The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-18
BY L. HELLER.

INDIA is in flames. From Bombay and Ka-
rachi in the West, to Calcutta and Chitta-
gong in the East, from Peshawar and Lahore
in the North to Madras and Medura in the
South--throughout the whole of this vast con-
tnent, which is called India, the million-strong
masses have come into movement, and are
fighting against British Imperialism. Strikes
the boycotting of British goods, English insti
tutions, the British government monopolies, the
refusal to pay taxes, open armed clashes with
the English police and troops, whole towns
seized by the rebels, the widespread peasant
movement, the unrest of the frontier tribes,
and finally, the ever more frequent mutinies
in the Indian troops, the refusal to go against
the rebels, and directly taking up cause--such
is the picture of India as it is at present.
Indian Chinese Revolutions Undermine World
Imperialism.
Like the great Chinese Revolution, the In
dian Revolution is powerful ram undermining
the very foundation of world Imperialism. The
Indian Revolution strikes more directly at
British imperialism than the Chinese Revolu-
ton. India is a vast colony of British imper-
ialism; out of the 400 millions of colonial
slaves, on the bones of which the edifice of
British imperialism has been erected, more than
300 millions live in India alone. The liberation
of India signifies the downfall of the present
British Empire, and thereby strikes powerful
breach in the entire imperialist front
Causes Behind Indian Revolution.
The causes which gave rise to the revolu-
tionary movement are: the growing impoveri-
cation of the people, of the peasantry, the
workers and petty urban bourgeosie. All the
exploratory and reactionary forces of India. as
represented by the native princes, the big land
owners, the usurers-who play such big role
in the life of the Indian countryside-are sup
ported by British imperialism, and in turn are
the latters chief prop in India itself. British
imperialism is being opposed by the basic mass
es of the Indian population in the person of
the workers, the peasants and the city poor.
Indian agriculture is steadily degrading.
Drive England Out of India" Slogan.
The peasantry, who are l.lercessly exploited
by British Imperialism, the feudals and the
usurers are becoming more and more
impoverished, are dying out en-, masse
as result of malnutrition, diseases
epidemcs The importation of wheat and rice
into India is steadily growing greater, whilst
exports are falling. Important industries such
as the textile, metallurgical, coal industries,
are passing through chronic crisis. The In
dian bourgeosie and British capital are inten-
styling the exploitation of the Indian workers
by naturalization methods forcing still lower
their living standards, which are already on
the starvation line. AS {. result we see the
acute intensification of class contradictions and
the growth of the revolutionary movement,
which has extended throughout the country.
"Drive the English out of Inda" "Indian In
dependence have become the slogans of the
broal masses.
Mlitants Lead Struggle; Red Unions Grow.
tercourse founded upon the mutual dependency
of mankind ami the means of that intercourse
on the other hand the development of the pro-
ductive powers of man and the transformation
of material production into scientific domina-
ton of natural agencies. Bourgeois industry
and commerce create these material conditions
of new world in the same way as geological
revolutions have created the surface of the
earth. When great social revolution shall
have mastered the results of the bourgeois.
epoch, the market of the world and the modern
pc gers of production. and subjected them to
the common control of the most advanced peo-
PIES then only will human progress cease 10
resemble that hideous pagan idol, who would
not drink the nectar but from the skulls of the
slain