Interview of J.P. Chaubey, General Secretary, All India Railwaymen's Federation. A towering railway leader along with George Fernandes and led railway employees in the struggles of 1960s and 1970s. He began his career as ...

Interview of K. Subbana, veteran trade unionist from Andhra Pradesh, especially in the non-coal and berite mines. Came to trade union work through student politics. Participated in the anti-Nizam struggle and jailed often ...

Interview and profile of K Vaidyanathan, leader, CITU, Tamil Nadu. Vaidyanathan joined the army during the Second World War and after the war, joined a school. In Pune, he used to visit Gandhi's prayer meetings, which ...

Interview of K. Vishwanathan, veteran trade unionist. Began trade union work by organising laundry workers into a Union in Calcutta. He himself worked as cook, cleaner and hotel worker. Also participated in the tram workers ...

Interview of K.C. Vamadevan, participant of the Quit India movement as a child. Joined the Indian Army in 1943-1946. Joined the Kerala Socialist Party and organised the agricultural workers. Also organised PWD and temple workers.

Interview of K.T.K. Thangamani, veteran trade unionist. Born in England, he came in contact with communist movement there. Also studied and travelled to Malaya and Singapore and contacted Indian labour organisers there. ...

Interview of Kameshwar Pandit, veteran union leader. Born in a kisan family, educated in Lahore and Punjab. He was the General Secretary of the Lahore Students Union in the pre-independence era. Later he worked with ...

Interview of Dr Kannabiran, veteran trade union and communist leader from Gudiyatam, Tamil Nadu. Born in 1914, in a lower middle class family, he got influenced by Periyar in his early teens. Later he joined AISF. In October ...

Interview of Krishna Modi, veteran union leader. Belonged to a working class family and was arrested for participating in the Quit India movement, when he was still a child. Started union work in the Manganese ore mines ...

Interview of Lal Bahadur Singh, General Secretary of INTUC, Bengal Unit. Born in a peasant family, he initially was with the AITUC, but after 1964, he was undecided for a time and later joined the INTUC. Organised jute ...