Hailing from a downtrodden community in Tirunelveli district, when working in B&C (Binny and Carnatic) Mills in Chennai, attracted by Naxalbari uprising and Charu Mazumdar, Comrade S Natarajan joined CPIML Liberation through workers struggles.

Comrade SN has worked with the popular trade union leaders including Anthony Pillai, R Kuchelar and WR Varadharajan (CITU) in the first trade union of the entire country, the Madras Labour Union (MLU) in Chennai. He had also been in the front of various struggles of workers as the general secretary of the union of thousands of workers.  SN had been the state president of India People’s Front (IPF) that was formed against the autocratic rule of Indira Gandhi. He led a long march of IPF from Kanyakumari to Chennai and the Gherao of Raj Bhavan to raise the voice of the Sri Lankan Tamils.

In his later years, he was associated with the struggles for restoring the rights of dalits on Panchami land and was also acting as the president of a forum named after a dalit stalwart, Thaathaa Rettaimalai Seenivasan. He was closer to dalit organisations and the ideology of dalit liberation at the later years of his life. We share the girief of his family, friends and comrades arising out of his sudden loss. The party expresses its deep condolences. Red Salute Comrade SN!