The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-22

against their imperialist oppressors of all ex-
plotted against the exploiters That in this Holy
War, which the Indian masses are now engaged
in Gandhi'S non-violence means suicide for the
revolution. That the reason for Gandhi's non
violence is that Gandhi together with the Ma
tional Congress tremble for the interests of the
Indian landlords and capitalists, whose power
will be wiped out by the real l. E., violent revo-
luton. That behind Gandhi's sermons on self
sacrifice is the desire to sacrifice the freedom of
3ooooo,Ooo people in order to preserve the power
and the right" of 100000 exploters to bleed
them white The independence, preached by the
National Congress, to be achieved by non violent
means is a fraud AS stated in the Platform of
Action. the complete independence of India can
be achieved only through the violent overthrowal
of British rule, e.. through the armed uprising
of the Indian masses.
Land to the Peasants! Bread to the Workers.!
Power to the Masses!
Seventy three per cent of the Indian popula-
ton is engaged in agriculture The overwhelm-
ing majority of the peasants have no land of
their own. They sow and till, they water the
land by the sweat of their brow only to see the
landlord, the money lender, the trader the tax
collector reap the harvest when the crops are
ripe. Their normal state is one of starvation,
in a drought or with excessive rain they die in
millions like flies. What is national liberation
to the starving peasant if it does not liberate
him from the clutches of the landlord and the
usurer? The National Congress guarantees the
landlords their landed property and yet dares to
speak of national liberation!
How can the peasant get the land he tills?
Without revolution, without the overthrow of
British imperialist rule this is impossible. The
Indian landlords and the so-caled native
Princes, who are the biggest and worst landlords,
derive their power from the British bayonets.
Thus the liberation of the Indian peasant from
the landlord (agrarian revolution) and the lib
Grafton of the Indian nation from imperialist
domination (riational revolution) are insepara-
bly, bound together. This is recognized in the
Platform of Action in which the Indian Commu-
mist Party demands the confiscc.ion of all the
lands, belonging to the landlords and other para
sites, without compensation and transfer of same
to the toiling reasantry
The Indian worker fares no better than the
Indian peasant. His normal house is a sl,lm
$40 month is high wages to him. He works
ten twelve and fourteen hours day without a
compulsory day of rest The abuses of child
labor and woman labor in the Indian factories,
mines and plantations are without parallel in
any capitalist country. Unemployment is down.
right death to rim, yet the civilized British In
dian government never attempted even to esti-
mate the number of unemployed in India which
including agricultural workers, must now run
into millions. The Indian working class, which
is the vanguard and will eventually become the
leader of the Indian revolution, will not tolerate
this wretched state of affairs to continue. If
the Indian revolution is to give anything to the
Indian workers, it must guarantee them an g.
hour day. decent conditions of labor and bread
in case of unemployment.
How are the Indian workers and peasants to
assure the realization of these demands after the
revolution? Aren't there instances when the
masses had won the victory of the revolution by
their blood and afterwards were robbed of their
achievements, deceived in their most legitimate
hopes by the landlords and the capitalists9 Take
an example nearest to us, Mexico. Was not the
Mexican revolution carried out by the Mexican
workers and peasants? The peasants were prom
Used land But after many years of the revolu-
ton how much of it have they actually got?
Now the counter-revolutionary government of
Ortiz Rubo has completely stopped even that
meagre distribution Of land to the peasants. A
Labor Code is being enacted which makes short
shrift of all the promises the Mexican workers
heard about decent wages and better labor con-
ditions
There is only one way to guarantee the real
fulfillment of the objects of the revolution-the
masses who actually win the power. must keep it
In their own hands after the revolution. The
only form Of government which makes the masses
the masters of their country is Workers and
Peasants Republic based on Soviets. Under such
government there can be no exploitation of one
, nationality by another. Every nationality has
the right to build its national life in its own
way. This is what the Indian Communist Party
stands for to assure the fruits of the revolution
to the Indian people.