2 SOCIAL SCIENTIST ingly complex strategic and tactical problems. True, their interests may converge or at any rate not be conflicting on the basic question of land redistribution in an anti-landlord struggle. But this basic question itself can come on the agenda only at the culmination of a series of transitional struggles, and these, differing in content for the different strata, could well end up being at cross purposes. For instance, an obvious transitioni demand, that draws labourers into struggle, centres on the question of wages, where their interests conflict not only with those of the landlords, but even with those of large sections of peasantry which hire labour, at any rate in peak seasons. Thus, combining different streams of struggle to build b joint front of peasants and labourers demands a great deal of skill and multeity. Debjani Sengupta's paper on the Khet Majoor movement iri West ^Bengal is Interesting in this context. It underscores the fact that such a cbnibina* tion of different streams of struggle is possible in practice. Of particular significance is her observation that the kisan movement's earlier struggle on peasant demands, such as procurement prices, enabled it to intervene successfully in weaning this peasantry away from the camp of landlords on the wage question. Finally we publish a piece by Asha Kanwar which is both an obituary on ArnoM Kettle, the well-kno^n British Marxist literary critic and scholar who passed away recently, as well as to account of an interview given by him to the author. This, being perhaps one of the last interviews given by Kettte, and ranging over a wide array of topics^ should be of particular interest to our leaders.