Indian Left on Iran Issue.

Perhaps the trans-national brotherhood of communists does not apply in the case of Irani communists with respect to their brethern in bhaarata. The communists in bhaarata have become the greatest champions against Iran Nuclear issue being referred to the UN Security council. Please pay attention to the last lines of the following article:
" The Left’s insistence that India should vote for Iran at the IAEA to defeat the US’s hegemonic designs is, therefore, politically myopic. Of course, India should, together with China and Russia, resist any attempt to twist the Iran vote into an opportunity to wage war. But the alternative to US imperialism is not Islamic fundamentalism.
The Left would do well to remember that the Iranian Islamists finished off the Tudeh Party communists, after the latter helped them overthrow the US-backed Shah in 1979."

These are the same people who would throw their fists in the air to
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1398663.cms
The Left in wonderland
TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 03, 2006 12:06:33 AM]
The Left in wonderland
TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 03, 2006 12:06:33 AM]
The Indian Left is badly in need of a reality check. Its recalcitrance, both on modernisation of Delhi and Mumbai airports and India’s vote at the International Atomic Energy Agency board on Iran, manifests an archaic politics. The Left parties’ concerted efforts to obstruct the airport modernisation programme privilege sectionalist interests of a small group of public sector organised workers over the greater common good of citizen-consumers.

The Left parties should learn to accept the fact that the modern economy is aeons away from the dehumanising capitalism it opposes. Its promise to boost economic activity and competition, if realised, would mean creation of more and well-paying jobs, and improved delivery of goods and services.

A progressive political agency, which would negotiate and work with global capitalism to maximise benefits for people across the board, would facilitate and hasten that process. The Left could don that mantle rather easily. But it should, before that, give up its programmatic commitment to the destruction of capitalism, as its comrades elsewhere in the world, particularly in China, have.


The fact that the Left puts dogma before historical reality is also borne out by its stubborn position on Iran. Even Russia and China have, this time around, agreed to a vote that would enable the IAEA to report Iran’s nuclear programme to the Security Council. It’s certainly not in India’s interest to have a nuclear power, which is fundamentalist to boot, in its neighbourhood.

The Left’s insistence that India should vote for Iran at the IAEA to defeat the US’s hegemonic designs is, therefore, politically myopic. Of course, India should, together with China and Russia, resist any attempt to twist the Iran vote into an opportunity to wage war. But the alternative to US imperialism is not Islamic fundamentalism.

The Left would do well to remember that the Iranian Islamists finished off the Tudeh Party communists, after the latter helped them overthrow the US-backed Shah in 1979.