This note lists the contents of the Cahiers Léon Trotsky No.21, March 1985 – Special issue on Communism and Trotskyism in India. It complements the article by Charles Wesley Ervin on Trotskyism in India. All the material is in French.


Cahiers Léon Trotsky No.21, March 1985
Special issue on Communism and Trotskyism in India

Introduction

  • Gour Pal: Questions of the history of the Trotskyist movement in India
  • Gour Pal: The martyrology of the Revolutionary Communist Party
  • Pierre Broué: Notes on the history of the oppositions and the Trotskyist movement in India in the first half of the 20th century

Outline chronology

Documents

  • Sherman Stanley: Report on India (12 March 39)
  • Leon Trotsky: Open letter to the workers of India (25 July 39)
  • Committee for the formation of the BLPI: Classes in India and their political roles (late 1941)
  • Rupsingh: The combat of August 1942
  • Suren Morerji: The ‘constructive programme’ – strategy and sabotage (1945)
  • K. Tilak (Leslie S. Simon Goonewardene): The Wavell Plan and the Congress (2 July 1945)
  • BLPI: Report on the Police shooting in Calcutta (13 February 1946)
  • H. Mahadevan: Mahatma Gandhi, father of Indian capitalism (March 1948)

Contact
Cahiers Léon Trotsky, 63 rue Thiers, 38000, Grenoble, France


Updated by ETOL: 28 November 2009