Schlagwort: India
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Lynn Walsh: India: Elections Show Demand for Change
[Militant, No. 75, May 1971, p. 2] Lynn Walsh (Ardwick C.L.P.) The March general election produced a landslide victory for Mrs Gandhi’s New Congress Party (350 out of 521 seats). This was the result of a massive response to Mrs Gandhi’s radical sounding “socialist” slogans. “The election has uncovered a national urge which is manifested…
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Lynn Walsh: Indian Continent – Ablaze
[Militant No. 47, March 1969, p. 1 and 2] Lynn Walsh (Brighton Pavillion L.P.) Last month’s elections in four Indian states underlined the deep crisis in the traditional parties and marked a move to the left in certain of the states. In West Bengal, India’s most important industrial state, the United Front dominated by the…
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Ted Grant: Marxism against Sectarianism
[June 1981, Reprinted in Bulletin of Marxist Studies, Summer 1985. It was wrong to label women’s liberation, black liberation or gay liberation as middle class or liberal issues. Not the issues, but the approach of several groups is middle class or liberal] In his document submitted to the International Forum, comrade GM raises a number…