A scanned copy of the first issue of the Bulletin of the Communist Platform, produced after the June 1977 congress of the Communist Platform. A unique journal from India’s new left in the late 1970s. Among the contents were writings by Antonio Gramsci, Roman Rosdalsky, an article on the New Working Class and New Forms of Struggle in Pune, and an article by an unnamed trade unionist refuting the appeal for Industrial truce by the then labour minister of India Ravindra Varma.