7) Call for a crusade

The Second important constituent of the WSF are the pseudo communists - i.e. the CPI, CPI(M) and various shades of Socialist parties. They cry hoarse against Globalization, when they are out of power ; in power they behave as servile slaves of the World Bank and IMF and implement their diktats. From Lula of Brazil to Buddhadeb of India, they have proved this in practice. Red is their banner, but it is soaked and drenched in bourgeois politics.

Opportunistic electoral alliances to share the spoils of the state machinery and betrayal of the working class for holding on to their leadership in trade unions, remains to be their 'revolutionary' politics. Their anti-globalization 'tirade' is just a ruse to assuage the sentiments of the masses.

The Economism of the pseudo communists and the identity politics of the NGOs belong to the same genre. No wonder that the CPI(M) has seamlessly coalesced with NGOs in the WSF, conveniently forgetting their own outcry against these imperialist stooges in the past.

The active role of CPI, CPI(M) and other pseudo communists and the presence of Anarchists, and Trotskyites lend the much needed credibility to the WSF. Thus an imperialist Trojan horse is portrayed as a red coalition!