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4 April 2012
Who decides?: The High Pay Centre has answered a question we've been wondering about for a while - who decides to pay chief executives the outrageous amounts they get...
7 December 2011
Tamil Solidarity: Gearing up for 2012
Tamil Solidarity in Britain took the opportunity on Sunday to take stock of the campaign's progress and outline a plan for the year ahead, writes Manny Thain, Tamil Solidarity national secretary.
16 November 2011
Pollution ignored: According to the parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee inquiry report published last week, the government has "failed to get to grips" with the human cost of air pollution...
7 September 2011
Indian high commission protest over Tamil death sentences
'End the death penalty in India', was the slogan chanted by over 700 people outside the Indian high commission on 30 August, writes Manny Thain, Tamil Solidarity national secretary.
100,000 strong demonstration calling for an end to the war in the north of Sri Lanka , photo Paul Mattsson
11 May 2011
UN report on Sri Lanka war crimes
How can justice and democratic rights be secured?: A United Nations (UN) report published on 29 April on the final phase of Sri Lanka's civil war in 2009 reveals "credible allegations" of war crimes perpetrated by the ruling regime of president Mahinda Rajapaksa...
3 November 2010
India - no voice for Kashmiri struggle
BOOKER PRIZE winner and campaigner Arundhati Roy has been threatened with a charge of sedition by the Indian government and with physical threats by Indian nationalist groups, writes Emma Smith.
22 September 2010
Kashmir: An eyewitness to oppression in the valley
"A PARADISE turned into hell". That's how the people who live there describe Indian occupied Kashmir. Monday 13 September saw 18 people, mainly young men, mown down by some of the 700,000 soldiers in...
15 September 2010
All-India general strike: Eyewitness report from Chennai
THE ALL-India general strike on 7 September showed the enormous potential for workers' struggle in India, but also exposed a number of complicating factors, CWI reporters in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, write.
15 December 2009
Video/Audio: International meeting of socialists from around world
London Socialist Party held an international meeting of socialists from around the world. Here are Video and audio files of their speeches...
23 September 2009
Listening to Grasshoppers by Arundhati Roy
Review: Reading Arundhati Roy's collection of lectures and articles about India could make you want to weep, or to emit the 'feral howl' she herself is tempted to resort to...
8 July 2009
Arundhati Roy - politics and literature
London Literature Festival review: The London Literature Festival 2009 opened on 2 July at the Southbank Centre, with Arundhati Roy, introducing her new book Listening to grasshoppers: field notes on democracy...
15 April 2009
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...
8 April 2009
Arundhati Roy indicts the Sri Lankan Rajapakse regime
ON 30 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, writes Venkat Narasimham, New Socialist Alternative (CWI, India).
1 April 2009
Now that the profits are drying up in the Indian software industry
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,...
25 March 2009
Stop the slaughter of Tamils: London campaign meeting
THE CAMPAIGN to stop the slaughter of Tamils and for democratic and trade union rights in Sri Lanka initiated in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, came to London on Saturday 21 March, writes Manny Thain.
Massive demonstration in London against ther military attacks on Tamils in the north of Sri Lanka, photo D. Carr
19 March 2009
Worldwide protests at killings of Tamils
THERE IS ferment among Tamil-speaking people worldwide over the slaughter taking place in the north of Sri Lanka, writes Senan.
11 February 2009
Review: You would expect a film that has won five Critics' Choice Awards, four Golden Globes and seven Bafta Awards, and has been nominated for ten Academy Awards to be outstanding, or at least have some qualities that can inspire...
3 December 2008
Editorial: Once again, terrorist carnage - this time in Mumbai in India - has shocked working people around the world...
3 December 2008
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 over 180 people, writes Jagadish Chandra, New Socialist Alternative, CWI India.
21 September 2006
Quote me happy? You must be joking!
NORWICH UNION is dumping another 4,000 workers, half of which will be compulsory redundancies, writes a Norwich Union worker.
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