Schlagwort: India

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Lynn Walsh: The Nightmare Scenario

    [Socialism Today, No. 30, July 1998] An obscene and potentially extremely dangerous nuclear arms race has opened up on the south Asian subcontinent. What lies behind this renewed arms race and what are the prospects for a nuclear exchange? Lynn Walsh writes. On 11-13 May, India (after 24 years without nuclear tests) carried out a…

  • 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…