UNIFICATION OF REVOLUTIONARY MARXISTS
At the end of June a fusion took place between the Revolutionary Communist Party of India, and the Revolutionary Workers Party of India, the united organization taking the name of the former.
The prime importance of this measure is that it marks an important stage in the unification of the revolutionary Marxist forces on the sub-continent at the beginning of a new period marked by the exhaustion of the bourgeois leadership and the start of a period of acute social crisis. I: is therefore an imporant stage on the way to the creation of a revolutionary leadership of the Indian masses. New Zealand
The congress, which lasted six days, adopted statutes, discussed a political report on the international and national situation, and a report of the agrarian situation, and took a stand in favor of the unification of the trade-union movement.
The congress elected a Central Committee of 19 members. Comrade Shri Sudhindra Nath Kumar was elected party secretary. The congress called for the release of Comrade Shri Panalal Das Gupta, leader of the party, and of ail political prisoners.
The International hails this progressive step.