Lalit (political party)

Struggle
Lalit
Founded 1981
Split from Mauritian Militant Movement
Headquarters 153 Main Road, Grand River North West
Ideology Socialism
Marxism
Environmentalism
Anti-capitalism
Internationalism
Feminism
Political position Left-wing
Website
http://www.lalitmauritius.org/
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Lalit is a left-wing political party in the Republic of Mauritius. It is opposed to private or any other undemocratic control of government functions. According to its website, the party was created as a "free-expression monthly magazine" named "Lalit de Klas" (English: "Class Struggle") in 1976.[1] "Lalit" means "struggle" in Mauritian Creole. The party, which started as a tendency inside the Mauritian Militant Movement, split from it in 1981, when the MMM announced that it was embarking on a policy of "New Social Consensus", seen by Lalit as a policy of collaboration with the capital.[2]

Lalit desires what it calls "an alternative political economy",[1] and works towards care for the environment, against repression and torture, and towards women's liberation. Lalit strongly opposes communalism and the use of ethno-religious labels for official purposes. Its candidates in the 2005 National Assembly elections each drew the legally compulsory classification he or she would use from a hat, regardless of candidate's actual supposed "ethnicity" or religion. The party failed to win seats in the Assembly.

The party opposes the presence of Anglo-American forces on the atoll of Diego Garcia[1] which forms part of the Republic of Mauritius.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Lalit website, "About", Retrieved March 2, 2012.
  2. ↑ Republic of Mauritius:The Experience of Resistance to Neo-Liberalism Archived 2004-09-09 at the Wayback Machine. Human Rights Programme of the Europe-Third World Centre (CETIM), 2000


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