The SWP opposed the Naxalite rebels, who they criticised for their isolation from the urban working class.
In the 1970 Kerala state elections it stood one candidate, but he received only 362 votes.
Magan Desai became party secretary, and the journal was renamed Red Spark.
During The Emergency of 1975-1977, it lost many long-standing members, some forming the Bolshevik Leninist Group.
[2] Its platform includes achieving Indian reunification through a proletarian revolution.