Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c14.s4.t33.4

v2.c14.s4.t33.4

According to M N Roy himself, he had been closely connected with the political situation in China since 1922. He claimed to have contributed towards the evolution of the policy of a united front between the GMD and CCP, but said that this policy later "degenerated into opportunist deviations". In November-December 1926, the Seventh Extraordinary Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Comintern met in Moscow to discuss the conditions in China, and adopted its theses on the Chinese situation which Roy apparently helped in drafting. This document stressed the need to develop the agrarian revolution and not just rely on an alliance with bourgeois forces represented by the Guomindang. Roy reached Canton in February, and in the ensuing weeks he tried to convince those with whom he interacted about the need to adopt the line proposed in the Theses of the Comintern. He travelled to Wuhan, where he attended the Fifth Congress of the CCP, held between April 27 and May 9. This Congress, held in the immediate aftermath of