Year: 2006

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Women

The veil and Muslim women

20 December 2006

There is again heated debate going on around the veil worn by Muslim women.

The new controversy was sparked by the comments of British ex-Foreign Minister and leader of House of Commons, Jack Straw. This issue is not only controversial in the West but also in countries with a majority Muslim population. In recent years, especially after 9/ 11, right wing political leaders in the West have used this issue to muster political support from more reactionary sections of the population. On the other hand the Islamic Mullahs use this issue to get support from the most rightwing section of the Muslim population. Both the political right and religious right are using this issue for their own interests. One forces women to remove the veil, while the other wants to force the women to wear the veil. read more

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Sri Lanka

Tamil MP killed for speaking out

13 November 2006

High profile assassination demands massive response

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On Friday morning, 10 November, a prominent Tamil MP in Sri Lanka, Nadarajah Raviraj, was killed . He was shot outside his home in Colombo soon after he had appeared on a breakfast-time TV programme. One of his four bodyguards was also killed. The assassins arrived in a three-wheeler ‘taxi’, fired the fatal shots as the MP was getting into his car and left on a motorbike. read more

Analysis

Socialism Made Easy

12 November 2006

The Workshop Talks

by James Connolly

Socialism is a foreign importation!

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I know it because I read it in the papers. I also know it to be the case because in every country I have graced with my presence up to the present time, or have heard from, the possessing classes through their organs in the press, and their spokesmen upon the platform have been vociferous and insistent in declaring the foreign origin of Socialism. read more

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Sri Lanka

Fourth Eelam War under way

16 July 2006

Government isolated; workers need solutions

Sri Lanka is now most certainly experiencing its ’Fourth Eelam War’. But neither side – the Sri Lankan Government nor the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) – is prepared to accept this. According to the Sri Lanka Monitoring mission (SLMM), over 4,000 people were killed in the 15 months after president Mahinda Rajapakse came to power up to February 2007. This shows that the undeclared war between the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE has escalated to the skies. read more

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Video

Video: America America

11 July 2006

This music video released on August 6th 2005 on the occasion of Hiroshima Day, made by the radical activist and filmaker K P Sasi, has been widely screened all over the world, as part of campaigns, meetings, and protests against US invasion of Iraq and the crimes being perpetrated by US imperialism daily under the garb of ‘War on Terror’. read more