US Communist Party backs Indian Left on Indo-US ties

PTI ^ | March 30, 2008

[Tailgunner Joe]

Coimbatore (PTI): The Left parties in India on Sunday got a shot in the arm in their opposition to the strategic tie-up with the United States, with an American communist leader saying Washington's plan for Asia was to "pit one country against another" and isolate China.

Describing the Bush Administration as a "destabilising factor" in the "world polity", Communist Party of USA's leader Terrie Albano said "we have no illusion what they want to do with the Indo-US nuclear deal. They want to bind India into a long-term coalition for them which they can use against another country."

In an interview to PTI on the sidelines of the 19th Congress of CPI(M) here, she said "they (Bush Administration) have an overall strategic plan for Asia. They will try to pit one country against the other and, in particular, isolate China".

Albano, who is a member of the National Board of the US Communist Party, supported the CPI(M)'s stand that the independence of India's foreign policy would be adversely affected through a strategic tie-up with the US and said "this independent stand of India has been a stabilising factor" in the South Asian sub-continent.

"The Bush Administration is a destabilising factor in the world polity. This has been reflected in their military invasion of Iraq and their support for Israel which has been carrying out massacre of the Palestinian people, especially women and children, in the Gaza strip," she said.

However, she supported India's need for energy, including nuclear power, but made it clear that the US "military-industrial complex" was supporting the American government for the policies it was pursuing like opposing the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project.

As the US government policies were "heavily influenced by the American military-industrial complex, so it (Indo-US nuclear deal) may not be an equal cooperation which we favour. The position of the US Communist Party is totally different from that of our government," Albano said.

Asked what her party thought about the US-led war on terror, she said "now we have more terrorists in the world. The war on terror is a fig-leaf for bigger ambitions of the Bush Administration."

The American communist said the war in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the attacks against Palestinian people by Israel were pointers to Washington's plans to establish a "Middle East Free Trade Zone" in the long run so that they can control all the oil resources. "This has nothing to do with the war on terror."

She said the terrorists in Afghanistan were earlier funded and run by the CIA and now they are the enemies.

"Over 70 per cent of the American people say the US is going in a wrong direction. They want the US to be cooperative and not belligerent. They want it to pull out of Iraq and be a leader of the world in a positive sense and not continue military aggression."

On the US Presidential elections, Albano said a large number of "progressive" forces were working for the Democratic Party candidates. "It is a coalition effort ... The unions, the progressive forces are carrying out a mass battle and this is finding expression in the Democratic Party."

She also called for greater "globalised cooperation" among trade unions of the world to face the challenges of economic liberalisation and globalisation.

[CarrotAndStick]

Now, George says China is 'potential threat No. 1'
31 Mar 2008, 0036 hrs IST,TNN
 

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NEW DELHI: NDA convener George Fernandes, who was defence minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government, said the previous regime's decision to recognize Tibet as part of China was an "error".

Fernandes, a known China baiter, said the communist nation was "potential threat number one" to India and flayed the UPA dispensation for allowing it to be "bullied".

Venting his ire over the Tibet crisis and India's response to it, the NDA convener said the Olympic torch should not be allowed to come to India and the country should boycott the Games. He said he had asked his "colleagues" and others to make "whatever effort" was needed to prevent the flame's run in India.

Terming as "inadequate" India's recent response expressing distress at the events in Tibet, Fernandes said New Delhi "should have shown more courage". About the NDA government's decision to recognise Tibet as a part of China, Fernandes said, "It was not a mistake but an error. It should not have been done."

Speaking to a TV channel, Fernandes said China was "still potential threat number one" and "could become an enemy", as he recalled his statement on similar lines 10 years back. Commenting on Indian ambassador to Beijing Nirupama Rao being summoned by the Chinese foreign ministry past midnight, Fernandes said New Delhi had "surrendered" over the issue.

"Well, our government allowed it. It has no shame," he said, adding that the government should have advised its envoy to wait till the next day. "Elsewhere, that's what would have happened. India has sold out to China," he claimed.

Asked whether India was being "bullied" by China, Fernandes replied, "Absolutely, and it accepts it." The former defence minister said India's attitude towards China was because of the 1962 war. "I have a feeling that what happened in 1962 is still affecting people and they can't get out of it," he said.

Fernandes also took exception at the Chinese government lauding India for its handling of the Tibetan protests in the country. "It is a disgrace that China should say that India has done well," he said.

Talking of India-Pakistan relations, Fernandes said he had had a "series of secret dinners" with Pakistan high commissioner to India Ashraf Jahangir Qazi in the run-up to the 2001 Agra summit.

The meetings, he said, helped improve the relationship between India and Pakistan. Fernandes said the decision of the then NDA government to expel Qazi in 2002 in the aftermath of the attack on Parliament was a "mistake".

 

[whitedog57]

Terrie Albano is no different than Obama or Hillary. Universal healthcare, no pollution, full government control of everything, no personal freedoms, only “the collective” matters, no war (surrender to other Commies).

[infantrywhooah]

Who really listens to these commie morons anyway? No one that matters.

[BallyBill]

U.S. Communist Party?

Their official symbol is a roadkill Opossum.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Actually, he is right. But it is only objectionable from the perspective of communists. For everybody else in India and America, the US is right in encouraging the Indians to protect themselves from the Chinese.

That is, the Indian communists are more loyal to communism than to India, and would sell out their own country to their Chinese communist brothers.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Have they endorsed Obama yet?

[Eye On The Left]

Louis Farrakhan, at the annual Saviours' Day celebration in Chicago, Feb. 25, 2008:
"This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better,"

"If you look at Barack Obama's audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed."

Louis Farrakhan, at the Millions More Movement rally in DC, Oct 15, 2005:
"...what Mao Tse Tung did was, he went to the cultural community, and they [Farrakhan spreads his arms beneficently] accepted his idea."

"Mao Tse Tung ... had a billion people whose lives he had to transform."

Louis Farrakhan, Santiago de Cuba, February, 1998:
"There is not a member of the black masses in the United States who is not proud of the example set by Cuba and its revolution, with Comandante Fidel at its head,"

A spry Farrakhan sings Obama's praises

By SOPHIA TAREEN
Associated Press Writer
Mon, Feb. 25, 2008

CHICAGO -- In his first major public address since a cancer crisis, Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said Sunday that presidential candidate Barack Obama is the "hope of the entire world" that the U.S. will change for the better.

The 74-year-old Farrakhan, addressing an estimated crowd of 20,000 people at the annual Saviours' Day celebration, never outrightly endorsed Obama but spent most of the nearly two-hour speech praising the Illinois senator.

"This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better," he said. "This young man is capturing audiences of black and brown and red and yellow. If you look at Barack Obama's audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed."

http://www.miamiherald.com/367/story/431644.html

Louis Farrakhan speaking at his Millions More Movement D.C. Rally, Oct 15, 2005:

"With scant hope of help from white America, Mr. Farrakhan said, blacks must help themselves by establishing their own ministries of health and human services, agriculture, education, defense, justice, art and culture, trade and commerce, information and science and technology."

"Mao Tse Tung ... had a billion people whose lives he had to transform. Many of them were victims of opium, drugs, prostitution--like we are.

But what Mao Tse Tung did, what Mao Tse Tung did was, he went to the cultural community, and they [Farrakhan spreads his arms beneficently] accepted his idea.

And then through song, through dance, through poetry, through drama, through documentaries, through movies, through books that are written, the idea of Mao Tse Tung became the idea of a billion people, and China became a world power on the base of the culture and the arts community. If we had a ministry of art and culture in every city we'd create this movement [in the U.S.]."

[I saw this Farrakhan speech on c-span myself and this is exactly what he said. Check the link right below for more about the event and for what else 'screwy louie' said to the "millions more" crowd.--LC (eye on the left)
http://thedrunkablog.blogspot.com/2005/10/communist-plot-noted.html

Obama's pastor honors Louis Farrakhan with his "Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Lifetime Achievement Trumpeteer award":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXS_YrYp07Q

[ccmay]

Wow, we still have Communists? Shouldn’t they be in a zoo somewhere?

[VR-21]

Very much like CPUSA was funded by the Kremlin for most of the 20th century, I wouldn’t be surprised if these new American Reds are underwritten by the Chinese. Frankly I’d be surprised if they weren’t.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Well, we’re certainly sending communist China enough money and jobs via our massive bilateral trade deficit (thanks “free trade” junkies) to underwrite a whole *lot* of trouble for our future...

But everyone go back to sleep. No need to worry...

[VR-21]

"...to underwrite a whole *lot* of trouble for our future..."

What they might call "reinvestment."

[aruanan]

And then through song, through dance, through poetry, through drama, through documentaries, through movies, through books that are written, the idea of Mao Tse Tung became the idea of a billion people, and China became a world power on the base of the culture and the arts community. If we had a ministry of art and culture in every city we'd create this movement [in the U.S.]."

Arts and culture in China were destroyed in favor of the political equivalent of velvet Elvis paintings. Farrakhan forgot Mao's favorite dictum: "Power comes through the barrel of a gun." What a despicably evil dolt Farrakhan is. And his house in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago is an eyesore.

[randomhero97]

I know it’s not Christian to hate but I really hate communists. Even more so than islamic extremists. I guess it stems from most of my family in wars with these bastards at one point in time.

[Tailgunner Joe]

American, and all ears for Karat - March 29, 2008 - Albano, member of the Communist Party of United States of America’s national board, was all ears as Karat named her country nine times in his speech, whose written text ran into four pages. The New Yorker, who looks fiftyish and edits her party’s newspaper, People’s Weekly World, agreed with all of it as did the other CPUSA delegate, Rama Kant Sharma, an Indian-American from New Jersey.

Albano and Sharma presented Karat with a memento relating to the Haymarket Affair of May 4, 1886, in Chicago where a bomb attack killed many at a rally supporting striking workers. The incident is believed to be one of the historical reasons behind the marking of May Day every year.

If America sent two, China sent six, including an English interpreter. The team, led by Li Jinjun, vice-minister of the Communist Party of China’s international department, easily received the maximum applause from the audience. Li told The Telegraph he was happy with India’s — and the Indian Left’s — stand on Tibet. “We appreciate India’s position on Tibet. The communist parties in India also accept that Tibet is an internal problem of China.”

[Tailgunner Joe]

Tibet was recognised as part of China by Nehru: Rajnath - SATNA (MP): Giving a new twist to ongoing controversy over India's approach to the Tibet issue, BJP on Tuesday said that New Delhi had accepted Tibet as part of China in 1953 during the government of then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

"The (Atal Bihari) Vajpayee government did not make any mistake on the issue," BJP President Rajnath Singh said, while commenting on former Defence Minister George Fernandes' statement that the previous NDA government had recognised Tibet as part of China, committing an "error".

"It was Nehru who made a mistake on the Tibet issue in 1953... Jawaharlal Nehru had recognised Tibet as part of China in 1953 and the successive governments are following it," Singh told reporters here.

BJP has been critical of the UPA government's response to the recent unrest in Tibet, saying the approach had been "shameful".

"The government has been having a very weak stand on the Tibet issue only because of the pressure from the Left parties. It is an appeasement towards China and the government has no regard for the country's honour," Singh said.