The Radical Humanist Formerly Independent India - Organ of the Radical Humanist Movement August 7 1949

RANKS AT the conclAing meeting of the Central Advisory Council for Industries Miss Maniben Kara the representative of the Hind Mazdoor Sabha gave the welcome news that the Indian National Trade Union Congress and the Hind Mazdoor Sabha have decided to work together in view of the grave economic sitution facing the workers and the country as a whole. [...] MANIBEN KARA Manager."LIROWING discontent against the Partyo%in power has brought to the forefront the politics of the ' Leftist ' parties in the country and the talk about Left Unity is in the air. [...] The policies are bound to lead to the growth of popular discontent and hence to the political counterpart of arrogation of an increasing amount of arbitrary power by the government the various public secrity measures the suppression of civil liberties and so on. [...] Nationalisation of industries for example is not the same thing as public ownership the latter being essentially dependent upon the extent to which the state itself is a genuinely democratic insPage 368 THE RADICAL HUMANIST August 7 1945 the other hand besides the actual institutional framework on the education the outlook and the cultural level of the people. [...] The disintegration of the Chinese Republic Communist cotrol of north-cast China the steady pressure of Russia towards Sinkiang and the borders of Kashmir the nervous Soviet-Iranian frontier situation the chaos in immediately neighbouring Burma are all causing anxiety to the realists of the Indian Foreign Ministry.