From the suppressed statement of Manabendra Nath Roy on trial for treason before Sessions Court, Cawnpore, India by an introduction by Aswani Kumar Sharma. The Committee was a ‘Lovestonite’ Communist Party (Opposition) instigated solidarity organization in the US, Roy had been expelled from the Comintern in 1929.

‘The oppressed people and exploited classes are not obliged to respect the moral philosophy of the ruling power. The sovereign right of the Indian people is usurped by foreign power and as the foreign usurpers maintain themselves in power by force, the Indian people are obliged to use force to recover their sovereign right. A despotic power is always overthrown by force. The force employed in this process is not criminal. On the contrary, precisely the guns carried by the army of the British government of India are instruments of crime. They become instruments of virtue when they are turned against the imperialist state. Weapons in the hands of the oppressed masses of India will be so many hammers to break the chain of a colonial slavery binding one-fifth of the human race.’

‘I Accuse!’ by Manabendra Nath Roy. Published for the Roy Defense Committee of India, New York City. 1932.

Contents: Introduction, My Defense, British Rule a Usurpation, The Sacred Right of Revolution, Consequences of British Rule, India Must Work out its Own Destiny, Not a Conspiracy but a Revolution.

PDF of original pamphlet: https://www.marxists.org/archive/roy/1932/i-accuse.pdf