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Acharya's differences with Roy had developed into "differences
with the Communist International and with the
Communist regime in Russia itself We are not against
Communism;' he had stated (presumably on behalf of the
Indian Revolutionary Association) on December 5, 1920,
"and we do not make a distinction between a Communist
revolutionary or just a revolutionary. All we object to is
forcible conversion to Communism;' at least in the form
dictated by Roy and the Comintern.13
CPI founding member Muzaffar Ahmad mentioned
in his memoir that both Acharya and Chatto were "in
contact with the Anarcho-communist Party" in France,
and that Acharya had insisted on the inclusion of anarchosyndicalists
at the early congresses in Moscow. On growing
disenchanted with the way things were developing in
the USSR, said Ahmad, Acharya reverted to "his former
anarchism, and described himself therealter as an 'Anarcho­
Syndicalist' -though also reportedly 'a member of the
Trotskyist Fourth International.'" 14
The pair returned to Berlin in late 1922 or early
1923, and worked together in the office of the League of
Oppressed Nationalities, forerunner to the League against
Imperialism (backed by the Communist International).
Struggling as usual to remain solvent, Acharya did secretarial,
steno, and typing work for the league and the Indian
Independence Committee; intelligence reports commented
that he was quite good at it. He also undertook the task of
sending assorted political texts to the Cominrern's mailing
list inside India, including anarcho-syndicalist literature on
his own initiative. IS