20TH PARTY CONGRESS RESOLUTION
On the Centenary of the Ghadar Party
Held
in Kozhikode in
April 2012, the 20th congress of the Communist Party of
India
(Marxist)
called for a grand level observance of the centenary of
Ghadar Party, formed in
San Fransisco in 1913, which forms a glorious part of
our heritage and has been
a constant source of inspiration for a number of
generations of revolutionaries
to this day. As programmes in this context are about to
begin in different
parts of the world, including UK,
USA,
Canada
and Pakistan,
besides India,
we reproduce the 20th congress resolution in this
regard.
THE 20th congress
of the CPI(M) salutes the centenary of the Ghadar Party that
was founded on
April 5, 1913 in San
Francisco.
The Ghadar Party played a glorious role in organising
struggles like the
Komagatamaru voyage for the equal rights of immigrants of
all countries and
mobilising powerful militant resistance to imperialism with
a brave symbolic
action of a voyage to liberate their motherland, India.
This party congress recalls
with pride and salutes the memory of the 200 martyrs who
were killed and 35 who
were sent to the Andaman Cellular Jail for life. Their
fearless example raised
hopes of overcoming imperialism at its most savage. The
movement extended from Vancouver
in Canada
to San Francisco, Tokyo
and the villages of Punjab.
As its name
indicates, it was inspired by our First War of Independence
of 1857; and true
to this tradition during World War I the young Kartar Singh
Sarabha was
executed for rousing rebellion among troops. Later on,
inspired by the Russian
revolution, cadres of Ghadar Party went on to organise
workers and peasants to
win freedom and build socialism. Many joined the Communist
Party and formed the
first communist group in north-west India.
They dared to storm the
bastions of imperialism in their day and their memory should
inspire us to
carry forward that struggle to victory over imperialism in
our time.
The 20th congress
calls upon its units to observe the centenary in a befitting
manner.
People's Democracy