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By Our Special Correspondent
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, OCT. 3. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader, Sitaram Yechury, has refuted reports that the Left parties had agreed to dilute their opposition to the move to raise the foreign direct investment (FDI) cap in the insurance, telecom and aviation sectors as a sort of quid pro quo for the Government's "acceptance" of their demand for the removal of nominees of foreign agencies from the Planning Commission's consultative panels. Talking to The Hindu on the sidelines of the A.K. Gopalan birth centenary seminar here today, he said there was no question of the Left parties making their opposition asubject of negotiation. "This is the impression sought to be created by a section of the media. Our opposition to the Government move is based on an appreciation of the objective conditions and we will continue to oppose it," the CPI(M) Polit Bureau member said.
An impossibility
Earlier, inaugurating the seminar on `Class Struggle in the Age of Globalisation: Lessons and Reminiscences from AKG', he said the concept of globalisation with a human face, which was being trumpeted by the bourgeois economists, was an impossibility. The concentration of capital in the hands of a few had resulted in its deployment across borders for quick gains. This re-colonisation process had resulted in greater exploitation of the people, a sharp increase in the gap between the rich and the poor as shown by figures released by the World Bank and a shrinkage in the purchasing power of the rural masses. Capitalist economists had begun speaking about globalisation with a human face after recognising this reality, he said. What the Left parties could do in the given circumstances was to secure maximum concessions for the people from the Government. The Common Minimum Programme was a compendium of such concessions the United Progressive Alliance Government had been forced to offer. The concessions were meant to mute and dilute class struggle, the common argument being that there was no alternative to capitalism. This type of TINA [There is no alternative] argument should be met with "SITA," which stands for "Socialism is the answer," Mr. Yechury said. Economist Prabhat Patnaik delivered the keynote address. The seminar was attended by the CPI(M) Control Commission chairman Samar Mukherjee, the Polit Bureau member V.S. Achuthanandan, the party State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan, the CPI(M) Central Committee member M.A. Baby, the MP, P. Karunakaran, and media personality Sashi Kumar.
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