CPI(M) calls for intensified struggles against corporate exploitation

The CPI(M), Andhra Pradesh Committee, has called for intensified struggles to address the growing inequalities in urban areas, resist corporate exploitation, and counter the rising threat of communal polarisation.

At a State-level meeting of urban activists in Vijayawada on Friday (September 12, 2025), CPI(M) Polit Bureau member B.V. Raghavulu alleged that large corporate companies had turned cities into centres of exploitation, draining people’s resources. Real estate and construction sectors have become tools for profiteering, making housing unaffordable for commoners. “While big companies are thriving, the poor are being crushed, and inequalities are widening,” he said.

Mr. Raghavulu accused the BJP and RSS of spreading hatred, exploiting temples and religious centres to sow the ‘seeds of division’, and turning harmonious festivals into occasions for tension. “We must intensify struggles on people’s issues, resist corporate loot, oppose the anti-people policies, foster communal harmony, and unite the people,” he said.

CPI(M) State secretary V. Srinivasa Rao said the sudden outburst of youth unrest in Nepal should serve as a warning to the ‘authoritarian Modi government’.

“If people’s issues are ignored, struggles will inevitably erupt,” he said and demanded that the Andhra Pradesh government focus on urban development and capital building in the public interest rather than catering to corporates’ needs.

“Instead of burdening people with higher taxes, the government must provide better facilities,” he said.

CPIM state secretariat member Ch Babu Rao and others spoke.