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In 1920 he joined the newly formed Communist Party of Great Britain and founded and edited the magazine Labour Monthly from 1921 until his death. He was on the Executive Committee of the CPGB from 1923 until 1965, and was the party's chief theoretician for many years. He also played an important role for the Comintern by supervising the Communist Party of India for some years.

Dutt was unswervingly loyal to the Soviet Union and to Joseph Stalin. In 1939, when the CPGB leader Harry PollittHarry Pollitt ( 1890 1960) was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain for more than 20 years. He was born in Droylsden in Lancashire and was an engineering worker by trade. In 1919 Pollitt was involved in the "Hands off Russia" camp supported Britain's entry into World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough, it was Dutt who promoted Stalin's line that the war should be opposed, and brought the party into line, forcing Pollitt's temporary resignation.

After Stalin's death Dutt remained a loyal Stalinist and he disagreed with the CPGB's criticisms of the Soviet invasion of CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia ( Czech: Ceskoslovensko Slovak: Cesko-Slovensko before 1990 Ceskoslovensko ) was a country in Central Europe that existed from 1918 until 1992 (except for the World War II period). On January 1, 1993, it peacefully split into the Czech Repu in 1968Events Undated Booker Prize for Fiction is established by Booker plc. 1968 is known as the year of the Prague Spring and also the year of the Paris riots. The ASCII character code is standardized as ANSI Standard X3. Nauru adopt his national anthem of the. He opposed the CPGB's increasingly Eurocommunist line in the 1970s and retired from his party positions, although remaining a member until his death.