Writings
Articles
Writings of the leadership and the states — organisation, struggle and the energy sector.
EEFI Centre
National Centre note, circulated with Circular 01/2025
Note on the Iberian blackout — causes, consequences and policy
Spain, Portugal and southern France, 28–29 April 2025. Six crore people. Coupled private grids without public control — a warning for POWERGRID, NTPC and the Indian coupling projects.
Prasanta N. Chowdhury
Former General Secretary, EEFI
Our EEFI and Comrade Balanandan
A delegate at the foundation conference remembers the first President, the SEBs, BHEL, Enron, and the birth of NCCOEEE.
Elamaram Kareem
President, EEFI
Empowering unity: challenges and opportunities in India’s electricity sector
Address to the 10th National Conference. Return to Thiruvananthapuram. Forty years of EEFI. Centenary of the founding President.
Swadesh DevRoye
Working President, EEFI
Power, coal, oil and gas workers must jointly resist privatisation
One energy economy. One World Bank route-map. One resistance of electricity, coal and petroleum workers.
Gopal Datt Joshi
General Secretary, UT Powermen Union, Chandigarh
A monumental resistance: the Chandigarh struggle against electricity privatisation
Families on the road. Women leading the signature campaign. Sixteen states in a one-hour solidarity strike on 31 December 2024.
Jasmin Banu
Member, Working Women Subcommittee, EEFI
A triumph of unity: the Maharashtra anti-privatisation struggle
January 2023. Eighty-six thousand Mahavitaran workers. Seventy-two hours. The parallel licence in Bhandup Circle was withdrawn.
S. Harilal and Dr. M. G. Suresh Kumar
Vice President and Secretary, EEFI
Transformation and challenges in India’s national energy landscape
Coal, oil, gas, renewables and generation read as one crisis of public control.
Dr. M. G. Suresh Kumar
Secretary, EEFI
Unmasking global energy dynamics: solidarity and struggle
The energy transition under capital is not a just transition. Workers need international unity, not a green contract market.
P. V. Lathish
Working Committee member, EEFI
Kerala sets a precedent in smart-meter implementation
TOTEX would have leased metering to a vendor. CAPEX, KSEB staff, K-FON and C-DAC tools cut the price and kept the utility whole.
Deepa K. Rajan
Secretary, CITU; Vice President, EEFI
The crucial role of women in the electricity sector
Half of society, a fraction of the workforce and of the union. The Working Women Subcommittee is the instrument adopted after the last conference.