| Description | /1 circular letter from Vishnu Dutt Sharma to the secretary of a Birmingham communist group called the Indian Workers Party, asking them to call an emergency meeting to elect representatives, and including an agenda for the next meeting of representatives of the Indian Workers Party groups, to be held in Coventry, 5 February 1961
/2 letter from Bill Dunn, City Secretary of the Communist Party, Birmingham City Committee, giving details about a meeting to discuss the activities of national liberation movements in African countries which were former British colonies. This letter is undated, but was probably written during the early 1960s
/3 letter from Sohan Singh Josh, Communist Party of India, Central Office, to Avtar Jouhl congratulating him on the contents of the journal 'Mazdoor', 22 August 1961
/4-/5 copy letters to Sohan Sandhu, Secretary of the Co-ordinating Committee of the Association of Indian Communists, discussing arrangements for a meeting of the Co-ordinating Committee to discuss the accounts of the organisation, and for a meeting of the newspaper sub-committee, including an agenda, June-July 1966
/6-/7 typescript report presented by Sohan Sandhu at a meeting of Indian Communists held in Coventry in July 1966 at which the Association of Indian Communists was formed, together with a copy of the constitution of the Association of Indian Communists, Britain (Marxist-Leninist)
/8 communique to members listing individuals who attended the meeting of the co-ordinating committee of Indian Communists in Britain and including a statement setting out relations and points of divergence between the viewpoints of Indian Communists in Britain with the Communist Party of Great Britain, June 1966
/9-/10 circular notices to members of the Central Executive Committee of the Association of Indian Communists giving information about the next meeting of the Committee, to be held in Southall 29 April 1967 and including a detailed agenda, together with a notice consisting of minutes of this meeting, which includes a list of members in attendance. Notices are signed by T. S. Sahota, Secretary of the Central Executive Committee
/11 copy letter to members from Avtar Jouhl giving details about two documentary films on the political achievements of Mao Tse-Tung that are being shown in London, May 1967
/12-/13 copy letter from Avtar Jouhl to Teja Singh Sahota discussing matters relating to 'People's Democracy' and the translation of the Red Book, 31 May 1967, with a reply from Teja Singh Sahota
/14 copy letter from Avtar Jouhl to Peter Holland, IBM UK Ltd, concerning instructions for the design of a type-face, and asking him to contact [Abimanyu] Manchanda, 1 June 1967
/15 letter to members giving information about a school on Marxism-Leninism and the political thought of Mao Tse-Tung, organised by the Association of Indian Communists, June 1967
/16 circular letter to members of the Central Executive Committee of the Association of Indian Communists with an agenda for the next meeting to be held 24-25 June 1967 in Coventry
/17 circular letter to branches of the Association of Indian Communists giving information about a demonstration against the racist policies of Harold Wilson's Labour government, organised with the Indian Workers Association, Birmingham branch, and other organisations, and to be held 2 July 1967. The letter sets out the reasons for the demonstration to be held.
/18 letter to members from Jagmohan Joshi, member of the Secretariat of the Central Executive Committee of the Association of Indian Communists, asking for suggestions on the way that the organisation's work should proceed in investigating the problems and needs of the Indian community, 19 June 1967
/19 handwritten notes in English and Punjabi following a meeting of the Central Executive Committee of the Association of Indian Communists, June 1967
/20 letter to members of the Central Executive Committee and branch secretaries of the Association of Indian Communists giving information about an extended meeting of the committee to discuss difficulties in publishing the organisation's journal, 10 July 1967
/21 circular letter to branches discussing conditions of membership and the internal organisation of the Association, 31 July 1967
/22 copy letter from Avtar Jouhl to Teja Singh Sahota asking for an urgent meeting of the Birmingham branch of the Association of Indian Communists be called in order to discuss action to be taken in response to Avtar's court summons regarding an incident, possibly of racial discrimination, that took place in the Robinson Crusoe public house in Smethwick, 1 August 1967
/23 circular letter to branches giving details of decisions taken and resolutions passed at Central Executive Committee meetings in July 1967
/24 copy letter from Avtar Jouhl to the editor of the 'Birmingham Post' correcting details published in a newspaper article about Avtar's appointment as editor of 'Lalkar' and his move to London. This letter states that 'Lalkar' was to be sponsored by the Association of Indian Communists rather than the Indian Workers Association, 7 August 1967. See also MS 2141/A/8/2/3 for further material on the launch of Lalkar
/25 copy letter to members of the editorial board of Lalkar with the agenda for the next meeting, to be held 14 August 1967
/26 handwritten notes in Punjabi on an Association of Indian Communists Birmingham branch meeting
/27 text of 'resolution no.2' passed by the Association of Indian Communists expressing support for the Naxalite peasant uprisings in West Bengal, 1967
/28 letter to Teja Singh Sahota from a correspondent in India, discussing communist politics there, 14 August 1967
/29-/35 correspondence in English and Punjabi and handwritten resolution in English on the Naxalite peasant uprisings in India August 1967. The letters are from Association of Indian Communists branches giving their reactions to the resolution
/36 letter to members of the Association of Indian Communists with the agenda for a meeting of the Central Secretariat to be held 8 October 1967
/37 circular letter to members of the Central Executive Committee and branch secretaries of the Association of Indian Communists, and members who are also members of the Indian Workers Association Central Executive Committee or branch secretaries, giving information about an extended meeting of the Association of Indian Communists which all the named representatives are urged to attend, October 1967
/38 leaflet in Punjabi issued by the Association of Indian Communists Leamington branch giving details about an event to celebrate the victories achieved by the 'people of Vietnam against American Imperialism' 2 March 1968
/39 letter to members from Teja Singh Sahota with the agenda for a meeting of the Central Executive Committee of the Association of Indian Communists to be held 22 June 1969 in Southall
/40 information leaflet issued by the Association of Indian Communists giving details about a public meeting to be held to discuss the 'Indian revolutionary armed struggle', 15 August 1970
/41 leaflet in Punjabi criticising the Indian Workers Association for its approach towards the Black People's Alliance, undated
/42 copy letter from the International Secretary of the Labour Party to the Secretary of the Warley East Constituency Labour Party accepting a resolution condemning the repressive measures introduced by Indira Gandhi's government in India under the State of Emergency laws, 10 February 1976
/43 printed pamphlet entitled 'Once Again On the Question of Participation in Bourgeois Parliamentary Elections ant the Mistakes of our 'Left' Comrades', by Harpal Brar, member of the Southall branch of the Association of Indian Communists, for circulation to members of this association only, May 1978
/44 undated typescript draft resolution expressing the support of the Association of Indian Communists for 'the Revolutionary Liberation Struggle of Indonesian People under the leadership of the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI)
/45 undated typescript report entitled 'The National Question: The Application of Marxist Analysis to the National Minority Question in Britain', presented by the sub-committee of the Association of Indian Communists, consisting of Avtar Jouhl, Teja Singh Sahota and Jagmohan Joshi, and approved by the Secretariat
/46 undated leaflet in Punjabi issued by the Association of Indian Communists about Indira Gandhi's visit to Southall, probably during the late 1970s. The leaflet denounces the policies of her government
/47 undated leaflet in Punjabi concerning the expulsion of six of its members |