Communist Movement :
Joint Platform of Action of the Communist Party of India
PART-I Main Tasks of the Indian Revolution
The Indian people are groaning under the yoke and the exploitation of British imperialism . Relying upon their political and economic supremacy , and squeezing billions of rupees year by year out of the miserable national income of India , the blood-thirsty imperialists have brought the toiling masses of the people to a state of famine , hopeless poverty , intolerable slavery and mass extinction as a people .
With all the power of the State in its hands , controlling the main branches of industry , railways , sea and river transport , banks and credit system , the greater part of the land , forests and the irrigation system , British imperialism has retarded and still obstructs the economic development of our country in every way , supporting and relying upon all that is backward and retrograde in town and country .
The supremacy of British imperialism is the basis of the backwardness , poverty and endless suffering of our people . Only by the merciless and violent destruction of the political economic supremacy of the British imperialism will the working masses of India succeed in rising to their feet , achieving their independence , and creating conditions requisite for their further development , and for the reconstruction of society in the interests of the workers and peasants , and with the purpose of developing further towards socialism .
In the enslavement of the Indian people British imperialism relies upon the native princes , the landlords , the money-lenders and the merchants , utilising the assistance of the national bourgeoisie . The system of land
January - 2022 ownership by the landlords , native princes and money-lenders , and relics of serfdom in the land system of India ( and consequently in all India ’ s social and political institutions ) represent the main bulwark of British supremacy .
In order to destroy the slavery of the Indian people and emancipate the working-class and the peasants from the poverty which is crushing them down , it is essential to win the independence of the country and to raise the banner of agrarian revolution , which would smash the system of landlordism surviving from the middle ages and would cleanse the whole of the land from all this medieval rubbish . An agrarian revolution , against British capitalism must be the basis of the revolutionary emancipation of India .
Linked up as it is the system of landlordism and usury , and terrified at the thought of a revolutionary insurrection by the toiling masses , the capitalist class has long ago betrayed the struggle for independence of the country and the radical solution of the agrarian problem . Its present “ opposition ” represents merely manoeuvres with British imperialism , calculated to swindle the mass of the toilers and at the same time to secure the best possible terms of compromise with the British robbers . The assistance granted to British imperialism by the capitalist class and its political organisation , the National Congress , takes the shape at the present time of a consistent policy of compromise with British imperialism at the expense of the people , it takes the form of disorganisation of the revolutionary struggle of the masses and the preservation of the system of imperialism , including the native states , the system of landlordism and the reinforced exploitation , jointly with the Imperialism of the mass of the people , of the working-class in particular . The greatest threat to the victory of the Indian revolution is the fact that great masses of our people still harbour illusions about the National Congress , and have not realised that it represents a class organisation of the capitalists working against the fundamental interests of the toiling masses of our country .
The policy of Gandhism , on which the programme of the Congress is founded , uses the cloak of vague phrases about love , meekness , modest and hardworking existence , lightening the burden of the peasantry , the national unity , the special historic mission of spiritualism , etc . But under this cloak it preaches and defends the interests of the Indian capitalists , the inevitability and wisdom of the division of society into rich and poor , eternal social inequality and exploitation . That ism it preaches ( serves ) the interests of the capitalist development of India on the bone and sweat of the working masses of the people , in alliance with world Imperialism . The National Congress betrayed and disorganised the struggle of the toilers in 1919-21 . The National Congress supported the manufacturers against the workers during the textile strike and in fact assisted in the passing of anti-labour legislation . The National Congress refused to support the fight of railwaymen against British imperialism , suggesting that they should ask Lord Irwin and MacDonald to arbitrate . The National Congress opposed the peasantry in their struggle against the money-lenders , big landlords and the native princes .
Jointly with the Liberals , the landlords and the manufacturers , the National Congress has produced the
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