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We want to express our solidarity with you and all
those struggling in India against feudalism,
capitalism, imperialist domination and for the
socialist victory of the workers and peasants to end
class exploitation
We support your struggles against the Special Economic
Zones, against the destruction of tribal lands,
against communalism, caste discrimination and
oppression, against the oppression of women, against
landlessness and all the evils of capitalist and
landlord domination, which are the foundation of the
terrible super-exploitation of the vast majority of
the Indian workers and peasants. 
And we salute your struggle against the anti-worker,
anti-peasant, pro-capitalist and pro-imperialist
policies of the Indian bourgeois government of the
Congress Party and its so-called “left” collaborators.
These policies are symbolized by the Nandigram
massacre, the setting up of the SEZs to clear the way
for imperialist capital, and Washington’s nuclear
schemes to make India into an accomplice of U.S.
imperialist aggression.
The wages and the living standards of workers in the
imperialist countries are being driven down across the
board. But the treacherous, chauvinist politics of the
ruling classes seeks to blame the problems on the
workers in the low-wage countries -- India, China,
Mexico, Indonesia, Thailand, etc. Similarly in the
U.S. and in all the imperialist countries, the
political mouthpieces of the bosses are waging a
racist campaign against immigrant workers, whom they
super-exploit and then seek to scapegoat and persecute
in order to divert the class struggle.
The only true answer to world wide competition among
workers is international working class solidarity. The
workers in the U.S. must know what the U.S. and
British corporations have done to keep the Indian
masses in a state of colonial and imperialist slavery
for centuries. The workers in the U.S. must know what
all of Latin America as well as the rest of the world
has suffered at the hands of the Yankee imperialism. 
It is the duty of all internationalists to call upon
the workers in the imperialist countries to stretch
out the hand of solidarity to workers in the oppressed
countries and to join them in a common struggle
against the common enemy – world finance capitalism.
Down with U.S. imperialism – Long live the solidarity
of the U.S. working class with the struggling Indian
masses. 
The Secretariat of Workers World Party, 
U.S.A.


Italian Marxist-Leninist Party (PMLI)
Dear Comrades,
Despite our inability to attend the Congress we extend
to you warm brotherly and militant greeting and the
proletarian internationalist wishes of success from
the Italian Marxist-Leninist Party.
Although geographically in two different and distant
continents, we feel you near to us because the
ideology, the nature of class and the cause of our two
Parties are common. Both in fact are inspired by the
Marxism-Leninism-Mao Thought and they pursue the
objective of the socialism, also keeping in mind of
the different situation in India and in Italy.
Our two Parties have the same experience as it regards
the attitude of the social democratic parties toward
the central bourgeois government. In Italy such
parties are directly inside the government of the
bourgeois dominant class, while in India they support
it from the outside. But the substance doesn't change.
In the one and in the other case the false communist
parties act as coverage on the left of the bourgeois
dominant class, and in such way they rob the
revolutionary energy of the masses of its potential
and they sabotage the struggle for the socialism.
Currently imperialism, especially US imperialism,
exports its armies and it massacres the populations of
the occupied countries. But the peoples of Iraq, of
Afghanistan, of Palestine and of other countries are
giving it some hard lessons. The future is not
therefore of the imperialism and of the bourgeoisie,
but of the revolution, of the proletariat and of
socialism.
Long live the militant unity between the PMLI and the
CPI (ML)!
The Political Bureau of the PMLI


Hands Off Venezuela campaign
Dear brothers and sisters,
We would like to send our warmest revolutionary
internationalist greetings to your congress, which we
are convinced will be a successful one. 
Venezuela is a country that has been under the grip of
imperialism and the local oligarchy for the last 200
years. But the Venezuelan people have said enough and
have started to move on the road of Revolution. The
election of President Hugo Chávez in 1998 was an
important turning point in that process. 
Many things have been already achieved in the
Bolivarian revolution. Illiteracy has been completely
eradicated, 3 million new students have been
incorporated into the education system which is now
free for all, basic primary health care has been
provided for free in working class, poor and peasant
areas around the country, a programme of land reform
has started, and the nationalised character of oil
resources has been reassured. 
All these progressive reforms have awoken the rage of
the Venezuelan oligarchy and imperialism who have on
several occasions tried to put an end to the
revolution and overthrow president Chávez (during the
coup in April 2002, the bosses lock out and sabotage
of the economy in December 2002, during the fascist
riots in the run up to the recall referendum in 2004,
etc). Every single time the masses of ordinary working
people have come out on the streets and defeated the
counter-revolutionary attempts. 
The task in Venezuela has been set clearly, in the
words of President Chávez, the alternative is
“Socialism or Barbarism”. A successful socialist
revolution in Venezuela would serve as an inspiration
to the whole of Latin America and for the working
class and the oppressed around the world. A defeat
would mean a vicious military dictatorship and would
throw the whole movement back. This is why we need
your support, the support of workers, peasants and
poor around the world. 
One of the best ways to build solidarity is in fact to
prepare the conditions for revolution in your own
countries.
Forward to socialism in Venezuela and internationally!
Long live the Bolivarian Revolution!
Down with capitalism!
Down with imperialism!
Jorge Martín
International Secretary
Hands Off Venezuela campaign


Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist)
We take this opportunity to express our very best
wishes for the success of your 8th National Congress
and to extend our fraternal solidarity to your Party
in your struggle against imperialism and for a
people's democratic revolution in India. We are
confident that you will emerge from this Congress with
greater clarity and understanding of the national and
international situation and rejuvenated to carry your
work forward.
Our Chairman, Comrade Harpal Brar, has asked me to
convey his greetings to Comrade Dipankar Bhattacharya,
the General Secretary of your Party.
With revolutionary greetings,
 Ella Rule
International Secretary
Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist)


Communist League of Finland
On behalf of the Communist League of Finland I would
like to extend our best greetings to the CPI (ML) on
the occasion of its 8th National Congress. We firmly
believe your Party Congress will show the
revolutionary unity of the working class of India.
Mr. Antti Siika-aho
Vice-Chairman, The Worker's Party of Finland
Member of the Central Committee's International
department, The Communist League of Finland


Danish Communist Party
Dear Comrades,
Thank you for the invitation to your Congress. The
DKP-ML was dissolved last year as part of a
unification process where it joined forces with
communists founding the Danish Communist Party.
Unfortunately, we will not be able to attend your
Congress but wishes you success in its proceeding and
in your future work.
Revolutionary greetings, 
Sven Tarp
International Department, Danish Communist Party


International League of Peoples’ Struggle 
Warm greetings of international solidarity and
congratulations on the occasion of your Eighth
Congress taking place in Kolkata, India! As a member
of the International Coordinating Committee (ICC) of
the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS)
from the USA and coordinator of a local US anti-war
organization, Chelsea Uniting Against the War (CUAW)
in Massachusetts, I send you best wishes for a
revolutionary anti-imperialist outcome of your
Congress. 
We understand that the anti-imperialist struggle of
the masses of people of India, and of the Indian
workers and peasants in particular, is an important
part of the world-wide anti-imperialist struggle
today. We were particularly encouraged by the
opposition of the Indian masses to the efforts of the
Indian state to collaborate with US imperialism in its
effort to secure Indian troops as cannon fodder for US
imperialism in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The focus of ILPS work in the United States in this
period has been opposition to the US imperialist-led
war “at home and abroad.” One important aspect of our
opposition to US imperialist war here “at home” has
been work with high school students and parents in our
community to oppose the sustained and devious efforts
of US military recruiters to recruit our working class
youth into the US military. Another important aspect
of this work on the home front has been to organize
against the growing US government terrorist attacks on
immigrant workers and families. Internationally, the
focus of our work has been in opposition to the
bestial US imperialist attacks on the Iraqi people. We
understand that our efforts are still extremely
limited here and that we face many challenges ahead
because while the majority of the US population is
against the US war in Iraq, most, even US workers, are
still pro-US imperialist.
We believe there is a need to strengthen our
solidarity with the Iraqi, Afghani and other peoples
who are in the frontlines of the fight for liberation
against US imperialism. We need to strengthen our
struggles and better coordinate our anti-imperialist
efforts around the world. The ILPS is an international
anti-imperialist united front organization and as such
is one vehicle for doing this. The ILPS has more than
140 participating organizations around the world,
including in the Philippines, India, Turkey, Europe
and the USA. Our chairman is the outstanding Filipino
revolutionary leader and internationalist, Jose Maria
Sison, currently in exile in the Netherlands. 
Once again, I wish you a successful revolutionary
anti-imperialist Congress. I look forward to working
together in the future to strengthen and coordinate
our anti-US imperialist efforts.
In solidarity,
Lyn Meza
International Coordinating Committee member
ILPS (USA)


Syrian   Communist   Party
Dear Comrades:
We are very sorry, because we can not participate in
your 8th congress.
Meantime, we appreciate your solidarity with our
country Syria and other liberation movements in
Palestine, Iraq, and Lebanon.
We also respect and support the struggle of your party
for the better conditions of the Indian people.
We wish the complete success to your Congress in
finding the solutions for the problems of India based
on the scientific socialist principles.
With best regards
Hunein Nemer
The first secretary
Syrian   Communist   Party

Culture

Tribute to Poet Trilochan Shastri

- Liberation, January, 2008.

On the very eve of our 8th Congress, on 9 December
2007, people’s poet and former National President of
Jan Sanskriti Manch (JSM) Trilochan Shastri passed
away at the age of 91. He was an immensely influential
figure in Hindi literature and he was deeply
sympathetic to the revolutionary communist movement
all his life. 

He had been associated with a variety of people’s
movements, starting with his involvement in the
freedom struggle against British colonialism up to his
support for the battle of the oppressed masses of
rural India for land and justice. He had been National
President of JSM for almost a decade. Apart from being
famous for introducing the sonnet form of poetry to
Hindi, Trilochan also worked on the compilation of
various dictionaries and is renowned as a major expert
on various Indian languages.  

He had met with the CPI (ML) General Secretary not
long before his demise and expressed his good wishes
for the Party Congress. His passing is an immeasurable
loss for Hindi literature and the progressive
democratic movement.      
 
Hindi kavita unki hai 
jinki sanson ko araam nahin
Main us janpath ka kavi hun 
jo bhukha-dukha hai  

Hindi poetry belongs 
To those who don’t breathe easy
I’m a poet of the land 
Of hunger and sorrow

- Trilochan




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