New Wave India

The New Wave is a Revolutionary Socialist organization based primarily in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The group has been formed on the basis of the Bolshevik-Leninist ideology and works closely with the International Workers League building a Bolshevik Leninist Party in India. The group maintains a presence through its publication titled “New Wave”, a quarterly newsletter of good quality.
History
The Group began to operate initially from Delhi through the pioneering efforts of Rajesh Tyagi, a practicing advocate in the Supreme Court of India. After being disillusioned by
the politics of Indian Stalinism particularly that of the group known as Revolutionary
Democracy, he broke and went on to build the New Wave group. This task was started
in the year 2000 however, there was little progress till the year 2009 when Adhiraj Bose,
a law student from Symbiosis Pune joined the organization after establishing contact
through the International Marxist Tendency’s networks in the Indian sub-continent.
In Pune, the modus operandi of the group has been to try and establish direct contact
with workers and poor in the industrial areas as well as slum areas as well as establish
contacts with other fighting organizations of the poor throughout India and beyond. The
efforts of Adhiraj Bose and his soon to be close aide Pushkar Ekbote later fructified in the
creation of healthy relations with the International Worker’s League in 2010. However,
differences arose between the cell in Pune led by Adhiraj Bose and Pushkar Ekbote
and the cell in Delhi led by Rajesh Tyagi over the question of the role of Trade unions
in the modern epoch as well as the position to take towards struggles involving self-
determination. There were also differences though less substantial on the question of the
character of the 4th international presently.
Since 2011 the group has also been conducting its annual events commemorating the Naval mutiny of 1946 on the 19th of February. The group has extended critical support to the anti-corruption movement and is generally
supportive of democratic struggles but maintaining an independent stance. It is one of
the few leftist organizations to have struck the fine balance required of a United Frontist
approach as against the popular frontist approach of Stalinist parties.
Group Structure
The group functions on the basis of the organizational principles of Democratic Centralism and maintains a healthy and democratic hierarchy between the core
committee composed of founding members and the lower and middle ranks composed of
active peripheral and passive peripheral members. Each member has a vote but strategic
planning has been the work of the core committee with inputs from other members. It
conducts itself in coordination with the International Worker’s League.

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