72 SOCIAL SCIENTIST enunciation and reiteration. The working-class movement should thus consider various questions relating to Muslims on merits. It is possible that its positions and those of the Muslim communal leaders may coincide on this or that issue or on many general questions at a particular time as during the ^CPI (M)'s coalition with the Muslim League in Kerala after the fourth general elections. But it is not to be forgotten that the working-class movement cannot make its position firm among the Muslim masses without persuasive ideological opposition to communalism. IRFAN HABIB IqTIDAR ALAM KHAN K P SINGH * Programme of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), 1971, para 88 (17), p 38. 2 Ibid., para 88 (6), p 36. 8 Election Manifesto of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Fourth General Elections, 1967, pp 27-28. 4 ^Aligarh Muslim Umvcrsity Aot^ Social Scientist 7, August 1972, pp 65-70.