry.

(3)     Defence and improvement of the living and work conditions of the workers, implementation of need-based minimum wage, equal work equal pay, and other economic rights of the working class.

(4)     Withdrawal of all anti-working class and anti-people black laws and support to all struggles for democratic rights civil liberties.

(5)     Struggle for preservation of various rights won by the working class through struggle and their implementation, struggle for enactments and improvements in various legislations in favour of the working class.

(6)     Struggle for job security to workers, for illegalization of layoff, lockout and closures, for abolition of he badli and contract labour system and for implementation of policies to abolish unemployment.

(7)     Struggle for abolition of child labour below 15 years of age, for proper and hygienic work conditions, for facilities for their physical, educational development.

(8)     Struggle for equal wages and other benefits to women workers and for granting paid maternity leave for three months before and after delivery.

(9)     Struggle against reformism and revisionism; exposure f the harm caused by them to the working class movement.

(10)    Struggle against communalism, casteism and every type of parochialism and their divisive effects in the working class movement.

(11)    Support to all struggles for democratic demands of the people of various nationalities and regions.

(12)    Support to the national struggles of the third world countries fighting against imperialism and support to genuine peace movements aimed at eliminating all nuclear weapons; withdrawal of occupation forces.

IFTU calls upon the working class to unfurl and hold high the red banner of working class movement and to intensify the struggle for emancipation. IFTU calls upon the working class to lead the Indian people in their anti-feudal and anti-imperialist struggles and build an India free of feudal oppression and imperialist exploitation.

IFTU calls upon the working class to reject all parochial and backward ideas and led support to all just struggles.

IFTU calls upon the working class to learn form the experiences of the victorious and struggling working class of other countries and hold high the banner of proletarian internationalism.

The task that we have placed are no doubt difficult but they are urgent need of the Indian people and of the revolutionary people of the world. IFTU solemnly dedicates itself to these tasks.

RALLY ROUND AND STRENGTHEN IFTU

HOLD HIGH THE NANNER OF REVOLUTIONARY TRADE UNION MOVEMENT

WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE

WORKERS OF INDIA UNITE

WORKERS AND OPPRESSED PEOPLE OF THE WORLD UNITE