Call of All India Anti-Imperialist Forum
Observe 20th March as Anti-US Imperialism Day

The freedom struggle of the patriotic people of Iraq is gaining momentum everyday against the US-UK imperialist colonial occupation of their soil. Everyone knows, the Bush-Blair duo launched a most savage military aggression over trumped-up charges to occupy Iraq to take control of its rich oil reserve, cheap labour and market from their imperialist design. They violated international law and norms not only to land forces in Iraq, they aggressively persisted in the same while they captured its head of the state, President Saddam Hussain, and kept large numbers of people in virtual concentration camps. Now they are conspiring to foist a dictated constitution on the Iraqi people and put up a show of elections to legitimize a puppet regime from behind which to maintain their full control. US imperialism has asserted its self-arrogated right to attack any country and topple any regime it considers hostile to its interests.
The people of this land have condemned this crime on the Iraqi people, on humanity in general, while the BJP-led India Government has sought to get further closer to US imperialism to win support to Indian monopoly capitalism’s regional hegemony in exchange for its support to US imperialism’s expansion of global hegemony. All other parliamentary parties, regardless of political hues, have objectively sided with this interest, except that they chose respective parliamentary gimmicks to dupe their electorates.
Cautioning against this, particularly the US imperialist menace, the Calcutta Declaration, 2003 of the All India Anti-Imperialist Convention of November 2003, under the aegis of the All India Anti-Imperialist Forum, called upon all democratic and progressive forces to observe 20th March, the day US-UK forces launched attack on Iraq, as Anti-US Imperialism Day every year, not only to demand immediate withdrawal of US imperialist forces from Iraq, but also to mobilize world public opinion against the US hegemonism and overlordism which is threatening everyday through its naked interferences in the internal affairs of different countries, their national independence and sovereignty. Anti-imperialist organizations and people in general in many countries over the world are going ahead with plans to hold massive demonstrations against US imperialism on 20th March this year.
We call upon democratic minded, justice seeking and peace loving people of all walks in this country to unite on this purpose and observe the coming 20th March by holding rallies, processions, meetings to protest against particularly US imperialist machinations, aggressions and occupation of Iraq and express solidarity with the freedom fighting Iraqi and Palestinian people.
The people of India and the All India Anti-Imperialist Forum hail the heroic freedom struggle of Iraq and Palestine.