CHARU MAZUMDAR
From Liberation, July 1971—January 1972.
We cannot occupy Calcutta and the different towns right now and that is not also possible. Therefore, the Party members who are in the urban areas cannot directly participate in the struggle for seizure of power. But they have to live in urban surroundings. As a result, they will repeatedly be subjected to the influence of the ruling classes. There are ups and downs in struggle. Therefore, various sorts of confusion arise when the struggle suffers a setback. All such confusions may be greater among comrades in towns. That is why the comrades who will live in towns must give greater emphasis to politics. They must steadfastly work among the working class and the poorer classes and must repeatedly try to form Party units by propagating our politics among them. Our object is to form Party units among the working class and to help develop Party organizers from among workers. Of course, we shall always support the workers and co-operate with them in their struggles. If there are a large number of politically conscious Party units, the working class will, on its own, conduct many struggles. Thus the Party’s task is to form more and more units among the working class and to raise the workers’ political consciousness. The influence of revisionism on the working class is still great. It is our task to free the working class from that influence. The working class is ceaselessly conducting struggles, big and small. Our political work among them will help them in those struggles and draw the broad sections of the working class into the fold of our politics. The class-conscious worker will then voluntarily go to the villages and participate in the peasants’ armed struggle. It is in this way that the firm unity between the workers and the peasants will be established.
November 18, 1971
