People's Democracy

(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)


Vol. XXXII

No. 21

June 01 , 2008

 


Left Parties Statement


On Four Years Of UPA Govt


The Left parties � Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, All India Forward Bloc and Revolutionary Socialist Party � met in New Delhi on May 23, 2008. They took stock of the situation in the light of the UPA government completing four years in office. They have issued the following statement:


Price Rise


The UPA government has failed to check the rise in the prices of essential commodities, particularly food and fuel prices. The government pleads helplessness on account of global inflationary trends. This cuts no ice since insulating the domestic economy from adverse global trends is a major responsibility of the government.


The UPA government has largely ignored the steps suggested by the Left parties to curb price rise. The Left parties put forth five demands in this respect.








The central government clings to its neo-liberal prescriptions. It is so addicted to free market reforms that in spite of people suffering due to price rise, it refuses to impose controls and regulations.


The Left parties will continue the agitation to curb price rise.


Agrarian Crisis






Super Cabinet�





Stop Retrograde

Policies




Defence Links

With Israel


The deepening military and security collaboration with Israel is detrimental to India�s vital interests. Israel has become the second biggest supplier of weapons to India and making huge profits out of it which in turn is used to finance its aggression against the Palestinian people. India should stop launching Israeli spy satellites and cease military collaboration.


WTO �

Doha Round



Implement

These Measures





The UPA government should realise that it will have to face the wrath of the people suffering due to price rise and the deterioration in their living standards. In this last year of the UPA government, the Left parties express their firm resolve to resist the neo-liberal policies and to continue the mobilisation of the people to force the government for bringing in immediate measures to provide relief to the people from price rise, agrarian crisis, unemployment and loss of existing livelihood.