"Opponents of the project say the Left Front is using repressive means to acquire land and has resorted to brutal police methods to prevent and punish popular protests. The Front's leaders accuse the protestors of being in hand-in-glove with business houses hostile to the Tatas."
"Argues Bhaduri: "The Left, especially the CPM, seems to be buying into the neo-liberal logic, which allows the market to be organised and its rules set not by socially accountable institutions like elected governments, but by corporations.""
NEW DELHI (IPS) - India's mainstream Left parties, led by the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM), are getting into an ugly confrontation with civil society groups and classes that are part of their own core constituency in the state of West Bengal, which they have ruled for three long decades.
