In April 1930, Nehru, stung by condemnation of the Delhi Manifesto by members of the LAI, directed Congress to cease all correspondence with the LAI Nehru was expelled from the LAI the following year. Controversies over the exact political affiliation of the LAI continued for some years, and by 1931 many members had left or been expelled from the League. Just two months after the Brussels Congress the Government of India banned LAI literature from entering India, but the All-India Congress Committee recommended in May 1927 that the Indian National Congress (INC) seek membership of the LAI, ratified in December 1927. The League’s stated aim was to ‘deter imperialist governments from oppressing weak nations’. A Sino-Indian declaration of solidarity, drafted by Nehru, was signed at the congress. Messages of support for the LAI were sent by Albert Einstein, Victor Margueritte and M. Shapurji Saklatvala had attended the meeting in the House of Commons to decide on the British delegation, but was not himself present in Brussels, although his name was added to the minutes. In Brussels in 1927 the LAI was officially founded in the presence of key international political figures, including Jawaharlal Nehru, General Secretary of the Indian National Congress. A joint meeting of the Workers’ International Relief and the Committee Against Atrocities in Syria in February 1926 resulted in the formation of a League Against Colonial Oppression, a precursor to the LAI. Some years of debate over the viability of an international union to fight imperialism followed. The roots of the League Against Imperialism (LAI) lay in the Second Congress of the Communist International (Comintern) in July 1920, which considered the formulation of a colonial policy, and included a debate between Lenin and Manabendra Nath Roy, founder of India’s Communist Party.
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