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WE are not against Globalisation. Rather we ARE FOR IT. It is simply that we do not want to dirty our World by globalising Exploitation or Imperialism. Rather we wish to GLOBALISE SENSITIVITIES.
A CALL FOR A PEOPLE’S
SAARC
The COLOMBO DECLARATION
South Asia has the world’s most populous youthful growing set of communities. The majority of the people are poor and uneducated by global standards.
Globalisation has been “hollowing out” the more advanced areas in this region. Wages in the region’s globalised workplaces are declining. (Sri Lanka’s export garments workers’ monthly wages have fallen from USD50 to USD30 between 1983 and 2003, a high growth period for this industry.)
Isn’t it time we organise for decent Social living for our people.
A SAARC for what?
Global capital or global people?
Our stand is for our regional countries
1. To develop certain common standards and fronts in dealings with Capital Movements and ownership of large Companies
2. To develop common standards and fronts in dealings with the agents of the global system as donors and World Bank/ IMF
3. To develop common standards of decency of workplace and treatment of workers
4. To develop common standards of minimum wages
5. To develop common standards of decent housing and social infrastructure for all.
Our Campaign is to create and promote, within our regional countries, a grass roots level activism of direct action including:
1. Creating awareness of the World Bank/ Donors/ State Ministries/ Elite Corporates & Professionals nexus which is the Complex that is causing our problems and economic distortions
2. Creating actions that challenge and overcome this Capital Using Complex in simple activities as housing or agricultural development in a way that is developmental and creates the participation of the people in the exact operations of Capital and Prices in the economy.
3. Creating public demands for a People driven SAARC.
Dr Lenin Raghuvanshi Dr Darin C Gunesekera
PVCHR Wiros Lokh Institute
Varanasi, India Colombo, Sri Lanka.
30 May 2004
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DARIN of Colombo SRI LANKA:
“When Seymour Melman first analysed Pentagon Capitalism many decades ago, he was not against a military for the US, rather he pointed out that the management of the Pentagon was deforming the economy and reducing economic strength. Our analysis of the World Bank/ IMF/ “donor” system comes to a congruent conclusion with respect the Third World countries. We are not against capital and development. We are against the deforming of our economies by the WB/IMF/ “Donor” system. ”
LENIN of Varanasi INDIA :
“WE wish to bring to world attention how
The present International Capital System as applied to Developing or Third World countries MARGINALISES them and robs them of their own Capital.
It is the Wealthy who are ENCROACHERS, through this power nexus. It is the Rich who encroach on social property, not the poor.
It is the duty of SAARC to progress the Social Interests of the People of SAARC and not to abandon our people in favour of international forces of the globalisation of exploitation.”