Workers and Peasants Party (India)
It became an important front organisation for the Communist Party of India and an influential force in the Bombay labour movement.[1] The founding leaders of the party were Kazi Nazrul Islam, Hemanta Kumar Sarkar, Qutubuddin Ahmad and Shamsuddin Hussain.[2] At the All Bengal Praja Conference, held at Krishnagar on 6 February 1926, a resolution was moved by Faizuddin Hussian Sahib of Mymensingh for the creation of a workers-peasants party.The WPP representatives together with Nehru were able to convince the AICC to make the Indian National Congress an associate member of the League against Imperialism.Joglekar presented a proposal for a resolution in the Subjects Committee, that the Indian National Congress should demand full independence for India.This was the first time in history that the Indian National Congress officially demanded full independence from British rule.[5] During the protests against the Simon Commission, the WPP played a major role in organising manifestations in Calcutta and Bombay.In the book an argument is presented that national independence was not possible as long as capitalists dominated the freedom struggle.Chabil Das, a Lahore propagandist of the Naujawan Bharat Sabha, was elected president of the party.[3][12][13] In late November 1928 the WPP of Bengal executive committee met with Philip Spratt and Muzaffar Ahmed.They decided to appoint Sohan Singh Josh of the Punjab Kirti Kisan Party to chair the All India Workers and Peasants Conference, to be held in Calcutta in December.In his report, he stated that it was 'necessary to reject the formation of any kind of bloc between the Communist Party and the national-reformist opposition' in the colonies.In June 1928, he had submitted a document which called WPP an invention of Joseph Stalin and that the party was a 'thoroughly anti-Marxist formation'.[22] On 20 March 1929, arrests against WPP, CPI and other labour leaders were made in several parts of India, in what became known as the Meerut Conspiracy Case.[25] The judgement in the case was ended with the following passage:[26] As to the progress made in this conspiracy its main achievements have been the establishment of Workers and Peasant Parties in Bengal, Bombay and Punjab and the U.P., but perhaps of deeper gravity was the hold that the members of the Bombay Party acquired over the workers in the textile industry in Bombay as shown by the extent of the control which they exercised during the strike of 1928 and the success they were achieving in pushing forward a thoroughly revolutionary policy in the Girni Kamgar Union after the strike came to an end.After the arrests of its main leaders, the WPP was dissolved.The programme proposed struggle for full independence combined with active socio-economic policies for the toiling classes.
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