India is booming, but for who?
Majority of children malnourished and majority of population illiterate sarah chalke nude While there is undeniably an economic boom and growth in India, it only really touches the 3% of the best off. The fact that 52% of the Indian children are…
The veil and Muslim women
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…
Tamil MP killed for speaking out
High profile assassination demands massive response socialistworld.net 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…
Socialism Made Easy
The Workshop Talks by James Connolly Socialism is a foreign importation! * * * 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,…
Fourth Eelam War under way
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.…