Lalit () is a

left-wing Left-wing politics describes the range of Ideology#Political ideologies, political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy either as a whole or of certain social ...

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in the

Republic of Mauritius Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, about off the southeastern coast of East Africa, east of Madagascar. It includes the main island (also called Mauritius), as well as Rodrigues, Agal� ...

. It is opposed to private or any other undemocratic control of government functions. According to its website, the party was created as a "free-expression monthly magazine" named "Lalit de Klas" () in 1976.Lalit website
"About", Retrieved March 2, 2012. "Lalit" means "struggle" in Mauritian Creole. The party, which started as a tendency inside the

Mauritian Militant Movement The Mauritian Militant Movement (MMM; ) is a left-wing socialist political party in Mauritius. The party was founded by a group of students in the late 1960s. The MMM advocates a fairer society, without discrimination on the basis of social clas ...

, split from it in 1981, when the MMM announced that it was embarking on a policy of "New Social Consensus", seen by Lalit as a policy of collaboration with the capital.Republic of Mauritius:The Experience of Resistance to Neo-Liberalism
Human Rights Programme of the Europe-Third World Centre (CETIM), 2000 Lalit desires what it calls "an alternative political economy", and works towards care for the environment, against repression and torture, and towards

women's liberation The women's liberation movement (WLM) was a political alignment of women and feminism, feminist intellectualism. It emerged in the late 1960s and continued till the 1980s, primarily in the industrialized nations of the Western world, which resu ...

. Lalit strongly opposes

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and the use of ethnoreligious labels for official purposes. Its candidates in the 2005 National Assembly elections each drew the legally compulsory classification he or she would use from a hat, regardless of candidate's actual supposed "ethnicity" or religion. The party failed to win seats in the Assembly. The party opposes the presence of Anglo-American forces on the atoll of

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which forms part of the Republic of Mauritius.

Election results

National Assembly elections

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* Political parties established in 1981 Feminist organisations in Mauritius Communist parties in Mauritius Feminist parties in Africa Feminism in Mauritius {{Mauritius-stub