The CPI(M), on Wednesday, started its 24th Party Congress in Madurai of Tamil Nadu, expressing "full support and total solidarity" with the Palestinian people.
Madurai, Tamil Nadu: Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan, CPI(M) leaders Prakash Karat, Brinda Karat, and Ramakrishnan are in Madurai for the All India CPI(M) Conference on April 2. They are currently holding a consultation meeting at Hotel Tamil Nadu ahead of the event at Tamukkam Ground pic.twitter.com/6C41KRSMfc
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During his inaugural speech at the Party Congress, Prakash Karat, coordinator, Polit Bureau of CPI(M), declared what Palestine is facing is a "genocide in Gaza for the past 17 months perpetrated by the brutal Zionist regime of Israel".
#CPIM leaders Comrade Biman Bose, Comrade Prakash Karat, and Comrade Manik Sarkar were honoured, along with Left leaders D Raja, Dipankar Bhattacharya, Manoj Bhattacharya and G Devarajan. pic.twitter.com/5eClG97zSR
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"We condemn the shameful betrayal of the Palestinian cause by the Modi government and its blind support to Israel,” he said.
Karat also attacked the Modi government's foreign policy and relationship with the Donald Trump presidency in America. "The Trump Presidency signals a new chapter in the saga of US imperialism. Here is a more naked form of imperialist aggrandisement. Territorial annexation and squeezing the resources of even close allies is the norm. Trump is supporting Netanyahu's plan to obliterate the Palestinians from Gaza. Trump is taking aggressive steps against many countries of the Global South. Despite all these, Prime Minister Modi remains supine and proclaims his fealty to Trump," he said.
The CPI(M) stance is that under Trump, "US imperialism" is launching new attacks through economic and trade wars and political and military interventions on countries around the world. "This is the time for the CPI(M) and the Left to actively develop anti-imperialist struggles and expose the pro-imperialist policies of the Modi government," he said.
Karat added that the repercussions India would face because of this foreign policy are going to be severe. He also criticised the Modi government saying the government is surrendering India's vital interests on tariffs, on purchase of energy supplies and military equipment. "A new front is opening up against the Modi regime and its close embrace of America. The CPI(M) and the Left will be in the forefront against any compromising of India's sovereign interests. We must go forth and rouse the people against imperialist depredations and the servile attitude of the BJP rulers," he said.
Karat also greeted the Cuban government. He said Cuba has been valiantly opposing the "inhuman economic blockade imposed by US imperialism for more than six decades". Notably, Karat avoided any mention of the Communist Party of China and its alleged imperialist tendencies.
