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8 July 2009
Arundhati Roy - politics and literature
London Literature Festival review: The London Literature Festival 2009 opened on 2 July at the Southbank Centre, with Arundhati Roy, introducing her new book Listening to grasshoppers: field notes on democracy...
8 July 2009
Sri Lanka: Protest over DfID role
TAMIL SOLIDARITY, which campaigns for the rights of all workers and the oppressed in Sri Lanka, organised a protest recently against UK government financial support for the repressive, chauvinist Sri Lankan government, writes Senan, Tamil Solidarity.
26 June 2009
AN ITV news reporter in Iraq described the bizarre scene at a press briefing in Baghdad by the US military forces...
24 June 2009
The guns fall silent - but no peace for Tamils
OVER 70,000 mainly Tamil demonstrators marched through London on 20 June, angered by the continued misery of the Tamil people following the Sri Lankan government's military defeat of the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam), writes Jon Redford.
27 May 2009
Southampton protest: Stop the slaughter of Tamils
A SMALL but militant group of Southampton University students protested against the genocide of the Tamil people at the local civic centre and regional BBC building, writes Rosie Isaac, Southampton Socialist Students.
27 May 2009
Kashmir health workers' victory
A LONG health workers' struggle, including a threat of a second round of strike action, forced the government to finally honour an agreement reached three months earlier, writes Jamal Khan, Trade Unions Rights Campaign Kashmir (TURCK).
20 May 2009
Sri Lanka: The guns fall silent but the tragedy continues
"THIS BATTLE has reached its bitter end... We have decided to silence our guns". The dramatic announcement on the website of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on 17 May seemed to...
Sri Lankan speaker addresses Youth Fight for Jobs conference on the plight of the Tamil people, photo Paul Mattsson
13 May 2009
HUNDREDS OF Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka were killed last weekend as a result of heavy artillery shelling in the war zone - a few square kilometres of coastal strip containing around 100,000 Tamil civilians and LTTE guerrillas...
13 May 2009
Imperialism sucked deeper into Afghan quagmire
AS BARACK Obama dispatched 20,000 more US troops to Afghanistan, it was reported that an American airstrike in the west of Afghanistan wiped out over 100 civilians on 4 May, writes Dave Carr.
6 May 2009
Widespread protests in Pakistan
May Day reports: Hundreds of thousands of workers took to the streets across Pakistan to celebrate May Day. Workers from different sectors of the economy, nationalities, ethnic backgrounds and religions marched together...
29 April 2009
Sri Lanka war: Rajapakse regime ignores Tamils' plight in renewed army offensive
THE SRI Lankan Army is pursuing a relentless and bloody battle for the last piece of ground held by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the north-east of the country, writes Elizabeth Clarke.
Massive demonstration in London against ther military attacks on Tamils in the north of Sri Lanka, photo D. Carr
22 April 2009
Tamil action to stop the war continues
STOP THE Slaughter of Tamils (SST) campaign followed up on the massive national demonstration against the war in Sri Lanka on 11 April with a public meeting in central London, writes Manny Thain.
15 April 2009
Thailand: Battles erupt on the streets of Bangkok
A TEMPORARY calm has returned to the streets of Bangkok and other cities of Thailand. On 14 April, protest leader Prateep Ungsongtham Hata said: "We held talks among the leaders since last night and have...
100,000 strong demonstration calling for an end to the war in the north of Sri Lanka , photo Paul Mattsson
15 April 2009
Sri Lanka: Stop the war - fight for democratic rights
AFTER A week of escalating protests worldwide against the mounting slaughter of Tamils in Sri Lanka, the Rajapakse government announced a two-day halt to the fighting with the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, writes Elizabeth Clarke, Committee for a Workers' International.
15 April 2009
Stop the war in Sri Lanka: Protest at India House
SHOUTING "NOT a rupee, not a bullet for the Rajapakse government", 100 protesters marched around India House on the Aldwych in London...
8 April 2009
Arundhati Roy indicts the Sri Lankan Rajapakse regime
ON 30 March, it felt as if the city of Chennai waited with intense expectation as the famous writer, Arundhati Roy, was due to deliver a speech in a public meeting condemning the war in Sri Lanka, writes Venkat Narasimham, New Socialist Alternative (CWI, India).
7 April 2009
Stop the slaughter of Tamils in Sri Lanka
The ghastly slaughter of Tamils in Sri Lanka continues daily and an official 'end' to the war will not mean an end to this nightmare, writes Elizabeth Clarke, Committee for a Workers' International.
1 April 2009
Now that the profits are drying up in the Indian software industry
A JOURNALIST friend recently asked me how recession is affecting India's software professionals. He wanted to write a story on how recession has adversely affected the lifestyle of software professionals,...
25 March 2009
Stop the slaughter of Tamils: London campaign meeting
THE CAMPAIGN to stop the slaughter of Tamils and for democratic and trade union rights in Sri Lanka initiated in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, came to London on Saturday 21 March, writes Manny Thain.
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