Year: 2006
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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 breakfast-time TV programme. One of his four bodyguards was also killed. The assassins arrived in a…
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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, the possessing classes through…
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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. According to the Sri Lanka Monitoring mission (SLMM), over 4,000 people were killed in the 15 months…
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Video: America America
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…
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State elections portrayed as success for Communist Parties
‘Communists’ garner the votes of poor but policies are increasingly pro-business The much awaited results of five state elections in India – in West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Pondicherry – have gone more or less along predicted lines. Except for the fact that the competing shower of promises of goodies and freebies in…
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The other India protests against Bush visit
Bush seeks to boost business deals and allies in the region It was spectacular from the point of view of huge numbers of people participating spontaneously in the anti-Bush protests. As the popular environmental activist and writer Arundathi Roy commented before the arrival of Bush, he was “just not welcome”! It was not just the…