The Editor,

Sir,

I am writing to thank the Central Committee (CC) of the Communist Ghadar Party of India (CGPI) for its timely statement entitled “Lesson from the Great October Socialist Wevolution: The Working Class must prepare to become the Ruling Class in order to ensure, peace, prosperity and progress!’’. Reading this statement has been an eyeopening and educational experience for me, and it is my belief that it would play such a role for every single communist.

Of the many issues that are addressed in the statement, many are of great significance. These issues are of great significance for the Indian working class today. Of these, of note is the issue of getting the Indian working class to line up behind the bourgeoisie in India. Through its propaganda machine the Indian bourgeoisie has sold the picture of a new and emergent India modelled on lines of European nations that will set out to become an important imperialist country. India is a country that is today boasting of an ever increasing number of billionaires and millionaires, of a booming economy growing at neary 10 per cent annually

and is being held up as a model of what liberalization and globalization can ‘achieve’. On the other hand, the plight of the Indian people is worsening every day, with ever swelling ranks of unemployed, homeless and destitute, one where the agricultural sector is in shambles, with farmer suicides making it to the headlines of even bourgeois newspapers virtually on a daily basis. Given this scenario, the Indian bourgeoisie is certainly going to find roadblocks in its path, and is entirely likely to plunge the peoples of the country into bloodbaths and external wars in order to extricate itself out of periodic and recurrent crises. The Indian working class must realize that the only way out is to wrest sovereignity and itself come to power, and cannot redeem itself by clinging to the coat-tails of the bourgeoisie.

The statement also captures succinctly the successes of the great October revolution, success obtained despite the great pressure exerted on it by the forces of counter-revolution and reaction, both domestic as well as external. The CGPI has been at the forefront of the analysis of the causes for the destruction of socialism in the former USSR, and has presented a coherent thesis in a manner that is unprecedented in the international communist movement. The CC deserves congratulations on this achievement.

Reading the statement closely also reveals that the path of the Indian working class is one in which there are many obstructions. It is only through a thorough analysis of the present conditions and equipping itself with the most modern theory that the working class can play its historically destined role, or being the purveyor to progress and emanicipation of the peoples of the world. The path is one of struggle, in which one cannot accept any pre-digested and pre-cooked thesis. Through the struggle will arise the ingredients that will set the revolutionary tide back in motion. The line of rejection of conciliation with the bourgeoisie is the backbone of the struggle. Indeed, it must be mentioned in this context the path advocated by many in the camp of conciliation to the parliamentary system is that of conciliation with the bourgeoisie. All communists must unite in this struggle and reject the

path of conciliation. The 90th Anniversary of the great October revolution is an occasion when this call ought to resound in all corners of the country.

Sincerely,
A Narayan, Bangalore