The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28
The ''Present Moment in India

fitable sinecures under the flag of dominion
constitution. The notorious Nehru constitu-
ton revealed this secret of bourgeois policy,
and the statements daily appearing in the In
dian press concerning the Intentions" of the
British Labor Government to form bloc with
the Indian national reformist bourgeoise
against the masses of India witness the
extraordinary hurry of the Indian bourgeoisie
in this connection. Only with difficulty OBJ
serving the formalitles of a shop-window OPP
position, the Indian bourgeoise is doing every
thing it can to reach the longed-for end as
quickly as possible. 1t is with rare ardour at
tempting to persuade Macdonald and Co. to
hasten with a conference of British and Indian
politicians. eff the British Labor Government
displays such directness and resolution in car
rying through the policy proclaimed by the
Laborites for India as it displayed in regard
to Egypt, if it displays that resolution at the
moment when all the political problems have
acquired. sufficient clarity, we think that half
the difficulties which are so frequently ap-
pealed to will disappear, and it will be easy
to create an atmosphere of agreement at the
general conference" 1.-THE Hindoo for July
20, 1929 Thus the Indian bourgeoise of the
National Congress alluring the Macdonald
Government with the prospects of agreement
with them. Through the Viceroy the Mac
Donald Government has already promised a
conference in London, but of course it will not
grant the rights" of Egypt In December
an all-Indian National Congress is to assemble
at Lahore. By then the period of the ulti-
matum threatening the British with declara-
ton of civil disobedence in the event of a re-
fusal of dominion status to India will be near
ing expiration. Their dilgent fawning on
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of the Indian bourgeoisie, which knows only
too well that it is politically bankrupt that it
is not able to keep any cleft wing" promises.
The Indian liberal bourgeoise is trying to hide
its naked poverty under cleft wing" phrases
and gestures, which are hardly likely to take
in anyone concerning their real intentions. The
Indian National Congress is all but ready to be
laid out And yet this near corpse is trying
to block the road of the revolutionary move
ment, and in this consists it's main political
significance. In order to render the revolu-
tionary movement impotent the bourgeosie is
pretending that it will be glad with all a
fathers pride to adopt it it's own legal child.
Only thus can the fact be explained that the
leaders of the National Congress have tried
to lay their paws on the body of the dead Das,
who was in no sense hero of bourgeois
treachery. 1t was convenient for the counter
revolutionary liberals to declare Jatindranath
Das national hero and martyr, in order
the more easily to pave the way for the young
Nehru who has been put forward by Mahatma
Ghandi himself as president of the Lahore
gress. With the aid Of the clever young men
who swear their fidelity to socialism and the
revolution and at the same time do not break
away from their filial devotion to their faith
ers, the counter-revolutionary liberals are hop
ing to decapitate and paralyse the vast move
ment of the revolutionary strata of the town
petty bodrgeoisie, and to isolate the working
class in its ruthless struggle against mper-
ialism Mahatma Ghand himself, that great
lover of Herodc poses and misty phrases, has
spoken this question in the language of the
fly-blown politicians: "a friend of discipline,
he (Davakharlal Nehru) has always revealed
his readiness for loyal submission even when
he regarded it as mistaken. He is undoubtedly
man of extreme convictions by comparison
with those close to him, but he is modest and
sufficiently practical not to carry the matter
to rupture. He is as clear as crystal, he is
true be. eusricion. He is knight
without fel. and without reproach. The
ton will be in sure hands," Bombay Chron-
icle, Oct. 9th, 1929
And it is this knight without fear and with
out reproach whom they are trying to force