January 1-15, 2007

Sir,

I am writing to thank you for the reports on the Communist School conducted in New Delhi in November 2006. I am also happy to know that the CGPI is planning to conduct a series of schools across the length and breadth of the country. The topics you have chosen are commendable and the study of the momentous events of the last 150 years which include the Paris Commune, the Bolshevik Revolution, the rise and fall of the Party of Labour of Albania all represent topics on which the working class must necessarily be educated so as to be prepared for the momentous events that are to come. While there is no doubt that the objective conditions will ripen to a point when a mass upsurge against capitalist exploitation of the masses is inevitable, what is not inevitable and what requires great and conscious preparation is that the working class is ready to seize the moment to lead the masses out of the impasse in which they find themselves.

The school comes at a historical moment that marks the beginning of the 90th year of the Bolshevik revolution, due to which the world had not been the same, as has been pointed out elsewhere. It is also a time when the Indian bourgeoisie has come forth very clearly on the plank on which it stands. It plans to emerge as the leader of an imperial India built on the broken backs of its toiling peoples, or a hopelessly decimated and crushed peasantry, of an enslaved working class. This is an India where the rights of individuals and of nationalities will be subordinate to the rule of capital and profit above and beyond all other considerations. It will also be an India which will increasingly be a threat to its neighbours. It will be an India which will be a trusted ally of the hated Anglo-American imperialists. It will be an India which will contend with China and assist in the aims of the Anglo-American camp in containing it. Given this scenario, the working class must put forward its own alternative vision of what the future for the peoples of India and of the region. It must assert that barring communism, all the options that face the working people of India is that of disaster. The schools conducted by the CGPI will assist greatly in equipping the working class in working towards this cherished goal. I look forward to the documents of the schools and the content of the lectures in portable form,

electronically or in print at the earliest convenience of the party publication departments.

Sincerely,
A. Narayan, Bangalore