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Indian Trade Unions

In India the Trade Union movement is generally divided on political lines. Below is a list of some of the organizations present.

List of Central Trade Union Organizations (incomplete list)

• Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (Bharatiya Janata Party)
• Indian National Trade Union Congress (Indian National Congress)
• Centre for Indian Trade Unions (Communist Party of India (Marxist))
• All India Trade Union Congress (Communist Party of India)
• Hind Mazdoor Sabha (socialists)
• Trade Union Coordination Committee (All India Forward Bloc)
• All India Centre for Trade Unions (Communist Marxist Party)
• All India Central Council of Trade Unions (Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation)
• New Trade Union Initiative
• Anna Thozhil Sanga Peravai (All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam)
• Pattali Trade Union (Pattali Makkal Katchi)
• Labour Progressive Federation (Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam)
• Swatantra Thozhilali Union (Indian Union Muslim League)
• Kerala Trade Union Congress (Kerala Congress, KTUC(B) belongs to KC(B), KTUC(M) belongs to KC(M), etc.)
• United Trade Union Congress (Revolutionary Socialist Party)
• United Trade Union Congress (Bolshevik) (Revolutionary Socialist Party (Bolshevik))
• United Trade Union Congress (Lenin-Sarani) (Socialist Unity Centre of India)
• Indian Federation of Trade Unions (Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) New Democracy)
• All India Federation of Trade Unions (marxist-leninists)
• All India Congress of Trade Unions (Marxist Communist Party of India)
• Trade Union Centre of India (Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Flag)
• Bharatiya Mazdoor Sabha (Provisional Central Committee, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist))