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The increasing use by the Goverrment of the armed forces unaer the Emoergeney conditions as a means of beating down the working class movoment had, on the Government's owa admission, the outcome which the LSSP nad repeatodly foretold. <A military police group had been tempted to plan a conspiracjal seizure of governnontal power, Wide arrests of leaders of tne workiny class movement wore an integral part of their plan,
It would appear that the plan was discovered accidentally and that the Government was able by use of other sections of the military and the police to arrest a number of conspirators and suspects at a late stage. Undoudtedly, not all the conspirators have been discovered, nor have all tho ramifications of the conspiracy been unearthed. The danger of further adventures orgjnised from the same reactionary quarters continues unabated.
The Government continues to persist in the policies which really created the situntion and the opportunity for this attempt. The prolonged Smergency regime gave the police and the military special powers and an increasingly important position in the day-to-. ay administration, Further, the direct resort to the military in the attempt to break the harbour strike and other strikes. and the placing of the military at various key points in the economy and administration in the effort to beat down the working class movement, left the Government more and more dependent upon the armed forces for the maintenance of itself in power,
oreover, the working class which is tho only organisod force in Coylon capable of giving immediate battle to military~police usurpers and of mobilising the entire masses in resistance, has been deliberately. deprived by the Government of the necossary freedom of auvtion. Democratic and civii liberties have been supprossed. The right of public mootings and demonstrations has been denied, a consorship has been clamped down on the press and on publications, sirikes have been made ill. egal and the Government has taken, and is exercising the power to imprison strikers without trial.
If further coup attempts are to be prevented this situation must be ended forthwith, It is futile to roly on the military and police to counter military-police conspiracies, The people of the country cannot leave it to the military and the police or even to the Government to protect their democratic aud constitutional rights, and civil liberties against conspiratorial military: police sttacks. The administration uust be cleared ©? tho saned socces, and norms, civil administration restored. The regular armed forces must be withdrawn, and the voluntesrs and pioneors withdrawn. Negotiations. to settle the current strikes and strike issues must be commenced, The democratic and civil liberties of the peuple must be restored. In short, free the people to defend their rights, INDIA — LAST RUSPs0TS TO NATALTA PAID AT is se
A meeting of Trotskyists and their sympathisers*was held in Bombay on Sunday, January 28th, 1962 to mourn the death of Comrade Natal#® Trotsky. Those present included mombers of the Revolutionary Communist Party of India and the lievolutionary Socialist Party of India. The two parties have forged a united front in Bombay with the object of striving for the unificiation of marxist forces in India. Comrade C.G. Shah, a veteran marxist and one of the founders of the Comnunist movement in India presided. The followinS resolution was adopted by thr moeting after several speakers referred to ths contributions of Natalia to the revolutionary socialist movements
"This meeting of Troi sts in Bombay and the sympathisers of thes International Trotskyist movement expresses its profound grief at the sad demis of Natalia Trotsky, the wife of Leon Trotsky.
"On the eve of her death, sho demanded from the Soviet Government +h. political rehabilitation of Trotsky, her husband who campaigned against the Soviet bureaucracy, the stalinist distortion of marxism—leninism and betrayal of world revolution. Her allegiance to world communism and international class struggle transcended her personal feelings which were poignantly wounded by the cowardly murder of her son, her husband and suicide of her daughter. We, the Trotskyists, the sympathisors of the Trotskyist movoment will transform our profound grief at the death of this heroic proletarian revolutionary into an iron determination to work more strenuously for the overthrow of our class eneny, the world bourgeoisie ana destroying stalinismwhich is the princip2l obstacle to that historic objective, While mourning the death of comrade Natalia, we renew our pledge to dedicate ourselves, with reinforced will.aad determination, to completo the unifinishod task of world socialist revolution which was so dear to Trotsky and the heroiv band of Trotskyists in which Natalia Trotsky finds a prominent place."