~ Condensed from
an address by
. | R. M. JAMBHEKAR —

HE last year and a_ half
=~ since the “transfer of power
to Indian hands” has made it
“Muite plain that the  national-
bourgeois leadership of the Na-
tional Congress obtained the
Teins of power by signing a

€acherous deal with British im-
_ Perialism. The big Indian cap-
italists, closely linked with Brit-
4sh and American monopolies
8nd their champions in the Con-
Stess, sold India’s freedom for a
deal with British imperialism in
Order to save their privileges
from the advancing sweep of
~~™ocratic forces.

Only yesterday, before the sell-

‘ng for a deal, they had promised
the abolition of landlordism and
‘the liquidation of the hated
_ Princely order.
They had promised the na-
tionalization of all British-owned
"88sets, of basic industries in In-
8nd had given loud assur-
aces that they would stand by
all the democratic rights and lib-
tties cherished by the working
People and the anti-imperialist
_ intelligentsia, Some of them had
- £¥en proclaimed their “solidarity”
nae th the world anti-imperialist
forces headed by the Soviet Un-
n, and defined Congress rule
the rule of the workers and
Peasants of India.
Even on the day that the deal
_ With British imperialism took
final shape, Pandit Nehru, in
“2 message to the nation, de-
: Clareq: i

“The f ons to Us.

Whither uture beck

Shall be our endeavor? To

bring fredom and opportunity
 ' the common man, to the
“dia Sants and workers of In-

But Congress rule in practice
turned out to be an anti-
°cratic alliance between In-
: sini Princes and landlords, to

~ nue the collaboration with

oe ialism and to retain the

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Who fy are creating a “republic”
“Teman, main preoccupation is to
ae Within the British Em-
veg are “abolishing” landlord-
aati Not by confiscating thelir
and giving ‘them to the
but by persuading willing

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5 4 €@nd we are compelled to
es © things with which we are
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Wait ic Work, They look ‘on and
for our failure.
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We _.7e8Pectfully and earnestly.
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but
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Pandit Nehru, prime minister of India’s National Congress

The pattern in Asia
babe M

government, shown with Chiang Kai-shek and his wife. Nehru’s -
brutal policies since his deal with British imperialism are earning
him the title of “the Chiang Kai-shek of India.”

ants who are
buy it.

They have “liquidated” the
princely states which constituted
one-third of the territory of In-
dia by uniting 563 of them into
25 larger feudal principalities,
with the bigger robber princes
as the sovereign heads, and the
smaller parasites guaranteed an
annual ransom equal to their
original loot.

They have created “responsible
governments” in the states by
marching against the states’
people, whose armies of resis-
tance were marching against the
princely autocrats and had all
but succeeded in bringing. them
to their knees. Indian govern-
ment troops marched in not to
dethrone the princes but to dis-
arm the people and to reinstate

rich enough to

_ the princes.

e
The first act of the command-
er of the Indian army that

. 14. CHINA |

Communists in the USSR also
did not know how to do econ-
omic work, and the imperialists
also waited for their failure. But
the Communist party of the So-
viet Union won.

Under the leadership of Lenin
and Stalin, they not only could
do revolutionary work, but also

reconstruction work, They have ©

already built a great and bril-
liant socialist state. The Com-
munist party of the USSR is our
best teacher, from whom we
must learn. We can wholly Tely
on the weapon of the people’s
‘democratic dictatorship to unite
all people throughout the a
try except the reactionaries, an
advance Steadily towards our
els Tse-tung is chairman of
~ the central committee of the
Communist party of China.

\

marched into Hyderabad, ostens-
ibly against the Nizam and his
Rakars, was to reinstate the de-
feated Nizam and to ban the
Communist party of Hyderabad.

The Communist party was the

leader- and organizer of the
heroic army of peasant partisans
who created the first hard-won
island of people’s democracy in
India, on the soil of Telengana.
The partisans liberated 2,500 vil-
lages and gave over 100,000 acres
of land, formerly owned by the
Nizam’s underlings, to the peas-
antry. On an area of 1300 square
miles over 5,000,000 working
people built the rule of people’s
committees.

\ The “victorious” Indian army
is today busy building “respons-
ible government” in Hyderabad
under the aegis of the Nizam.
It is sending out punitive ex-
peditions to drown the peasant
partisans in blood. :

In a recent speech at Hyder-
abad, Sadar Patel, Iindia’s home
minister, boasted: “I will not al-
low a single Communist to
lives oc

The Indian authorities have

built a Nazi-like concentration —

camp in Hyderabad state to carry
out this threat. e:

In this camp prisoners are
locked in cages, 120 of them to
a cage constructed to hold 40
at the most. They are forced to
lie down, and anyone who so
much as raises his head is beaten
and shot. Partisan fighters are
tied to motor trucks and dragged

through the streets. Others are

burned alive. Police seized 4,000
partisans after the “defeat” of
the Nizam.

The people’s militia of Telen-

‘gana, however, has, proved a ten-

acious plant that has fired the
imagination of the starving, land-
hungry toilers throughout India
with a radiant glimpse of the
future—their future.

In Tehro, a small state with
a@ population of 500,000 on the
southern slopes of the Himalayan
ranges, the United Provinces
Congress government played the
Same despicable role.

Under the united front banner
of the Communist party and the
states people’s organization, the
people rose in revolt against the
autocratic rule of the Maharaja.
The oppressed and impoverished
peasants formed the backbone of
this struggle for land and de-
mocracy. The revolt spread from
one region of the state to an-
other.

In a battle between the peas-
ant partisans and the Maharaja's
forces on January 12, 1948, Nag-
endra Dutt Selani, the popular
Communist leader of the peas-
ants, was shot dead. This led to
another uprising throughout the
state and the peasants began to
march on the capital.

‘The frightened Maharaja sent
an appeal to the Congress go-
ernment of the United Provinces,
-Armed police marched on Tehri
to prevent “chaos and anarchy,”
disarmed and repressed the par-
tisans and saved and rehabili-
tated the princely order, after in-
corporating the state into the
‘United Provinces.

. ® %

The Indian government has
given up the idea of nationaliz-
-ing either the foreign-owned or
Indian monopolies for a publicly
announced period of ten years,
As a sop to the workers it has
solemnly promised to “reconsider
the situation” at the end of
1958! It has. assured the British
and American monopolies that
“the government will so frame
its policy as to enable further
foreign capital to be invested in
India on terms and conditions
that are mutually advantageous.”

The government has ushered
in the “rule of the workers and
peasants” by putting over 25,000

* Communist

i

Communists, trade union lead-
ers ,workers, fighters and or-
ganizers of the All-India Peasant
Congress and the All-India Stu-
dents’ Federation, behind bars, .
and by launching a reign of blood
and terror against every indica-
tion of organized democratic pro-
test and action.

The Indian government has
“upheld” the freedom of speech,
press, assembly, and organization
by giving a free hand to India’s
landlords, princes, capitalists, as
well as Anglo-American monop-
olies seeking cheap labor—and by
banning the. Communist party in
several places and a number
of trade unions and peasant
unions, and ruthlessly breaking up
women’s peasants’, students’, and
workers’ meetings and conferen-
ces with tear gas, batons and fire.

It has virtually illegalized the

party of India
issuing warrants against rd
leaders. It has virtually liquid-
ated the workers’ right to strike
through its Trades Disputes Act,
victimization and vindictive re-
pression, y

The Indian government has
Officially announced an “inde-
pendent” foreign policy of “neut-
rality”, which merely conceals
its servile collaboration. The bait
of huge loans and markets in
Southeast Asia, the Middle East
and Africa is held out to the
Indian government as a price for
playing imperialism’s gendarme
in Southeast Asia.

The government's official sup-
port of Western Union, the Ang-
lo-U.S. sponsored Commonwealth
conferences held in Delhi on In-
donesia and Burma, the landing
of Gurkha troops for Britain's
bloody campaign in Malaya, the

_ latest scheme to construct India’s

“civilian” airfields with Anglo-
American financial and technical
support, the recent tour by Brit-
ish and U.S. technical experts,
representing the oil barons of
London and Washington, to study
the prospects of large-scale pet-
rol production in Indonesia, Ma-
laya, Viet Nam, Siam and Bur-
ma, and their open hatred of the
gigantic victorious march of the
People’s Army of Liberated Chi-
na—all this openly reveals be-
yond any shadow of doubt that
the Indian government has been
instructed by the Anglo-Amer-
ican axis to prepare the ground
for an “Indian Ocean pact”.
The pact is aimed against
Southeast Asia’s struggle for
liberation, against the USSR, and

against people's democratic Chi- ~

na.
Fired by Anglo-American im-

perialism’s propaganda of “lead-

ership of Asia” the ruling circles
of India are converting the coun-
try into a base for imperialism’s
war against the democratic revo- |
lution in Asia, against People’s

Democratic China, and against

the Soviet Union. ,
But the mounting fascist re-.

pression and terror unleashed by

the “National” government re-

‘veals the depth of the social and

economic crisis that has develop-

ed in “free” India. It also reveals
the strength and tenacity of the

People’s Democratic Front.

The representatives of the

Democratic Front of the working ©

people and the oppressed middle

classes of India will not allow
our motherland to be turned into

a base for the Anglo-American

warmongers.

@ R. M. Jambhekar is a leading
spokesman for the All-India
Trade -Union Congress and
was its representative at the
recent Paris Peace Confer-
ence,

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