End of the Left in India?

[...]the Left in India is not the Left parties alone and therefore the defeat of the Left parties does not mean the defeat of the Left. The Left in India has never been reducible to these large parliamentary fronts and party machines, much less to the groups embattled in the forests of India, but has always been a much wider spectrum of organisations, movements and forms of struggle that range from the hundreds of left wing trade unions that exist in the country in all the major industrial centres, unions that are essentially independent of party control and seeking today to form a national federation, down to the dozens of popular campaigns and the organisations connected with them. Police brutality continues unabated, lakhs of court cases lie unattended, thousands of people remain in jail as undertrial prisoners, and hundreds of victims of caste and communal violence wait hopelessly for justice.