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GEORGE FERNANDES--The leader of the socialist party in India, Fernandes has not yet been released from prison. He has been openly critical not only of Gandhi but also of her political opponents, for participating in the upcoming elections, which Fernandes calls "a sham...
Sand was deeply committed to non-violent political change, characterizing herself at various points as a "Christian humanist" (she was a lapsed Catholic), a socialist and a communist. She fervently participated in the political upheavals in the 1840s and early '50s, writing "militantly socialist" novels and plays, publishing pamphlets and articles promoting revolution. In a letter, she wrote...
...were watched closely and news correspondents found themselves ... writing unfavorably about the political scene. Information about the current political situation grew scarce as foreign academics were denied entrance visas to study contemporary Indian problems. Gandhi jailed most of her political opponents, among them former Deputy Prime Minister Morarj Desai, socialist leader George Fernandes, and dissident L.K. Advani...
Fernandes, the socialist leader whom Gandhi has yet to release from prison, sees the election as a ruse designed to generate favorable propaganda in the West. From prison last week he castigated the Janata Party and other opposition leaders for participating in "the sham election." Even through the thick prison walls, Fernandes' message came across loud and clear: participation in the March elections, so long as emergency rule remained in effect, would serve only to legitimize the Gandhi regime, a legitimization it most certainly does not deserve...
...with political and unionist haggles that had set in the years before, finally led Weil to focus all her later, seminal writing on the question of how to alleviate this sense of enslavement. She rejected all forms of State domination, comparing both Hitler's fascist state and Stalin's Socialist state to the Republic and Empire of Ancient Rome, which she loathed. Even though she herself volunteered to fight alongside the Republic and during the Spanish Civil War, she pamphletted against France's involvement and against all forms of international war, abhoring the way rearmament perpetuated industrial subjection...