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The overwhelming victory of Indira Gandhi's Congress-Indira party in the elections means that she will feel stronger in returning to the dictatorial powers (or as she says "law and order") that capitalism requires.

The results do not show, as the Western press claims; that "India is ungovernable"

What they. show is something Lenin and Trotsky showed long time ago; that the domination of imperialism and its crisis over the economically backward countries means that the national capitalist class of those countries cannot even allow bourgeois democracy.

Dictatorship 'The massive interest payments payable by the Indian economy to imperialism have to be extracted through the exploitatinn of the workers and peasants: this means a rate of exploitation that must produce a revolt. That is why the capitalists have initiated dictatorship in so many of the underdeveloped countries.

Mrs Gandhi first introduced her "Emergency Powers" dictatorship in response to a strike movement of the working class.

She was finally removed in a massive electoral defeat two years ago.

She was replaced by the Janata coalition whose sole policy was opposition to the Emergency Powers.

This was a coalition from extreme right through to the Socialist Party.

These people, as they had to run capitalism, soon came into conflict with the working-class movement whose energies were released after the overthrow of The Janata itself used some of the "Emergency Powers" They soon started to split up and concentrate on their own way of running capitalism. They were shown up as offering nothing to the masses except corruption and exploitation. Hence the return of the Gandhi dy nasty.

The real problem is the establishment of an alternative for the Indian masses that fights for the political independence and interests of the working class by struggling for a workers and peasants government in India.

The workers movement is in disarray. The Stalinist CP| was such a craven supporter of Mrs Gandhi's dictatorship that it has Gandhi been exposed in the eyes of the masses. The various splits from the CPI have gained some of its support but are equally as bad.

• The CPIiM) is now the second biggest party in Parliament.

But it has repeatedly joined cross-class alliancts "against dictatorship" and looks as though it will now join with bourgeois parties in a "united" opposition.

The CPI (M) is so craven that even the Daily Telegraph has admitted that it has the support of the business community in Bengal, which it controls.

During the power crisis in Calcutta last year they suggested handing the industry over to private enterprise as a solution.

As Gandhi is forced more towards imperialism she will be driven towards dictatorship.

The demand must go up for the workers' parties to break from the bourgeoisie and fight for a workers and peasants government in India.