Author: Maryam Namazie
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Does this offend you?
I am on BBC World Service’s Heart and Soul Programme this week talking about religion and offense. If you want to listen, click here.
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May 1st detainees and Mahmood Salehi must be released
To all Trade Union and Labour Organisations As you are aware, on May 1st this year workers in Iran held many protest meetings and demonstrations in a number of cities to mark International Workers’ Day. Unfortunately one of these gatherings in the city of Sanandaj which had 300 workers protesting in front of the Office…
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Condemn the brutal stoning to death of Doa – a young girl whose only crime was to fall in love
To sign this petition, Click here. Doa was stoned to death in the centre of the town of Bashiqa, Iraqi Kurdistan, in front of hundreds of people and the authorities did not prevent this crime from happening. On the contrary, they were present and paving the way for this horrific crime to be carried out.…
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May Day in Iran: Workers turn official rally into a protest rally
· Thousands demonstrate for jobs, higher pay and right to organise and strike · Worker activists arrested Workers throughout Iran protested for jobs, pay and labour rights, despite a ban on unofficial May Day rallies. They carried placards and shouted slogans against low pay, poor conditions, lack of job security and persecution of workers. In…
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Long Live May Day
No to War, No to Islamic Republic, Long Live Socialism! May 1st is the solidarity day of the working class in order to change the upside down capitalist world. At present, when the “New World Order” is facing a dead end, in a world where the lives and rights of people are smashed by the…
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Neither war nor nuclear weapons!
To sign the below petition, click here. We, the undersigned, are writing to express our strongest opposition to a US attack or economic sanctions on Iran. These will have devastating consequences for the people of Iran whilst strengthening the Islamic Republic of Iran and further devastating the Middle East. We will not tolerate another Iraq.…
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Islamists turn UN human rights body into a laughing stock
From the National Secular Society Last week the United Nations’ Human Rights Council condemned “defamation” of religion, and called upon member states to ban literature and other materials containing “racist or xenophobic ideas” that might lead to hostility against religious groups – although Islam is the only religion mentioned in the resolution. Islamic states joined…
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Mahmood Salehi, leading labour activist, arrested
Mahmood Salehi, a leading labour activist from the city of Saghez, was re-arrested on Monday April 9 by the Islamic regime’s security forces. Salehi who was at work at the time was taken during his lunch break by armed security forces to the public prosecutor’s office regarding his bail on charges of organizing May Day…
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In defence of Taslima Nasreen
To defend Taslima Nasreen, sign the below petition by clicking here: We, the undersigned, are writing to register our strongest protest at yet more death threats made against writer, humanist, secularist and human rights activist Taslima Nasreen. This time, Taqi Raza Khan the president of an Islamic group, the All-India Ibtehad Council, has offered a…