Ramaswami: THE 14th conference of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), held on April 4-8, 2013, in the background of the very successful and unprecedented two days’ joint countrywide general strike in February, concluded with the determination to further intensify struggles to change the anti-worker and anti-people policies of the government. The conference was held in Kannur, the land of struggles, sacrifices, the land of martyrs, in Kerala. The venue of the conference was named Dr M K Pandhe Nagar, after the veteran trade union leader of the country and a founder leader of the CITU, who served the organisation as its secretary, general secretary, president and vice president. The hall was named Dipankar Mukherjee Hall, after the eminent parliamentarian and secretary of the CITU. In all, 1817 delegates, including fraternal delegates and observers from 26 states, participated in the conference; 300 of them were women.