BRITAIN DENOUNCED.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 906, 27 August 1910, Page 5

BRITAIN DENOUNCED.

SOCIALISM AND SEDITION. MANIFESTO TO INFLAME INDIA. ■ i By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. Calcutta, August 25. Tho English Social Democratic Federation has issued a manifesto, intended for distribution in India. It denounces as monstrous tho domination of tho British, whose despotism has forced tho most peaceful, submissive race in the world into anarchist propaganda. British robbery and extortion, says tho manifesto, havo steadily impoverished India. The manifesto is printed •in the Indian language. TEE FEDERATION'S POLICY.. • Among tho various British Socialist organisations tho Social Democratic Federation represents the Old Guard of Socialism, and bases its policy on a belief in a coming revolution. At the annual congress of tho party at Canning Town, London, in March last, the chairman, Jlr. H. 11. Hyndman, said it was "their high privilege as Revolutionary Social Democrats to do their full share in consolidating their great and growing feeling in favour of communal and co-operative effort, with a capable and disciplined army ot peoplo, for the complete emancipation of the people-"-peaceaule, if possible, forcible if necessary—from the capitalist tyranny and wage- slavery of to-day." Referring to foreign and colonial matters,- Jlr. Hyndman remarked that they had opposed ' war on all occasions— sometimes at the risk of their lives. They had denounced injustice and tyranny in India, Egypt, Ireland, and South Africa at the cost of great unpopularity even among the masses of the people. They had advocated peace, but it would ho madness to overlook what was going .on in every country, to imagine that they had entered upon a period when Imperialist aggression and military ambitions were at an end, or to flatter themselves that" the workers in many nations we're sufficiently well organised to impose the maintenance of peace upon their rulers when they wero determined upon making war. In order to uphold our own independence, to. givo a determined resistance to any policy of conquest in Europe, to maintain the right of asylum, which could only bo conserved in the long rim by forco of arms, and to .insure the continuity of our food supply, the Social Democratic party had been always ready, whilst striving continuously for a complete social revolution at homo, to support in tbc transition period the provision of an adequate navy for the defence of our commerce and' our coasts. At the same time they wero opposed to tho military policy of their rulers, which consisted in keeping up a mercenary military forco against tho people, ■ dangerous in peace and incompetent in war. They desired the formation of a purely citizen army. .