This list has been compiled and adapted for this site from the comprehensive Newspapers/ Periodicals index on the Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL). Notes in square brackets are ours.
Links take you to full article on ETOL or the Marxists Internet Archive (when available). Watch out for typos!
As always, links to outside resources offered for information's sake only, except as noted.
Party resolutions, theses, manifestoes, and works by Leon Trotsky are given in bold, as are attributions to Trotsky, the Indian Trotskyists (the Bolshevik-Leninist Party of India, or BLPI), and the Ceylonese (Sri Lankan) Trotskyists (Lanka Sama Samaj Party, or LSSP).]
See also: Manifesto of the Fourth International on Imperialist War and Proletarian Revolution (May 26, 1940), with sections on "Colonial peoples in the war" and "Tasks of the revolution in India." Links to other documents drafted by Trotsky can be found on the anti-caste: Trotsky on India and Permanent Revolution index.
[British]
Workers’ International News
(1938–1949)
[Theoretical organ of the Workers International League (1938-44) and its continuator, the Revolutionary Communist Party (1944-49).]
Volume 2 Number 7, July 1939
Ferment in India, by Ajit Roy
Volume 2 Number 8, August 1939
Congress Socialism, by Ajit Roy
Volume 2 Number 12, December 1939
India and the War
Volume 3 Number 1, January 1940
The Real Situation in India
Volume 3 Number 4, April 1940
Mounting Crisis in India
Volume 3 Number 5, May 1940
British Labour and India
Volume 3 Number 9, September 1940
Britain and the East
Vol 5 Number 3/4 (no date)
The Road to India’s Freedom – The Permanent Revolution in India and the Task of the British Working Class, by E. Grant and A. Scott [sorry, no link available – see photo above]
Thesis of Indian Fourth Internationalists (1941) [by the Bolshevik-Leninist Party of India]
Volume 5 Number 8, January 1943
Friends of India, by Ajit Roy
Volume 5 Number 12, August 1943
India – the Role of Congress Leaders, by Ajit Roy
Volume 5 Number 4, October-November 1943*
News from Indian Fourth Internationalists (from Fourth International)
WIL Thesis on Indian Revolution
Tasks of the Industrial Militants (Resolution)
Volume 5 Number 6, February 1944
After Thoughts on Dissolution of the Comintern by an Indian Revolutionist, by Hakim Mirza [Kamlesh Bannerji]
Volume 5 Number 7, December 1944 [ETOL notes that numbering is same as previous month]
The Bombay Plan, by M. Naidu
Statement of Indian Trotskyists on Trial [actually, they were Ceylonese/Sri Lankan Trotskyists of the Lanka Sama Samaj Party]
Volume 6 Number 5, February-March 1946
The Politics of the Indian Bourgeoisie, by Suren Moraji [Hector Abhayavardhana] [originally published as a pamphlet by the Indian Trotskyist party, the Bolshevik-Leninist Party of India.]
Volume 6 Number 9, September-October 1946
The Indian Constituent Assembly [originally from Indian Trotskyist journal, Spark.]
Volume 7 Number 1, January-February 1947
Conflict in India, by T[ony]. Cliff]
[American]
The New International
(July 1934–March 1940)
[from The Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line:] "[The New International] was founded as the organ of the Trotskyist group, named the Communist League of America, which formed out of a split from the Communist Party. The CLA merged with the American Workers Party (a left-socialist group led by A.J. Muste, James Burnham et al.), to form the Workers Party of the US (Jan. 1935 issue). The magazine was suspended (last issue: June 1936) when the Trotskyists joined the Socialist Party and was reissued (Jan. 1938) when they split with the Socialist Party, forming the Socialist Workers Party. The SWP in turn split in the spring of 1940, and the magazine went (Apr. 1940) with the then minority, which organized itself under the name of Workers Party."
Volume IV, Number 3 (Whole No.17), March 1938
White Sahibs, by H. Stanley (sic!)
[H. Stanley is apparently a misprint for S[herman]. Stanley, party name of Stanley Plastrik, who was considered the Socialist Workers Party’s India expert. According to Robert Alexander’s article “Trotskyism in India,” Trotsky “was informed occasionally about current political trends in the subcontinent by Stanley Plastrik (using the party name Sherman Stanley), a young member of the Socialist Workers Party in New York, who on his own initiative had taken it upon himself to learn about the subject and had various correspondents in the Congress Socialist Party in India. He had also recruited an Indian immigrant into the SWP in New York City.”
In the 1940 split Plastrik went with the Shachtmanites (he was Max Shachtman’s nephew) and continued writing on India and other topics for the hijacked New International. In 1952 he quit Shactman’s International Socialist League along with Irving Howe, and with Howe and others he went on to co-found Dissent. He died in 1981 at the age of 66. Also known as Henry Judd, under which name he wrote the pamphlet India in Revolt (1942)--see photo above. An archive of his writings can be found here.]
Volume IV, Number 4 (Whole No.19), April 1938
Problems of Colonial India, by S. Stanley
Volume IV, Number 5 (Whole No.20), May 1938
Problems of Colonial India II, by S. Stanley
Volume IV, Number 6 (Whole No.21), June 1938
Problems of Colonial India III, by S. Stanley
Volume IV, Number 9 (Whole No.24), September 1938
Notes on Contemporary India, by S. Stanley
Volume V, Number 2 (Whole No.29), February 1939
Will India Accept Federation?, by S. Stanley
Volume V, Number 4, April 1939
A Voice from Peasant India, by Jadunandan Sharma
Volume V, Number 9 (Whole No.36), September 1939
An Open Letter to the Workers of India, by Leon Trotsky
The Story Behind Tea, by Sherman Stanley
Volume V, Number 10 (Whole No.37), October 1939
British Imperialism in India: A Chart of the Exploitation of 375,000,000 People, by Sherman Stanley
[continued (under a different editorial board) by]:
Fourth International
(1940–1945)
Volume III, Number 3 (Whole No.20), March 1942
The Classes of India and Their Political Roles
The Mind of India’s Bourgeoisie, by Larissa Reed
Volume III, Number 4 (Whole No.21), April 1942
Why India Spurned Cripps, Editorial Comment
Ceylon’s Road to Freedom, Ceylon Socialist Party
Britain’s Role in India, Bolshevik-Leninist Party of India
Cripps: Too Little, Too Late, by Larissa Reed
Anglo-American Plans for Italy, by Jack Ranger
Volume III, Number 5 (Whole No.21), May 1942
Burnham’s Role, Shachtman’s Apology, by F.M. [Felix Morrow]
Volume III, Number 9 (Whole No.25), September 1942
The Truth About the Cripps Mission, by Felix Morrow
American Labor on India
Petty-Bourgeois Radicalism on the Struggle in India, by F.M. [Felix Morrow]
Volume III, Number 10 (Whole No.26), October 1942
To the Workers and Peasants of India [manifesto of the Fourth International]
The Real Situation in Ceylon
Volume III, Number 11 (Whole No.27), November 1942
A Letter From India: A Postscript to a Slander, by F.M. [Felix Morrow]
Volume III, Number 12 (Whole No.28), December 1942
Prospects and Tasks in the East, by Leon Trotsky (different translation) [speech on the third anniversary of the Communist University for Toilers of the East]
Volume IV, Number 3 (Whole No.31), March 1943
Some British “Friends” of India, by Ajit Roy
Volume IV, Number 7 (Whole No.35), July 1943
INTERNATIONAL NOTES:
India
Volume V, Number 8 (Whole No.47), August 1944
Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary Teacher of the Colonial Peoples, by Li Fu-Jen
Volume 5, Number 10 (Whole No.47), October 1944
Trotskyism in India
The Present Political Situation in India (Theses)
Gandhi on the Road to Betrayal
The August 1942 Struggle, by Rupsingh
The Food Crisis, by S. Krishna Menon
War and the Food Crisis, by J.K.L.
Volume VI, Number 7 (Whole No.56), July 1945
INTERNATIONAL NOTES:
· India
Volume VI, Number 9 (Whole No.53), September 1945
The Wavell Plan, by K. Tilak
Volume VII, Number 10 (Whole No.71), October 1946
Indian Correspondence, by K. Tilak
The Program for Ceylon
Appendix to the Program of the Bolshevik-Leninist Party of India on the Tasks of Ceylon
Volume VIII, Number 6 (Whole No.79), June 1947
The Road to Socialism in India, by Indra Sen
Volume IX, Number 5 (Whole No.87), July 1948
The Struggles of the Colonial Peoples and the World Revolution [resolution of the Fourth International]
A Letter from Ceylon
Volume XIII, Number 3 (Total No.116), May-June 1952
NEWSLETTER:
The Ceylon Elections
[continued by:]
International Socialist Review
(1956–1970)
Volume 21 Number 3 (Whole No.152), Summer 1960
India and China – A Contrast, by Daniel Roberts
Volume 22 Number 1 (Whole No.154), Winter 1961
Postscript on India, by Bert Deck
[Shachtmanite]
The New International
(April 1940–Spring-Summer 1958)
[from the Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line:] "The Socialist Workers Party split in the spring of 1940, and [its] magazine[, The New International,] went (Apr. 1940) with the then minority, which organized itself under the name of Workers Party. This organization changed its name to Independent Socialist League after April 1949."
[On the political basis of the 1940 split and the subsequent trajectory of the Workers Party/Independent Socialist League, see the article “The Bankruptcy of ‘New Class’ Theories: Tony Cliff and Max Shachtman: Pro-Imperialist Accomplices of Counterrevolution” in Spartacist (English edition No. 55, Autumn 1999).]
Volume VI, Number 3 (Whole No.42), April 1940
India and the Third Camp, by Sherman Stanley [see note on author above, under The New International, Volume IV, Number 3 (Whole No.17), March 1938]
Volume VII, Number 3 (Whole No.52), April 1941
BOOKS:
Eton Brahmin, by Sherman Stanley
[quite possibly not about India?]
Volume VII, Number 11 (Whole No. 59), December 1941
The Future of India, by Henry Judd [see note on author above, under The New International, Volume IV, Number 3 (Whole No.17), March 1938]
Volume VIII,, Number 2 (Whole No.61), March 1942
The British Conquest Of India [a (somewhat inaccurate) abridgement of a thesis by the Indian Trotskyist party, the Bolshevik-Leninist Party of India]
Volume VIII, Number 3 (Whole No.62), April 1942
NOTES OF THE MONTH:
· War and the Colonial Peoples, by A.G.
ARTICLES:
An Impudent Slander, by M.S. {Max Shachtman]
The Social Classes in India, A Thesis
Volume VIII, Number 5 (Whole No.64), June 1942
Factories and Colonies, by H.J. [Henry Judd (Stanley Plastrik)]
Volume VIII, Number 6 (Whole No.64), July 1942
BOOKS IN REVIEW:
Karl Marx on India
Volume VIII, Number 7 (Whole No.66), August 1942
· The Revolt in India, by H.J. [Henry Judd (Stanley Plastrik)]
Volume VIII, Number 8 (Whole No.67), September 1942
NOTES OF THE MONTH, by A.G.
· Inquilab Zindabad!
ARTICLES:
Opportunism on India, by Henry Judd
The Road for India, by Leon Trotsky [?]
Volume VIII, Number 9 (Whole No.67), October 1942
NOTES OF THE MONTH:
· Discussion On Congress, by A.G.
ARTICLES:
Once More: Opportunism on India, by H.J. [Henry Judd (Stanley Plastrik)]
Volume IX, Number 2, (Whole No.72), February 1943
CORRESPONDENCE:
· Reviewing Indian Books, by Sylvia Merrill
Volume IX, Number 10 (Whole No.80), November 1943
General Wavell Comes to India, by Henry Young
Volume XII, Number 10 (Whole No.112), December 1946
Behind the Hindu-Moslem Strife: National or Religious Question?, by Henry Judd
RESOLUTION:
· Resolution on “Pakistan”, [by the Bolshevik-Leninist Party of India]
The Politics of the Indian Bourgeoisie, by Suren Morarji [Hector Abhyavardhana] [originally published as a pamphlet by the Indian Trotskyist party, the Bolshevik-Leninist Party of India.]
Volume XIII, Number 2 (Whole No.114), February 1947
RESOLUTION:
The Marxist Movement in Ceylon, Bolshevik-Leninist Party of India [appendix to the BLPI party program]
Volume XIII, Number 7 (Whole No.119), September 1947
CORRESPONDENCE:
Stalinism and the Colonies: Dispute Between Lanka Sama Samaj and the Workers Party
· From Lanka Sama Samaj
· From Henry Judd
Volume XIII, Number 8 (Whole No.120), October 1947
Colonial Questions Today, Resolution of the Chinese Trotskyists
Volume XIV, Number 1 (Whole No.122), January 1948
Toward a Reunited India: Program for the Fight Against Partition, by Henry Judd
Volume XIV, Number 4 (Whole No.125), April 1948
Struggle for the Image of Gandhi, by Henry Judd
Volume XVI, Number 2 (Whole No.140), March-April 1950
Sub-Continent, by H.J. [Henry Judd (Stanley Plastrik)] [review of India, Pakistan, and the West by Percival Spear]
Volume XVI, Number 4 (Whole No.142), July-August 1950
Asia Enters World History, by Jack Brad & Henry Judd
Volume XVII, Number 2 (Whole No.146), March-April 1951
Who Controls India’s Economy?, by Asoka Mehta
BOOK REVIEWS:
India and the United States, by Abel Baker
Volume XVII, Number 5 (Whole No.149), September-October 1951
India’s Foreign Policy Examined, by Asoka Mehta
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Trotsky on India and Permanent Revolution: index of works and relevant passages
for a recent Trotskyist analysis of the independence struggle and the role of IndianTrotskyists in it, see The 'Quit India' Movement 50 Years On: Stalinist Alliance with Churchill Betrayed Indian Revolution (Workers Hammer)
Trotskyism in India, Part One: Origins Through World War Two (1939-45)
by Charles Wesley Ervin (Revolutionary History, Vol 1 No 4, Winter 1989-90)
Marxists on India
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