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In the middle - the second half of the 1930s, there was a certain regrouping of socio-political forces in the country, taking place against the background of the further development of the mass struggle of the working people and the strengthening of the left wing in the national liberation movement. Despite the fact that in 1934 the colonial administration placed the CPI outside the law, the influence of communists in trade unions, as well as mass

Organizations of students and creative youth increased. By 1939 various trade union centers and branch trade unions were reunited in the WICP. As a result, in 1934-1939. The strike movement was on the rise. Particularly active and militant were the performances of factory workers and railway workers in Bengal and North-West India, the largest center of the cotton industry in North India - Kanpur.

A new important phenomenon in the socio-political development of the country was the formation in 1936 of the All-India Peasant Union ("Kisan sabha"), which united the various peasant organizations that emerged in the 1930s and operated on the scales of individual provinces. The most active among them in Northern India were the Kisan Sabha in Bihar, Punjab and Bengal. In the organizational peasant movement, the antifeudal and anticolonial flows of struggle intertwined.

India In the mid-1930s, G.

A general shift to the left in the domestic political situation also manifested itself in the evolution of the largest political party of Indian nationalists, the Indian National Congress. By the end of the 30s, the INC gradually evolved from a bourgeois landlord party into a kind of bloc of different trends and groups of bourgeois and petty-bourgeois nationalists, representing a fairly wide range of classes, while maintaining the leading role of the national bourgeoisie. Inside the parties, three main trends were formed: the right-reformist, the centrist and the left. The latter, which consisted of various groups, intensified after the formation in 1934 of the Congress Socialist Party, which was organizationally adjacent to the INC.

Between the leaders of factions and their groupings, as well as between Congressmen and Communists, there was a struggle for leadership of the national movement. The sharpness of this struggle was given by the problem of a single anti-imperialist front, which was set up both by the practice of the activity of mass organizations and by the tactics of the Indian Communists who carried out the decisions of the Seventh Congress of the Comintern. The tendencies of the unification of the national-patriotic forces opposed the line of the British colonial administration to their split over the religious-communal sign.

India In the mid-1930s, G.