Speaking in a Programme ,today (18-07-2018) in Kolkata , to commemorate the Birth Centenary of Legendary South African Statesman Nelson Mandela, CPI(M) Politbureau Member Prakash Karat has hailed the life and works of Nelson Mandela and termed him as a liberator at par with liberators like Mao Tse Tung , Fidel Castro or Ho Chi Minn. He lamented that Nelson Mandela when he came out of the Jail , it was changed circumstance for him as the 60’s realities of the presence of Soviet Union , was absent. Still he negotiated the Freedom of his country, and at the same time had instructed the ANC leadership not to withdraw the armed struggle until a certain stage of discussion has been reached . He was Liberator who believed in Marxism and dialectical materialism. Along with other ANC stalwarts like Walter Cislu and Ahmad Cathrada , he led the valiant fight with the Bastion of imperialism , the apartheid South Africa , whose policy of racial segregation is even today being followed by the oppressors of the Palestinian people . He also said that 20th Century being the century of liberation struggle from the clutches of the imperialism and colonialism , the last major struggle of liberation of the Century had been led by Mandela, while Palestinian struggle is still unfinished.
Birth Centenary of Nelson Mandela, the legendary leader of South Africa
19 Thursday Jul 2018
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