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THE INDIAN COMMUNIST PARTY.

OBJECT.
Establishment of Complete Swarajya

common

& the system of Society based upon the ownership and communal control of the means and instruments of production
in the interest of the

and distribution of wealth by and

whole community of India.

PROGRAMME.
Organisations of three kinds
peasants'
areas
(a) of

workers' resedential areas (b) of country

and

of the

intellectual

middle

class.

And

to

establish

permanent connections between the

intellectuals

and the workers.

METHODS.
(a
)

Conducting propoganda
affiliate

in non-literary

working masses as chiefly Trade

(b)

Union Workers, and to

workers and peasants,

such bodies to the nearest section,

Winning the

majority of the Working class by active participation in

(ej

every day struggle of the

Securing the leadership of the struggle of the workers for

themselves, (d) Distributing of literature including vernacular papers and pamphlets

and establishing

socialist reading

rooms and

liabraries. fe) Establishing

contact bet-

ween employed and

unemployed.

PRINCIPLES.
(

Out party holds

it

is

unnatural and unjust

it

for
is

any nation or country

the
birth right

to rule over another nation or country, and therefore,

and the

foremost duty of Iudiansto gain Complete Swarajya at the earliest possible time.
(2)

upon the ownership

of the

Our party holds that Indian Society as at present constituted, is based of the means of living (that is, land, factories, and means of
the consequent enslavement
class

transportation) by the capitalist or the master class and

working
(

by whose labour alone wealth

in

is

produced.
there
is

Our party holds that

society,

therefore,

an antagonism of

interests manifesting itself as a class struggle

between those who possess but do not

produce and those

(

who produce but do not

this

possess.

Our party holds that

antagonism can be abolished only by the

of the

emancipation of the working class from the domination

conversion of the

master class by the

common

property of the society, of the means of production

and distribution and

their control

by the whole community.

*
in

Our party holds

that, as

the order of social evolution the working

of

clasa is the last class to achieve its

will

freedom the emancipation

the working class

involve the emancipation of

(

all

mankind without the

this

distinction of race

and

sects-

Our party holds that

emancipation must

be

the work of the

working

c'as-i itself.

(7) Our party

of
all

holds that the present Zamindari

the

system
it

is

the

sole cause

no improving their condition. Therefore the zamindari system must be abolished at once, and peasants should be deemed as the rightful masters of the friuts of
of
exists there is

the

miseries

Indian peasants and so long as

hope

of

their labour,

(8) Our party

armed
class, of

holds that,

as the

maehinarv

of

the

Govt.,

including the
capitalist

forces of the nation exists only to conserve the

monopoly by the

the wealth taken fiom the workers, the working class must
politically for

organise cons-

ciously and

the conquest of

the

powers of Government, national,

this machinary, including these forces, may be converted from an instrument of oppression into the agent ot emancipation and the

provincial and local, in order that

and capitalistic privileges. Our party holds that, as political parties are but the expression of class interests, and as the working class is the biggest of all classes, so much so that all sections of the master class put together will, comparatively, look infinitesmal, the
(

overthrow

of buearocratic
)

interest of
class

the other classes must be superseded by the interest of wherever there comes a clash between any such interests.
all
(

the working

10

Our

party

holds that the workers of

all

countries of

the world are

their intere-

suffering from the

sts are

same un justice at the hands

it is

of the capitalists,

and that

one and the same,

-'

therefore,

necessary

for their salvation to unite

and

act harmoniousl

v.

(11

The Indian Communist Party,

to supersede
calls

therefore,
all

enters the field of political

alleged
class of

action determined
or
this

or

envelope,
all

such parties whether

of

avowedly capitalist and

upon

the

members

the working

its banner to the end, that a speedy termination be wrought to the system which deprives them of the fruits of their labour, and that poverty may give place to comfort, privileges to equality and slavery to freedom.

country to muster under

may

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~r

Secretary

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become a member
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of the party,

and herewith forward annas eight as the

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objects.

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