CPM backs Wall Street protest
Extending support to the Occupy Wall Street movement that has spread across Europe and other parts of the world from the United States, the CPI(M) on Tuesday said it was necessary to step up and broaden the struggles against the neo-liberal policies in India.
Terming the Occupy Wall Street movement as “a manifestation of the growing anger of the people at the predatory role of big banks and finance capital”, the Left party drew attention to the people’s ire against corruption and price rise within the country and decided to launch nationwide protests beginning first week of November against price rise and demand for an effective Lokpal Act, among others. After a two-day politburo meet, the party called upon all its state units to support the November 8 “jail bharo” protest action called by the Central trade unions.
The CPI(M) said that the Congress has fared poorly in the byelections to the Hisar Lok Sabha seat and other Assembly seats, which is an indication to how corruption and the failure to curb price rise are causing the people to reject the Congress all over the country.
Hitting out at the BJP, it said Mr L.K. Advani’s yatra “has only succeeded in highlighting the record of (its) corruption” and referred to the arrest of former Karnataka CM B.S. Yeddyurappa on graft charges. “The record of the earlier NDA government also shows how the BJP is no different from the Congress when it comes to the question of high-level corruption,” the CPI(M) said.
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