Why the Communists Have Failed in India and China Riga, Aug. 17.
The Congress of the Communist International at Moscow is debating fon the report of the Finnish delegate Juusinen on the revolutionary feat look in "colonial and semi-colnial countries."
The speeches hitherto have chiefly dealt with Ching, Indin and South America.
"The report urged the necessity of creating a really independent native communist party in India, because, it says, the present communist organizations have failed te utilize their opportunities. Its necessary, the report declares, to in abandon the idea of Europeans play. ing a direct part in an Indian revolution or that of useful work being performed by any Anglo-communist party, because the Indian mistrust white men. even if they are communists, Commu agents apparently have hitherto failed to realize that India is not.
industrial but primarily agricultural country and that there fore it is possible to overthrow the British dominion only by stirring up the Indian country One of the most immediate tasks, the report concludes, is the mobilization of Indian peasants, The same applies largely China, and to other colonial' and semi-colonial countries, adds the report, which declares forts will in future be directed more thi ever before to rousing the labour on the plantations-—Reuter,
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