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 very eyes. It is demanding that the Royal Commission which is to be set up to extend the Montague-Chelmsford "Reforms" should include Gandhi, and grant the demands of the Indians even " should they include Dominion status." Saklatvala and the Communist Party point out that the Royal Com mission and the "Reforms" are but a mockery from which nothing tangible can be expected.

This issue between Labour imperialism and the revolutionary workers' movement is growing sharper and sharper. The betrayal by the middle class and petty bourgeois leaders, both in India and in China, of the national struggle against imperialist oppression and exploitation, has shown beyond all doubt that the leadership of the struggle to be successful must be in the hands of the revolutionary workers and peasants. It is of supreme importance that there should be a firm bond of united action between their movement and our working class struggle in Great Britain.

In this correspondence Saklatvala makes it clear that not a superstitious reliance upon the efficacy of " khaddar," " charka," and Royal Commissions will free India from British domination, but only a completely unified national movement, in which Labour must play a greater and ever greater part.

By means of this correspondence, which was published in full" throughout the Indian press, Saklatvala has struck a doughty blow at Gandhism, and social pacifism in India, and stirred up young India as it has not been stirred for generations. It should be read by every serious working class student in Britain. November, 1927.