Sunday, March 23, 2008

Are Marxists feeling heat of global warming?

Here.

Excerpt:
Shamik Lahiri, a [Communist Party of India-Marxist] MP in the Lok Sabha, however, insists that his party has always taken an interest in environmental issues.

“Even the last time environment figured in our political document. We passed a resolution on the issue at the (last) party congress,” he said.

Prodded further, he grudgingly conceded that the party does have a political motive behind underlining the threat of global warming.

“If we have highlighted the phenomenon of global warming in our political document this time, it is because the issue has political overtones,” Lahiri explained to IANS.

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