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Mighty Protest Action on 3rd July 2020 by Central TUs against Centre’s anti-worker policies.

04 Saturday Jul 2020

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The 10 Central Trade Unions – INTUC, AITUC, HMS, CITU, AIUTUC, TUCC, SEWA, AICCTU, LPF and UCTU – organised country wide protest actions on 3rd July 2020 opposing the anti-worker, anti-people policies and decisions of the central government. BMS kept away due to political reasons, but its workers are also completely unhappy against the attack on the workers.
Utilising the Covid situation, the central and state governments under BJP has increased the working hours from 8 to 10 or 12, PSUs are being privatised, ban on recruitment and wage freeze are being imposed. Labour laws are mutilated to the disadvantage of the workers. The latest to be privatised are the Railways by introducing private trains. EPF and ESI rules are being weakened taking away the social security of the workers. The demand of the CTUs for financial assistance to the workers who are without work and income has not been conceded.
BSNLEU and other Unions and Federations in central and PSUs have also participated in the protest action.
AIBDPA had given full support and solidarity to the programme. The struggle will certainly continue against the anti-worker policies. (Courtesy:AIBDPA website)

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Central Trade Unions, Independent Federations and Associations organise Nationwide Protest Day on 3rd July 2020

28 Sunday Jun 2020

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Central Trade Unions, independent Federations and Associations have decided to organise Protest Day on 3rd July 2020. Extract of the statment given below:

……”Hence we the Central Trade Unions, independent Federations and Associations in this background have jointly decided to observe Nationwide Protest Day on 3rd July 2020, by the workers and employees of formal & informal sector and service establishments, maintaining physical distancing and other precautions. This programme is in preparation and prelude to further united struggle of prolonged Non-Cooperation and Defiance of the anti-people, anti-national policies of the Govt and in defence of our rights and basic entitlements. Preceding the nationwide protest, to generate awareness about the changes being made in labour laws and other policy issues, the state level joint meeting/seminars/conventions may be held.

We demand upon the Government to immediately hold the long overdue Indian Labour Conference to dwell upon the 12 point Charter of Demands, the labour and trade union rights, issues of job losses, wages, job security, the migrant workers’ issues including their journey to home and return journey to those who desire to join back their work, instead of frequently meeting only the employers and corporates organisations.

We call upon the working class and trade unions of all affiliations to make the programme of Nationwide Protest Day on 3rd July 2020 a massive success throughout the country, in all workplaces and centres in preparation to countrywide united struggles of Non-Cooperation and Defiance to anti-worker, anti-farmer, anti-people and anti-national policies of the Govt for at least six-months period to defend the rights of the people and save and defend the national economy. The concrete form of Non Cooperation and Defiance including nationwide general strike will be decided by the joint platform of Central Trade Unions and independent Federations and Associations at appropriate time in the next phase after the observance of the Nationwide Protest Day.” (signed by 10 Central trade Unions).

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Central Trade Unions call for 3rd July as Nation Wide Protest Prepare for Countrywide Struggle of Non Cooperation and Defiance

08 Monday Jun 2020

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The Central Trade Unions (CTUs) in their meeting on 3rd June 2020 congratulated the workers for responding enthusiastically to the nation-wide protest call demanding immediate halt to changes in labour laws, abrogating the rights won over after a struggle of 150 years among other demands. The meeting took serious note of the continuous aggressive attack on the workers’ rights ignoring all the joint representations to the Government on the matter including the nationwide protest on 22nd May 2020.

The Government not only failed in getting its own orders and advisories implemented in regard to payment of wages to workers, no retrenchments to be carried during lockdown period. Instead, it withdrew its own decision in the face of the case in Supreme Court by the employers of some companies. The Government did not heed to the demand of cash transfer of Rs. 7500/- to all non income tax paying households including unorganised labour (registered or unregistered) for the months of April, May, June, neither the demand for Government support to pay the wages of workers of MSMEs for these three months. The ration to all working people for at least six months to be made available universally also did not find favour with the Government. Neither our demand for workers safe journey home paid attention to.

The Supreme Court had to take cognizance finally asking the Governments of Centre and States not to demand passenger fares from workers, give them proper shelter and food till they are transported to their homes. Nineteen High Courts had taken cognizance of workers, frontline fighters and hospital services etc during this period.

We re-iterate that the Central Government chose the cover of COVID-19 lockdown to push through its agenda of disinvestment and wholesale privatisation of Public Sector Enterprises, 100 percent FDI in core sectors – Indian railways, Defence, Port and Dock, Coal, Air India, Banks, Insurance etc., steps in favour Corporates of Indian & Foreign brands to usurp natural resources and business of the country while mouthing behind the slogan of Aatma-Nirbhar Bharat. The earlier decisions and those taken during COVID-19 lockdown on privatization/corporatization/commercialization in Defense, Coal, Space science, Atomic energy, Insurance, Banks and most of the PSUs are being pursued with vigour and arrogance. The decision of DA freeze of 48 lakh Central Government Employees and DR freeze of 68 lakh pensioners, which is also having impact on the state government employees, is not withdrawn despite vehement opposition from Government employees and CTUs.

In this back ground various sections are now in agitation mode. The electricity workers and engineers have jointly observed countrywide protest against Electricity Amendment Bill 2020 on 1st June 2020. While welcoming the sectoral struggles which are developing in various sectors, CTUs support the protest programmes taken up by Defence federations including “strike ballots” and those in the coal mine sector on 10-11 June 2020.

The scheme workers, ASHA, Anganwadi, MDM, 108 ambulance employees, etc and the nurses and doctors who are in the front ranks among the front line warriors working at the community level for combating Covid 19 Pandemic are agitated for their demands for safety measures not being addressed appropriately and neither they are provided proper health care on falling sick from COVID-19 infection, nor the social security and insurance coverage being extended to the families who are succumbing to the disease. The scheme workers are also being denied payment of honorarium for lockdown period.

ASHAs, anganwadi employees, Doctors, Nurses, Safai Karamcharis, have been in the protests now and then in various parts of the country on similar demands. The CTUs support all these agitations on their just demands.

The so-called 20 lakh crore package of the Government is nothing but a hoax and cruel joke on the suffering people; this mainly comprises of loan guarantee to various sectors and the actual relief package reaching people is not even 1 percent of GDP. Even, previously announced budgetary allocations and welfare schemes such as PM Kisan Samman Nidhi, Construction Workers Welfare Board and District Mineral Funds etc have been unscrupulously repackaged to befool the people.

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50th Foundation of CITU on 30th May 2020 – Human Chain in One lakh places will be organised

26 Tuesday May 2020

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30th May 2020 is the 50th foundation anniversary of Centre of Indian Trade Unions, the most militant trade union in the country. CITU was formed in the Kolkata Conference held on 28-30 May 1970. Com.B.T.Ranadive was elected as President and Com. P.Ramamurthy as General Secretary. Com. E.Balanandan was Vice-President and Com.M.K.Pandhe, Secretary.  More than 10 lakh workers participated in the rally held Brigade Ground Kolkata  in connection with the foundation Conference. This conference took the decision that it was completely difficult to continue in the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) since it has failed to follow the militant and correct path of trade union and has gone to the revisionist line as also all democratic traditions were broken to destroy any reasonable criticism.

AITUC was the first Central Trade Union in the country formed on 31st October 1920. It continued as the sole CTU in the country till INTUC was formed by the Congress just before India got Independence. Now there are mainly 12 CTUs in the country. Out of this, except BMS, all the other CTUs are in coordination to fight against the anti-worker policy of the central government. Since 1991 the trade unions have been organising sustained struggles  against the neo-liberal policies started by the Narasimha Rao Government. Independent Federations of Central – state government employees, PSUs etc. also have been joining the strikes. The first united country wide strike against neo-liberalisation policy was organised on 29th November 1991. Since then many strikes have taken place against the anti-worker policy of the central government, more and more unions joining the same.

CITU has become one of the most militant and worker oriented trade union in the country. It is affiliated to the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU). WFTU has now intervened in the anti-worker decisions of the central and some state governments in increasing the working hours misutilising the Covid period.

It is in this context that the 50th Foundation Day of CITU is approaching. The CITU HQ has called upon its units all over the country to organise Human Chain on the day, of course by keeping social distance as per the Covid 19 existing instructions.

UNITY AND STRUGGLE FOR PROGRESS!

 

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Com.K.Varadarajan, former PBM CPI(M) no more.

16 Saturday May 2020

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Sad News.
Com. K.Varadarajan, popular leader and former PBM of CPI(M) passed away today. He was 74. He was ailing for some time.
Com. Varadarajan was leader of the kisan movement and was a a practical communist mingling with the ordinary people and workers. He was accessible to all. During my Delhi days, I had the opportunity to meet him several times and get advice.
He took class on ‘Historical Materialism’ in the T.U. class organised at Thiruvananthapuram in August 2011 in a very simple way understandable to all the telecom workers participated.
His passing away is a great loss to the working class.
Heartfelt condolences to the family, friends and Comrades.
Red Salute to Com. K.V !

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All India Protest Day on 10-03-2016 – Observe with massive participation

26 Friday Feb 2016

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CENTRAL TRADE UNIONS DECIDE TO CONTINUE ACTION AGAINST CENTRAL AND STATE GOVTS. ANTI-LABOUR POLICIES

All India Protest Day on 10th March, 2016 on 12 point charter

New Delhi: All the Central Trade Unions met on 27th January 2016 and resolved to continue their protest action against the anti labour policies of the Central and some State Govts. Central Trade Unions decided to observe 10th March, 2016 as All India Protest Day against Govt. indifference to the 12 point charter of demands and its unwillingness to restart discussions for working out concrete steps for resolution of the issues.

The Central Trade Unions reviewed the drastically deteriorating conditions of work and life of the working people and govt. going ahead with labour law amendments, disinvestment of PSUs and allowing FDI in strategic sectors. The Govt., it appears, does not want to wait for legislating these anti worker labour law amendments, it is taking away rights of workers by way of executive orders and directing state govts to carry out such pro-management amendments. The trade unions condemned one such directive issued by the Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Govt. of India on this 12th January granting exemption to so called start up enterprises from inspection and application of 9 major labor law legislations, thereby legitimizing the violations.

The Central Trade Unions took note of and extend solidarity to the  sectoral struggles of workers/employees in Banks, Defence, Coal, Port and Docks and Telecommunications sectors, the anganwadi workers on their respective demands and also the  Central Govt. employees including Railways resolve to launch action against retrograde recommendations of 7th Central Pay Commission. They also expressed their serious concern over extremely harsh punishment of “double life imprisonment” given by the Court to eight workers of Pricol Ltd., Coimbatore and appealed to all workers to extend help and solidarity.

The Central Trade Unions also decided to organize massive National Convention of Workers in Talkatora Stadium, New Delhi in the last week of March, 2016 to decide about the next course of united action programme.

Fight against anti labour policies will continue. The Central Trade Unions directed its constituents to prepare jointly for protest action on 10th March, 2016. They also appealed to independent employees/workers/unions and federations to participate in the protest action against the offensive of the Govt. against workers and common people.

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Ensure Minimum Wage of Rs. 18,000 to contract workers – Central Trade Unions

05 Tuesday Jan 2016

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The Central Trade Unions, including BMS, INTUC, HMS, AITUC, CITU have demanded to the central government that the minimum wage for the contract workers should be Rs. 18,000, as calculated and recommended by the VII Central Pay Commission. They submitted a 14 Point Memorandum to the Finance Minister Arun Jaitely on 4th January 2016, when the latter met them for pre-budget consultations.

The CTUs demanded to the Finance Minister that the ‘Hire and Fire’policy should be abandoned and there should be job-security for the workers. They strongly opposed the policy of arbitrarily amending the labour acts without consulting the CTUs. They pointed out that no labour amendment law should be moved with out consultation with and consent of the unions.

Further they demanded that the ‘ease of doing business’ should not be connected with the labour laws.

The meeting was participated by Tapan Sen(CITU), Vrijesh Upadhyay (BMS), Ashok Singh (INTUC), D.L.Sachdeva(AITUC), Harbhajan Sidhu (HMS) and leaders of other Central Trade Unions.

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Lakhs of Tea Garden workers on strike in W.Bengal

01 Tuesday Dec 2015

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Lakhs of tea garden workers and employees   went on a  historic strike in North Bengal defying the tea garden owners and the TMC’s fatwa not to join the strike convened by the joint forum of the tea garden employees including the CITU led Chia Kaman Majdoor Union. The strike call was fully successful in the over 260 tea gardens out of a total of 276 tea gardens spread across   Darjeeling hills, terai and dooars. Baring a few handful few which clocked partial shutdown as to the presence of   TMC ‘s union all the other tea gardens remained closed as CITU State Secretary Dipak Dasgupta rushed to  North Bengal to hand over economic support to families of famished tea garden workers of the state. At the call of the major trade unions all the other unions of various industrial sectors too demonstrated in the state in support of the Strike call given by the tea sector trade Unions. It can be recalled that yesterday at the call of the Joint forum of tea garden workers, the tea workers observed relay hunger strike at 44 places in the region. The strike, convened by a Joint Forum of 24 different tea workers unions, comes against the backdrop of the death of 22 workers in the tea gardens of north Bengal since May 2015 due to malnutrition and diseases caused by hunger.

The W. Bengal Government should immediately act for discussion and settlement of the issues of the tea garden workers.

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Central TU Organisations call for continued campaign on 12 point demands

30 Wednesday Sep 2015

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New Delhi, September 30: The joint meeting of Central Trade Unions was held in INTUC office on 30th September 2015. Dr. G. Sanjiva Reddy presided over the meeting. It was attended among others by Gurudas Dasgupta (AITUC), Tapan Sen, A.K. Padmanabhan (CITU), A.D. Nagpal (HMS), Satyawan (AIUTUC), S.P. Tewari (TUCC), Rajiv Dhimri (AICCTU).

LPF, SEWA, UTUC had informed of their inability to attend due to preoccupations and has agreed to the decisions.

The joint meeting of the Central Trade Unions held at INTUC Office at New Delhi on 30th September 2015 reviewed in details the countrywide general strike of 2nd September 2015.

CTUOs congratulated the working people all over the country to stage the biggest ever general strike on 2nd September against the anti-people and anti-worker policies of the Govt. CTUOs al a expressed gratitude to people from all walks of life for extending wholehearted support to the strike action by the working class.

CTUOs expressed serious concern over the repressive measures let lose on the striking workers by the governments/managements in different places throughout the country. CTUOs opposed suspension of 15 workers in BHEL, Hardwar for taking part in the strike e and demanded immediate withdrawal of the suspension orders.

CTUOs denounced the brutal repressions on ASHA workers in Telangana striking continuously since 2nd September 2015 and demands upon the Telangana government to sort out the issues in consultation with the unions instead of pouncing upon them

CTUOs call upon the working class to keep themselves prepared for further united struggle if the government does not respond positively to the 12 point demands of the workers. The CTUOs also urge upon the government to respond to the message given by the countrywide general strike in  true spirit and immediately resume negotiation with CTUOs on the 12 point charter of demands and implementation of the consensus recommendations of successive Indian Labour Conferences (43rd to 46th).

CTUOs call upon the workers and trade unions of all affiliations to widen and strengthen the unity of the working people realized through long process of struggles including strikes and prepare for ensuing phase of united struggle on the just demands of the workers and the people. (Courtesy: Ganashakti)

 

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KEEP THE MOMENTUM ALIVE – CITU SECRETARIAT

25 Friday Sep 2015

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KEEP THE MOMENTUM ALIVE – CITU SECRETARIAT

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The full secretariat of CITU met in Delhi on 23- 24 September to have a preliminary review of the country wide general strike on 2nd September 2015 and formulate future tasks to carry the movement forward. – out of the total – secretariat members from all over the country attended the meeting. The initial assessment of the central trade unions that the strike was massive and unprecedented was endorsed by the full secretariat of CITU. It also affirmed that the withdrawal of BMS had no impact on the strike.
The grand success of the strike is an unambiguous proof of the growing anger and discontent of the working class towards the policies being pursued by the Modi led NDA government at the centre. It was also a strong signal that the working class was not ready to buy the argument, put forward by BMS for backing out from the strike, that the BJP led government has taken positive measures on several points in the charter of demands. Reports from several states have shown that in many states the BMS members and even many local leaders of BMS were not happy with the decision of the BMS leadership to withdraw from the strike. In several states, they did not take back the strike notices that they have given jointly with the other trade unions. Many have openly expressed their dissatisfaction at the decision of their leadership which they felt was not correct. The anger among the workers against the government policies and the impact created by the unity of all trade unions and the joint campaign was such that in most of the states, local BMS leadership could not come out strongly against the strike. In some states it was the RSS cadres who openly opposed the strike. Many BMS members and even some local leaders in several states have reportedly joined the strike. It was apparent that BMS withdrew from the strike at the behest of RSS, the head of its parivar, which has declared that it was satisfied with the performance of the government, which it said was on the right path. This certificate was given from the meeting of the Samanvay Samiti of the RSS, which started on the same day as the strike. The workers obviously did not endorse this certificate.
A very important feature of this strike, noted by the CITU secretariat, was the participation of the workers both in the organised and unorganised sectors, who were not members of any trade union. It is estimated that around 40% of those who participated in the strike were totally non unionised. In many states including Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Haryana, and several others, the workers spontaneously reacted to the strike call wherever the campaign reached them.
This was particularly visible among the road transport workers who overwhelmingly joined the strike surpassing all expectations. The sustained campaign of the All India Road Transport Workers’ Federation (AIRTWF) affiliated to CITU, the district and state committees of CITU and the joint all India strike of road transport workers on 30th April 2015 contributed immensely in exposing the dangerous impact of the so called Road Safety Bill on all sections of road transport workers, including state road transport, private road transport and auto rickshaw drivers etc. An overwhelming majority of road transport workers who participated in the strike were not at all unionised. They spontaneously reacted to the leaflets and booklets printed by the CITU and AIRTWF, joined the strike and invited the CITU leadership to address their meetings. In some states, they photocopied the materials and circulated among themselves. In some states, unionised state road transport corporation workers who had never joined any strike till now, also participated in the strike this time.
Similar response was also observed in many industrial areas in many states. In some states, CITU committees served strike notice on all factories in the industrial cluster irrespective of whether it had affiliated unions or not. Significantly all the workers in these industrial clusters participated in the strike. It was noted that in many industrial clusters where the workers did not belong to any union, all the workers joined the strike en masse. Similarly non unionised industrial workers in states like Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Haryana etc also joined the strike in large numbers.
While all the twelve points in the charter of demands were important, some issues like amendment to labour laws, minimum wages, equal wage and benefits to contract workers, recognition of ‘scheme workers’ as workers with all attendant benefits, price rise and disinvestment struck a chord with large sections of the working class.
CITU secretariat also expressed its dismay and severe resentment at the way the government chose to ignore the anger of the working class expressed through this massive strike. Though it was compelled to let the Land Acquisition Ordinance to lapse and keep the GST bill pending due to various political reasons, the BJP led government is going full steam with its project of labour law amendments. The Prime Minister reportedly directed the Labour Ministry not to lose the momentum. Intense preparations are being made to get the Labour Code Bills passed at the earliest to satisfy the domestic and foreign corporations that the ‘ease of doing business’ in India has improved.
In this situation, the CITU secretariat decided that this challenge could be met by the working class only by keeping the momentum of its struggle too intact. The working class cannot afford to be content and rest with the success of this strike. The campaign among the workers must continue. This strike proved that workers respond when we are able to reach them with concrete issues, demands and programmes. In view of this, such efforts must be multiplied several times to reach all those multitudes of workers whom this campaign could not reach. It called upon all its committees and cadres to continue the countrywide campaign and agitation on the 12 point charter of demands through October and November with particular focus on the pro corporate labour law amendments, minimum wage of Rs 15000, same wage to contract workers as the regular workers doing the same job, recognition to scheme workers as workers with attendant benefits, containing price rise and universalise PDS and stopping disinvestment.
The myth propagated by the government and the BMS that seven out of the twelve points in the charter of demands of the trade unions have been addressed by the government should be effectively exposed from our independent platform during this campaign. A detailed note debunking the government’s claims would be prepared by the CITU centre, which should be utilised for taking the message to wider sections of workers.
CITU secretariat also called upon its various industrial federations as well as committees to take the initiative to take up militant sectoral struggles on the specific demands of the workers in that particular sector wherever possible jointly or independently. Sectoral joint struggles have already been planned in some sectors like the anganwadi employees, electricity employees etc.
The importance of bringing all the non unionised workers who participated in the strike, particularly the road transport workers, into the organisational fold was also emphasised by the CITU secretariat. It reiterated the importance of paying special attention to organise the workers in the road transport sector and the industrial workers by allotting suitable cadres.
While noting the key role played by CITU committees and cadres in ensuring the success of the strike, the CITU secretariat also pointed out that this was not reflected in the CITU membership. It called upon all its committees to simultaneously ensure that the membership base of CITU is also expanded during the October – November campaign, to reflect its true strength.
The importance of developing closer relationship with the people and involve them in the struggles in such sectors where their interests were linked with the interests of the industry and the employees was also stressed by the CITU secretariat. Efforts have already been initiated in some sectors like ICDS and electricity. The difficulties that common people would face due to the privatisation and dismantling of the road transport sector should also be explained to the common people and their support sought in fighting privatisation of road transport.
The huge participation in solidarity actions, of peasants and agricultural workers and of members of AIDWA, SFI and DYFI in several states, was an important feature of this strike. The call of CITU to observe an all India Day on 30th July 2015 in solidarity with the peasants demands including its campaign against the Land Acquisition Ordinance had a very positive impact. The CITU secretariat decided to take this forward and called upon all its state committee to observe one day during the October November campaign to focus the agrarian crisis and in solidarity with the demands of the peasants and agricultural workers.
CITU secretariat warned the working class of the dangers of the divisive forces which sought to disrupt the unity and divide the working class on the basis of different kinds of identity. The present global crisis is having impact on the country despite the denial of the government. It is bringing into focus several problems which cannot be solved by the capitalist system. The Patidar agitation in Gujarat demanding reservations to the Patels, a well to do section is a reflection of one such problem. It exposes the myth of the ‘Gujarat model’ of development where youth are not able to find decent employment opportunities. In effect this is a movement for the withdrawal of reservations for the SC/ ST and backward sections. This is influencing sections of middle class employees and others as well.
The communal forces are utilising various occasions to spread their divisive ideology. The government itself is carrying out the directives of the RSS to push its ideology and line in the fields of history, science, education, culture etc and communalise the various government institutions. These pose a serious threat to the unity of the working class and hamper its ability to intensify united struggles against the onslaughts of the ruling classes on its basic rights. CITU called upon the working class to be vigilant against all such moves and protect its unity which alone would enable it to strengthen united struggles and protect its interests in the coming days.

 

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