The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-01
LONG LIVE THE STRUGGLE FOR SOVIET INDIAv
Open Letter OF the Young Communist International

struggle against British imperialism, its OBJ
ject is to arrive at a peaceful agreement with
the British imperialists for the oppression of
the Indian people.
Every honest revolutionary who believes not
in what people, political parties and organiza-
lions say, but in what they do, will see that
all the talk of the leaders of the National
Congress and of the League of Independence
is downright deception of the masses, which
becomes more dangerous now, when the mass
of workers, peasants and toers have shown
their readiness to fight. Their best repre-
sentatives are now in the jails of the Labor
Government-with the actual beneiiction of
the leaders of the National Congress-
The Labor Government of British Imperial
ism will continue to promulgate laws to
worsen the conditions of the masses, legalizing
exploitation and slavery. The National Con-
gress will "retalate" by issuing declarations
that "there can be no fight now and that the
people must wait"
Comrades and brothers, many of you have
already worked among the masses, have come
forth from the masses and known their senti-
ments. Many of you, while actively fighting
against British imperialism, still believe in the
National Congress, in the League of indie
pendence, and in the identity of the classes
and the Indian people. Many of you really
want to go to the masses of workers and peas
ants, to help them build and develop their Or
CARNATIONS. 1t is to you that we now appeal
Sever your contact with the National Con-
gress and the League of Independence, dis
close their falseness and treachery.
Show them up for what they are, as assis-
tants of British imperialism.
Drive the traitors, the phrasemongers, out
of your ranks.
Everyone of you who takes part in the
movement of the youth, who is an honest fight
er and who wants to fight with all possible
means against British imperialism for the
benefit of the Indian people must understand
that he has nothing in common with the lib
eral bourgeoisie, the landlords, and their spine-
less intellectual flunkeys.
What is it that you must fight for? You
must fight not in the interests of a handful
OF moneybags, but in the interests of the 400
million Indian people, you must fight for Com
munism-our ultimate aim, for the abolition
OF exploitation of man by man, for full equal
ity of all people. But for this one must fight
in India first of all for the workers right to
strike, to organize their trade unions to work
an 8-hour day, to enjoy human conditions, to
abolish exploitation in the factories, mills and
railways, etc. The workers must be helped in
their struggle against exploitation. The strug-
gle OF the workers is struggle IN the inter-
ests of all Indian people. The Indian workers
have already been and must be the leaders
and teachers of the mass of Indian toilers.
You must fight for the right of the peas
ants to the land, for the confiscation of the
landed estates, for the annulment of usurous
debts, the abolition of usIry. ard the aboli-
ton of feudal relations. The peasants must
be helped in their struggle for land. They
must be helped to seize the land and to get
rid Of The landlords to organize in the strug-
gle against the landlords and against British
Imperialism.