Bengal and dissolution of the State Assembly comes in the wake of a statewide mass upsurge "led". by the United Front [opportunist alliance of the "left" Communist party (CPI-M) with capitalist and communal parties in a "non- Congress coalition" -- W.0O.] against the Congress-sponsored P.C.Ghosh ministry installed after the dismissal of the government headed by Ajoy Mukherjee. The left constituents of the UF have hailed the development as a victory for them, the goal set before them being only that of a midterm poll [election].
The mass resistance movement against the bourgeois state and brutal police repression was cleverly diverted into "civil disobedience" and "token defiance of law," etc., by the leaders of the left parties, who deliberately sabotaged the possibilities of the masses of workers and poor peasants entering the vortex of the struggle with their own class de-
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