When US President Bush visits India in March 2006, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in league with other Left parties in India has planned to greet him with slogans such as “hands off Cuba” and “stop the hostile activities against Cuba”. The Left parties would organise an anti-imperialist movement across India. This would culminate in a protest during the proposed visit of Bush to India.





The third Asia Pacific Regional Cuba Solidarity Conference, which concluded at Chennai (India) on January 22 adopted a declaration, condemning the ‘cruel and unlawful blockade’ of Cuba by the United States and wanted political and social organisation of workers, farmers, agricultural labourers, youth, women, students, intellectuals and artists to come trogether in Cuba solidarity activities. “As the machinations and manoeuvres of U.S. imperialism is being intensified in the recent past, the solidarity activities, both political and material, also need to be further strengthened in different regions of each country as well as at National (India) and continental (Asia) levels.”





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