Book Review 73 tive period of labour movements in India. He joins issue with Dange who has waxed lyrical about Lala Lajpat Rai's reference to the Russian Revolution at the first session of the AITUC. Bose poses against Rai's peroration his (and his followers') attitude towards class relations and class struggle. When one looks at the subsequent history of the AITUC and the formidable position which the communists built up within it in a relatively short time, one has to conclude with Bose that a new thinking had to come to the aid of the workers, and that the widening and deepening of the trade union movement could come only from 'an organized communist party with a correct strategy and tactics of mass struggle (against imperialism and colonialism) embracing simultaneously the entire oppressed section of the society'. That leaves us at the beginning of another story, and one feels grateful that Bose has so carefully and so elegantly told us the earlier tale. MIHIR BHATTACHARYA Dept. of Film Studies Jadavpur University Jadavpur.