Month: April 2009
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Countrywide elections have begun
Workers and young people have no party fighting capitalism and landlordism Statement by New Socialist Alternative, CWI in India On 16 April, voting began in the first of five stages of the 15th general election to the Lok Sabha (National Parliament) in India. No less than 300 national and local parties are taking part. It…
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Video: LTTE to bounce back if defeated by Lankan army – Siritunga Jayasurya
The following video link is is an interview with Siritunga Jayasuriya, a leader of Sri Lanka’s United Socialist Party (CWI – Sri Lanka), who was on a visit to India in February and March of this year to campaign against the war against the Tamils in Sri Lanka. According to Siri, LTTE will retaliate if…
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Stop the war in Sri Lanka: Protest at India House
SHOUTING “NOT a rupee, not a bullet for the Rajapakse government”, 100 protesters marched around India House on the Aldwych in London. This was part of the international day of action on 8 April called by Stop the Slaughter of Tamils (SST) campaign, to end the war and fight for democracy in Sri Lanka. This…
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Stop the War in Sri Lanka
This article appeared in the March 2009 edition of the Appeared in CPI (ML) March 2009 edition of Liberation, CPI (ML) monthly journal. The following article is an interview of Siritunga Jayasurya, United Socialist Party (CWI- Sri Lanka) on the ongoing war against the Tamils in Sri Lanka. (Siritunga Jayasuriya, currently the General Secretary of…
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Protesters in New Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai joined hundreds of others around the world on 8 April
Indian government told to stop support of murderous Rajapakse regime Protesters in New Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai joined hundreds of others around the world on 8 April demanding an immediate ceasefire and end to the slaughter of Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka. (In London, thousands of Tamils have been occupying Parliament Square for days. Eds.)…
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An Interview With Siritunga Jayasuriya
By Meena Kandasamy This interview appeared in http://www.countercurrents.org on 4th March, 2009 during the height of the bloody war against the Tamils in Sri Lanka by the Sri Lanka government. The interview was conducted by Meena Kandasamy (poet, writer and Dalit activist based in Chennai) with Siritunga Jayasurya, General Secretary, United Socialist Party (CWI –…
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Massive meeting in Chennai of campaign to stop Tamil slaughter in Sri Lanka
Author Arundathi Roy’s statement gets national and international coverage On Monday 30th March, it felt as if the city of Chennai waited with intense expectation as the famous writer, Arundhati Roy, was due to deliver a speech in a public meeting condemning the war in Sri Lanka. Her views on globalisation, imperialism and war were…
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Indian software industry: Now that the profits are drying up…
A JOURNALIST friend recently asked me how recession is affecting India’s software professionals. He wanted to write a story on how recession has adversely affected the lifestyle of software professionals, who are compelled to cut their expenses on eating out, watching movies in multiplexes and shopping in plush malls. An Indian socialist While the worldwide…