Sri Lanka

Expulsion of Tamil activist stopped!

antwerp16A prominent activist of Tamil Solidarity in Belgium, Muruganandam Murugathas (Thas to friends), was threatened with expulsion and deportation to Sri Lanka. After having lived in Belgium for 18 years his papers were still not regularised. Thas was one of the victims of the repressive asylum policies against ‘illegal’ immigrants. read more

Analysis

RAPE & SEXUAL VIOLENCE: By-products of Patriarchy & Capitalism

Rage agianst rapeThe unprecedented anger of the youth in Delhi and beyond against the gang rape and the death of a 23 year old para medical student on a private illegally operating bus service on 16th December was an expression of the seething discontent that has been building against the system for a long time. The 3 day protest that brought Central Delhi to a halt showed what the ‘power of the streets’ can achieve as opposed to the impotency of the so called ‘elected representatives’ and their so called “democratic” institutions. read more

News

South Africa: Founding of Workers and Socialist Party

WASP will now mobilise support for the party

Press Release, 17 Dec 2012, DSM Executive Committee, the Strike and Workers’ Committee Representatives of Bokoni Platinum, Harmony Gold, Anglo Gold Ashanti, Royal Bafokeng and Murray Roberts.

An event that has the potential to change the political landscape of South Africa, like Marikana has done on the industrial plane, was quietly marked in the founding of a new political party, the Workers and Socialist Party (WASP) this week-end. The Democratic Socialist Movement, affiliate of the Committee for a Workers International and representatives of strike committees of Bokoni Platinum in Limpopo, Royal Bafokeng and Murray and Roberts in Rustenburg, North West and KDC in Carltonville, Gauteng founded the party. This took place despite seemingly unrelated but more than likely to be deliberate acts of sabotage in the form of the withdrawal of the permission hours after it was granted to hold the rally at a stadium in Limpopo, the draconian bail conditions of leaders of the Bokoni Platinum strike committee and the shunning of the event by the media. read more