Dhaka confce begins
Moloy Saha
A three-day international anti-imperialist conference began in Dhaka on Sunday with a vow to continue the fight against imperialism and capitalism’s global aggression.
The conference, organised jointly by the International Anti-imperialist and People’s Solidarity Coordination Committee and the Socialist Party of Bangladesh, was opened at 12:00 noon at Mahanagar Natyamancha.
Manik Mukherjee, general secretary of IAPSCC and a central leader of the
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist), said that people across the globe were rising up against imperialism and capitalism and their movements were gaining in momentum.
‘Even the Americans are rising up against capitalism’s corporate greed. The recent Occupy Wall Street campaign at the financial heart of capitalism proved it,’ he said at the opening session of the conference.
He urged the peoples of South Asia to build up a strong resistance against imperialism’s evil designs in the region.
He criticised most of the leftwing political parties in India for not considering India as an ‘imperialist’ country. ‘But we consider India as an imperialist country because of its anti-people role,’ he said.
The conference will discuss ways to fight imperialism’s economic, political, and cultural aggression across the world with special reference to its occupation of and military intervention in the Middle East, Afghanistan and evil designs against Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and progressive countries in Latin America, the organisers said.
It will also review the progress of the movement in Bangladesh to save its natural resources, including oil, gas and coal, they said.
About 150 delegates from leftwing political parties of 25 countries, including the United States, France, Italy, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Syria, Egypt, Palestine, Venezuela and Ghana, are attending the conference, they said.
At the beginning of the conference, the delegates paid tributes to the people who laid down their lives in anti-imperialist movements across the world.
The organisers also brought out a procession that paraded different city streets before returning to the conference venue. More than 10,000 activists of SPB joined the procession.
IAPSCC president Ramsay Clerk, also former attorney general of US, and United Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) chairman Puspakamal Dahal Prachanda, who were scheduled to attend the conference, did not come to Dhaka due to ‘unavoidable circumstances’, the organisers said, adding that they sent messages wishing the event a success.
SPB general secretary Khalequzzaman, who chaired the opening session, said that they were fighting to protect the country’s mineral resources from being handed over to western corporations.
Terming America ‘an enemy of humanity, peace and civilization’, the US delegate Sara Flounders said that they were also fighting against their government’s imperialist aggression.
Communist Party of Bangladesh president Manzurul Ahsan Khan, SPB central leader Mobinul Hayder Chowdhury, Subhrangshu Chakrabarty, Zahidul Haque Milu, Bazlur Rashid Firoz and Razequzzaman Ratan, among others, attended the opening session.
Two sessions of delegates will be held at the Mahanagar Natyamancha auditorium today.
The conference will conclude on November 29 with the adoption of ‘Dhaka declaration’.
Source: newagebd.com/newspaper1
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