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‘U.S. must immediately withdraw from Iraq’

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AGAINST IMPERIALISM: The former U.S. Attorney-General, Ramsey Clark, (second from left) and delegates at the Anti-imperialist International Conference in Kolkata on Wednesday.

Kolkata: The United States-led occupation forces in Iraq should immediately withdraw from that country, a resolution said here on Wednesday at an anti-imperialist conference.

Around 1200 delegates from countries such as the U.S., Russia, Canada, Palestine, Lebanon, Turkey, Iran, Syria, Bangladesh and Nepal are attending the two-day conference. Organised by the All-India Anti-Imperialist Forum, its first delegate session was inaugurated by the former U.S. Attorney-General, Ramsey Clark, on Wednesday.

Expressing solidarity with the heroic resistance being put up by the people of Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon in particular, the conference demanded the release of those unlawfully detained in prisons and the restoration of the Palestinian people’s right to live in independence and peace.

The resolution noted with “deep concern” the U.S. “bullying and threat” to Lebanon’s sovereignty. It condemned the “forcible encroachment” of Palestine by the “ruling clique of Israel,” aided by the U.S.

It drew attention to the inhuman tortures brought to bear down upon “innocent people imprisoned in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay without trial for years.”

Another resolution noted that globalisation had become an U.S. “imperialist bid to overcome its ever-deepening crisis of the market.”

The U.S. was taking recourse to “militarisation of economy” and the “so-called globalisation through integration of national markets and managed trade” to tide over the “economic crisis in which world capitalism-imperialism” was sunk.

The U.S., taking advantage of the absence of the erstwhile powerful socialist camp and of organised worldwide anti-war movements, was carrying out “machinations, aggressions and invasions of countries” in its bid “to control resources” and “exploit markets.”

The resolution noted that people in different countries were coming out in large numbers to resist the “evil U.S. design,” and called upon people to “build broad-based united anti-imperialist struggles” to resist the U.S. manoeuvres for world domination.

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