Articles by Alice Thorner

of Urban Working-Class Women Alice Thorner Jyoti Ranadive The main purpose of the study on which this paper is based is to explore the lives of working-class women in a major Indian industrial city. We have tried to understand just how girls brought up in the villages and brought abruptly to Bombay at the time of their marriage (sometimes a few years before, more typically a relatively short time after) adapt to urban ways. We have enquired into the ways in which living in the city, in physical conditions quite different from those to which they are accustomed in the countryside, speaking other languages, have influenced their behaviour and their ideas.

Contemporary Debate on Classes and Modes of Production in India Alice Thorner For over a dozen years Indian and foreign marxists have been arguing with passion, subtlety and an abundance of statistics about the existing mode of production in Indian agriculture or, more broadly, in India. There have been proponents of capitalism, pre-capitalism, semi-feudalism, colonial and post- colonial modes, and recently, a dual mode.

Semi-Feudalism or Capitalism?
Contemporary Debate on Classes and Modes of Production in India Alice Thorner For over a dozen years Indian and foreign marxists have been arguing with passion, subtlety and an abundance of statistics about the existing mode of production in Indian agriculture or, more broadly, in India. There have been proponents of capitalism, pre-capitalism, semi-feudalism, colonial and post- colonial modes, and recently, a dual mode.


New Deal in France Alice Thorner THE election on May 10 of the Socialist candidate, Francois Mitte- rand, may well prove to be a turning point in French political history. Mitterand becomes the first leftwing president of the Fifth Republic, the state set up by General de Gaulle after his return to power by coup in 1958. Constitutionally the president is directly responsible for policy; it is he who names the members of the cabinet as well as the prime minister. The socialist victory shows for the first time that alternation is possible in the current French framework. Many had come to doubt the possibility that the conservatives, under one name or another (Gaullists, Centrists, Republicans), could ever be dislodged. This is one of the reasons why the jubilation on the left and, indeed, on the part of many not committed to either the Socialist or Communist position, was particularly heartfelt.

October 7, 1967 Chief Minister with reports that the Communists had decided to obstruct the sale of paddy by the peasantry to the government and its agencies, The Chief Minister then announced to his party colleagues his decision to break the present United Front and go back to the Congress as a full-fledged member. And the news was leaked to the Press.