I received this article from
the Ceylon communist Party Maoist. -សតិវ អតុ
Excerpts From AWTW Magazine
By M.N. Ravunni ...
What is not so known is his consistent
internationalist role in assisting and encouraging the anti-revisionist
struggle within the Communist Party of India...
When the CPI leadership degenerated into
the worst type of national chauvinism during the 1962 Indo-Sino war, he
continuously wrote articles in the Thozhilali, a Tamil journal published by the
Ceylon Communist Party, exposing the real culprits causing the war and the aims
of the imperialists as the Indian comprador state....
After the breakdown in Indo-Sino
relations it was exceedingly difficult to get copies of CPC ideological
documents exposing the Khrushchevites. This put our group in difficulties,
especially since the revisionists were well supplied with CPSU material.
Comrade Sanmugathasan stepped in to help us. He arranged regular supply of CPC
literature, translated most of the important documents into Tamil and Malayalam
and got them printed in Sri Lanka for our use. I remember reading translations
of important texts of the Great Debate such as 'On Togliatti' and 'More on
Togliatti' made available by him. This assistance played a major role in
spreading the activities of the anti-revisionist group centred in Madras
throughout Tamilnadu and Kerala.
In 1964 the CPI split and the CPM was
formed. But its leadership soon revealed its revisionist colours. Without
violating the norms of fraternal relations Comrade Sanmugathasan consistently
criticized their errors. When the 7th Congress of the CPM adopted a resolution
'On Revisionism', he promptly responded with a long critique exposing the
revisionism embodied in those views. I happened to be the courier for reaching
this critique to the CPM leadership which arrogantly rejected it. But its
significance remained as a good direction to the communists within the CPM to
continue their struggle and rebel.
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