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16 May 2012
Mullivaikal 2012: Workers' unity against Rajapaksa regime
Thousands of Tamils will mark the third anniversary of Mullivaikal, the end of the war in Sri Lanka, with a commemorative rally in Trafalgar Square on Saturday 19 May, writes Manny Thain, secretary, Tamil Solidarity.
21 March 2012
Sri Lanka's Killing Fields: War Crimes Unpunished
It is nearly three years since the Sri Lankan regime declared victory against the LTTE, the Tamil Tigers, writes Manny Thain, Secretary, Tamil Solidarity.
Stop the War Trafalgar Square rally, photo Paul Mattsson
14 October 2011
Picture slide show: Marking ten years since the invasion of Afghanistan
To mark ten years of the war and occupation in Afghanistan, 3,000 people took part in the Stop the War Trafalgar Square rally on Saturday 8 October...
21 September 2011
Floods devastate Sindh: Crisis worsens, hundreds killed
Floods in Sindh, Pakistan, have killed more than 500 people, destroyed or damaged 1.5 million houses and swamped five million acres since late last month
28 July 2011
Media spotlight on Rajapaksa regime's mass murder in Sri Lanka
Channel 4 News has uncovered further evidence of the mass murder and brutality committed by Sri Lankan armed forces against Tamil-speaking people
100,000 strong demonstration calling for an end to the war in the north of Sri Lanka , photo Paul Mattsson
22 June 2011
TV review: Horrifying. Heart-rending. Enraging. Those words can barely describe the reaction to the barbaric acts shown in Sri Lanka's Killing Fields, a Channel 4 documentary aired on 14 June, writes Manny Thain, Secretary Tamil Solidarity.
100,000 strong demonstration calling for an end to the war in the north of Sri Lanka , photo Paul Mattsson
11 May 2011
UN report on Sri Lanka war crimes
How can justice and democratic rights be secured?: A United Nations (UN) report published on 29 April on the final phase of Sri Lanka's civil war in 2009 reveals "credible allegations" of war crimes perpetrated by the ruling regime of president Mahinda Rajapaksa...
21 December 2010
Striking garment workers in Bangladesh victimised
Strikes and protests by Bangladesh garment workers continue in the face of harsh repression by the state...
15 December 2010
Garment workers demand a living wage in Bangladesh
ONCE AGAIN thousands of textile workers in Bangladesh were forced to take to the streets last week to demand that all employers pay the new monthly minimum wage which was meant to be implemented by 1 December following protests last July...
Protesters demand halt to opencast coal mining in Bangladesh outside mining company Global Coal Management Resources Ltd annual general meeting , photo M Thain
8 December 2010
Protesters demand halt to opencast coal mining in Bangladesh
PROTESTERS VOICED their anger at Global Coal Management Resources Ltd (GCM), outside the mining company's annual general meeting (AGM) in central London on 6 December, writes Manny Thain.
23 November 2010
Afghanistan war: SEVERAL THOUSAND protesters marched through central London on 20 November against the escalating war and continuing occupation of Afghanistan by Nato forces...
18 November 2010
The long march in Bangladesh: interview with a march organiser
The people of Bangladesh are among the poorest in the world. Wages are so low that they undercut those of China in many industries.
Demonstrating against war in Afghanistan, photo A Hill
17 November 2010
Afghanistan: Withdraw the troops now!
The Nato onslaught on Afghanistan is now in its tenth year. Ten years of horrific brutality inflicted on those who have fought against the invasion and on many thousands of civilians in the areas under...
3 November 2010
India - no voice for Kashmiri struggle
BOOKER PRIZE winner and campaigner Arundhati Roy has been threatened with a charge of sedition by the Indian government and with physical threats by Indian nationalist groups, writes Emma Smith.
22 September 2010
Kashmir: An eyewitness to oppression in the valley
"A PARADISE turned into hell". That's how the people who live there describe Indian occupied Kashmir. Monday 13 September saw 18 people, mainly young men, mown down by some of the 700,000 soldiers in...
22 September 2010
'Death of democracy' in Sri Lanka
EIGHTH SEPTEMBER 2010 will be marked as a 'Black Day' in the history of the capitalist democratic system in Sri Lanka, writes Siritunga Jayasuriya, United Socialist Party (CWI, Sri Lanka).
15 September 2010
All-India general strike: Eyewitness report from Chennai
THE ALL-India general strike on 7 September showed the enormous potential for workers' struggle in India, but also exposed a number of complicating factors, CWI reporters in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, write.
1 September 2010
Pakistan flood disaster: Workers' solidarity appeal
THE FOLLOWING financial appeal has been circulated internationally by CWI socialists in Pakistan...
18 August 2010
Pakistan: Workers' solidarity urgently needed
TWENTY MILLION people affected, over 1,600 dead and thousands face starvation, but the Pakistan government's incompetence has made the disaster worse.
The Trade Union Rights Campaign - Pakistan initiated the Workers' Relief Committee to coordinate aid to workers and activists.
18 August 2010
Pakistan flood devastation: poor suffer most
Pakistan: Khalid Bhatti, Trade Union Rights Campaign - Pakistan (TURCP) and general secretary of the Socialist Movement Pakistan (the Socialist Party's counterpart in Pakistan), reports on the disaster and the workers' response to it...
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