The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-22
The Program OF the Indian
Revolution
ARTICLE 1.

ARTICLE l.
THE Draft Platform of Action of the Indian
Communist Party, published last week in these
columns, is document of first rate importance
to the whole international Communist movement.
In clear and simple language, comprehensive
to the broadcast masses, it sets forth the devas-
Eating results of imperialist domination in India
with all its concomittants: Landlordism, usury,
debt slavery, perpetuation of the abominable
caste system, ETC.. and formuates the immed-
late objects of the Indian revolution These are:
l. The complete independence of India by the
violent overthrow of British rule. The cancel
lation of all debts The confiscation and ma
tionalization of all British factories banks, rail-
ways, sea and river transport and plantations.
2. Establishment of Soviet government. The
realization Of the right of national minorities
to determination including separation Abol-
ition Of the native states. The creation of an
Indian Federal Workers and Peasants Soviet
Republic.
g. The confiscation without compensation of
all the lands. forests and other property of the
landlords, ruling princes, churches the British
Government, officials and moneyenders and
handing over for use to the tong peasantry.
Cancellation of slave agreements and all the in
debtedness of the peasantry to moneylenders
and banks. s
T. The eight-hour working day and the rad
ical improvement of conditions of labor. In
crease in wages and state maintenance for the
unemployed.
The Indian National Congress and Independence
The first and fore most object of the Indian
revolution is the overthrow of British domina-
ton and the complete liberation of the country
British imperialism dominates India not only
through its political Gncluding military ma
chine. All the key positions in the economic life
of the country are in the hands of British i'm
perialists. Can a country be free, when all its
railways, its mining industry, the power stations,
the banking system, the overwhelming ma jority
of its factories, ETC.. remain in the possession of
foreign imperialists? The answer is obvious. Yet
in the Constitution, prepared by the National
Congress (the so-called Nehru Constitution the
British capitalists were accorded full protection
for their vested interests" in India. The Com
munist Party of India has no use for such
freedom which is the freedom of Nicaragua
slavery in disguise. Real Independence of India
can be assured only through the cancellation Of
all debts and the confscation Of all enterprises
of the British imperialists and their transfer to
the Indian people.
The Way To Independence.
But what is the way to achieve this indie
pendence? Gandhi answers: through non
violent revolution. However, the history of man
kind does not know of such miracle as the VIC
tory of non-violent revolution. On the con-
trary, history knows many cases, when the de-
feat of revolution was wholly due to the in
decisiveness Of the revolutionary forces, to the
absence of a resolute attack on the forces of
counter-revolution. But what are the lessons Of
history to Mahatma?
Gandhi himself actively helped the British i'm
perialists to swallow up the small Dutch Boer
republics in South Africa, to quell the Negro re-
bellions there, to fight the Germans in the world
war, in which hundreds Of thousands Of Indian
lives were lost for the glory of British trade.
In all of these events the gun and the rifle
played rather conspicuous part. But then, you
see, these we're wars of the exploiters against the
exploited Gas was the case in South Africa) or
of one group of robbers against another group Of
robbers Gas 1t happened during the world wary.
In India at the present time the case is Ger
tainly different Here is war Of an oppressed
people against its oppressors. war In which the
British imperalist butchers massacre whole vii
lagos by air bombardments and shoot, hang,
beat to DEATH jail and torture the flower Of the
Indian people. No. says Gandhi to the Indian
workers and peasants, to the revolutionary IN
dian youth. in such war you cannot answer
with Violence; why, you should not even hurt the
feelings of your enemies! How does Gandhi ex-
Main this n'cnstrous betrayal? Well in his writ
ngs he just CLOSES it over with self-forgiving
s"'"T: la, -, my small Inconsistencies, you
know YOU will forgive your saintl
The Indian Communists are pledged TO explain,
patiently and persistently to the Indian masses,
that, in the words Of Lenin the only really holy
war history has ever known has been and Is the
war of slaves against the slave owners, Of the
serfs against the land barons, Of the workers
against the capitalists Of the oppressed nations