The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-07
India Weekly
HELPS Forge
T0lLeTS Party
Bombay, Nos. 1-13.
Jan. 26-April 80, 1880.

"a can, well-knoWn artistic freak,
clad in flowing Greek gown
(home-spun for all we know to the
contrary, paraded down to the Bat
terry under the official protection OF
a couple of cops, solemly dipped up
a dozen canfuls of sea-water.
thanked the cops, and announced to
the wondering longshoremen and un-
employed that he was going home
to put on his kettle and make salt
for Gandhi. In no other way could
this freak despite his intentions to
the contrary have demonstrated
more sharply the farcical nature Of
Gandhi's whole salt-shaker cam
paign. The farce of passive resis-
lance, of opposition to the salt tax,
while leaving untouched the land
, tax, the rent laws, the forest laws;
! the farce that is intended to have
ia happy ending for British imperial
ism with a grand chorus of Mac
Donald, Gandhi and all the other
traitors singing the praise of His
Majesty-this farce is daily costing
the lives of thousands of Indian
workers and peasants, shot down in
the revolutionary struggle or dying
of poverty under the heel of British
rule.
The exposure and defeat of the
treacherous clown, Gandhi, and his
kindred traitors and reformists, the
winning of the masses of Indian
workers and peasants to the ban
me- of the Revolutionary MARKHAM
Workers Party" the overcoming of
religious, caste, and national preju-
die, the broadening and intensity
ing of the struggle on every 'front.'
these are the tasks which the Work
ers' Weekly, "organ of the militant
working class" has set itself.
But the most pressing Of all needs
is the establishment of a revolution
airy MARKHAM Workers Party. In
article after article, the Workers
Weekly stresses the Importance of
this task, explains the role of the
Party, explains how it must be or
ganized, how it is to work under the
conditions of illegality. "The crea-
ton of such party is the greatest
historical task at this moment. e.
This is our main. task"
What are the perspectives of the
Indian Revolution? In an article
exposing the cleft" socialist program
of the reformist, Jawaharlal Nehru,
the Workers Weekly sums them UP
as follows: "The objective task of
the rapidly approaching revolution in
India is the abolition of the feudal
imperialist land system the
abolition of British imperialist con-
troll of the commanding heights in
Indian economy E. radical change
in the conditions of the working
class (7-hour day, minimum wage.
social insurance, full freedom to or
ganize, strike and picket, workers
control of employment and dis
charge against naturalization,
etc., full right of national self
determination up to separation,
overthrow of British rule, over
throw of the rule of the princes
and landed aristocracy in the native
states, establishment of full and un-
conditional independence of India.
"In this sense, the coming revolu-
ton is a national democratic revolu-
ton. The leader of this revolution
is destined to be the working class
of India in alliance with the pea
santry and supported by the revo
lutionary Electromagnetic of the
cities. Hence the political OBJ
iective becomes the establishment of
the revolutionary democratic die
tatorship of the workers and pea
SAINTS of India (This) must be
viewed as a stepping-stone to the
proletarian social revolution and the
establishment of the dictatorship Of
the proletariat."
Every page of the Workers
Weekly gives evidence of the mass
political awakening which Lenin
once described as one of the pre-
requisites of all revolutions. Under
the conditions of semi-legality, the
restrictions of which are evident in
every article, this little sixteen
page paper has to reach out to thou
sands and thousands Of Indian
workers and peasants in simple
language the feminist line on
every phase of the struggle, eX-
planning the lessons of former revo-
lutions, mobilizing support for the
great strikes, rallving the workers
to the r. l. L. u, and tirelessly
exposing the treacheries of the re-
formists-the Gandhis, Nehrus,
Bosses, etc. The Workers Weekly IS
powerful instrument of the revolt
ton.
"The crisis has deepened april
23) to the point of open street fight
! Jag. against the agents of I'M
perialism in several cities. In
Calcutta we had the beginning of
barTicade fighting, a means of
struggle to which the masses in the
cities have always resorted in times
OF revolutionary uprising. The
events point to the coming great
battle. The General Strike is COM
ing nearer. The masses are
getting ready for the General
Strike. 1t is now necessary to set
the date ard to proceed energeticail>'