Kolkata, July 31 - The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Friday alleged that all imperialist forces had teamed up against the communists and were launching concerted attacks on the leftists in India.

'I have seen that many anti-communist groups have ganged up against us and they are launching concerted attacks on the CPI-M led government in West Bengal as well as in other parts of the country,' CPI-M general secretary Prakash Karat told a seminar on the occasion of commemorating the birth centenary of late communist leader E.M.S Namboodiripad here.

He said the CPI-M had fought against the neo-liberal policies of the union government and it also raised its voice against the government's decision to go into a strategic alliance with the US on the civil nuclear deal issue.

'The number of violent attacks on our cadres has increase in this state (West Bengal) after the April-May general elections.