ABSTRACT
Subhas Chandra Bose offered himself as a viable candidate, able to consolidate the country's leftist elements. United front partners found that they could not agree about how to proceed regarding Bose's proposals. Having successfully incorporated anti-war perspectives into Congress programs, united front partners sought to preserve the principles inherent to war resistance. After the Tripuri session, socialists and communists no longer pursued a grand scheme for transforming the Congress into an authentic anti-imperialist movement nor for unifying the country's anti-imperialist forces through Marxist ideology. Bose certainly noticed that the majority of Congress delegates were dissatisfied with the Congress's apparent drift and were inspired, generally, by radical sentiments. He proposed harnessing this widespread attitude, forging a new Left unity in the country, and he formed the Forward Bloc as an umbrella organization to express this new ideal of Left unity. Communists launched a campaign to mobilize the workers and peasants and to impede war production and the war effort.
