Politicians use terrorism for their own ends
Once again, terrorist carnage – this time in Mumbai in India – has shocked working people around the world. In a thoroughly planned and financed operation, a group of right-wing Islamic terrorists turned buildings and streets in Mumbai into a killing field, slaughtering and injuring innocent people, with dozens of Muslims among them.
The horrific terror attack in Mumbai on 27 November must be condemned on all counts. It took place at the usually crowded CST railway station and six other prime locations killing at least 140 people (the figures are likely to reach 200 or more) and injuring hundreds. The “Deccan Mujahidin” an unknown Islamic terror group, has claimed responsibility.
The following is an interview with Jagadish Chandra just before the Mumbai Terrorist attack in November. Interview made at the International Executive meeting of the CWI in November.
It can be the first step in solving the ethnic crisis: Siritunga Jayasuriya
This article appeared in the Hindu on 22 October, 2008. Siritunga Jayasurya, General Secretary – United Socialist Party (CWI – Sri Lanka) spoke in a seminar organized by New Socialist Alternative (CWI – India) in Bangalore on the nationality question in Sri Lanka
The Indian Government should take the responsibility of bringing pressure on Colombo to accord provincial autonomy to north and east Sri Lanka under the Indo-Sri Lankan deal of 1983, said Siritunga Jayasuriya, general secretary of the United Socialist Party — Sri Lanka.
Tens of thousands of delegates will spend hundreds of millions of dollars junketing at the second UN summit on sustainable development in Johannesburg South Africa, one of the biggest international conferences ever held.
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