2 SOCIAL SCIENTIST 9 important exponent of this view. They even see the current world capitalist crisis as a reflection of this tendency towards a new international division of labour. While the perspective of these writers is radically different from that of neo-classical economists or agencies like the World Bank, they nonetheless have this in common: they find nothing unique or specific about the experience of countries like South Korea, Singapore or Hong Kong but think that this experience is being and can be replicated elsewhere. The prospects of export-led industrialisation in the Third World, whether or not it solves the people's problems, are bright, contrary to what many Marxists have hitheto believed. In the lead article of this number, C P Chandrasekhar subjects the views of the Starnberg Group to a close and detailed scrutiry. His article is obviously extremely important for all students of contemporay capitalism and the problems of development. The article by Sanat Bose on two labour journals in Bengal in the early 1920's throws light on the outlook of some of the early labour leaders who were associated with these journals. Readers interested in the history of the working class movement in India, whether or not they agree with some of the statements in the article, e. g., regarding the identity of the first labour journal in Bengal, or regarding the absence of basic differences of views among the early labour leaders, should find the article useful as it draws attention, among other things, to a wealth of source material. Notwithstanding the obvious importance of the subject, discussions on our forest resources and forest policy are not easy to come by for the general reader in social sciences. Gopa Joshi's article should be of interest in this context. The article rejects the view that the depletion of our forest wealth is a result of the accentuating contradiction, on account of the population explosion, between the inhabitants of the forest regions, mostly tribals, and the forests. This view which was originally advanced by the British imperialists, has been subsequently espoused both by the post-independence government as well as by U N agencies. Joshi argues on the contrary that forestry can develop in India only by meeting the needs of the local people and enlisting their active participation. Finally, Vibha Maurya pays a tribute to Gabriel Garcia Marquez, this year's Nobel Laureate in literature from Colombia. A socialist by conviction, Marquez is a passionate opponent of the Right-wing military dictatorships which dot the Latin American andscape and an outspoken critic of U. S. imperialism. He belongs to that generation of Latin American writers which experienced the direct impact of the Cuban Revolution. Maurya discusses his preeminent position in the contemporary Latin American literary scene and locates his "magical realism" in the context of the history of Latin American literature.