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  • Urgent appeal from Nava Sama Samaja Party in Sri Lanka

    • April 7, 2012
    • By Terry
    • Sri Lanka
    • no comments

    Two leaders of the Frontline Socialist Party (JVP dissident group) Kumar Gunarathnam and Dimuthu Attygalle (Women and International Affairs secretary) were separately abducted in the early hours of Saturday 7 April 2012 from Kiribathgoda and Godagama respectively (suburbs of Colombo) [...]

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  • Sri Lanka: Human rights activists in danger

    Sri Lanka: Human rights activists in danger

    • April 3, 2012
    • By Terry
    • Online exclusive, Sri Lanka
    • 2 comments

    Socialist Resistance condemns the Sri Lankan government for intensifying its terror campaign against human rights and media activists following its setback at the UNHCR which adopted a resolution calling on the government to implement the recommendations of a presidential panel [...]

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  • Alarming Increase in Hostile Rhetoric, Threats of Reprisals against Journalists in Sri Lanka

    Alarming Increase in Hostile Rhetoric, Threats of Reprisals against Journalists in Sri Lanka

    • March 26, 2012
    • By Terry
    • Online exclusive, Sri Lanka
    • no comments

    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) strongly deplores the alarming escalation in hostile rhetoric and the barely concealed threats of reprisals that have been made against some of the country’s leading journalists and human rights defenders by representatives of the [...]

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  • Self determination for the Tamil people–three videos

    Self determination for the Tamil people–three videos

    • March 8, 2012
    • By News
    • Our news, Sri Lanka
    • 2 comments

    A highly significant meeting in London brought together representatives of a number of British based Tamil organisations including the British Tamils Forum and the International Tamil Journalists Association and the author of Tamil Nation in Sri Lanka, Ron Ridenour. The [...]

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  • Solidarity with the Tamils! Public meeting

    Solidarity with the Tamils! Public meeting

    • February 27, 2012
    • By News
    • Our news, Sri Lanka
    • no comments

    Self determination for the Tamil people! Public meeting organised by British Tamil Forum, International Tamil Association of Journalists and Socialist Resistance, Wednesday 7th March, 7:30pm Indian YMCA, Fitzroy Square, W1 (Warren Street tube) Speakers: Ron Ridenour, author of Tamil Nation [...]

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  • Cuba’s Contradictory Stance on Tamils

    Cuba’s Contradictory Stance on Tamils

    • December 8, 2011
    • By Administrator
    • Cuba, Sri Lanka
    • 5 comments

    This article by Ron Ridenour first appeared in the Havana Times. “Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere” is usually how I begin my talks in this three-week tour through several cities and four states of India. Martin Luther King’s famous quotation [...]

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  • Intellectuals ask writers to boycott Sri Lanka festival

    • January 21, 2011
    • By Admin.
    • Sri Lanka
    • no comments

    Reporters Without Borders and Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS), a network of exiled Sri Lankan journalists, announce the launch of an international appeal already signed by Noam Chomsky, Arundathi Roy, Ken Loach, Antony Loewenstein and Tariq Ali, asking [...]

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  • Sri Lankan socialist’s British visit ends with violent attack at airport

    • December 8, 2010
    • By News
    • Online exclusive, Sri Lanka
    • 1 comment

    The BBC has reported how, after a successful visit to Britain, during which he told the truth about the Sri Lankan government’s genocide against the Tamil people, supporters of  Vickramabahu “Bahu” Karunaratne and some journalists were attacked at the Colombo [...]

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  • Oppose war criminal’s speech at Oxford Union

    Oppose war criminal’s speech at Oxford Union

    • December 1, 2010
    • By News
    • Sri Lanka
    • 1 comment

    As President Rajapakse poises to speak at the Oxford Union in an effort to ‘normalise’ his relations with the West, it is great opportunity for us to highlight the truth of his Regime’s War Crimes. Act Now members will be [...]

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  • ALBA countries must support Tamils not Sri Lanka’s War Criminal Government

    • June 2, 2010
    • By Admin.
    • Sri Lanka, Venezuela
    • 6 comments

    Eva Golinger is known for her counter-intelligence analysis in the service of Venezuela’s peaceful revolution against the local oligarchy and the United States Empire. She is a noted author (“The Chavez Code: Cracking US intervention in Venezuela”). A dual citizen [...]

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