People's Democracy

Message of Greetings from the Communist Party of Bangladesh

THE Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) conveys its warm revolutionary greeting to the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the delegates to its 20th congress scheduled to be held from April 4 to 9, 2012 in Kozhikode, Kerala.

We take pride to recall that the CPI(M) and the CPB are two parties which were born and grew up in its earliest years as parts of the same undivided party during the days of the British raj, and have the same history and heritage of those days. The partition of India in 1947 necessitated the formation of CPB as an independent and separate party. However, over the last decades, in spite of being two independent parties, we have stood beside each other with untarnished bond of revolutionary fraternity and uninterrupted mutual cooperation. We particularly recall the invaluable help rendered by the CPI(M) to our liberation war of 1971.

The 20th congress of the CPI(M) is going to be held at a time when communist and the Left and democratic forces of both India and Bangladesh are facing the danger of religious fundamentalism and communalism, cross-border terrorism and imperialist assaults. Also, poverty, hunger, illiteracy, malnourishment, unemployment etc are the common problems of the nations of South Asia. We are confident that your party will be able to successfully fight these evils and dangers and lead the nation in its struggle against imperialism and communalism, and thus march forward toward peace and progress. We would like to assure you that our party will firmly stand by your struggle for social emancipation of the people. In this context we would like to reiterate our proposal for a meeting of all communist and Marxist parties of South Asian countries in order to chalk out a common strategy of fighting our common enemy, that is, imperialism and religious communalism, and to strengthen the process of mutual cooperation.

In the international arena, imperialism, particularly US imperialism, has become more aggressive than before. It has the dream of recolonisation. Military aggression against Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and continuous threat against many other countries, particularly the oil-rich Arab countries, prove that imperialism, particularly US imperialism, wants to go back to the medieval period and destroy the major achievements of mankind regarding freedom and democracy.

People of the world are, however, fighting back. Armed and unarmed resistance against imperialist aggression all over the world is of great influence. The Occupy Wall Street movement on the very soil of the USA and similar movements in other imperialist countries are also of great importance. The struggle against US led imperialist aggression and occupation, against the exploitation of  multinational corporations and the machinations of World Bank, IMF, WTO etc, against the continuing destruction of biodiversity and stubborn refusal to take steps for preventing environmental calamities --- all these struggles are fast developing throughout the world. The global assault of capitalism and imperialism calls for a new global coalition of all anti-imperialist forces of the world, for raising to a qualitatively new level the unity, cohesion, cooperation and coordination of the struggles of these forces all over the world. The communist and workers parties of the world have a crucial role to play in building up this coalition and spearheading the struggle for peace, democracy, social and economic emancipation.

We hope that the CPI(M) would successfully perform its international task of fighting imperialism, develop solidarity with the struggling people throughout the world and build up the abovementioned broader anti-imperialist coalition. The CPB is trying to fight imperialist intervention in our country, ruthless exploitation by the ruling bourgeois class and oppressive government representing the said bourgeois class, and also against religious fundamentalism and communalism. We are developing struggles of the toiling classes in order to achieve revolutionary democracy with the socialist perspective. The CPB, while fighting within our country against class enemies, is also trying to perform its international task, as a part of the international working class.

We hope that the CPB and the CPI(M) would remain, as ever before, fraternal parties with even more close understanding and practical cooperation, being loyal to Marxism-Leninism and proletarian internationalism.

Wish your congress to be successful.

Long live the friendship between the CPI(M) and the CPB!

Long live proletarian internationalism!~

Long live the Communist Party of India (Marxist)!           

With Fraternal Greetings

--- Manzurul Ahsan Khan, president, and Mujahidul Islam Selim, General Secretary