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7 December 2011
Tamil Solidarity: Gearing up for 2012
Tamil Solidarity in Britain took the opportunity on Sunday to take stock of the campaign's progress and outline a plan for the year ahead, writes Manny Thain, Tamil Solidarity national secretary.
12 October 2011
Fox takes cronyism to new level
Fox by name, fox by nature it seems. For despite the mounting and overwhelming evidence of cronyism against Tory MP Liam Fox, the defence minister remains in his post
7 September 2011
Indian high commission protest over Tamil death sentences
'End the death penalty in India', was the slogan chanted by over 700 people outside the Indian high commission on 30 August, writes Manny Thain, Tamil Solidarity national secretary.
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
Tamil Solidarity demo
10 July 2011
Tamil Solidarity Old Trafford protest
Tamil Solidarity (TS) organised a protest in front of Lancashire County Cricket Club when Sri Lanka played England on 9th July
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.
8 June 2011
Tamil Solidarity: important resolution agreed at the European Parliament
Tamil representatives, solidarity and human rights campaigns and individual activists converged on the European parliament on Wednesday 1 June, writes Manny Thain, Tamil Solidarity national secretary.
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...
20 April 2011
World Bank unease: On the eve of the recent Group of 20 (G20) meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors in Washington - set against a backcloth of a fragile world economy - the World Bank said rocketing food prices have created "a toxic brew of real pain contributing to social unrest."...
8 December 2010
Warmonger Rajapaksa forced to abandon his Oxford Union speech
HOWLS OF outrage greeted the news that the Oxford Union debating society had invited Sri Lankan president and suspected war criminal, Mahinda Rajapaksa, to address it on 1 December...
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).
26 May 2010
Sri Lanka: One year after the war
A CONSTANT stream of Tamils flowed into Parliament Square, London, on Tuesday 18 May. Many thousands assembled to mark the first anniversary of the Sri Lankan government's declaration of victory in the...
21 April 2010
Sri Lanka parliamentary elections: Rajapaksa's clan consolidates its rule
A RECORD 7,680 candidates contested 196 seats in 22 electoral districts in the parliamentary election in Sri Lanka held on 8 April, writes Siritunga Jayasuriya, United Socialist Party and Senan CWI.
10 February 2010
Tamil Solidarity -: Successful northern conference
THE NORTHERN conference of Tamil Solidarity took place in Manchester on Saturday 6 February with a dozen members of the Tamil speaking community in attendance, writes Paul Gerrard.
3 February 2010
Sri Lanka: Violent election campaign puts Rajapakse back in power
AFTER THE most violent election the country has seen, Mahinda Rajapakse remains president of Sri Lanka, writes Elizabeth Clarke, Committee for a Workers' International, CWI.
20 January 2010
Sri Lankan government condemned
ON 14 January, the European International Committee on Trade meeting in Brussels, Belgium, heard powerful evidence from Senan, the international coordinator of Tamil Solidarity, and from Joe Higgins, Socialist Party MEP, Ireland, of gross human rights violations by the Rajapakse government in Sri La...
19 January 2010
European commission to withdraw special trade preferences to Sri Lanka
Senan, international coordinator of Tamil Solidarity, spoke at the EU trade committee hearing on 14 January which was held to debate the removal of the special trade preferences, termed the GSP+ concession, to Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka faces charges of human rights violations.
Tamil demonstration in London, photo D. Carr
12 January 2010
Sri Lanka presidential elections: No to the two warmongers!
LAST WEEK Channel 4 TV news broadcast further video footage which appears to show Sri Lankan army soldiers perpetrating atrocities against the Tamil-speaking minority, writes Senan, Tamil Solidarity.
Demonstration against the Sri Lankan government's attacks on the Tamils 11 April 2009, photo Paul Mattsson
6 January 2010
Support needed for socialists in Sri Lanka
SRI LANKA'S president Mahinda Rajapakse has called a presidential election for 26 January. At one of the most decisive moments since Sri Lanka's independence 62 years ago, the country's unity, the people's...
2 December 2009
Indonesia: Eyewitness report from Tamil refugee boat
SOCIALIST PARTY (CWI in Australia) national organiser Anthony Main recently visited the 254 Sri Lankan Tamil refugees currently moored at the port in Merak, Indonesia. He reports on the discussions that took place during his visit and on the conditions faced on board the ship.
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