On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 20:08 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: "Goanet News Service" <[email protected]> > Subject: [Goanet] Misery SEZ it all (Preetu Nair)
> Misery SEZ it all > The Goa government's mega plan to set up the Special Economic Zone > (SEZ) > shatters many dreams in Cortalim These SEZs are in many ways even more dangerous than the Regional Plan. Even if the Regional Plan is withdrawn, it is unlikely that that will automatically put an end to the SEZ proposal. There is a central enabling legislation that declares SEZs to be 'foreign territory' on Indian soil, which means that the law there will be suited to the interests of global corporate capital. And the losers will be the workers and masses, as the history of such ideas shows. Nitin Kunkloikar of GCCI defended the Regional Plan yesterday. Corporate capital will try everything it can to achieve its objectives -- the only way to resist is if there is a united opposition from Goans of all classes and communities against Regional Plan, SEZ, expressway and what-have-you. The battle lines are clearly drawn -- it is transnational capital and its local allies against the rest. Take your pick. -- Question everything -- Karl Marx
