LALIT Seminar on Political Situation

07.02.2023

LALIT held its annual two-day “political seminar” this past weekend. This seminar follows our six-day theoretical congress held four months ago on the theme “The Class Struggle – Towards a Socialist Revolution: Let’s put our minds to work!”

The two-day seminar was divided essentially into five parts, each led by a group of between two and four members. 

The first day, there were 25 minute talks on the following subjects:

1. The world economy in 2023 and the Mauritian economy, with reference to the MSM’s state control of the economy (led by Lindsey and Cindy).

2. The new international situation of the USA fighting for sole dominance, against rising BRICS countries intending to develop a multi-polar world (led by Kisna, Rajen and Rosa).

Then there were 10-minute talks on the following:

3. The political situation in Mauritius, divided into three sections:

            a) The MSM-led government parties and their trajectory (led by Alain and Gary)

            b) The Parliamentary Opposition and its trajectory (led by Rada and SR)

            c) Extra-Parliamentary Opposition parties – other than LALIT (led by Rajni and Ram)

After each section, there was about a one-hour plenary to deepen analyses.

The second day, was different.

The morning was devoted to discussing our party, itself, LALIT’s recent actions and its recent “bilan” (led by Rajni) and then an outline on means and mechanisms for “party-building”, in general how the list is fairly finite, and in particular how different methods of struggle are more effective in different social conditions, whether there is an up-turn or down-turn in the class struggle being the most relevant (led by Lindsey and Ram). Short introductions were given by different members on recruitment after the Housing Joint Committees work (led by Kisna and Anne-Marie), using the Revi for program development, party building and for recruitment (led by Denis and Alain), recruiting amongst young workers (led by Laval and Lindsey), recruiting amongst college and university students (led by Cindy).

Here we broke into small groups and discussed possible improvements in party-building, and on which methods to concentrate right now, for 45 minutes, and then in the plenary we put ideas together.

By the afternoon, on the basis of both our six-day Congress and our two-day Seminar, we were ready to devote time and debate for two or three hours to agreeing on an action plan for 2023, printing 60 copies for active branch members.

We hope to share the main points of the different papers in future articles.