Communist Party of India (Marxist) - Agreements https://elections2014.cpim.org/tags/agreements en Obama Visit: Protest on January 24 https://elections2014.cpim.org/content/obama-visit-protest-january-24 <div class="field field-name-field-social field-type-addthis field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style " addthis:title="Obama Visit: Protest on January 24 - Communist Party of India (Marxist)" addthis:url="https://elections2014.cpim.org/content/obama-visit-protest-january-24"><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="standard"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_facebook"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_twitter"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_email"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_"></a> </div> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://elections2014.cpim.org/sites/default/files/rally.jpg" width="596" height="431" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-date field-type-date field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2015-01-03T00:00:00+05:30">Saturday, January 3, 2015</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><div><strong>Press Statement</strong></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Six Left parties, the CPI, CPI(M), CPI(ML)-Liberation, AIFB, SUCI(C) and RSP have issued the following statement:</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div align="center">&nbsp;</div><div align="center">&nbsp;</div><div>The Modi government and the BJP have unleashed the forces of Hindutva which threatens the secular and democratic values of the Indian Republic. It is at such a juncture that the Government has invited President Obama of the United States of America to be the Chief Guest of the Republic Day on January 26.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>It is a supreme irony that the day which symbolizes India’s independence and sovereignty is being graced by the head of a country which has done the most to assault and destroy the sovereignty of many countries around the world. President Obama himself is responsible for the aggression in Libya and for the rerun of bombing and sending troops back to Iraq. The US is doing everything to destroy Syria as a national entity.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The Left parties protest the visit of President Obama because:</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div style="margin-left: 38.25pt;">1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The United States is targeting and destabilizing governments and countries in West Asia by military interventions like in Iraq, Libya and Syria.</div><div style="margin-left: 38.25pt;">2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The United States is the patron and staunch supporter of Israel which occupies Palestinian land and Arab territories and subjects the Palestinian people to colonial oppression.</div><div style="margin-left: 38.25pt;">3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The United States has shifted a substantial part of its naval and military resources to Asia as part of the pivot of Asia and is creating new military bases and tensions in the Asia-Pacific region.</div><div style="margin-left: 38.25pt;">4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; US intervention in Afghanistan and role in Pakistan have nurtured fundamentalist forces, the disastrous consequences of which serve as a warning to India.&nbsp;</div><div style="margin-left: 38.25pt;">5.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; US which wages wars in the name of defending democracy, is facing massive protests at home against racial murders by its police force. Further the terrible record of torture and Islamophobic profiling by the CIA with the approval of the US government has recently exposed the US as amongst the worst violator of human rights and democracy in the world.&nbsp;</div><div style="margin-left: 0.25in;">&nbsp;</div><div>The BJP government is pursuing a pro-US foreign policy which is contrary to an independent non-aligned foreign policy. This is being done in the interests of Indian and foreign monopoly capital.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The Left parties strongly protest:</div><div>&nbsp;</div><ol><li><div>The decision to renew the India-US Defence Framework Agreement for another ten years. This is a pact which will yoke India to American military strategy in Asia.</div></li><li><div>Seeking to pressurise India to change its foreign policy orientation vis a vis Palestine, Israel and Iran to suit US interests&nbsp;</div></li><li><div>The relentless pressures exercised by the Obama administration on India to open up the financial sector to US capital, as a result of which the Modi government has promulgated an ordinance to allow 49 per cent FDI in the insurance sector.</div></li><li><div>The strong pressure of the US to weaken the patents regime in India to benefit the US drug companies, so that they can sell drugs in India at high prices.</div></li><li><div>America’s pressures that India to give up its food security programme by undermining public procurement and the public distribution system.</div></li><li><div>US pressuring India to weaken laws that protect labour rights and environment, to benefit US corporations.</div></li><li><div>The Obama-Modi efforts to dilute the civil nuclear liability law to favour US nuclear companies.</div></li></ol><div style="margin-left: 0.25in;">&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><strong>The Left parties call for a Protest Day against the visit of President Obama on January 24.</strong></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><strong>Halt US aggression</strong></div><div><strong>Stop interference in India’s domestic matters</strong></div><div><strong>Stop US-India strategic collaboration</strong></div><div align="center">&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div align="center"><strong>Sd/-</strong></div><div align="center">&nbsp;</div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="width:308px;"><div><strong>Prakash Karat</strong></div></td><td style="width:308px;"><div><strong>Sudhakar Reddy</strong></div></td></tr><tr><td style="width:308px;"><div><strong>General Secretary, CPI(M)</strong></div></td><td style="width:308px;"><div><strong>General Secretary, CPI</strong></div></td></tr><tr><td style="width:308px;"><div>&nbsp;</div></td><td style="width:308px;"><div>&nbsp;</div></td></tr><tr><td style="width:308px;"><div>&nbsp;</div></td><td style="width:308px;"><div>&nbsp;</div></td></tr><tr><td style="width:308px;"><div><strong>Dipankar Bhattacharya</strong></div></td><td style="width:308px;"><div><strong>Provash Ghosh</strong></div></td></tr><tr><td style="width:308px;"><div><strong>General Secretary, CPI(ML)-Liberation</strong></div></td><td style="width:308px;"><div><strong>General Secretary, SUCI(C)</strong></div></td></tr><tr><td style="width:308px;"><div>&nbsp;</div></td><td style="width:308px;"><div>&nbsp;</div></td></tr><tr><td style="width:308px;"><div><strong>Debabrata Biswas</strong></div></td><td style="width:308px;"><div><strong>Abani Roy</strong></div></td></tr><tr><td style="width:308px;"><div><strong>General Secretary, AIFB</strong></div></td><td style="width:308px;"><div><strong>RSP</strong></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div>&nbsp;</div><p>&nbsp;</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/obama" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Obama</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/republic-day" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Republic Day</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/imperialism" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Imperialism</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/defence" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">defence</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/agreements" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Agreements</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/left-parties" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Left parties</a></div></div></div> Sat, 03 Jan 2015 06:09:38 +0000 murali 3850 at https://elections2014.cpim.org https://elections2014.cpim.org/content/obama-visit-protest-january-24#comments