August 15 Marks 32 Years of Continued Bondage, Not Independence! The Chains of This So-Called Independence Must Be Smashed!

              AUGUST 15 MARKS 32 YEARS OF
CONTINUED BONDAGE,
NOT INDEPENDENCE!
THE CHAINS OF THIS SO-CALLED
INDEPENDENCE MUST BE SMASHED!
Statement of the Indian People's Defence Committee,
New Delhi, August 5, 1979
The following statement is reprinted
from Bulletin No. 6 of the Indian
People's Defence Committee, New
Delhi, released August 5, 1979.
India's independence is a fraud
played by the national traitors like
Nehru and Gandhi and all their
accomplices to continue the foreign
imperialist subjugation and plunder of
India under the disguise of
"independence". It was a fraud to
saddle the fighting people, who had
made so many sacrifices to drive out the
foreign oppressors, with a "national
government" oriented towards
enriching the big capitalists and big
landlords who had all along
collaborated with the British colonizers,
a "national government" which would
ensure the profits of the British
colonizers as well as any other foreign
power which is interested in plundering
India. The rule of these national traitors
who sell the interests of the workers,
peasants and other toiling people of
India for a few dollars and roubles, the
rule of those who crush and slaughter us
every day, has to be overthrown by force
of arms in order that the Indian people
can enjoy genuine independence and
democracy, in order that we can be
masters of our own destiny and march
towards genuine social progress. The
present political crisis in which the
reactionary-revisionist politicians have
fully proved their incapability to solve
the problems of the people, but are
viciously engaged in grabbing seats of
power, shows with great clarity theutter
reactionariness and fraudulent nature of
the "parliamentary democracy". It
shows that the slogan of a "better government" that is more yielding to the
demands of the people is a deceptive
and treacherous slogan to keep the
people's attention engaged towards the
parliament while the merciless exploitation and oppression continues
without let-up. It shows that for the
common people to enjoy genuine
independence and democracy, the
immediate issue before us is the violent
overthrow of the political power of the
big capitalists and big landlords who
facilitate foreign imperialist plunder of
the: land and labour of the Indian
people, and profit from this subjugation
of our nation.
An "independence" to profit
the national traitors and
foreign imperialists and
ruthlessly crush the people
The hangmen of Bhagat Singh, the
Nehrus and Gandhis, collaborated with
the British colonizers to defraud the
rebellious Indian people with a phony
"independence" in August 1947.
fallowing on the heels of a massive
slaughter of the people in the name of
"communal riots", this phony
"independence" was organized to
prevent the heroic Indian people, who
were up in arms in great numbers to
throw out the foreignimperialists, from
really driving out the British colonizers.
This "independence" was a fraud to
allow the British imperialist's to continue
the rape and plunder of the land and
labour of the Indian people by installing
traitors like the Nehrus and Gandhis in
power. With this phony
"independence", none of the laws of
the land were changed, none of the
British property and investments looted
from the Indian people was confiscated,
none of the traitors who collaborated
with the British colonizers were hung.
On the contrary, the same judges and
jailors, hangmen and swindlers, took
power in the name of "independence".
It was an arrangement for all the
inveterate enemies of the Indian people
— the big capitalists like theTatas-and
Birlas who grew up under the care of
British capital and technology, the big
landlords and moneylenders who
crushed the peasant revolts with the use
of the British colonial armies, the
political swindlers and false patriots like
the Nehrus and Gandhis and the
officialdom that sincerely collaborated
with the British in suppressing the Indian
people — to reap profit for themselves.
While it was the blood of the workers,
peasants and other toiling people that
flowed on the streets and fields during
the struggle to drive out the British
colonizers, it was these national traitors
who confiscated the fruits. Today, after
going through 32 years of this fraud,
when the most sincere followers of the
national traitors like the Nehrus and
Gandhis have been repressing and
crushing us for the sake of the profits of a
handful of Indian traitors and the
foreign imperialists, we are reminded of
what Shaheed Bhagat Singh said before
bravely facing up to the gallows of the
British colonizers: "India's struggleshall
continue as long as a handful of men in
power continue to exploit the labour of
the common people for their own ends.
Whether the exploiters are Indian or
British, or both in alliance, nothing shall
halt the struggle. . ."
Who has gained by this so-called
"independence" in 1947? In the last 32
years, the condition of the vast majority
of the people has greatly deteriorated
while a handful of rich in India and their
foreign allies have made huge profits by
ruthlessly exploiting the people and
robbing the natural wealth of our
country. While over 70 percent of the
population, i.e. well over 450 million
people, are living below the officially