### Left victory in Mauritius
Sixty to nil was the final score by which the Mauritian Militant Movement and the Mauritian Socialist Party won the elections in Mauritius on Friday June 11. Thus, all the seats in the Mauritian Parlia ment have gone to members of the MMM/ MSP alliance, cutting out the rightwing candidates-former MPs, members of the government, the Prime Minister included Two members of the Rodriguais People's Organisation were elected in the small island of Rodriguez.
The right was divided in this elec. tion between the National Alliance party, regrouping the Labour Party, a split from the Mauritian Social-Democratic party, the Assembly for Progress and Liberty,
Mauritian Social-Democratic Party of Gaetan Duval. The right comes out of the election even more weakened by this result, which was not as unexpected as might be imagined. The purple posters of the MMM covered the whole island, and in their own way were an indication of the electoral recomposition in
The reactionary government of Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam was not saved by the propaganda activity of the CIA agents, sent there to fulfill the kind of mission that they had so successfully carried out in Jamaica in facilitating the election of the very reactionary Jamaican Labour Party of Edward Seaga
While the leaders of the alliance MMM/MSP and the new government-in the name of 'social consensus'-struggled immediately to calm the overflowing joy and enthusiasm of the working masses at the defeat of the right-the New Militant, the MMM newspaper, headlined on
*Forgive our enemies, forget our quarrels'-that electoral victory is go. ing to encourage many workers to de. mand more than the timid reforms in the programme of the new team. Bearing in mind the politicisation and the combativity of young people that represent more than 50 percent of the population, and the existence of left currents within the
• that electoral result opens a new period of class struggles in this small country in the Indian Ocean.