Coalition formations in the country are trying to weaken the Left movement,which has always put forward an alternative to the Centre's neo-liberal and imperialist policies,CPI(M) politburo member Sitaram Yechury said today. Inaugurating a symposium on 'The Role of Transitional Governments' as part of the International Congress on Kerala Studies here,he said the Left governments in Kerala,West Bengal and Tripura had delivered in key areas,including decentralisation,which is the core of a secular democracy. "The Peoples' Democratic Fronts governing these states had formed governments of a transitional character within the bourgeois system to help the process of achieving peoples' democratic revolution," he said. The Left governments were qualitatively different in character and had provided an alternative to the neo-liberal agenda of successive governments at the Centre,Yechury said. He said in various parts of the world,socialist formations had been put in place by overthrowing capitalism,progressive governments formed through peoples' struggles like in Latin America,and regimes built on momentous struggles like in South Africa. The Left in India was proceeding to the path of socialism within the restraints of a bourgeois system,the Rajya Sabha member said. "One common feature of all these governments was their anti-imperialist conduct and attempt to transcend capitalism in its advance to socialism. This period is one of intense class struggle at the global level," Yechury said. The success or failure of transitional regimes depended on whether they would determine their economic policies or economics would determine their policies,he said. Yechury said China was building capitalism in a country having a proletarian dictatorship and it was a different matter whether it would succeed or not in the effort. Solidarity with countries having governments of transitional character was essential to develop a global anti-imperialist movement and humanity's transition towards an exploitation-free society,he said.
