Maryam Namazie

Maryam Namazie is a political activist, campaigner and blogger

Author: Maryam Namazie

  • Campaign to save the lives of Rafigh Taghi and Samir Sedaghat Oghloo

    Ayatollah Lankarani, an Iranian cleric, has issued a fatwa for the death of Rafigh Taghi and Samir Sedaghat Oghloo. We should resolutely protest this fatwa that has been issued by the Islamic Republic of Iran’s authorities against writers and critics of religion in the Azerbaijan Republic. On November 15, 2006, Rafigh Taghi who is a…

  • Ahmadinejad Booed

    Following a day of protest on December 6, which was led by the left wing socialist students in many universities in Iran, Ahmadinejad, the president of the Islamic regime attempted to speak at the Tehran Amir Kabir Technical College of Tehran University. The audience had been selected from the security forces, however the students of…

  • To see the latest issue of WPI Briefing 201, December 11, 2006, a monthly publication of the Worker-communist Party of Iran, click here. In this month’s issue: * Freedom and Equality was the call of Students’ Day in Iran * Nationwide student protests! A declaration from the Communist Youth Organisation * There is no ‘right’…

  • BBC World Service: Islam, religion and secularism

    Maryam Namazie appeared on BBC World Service Generation Next on Heart and Soul to respond to questions of several youth on Islam, religion and secularism. The programme is broadcast throughout the world on Sunday 10 December. The programme can also be heard for the entire week by clicking here.

  • Protests on Students’ Day in Iran

    See pictures of protests on Students’ Day in Iran by clicking here. The left-leaning plackards says: Freedom and Equality; Socialism or Barbarism; Free Political Prisoners; Students and Workers Unite; the University is not a military base and so on. More on this in next week’s TV International Programme.

  • Support the struggles of students in Iran!

    Universities in Iran are an important battleground for people’s fight for emancipation. Student protests are a part of Iranian people’s huge fight for freedom and equality and maintaining a humane society. Every year on Students’ day (December the 7th which is called “16th of Azar” in Iranian Calendar is official Students’ Day in Iran. Students…

  • DNA Magazine

    See DNA magazine, Australia’s best-selling magazine for gay men, on 2006’s Most Intriguing People by clicking here.

  • Iran: Three more bus workers’ union activists arrested

    Three further activists of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs United Bus Company (Sherkat e Vahed) have been arrested today, 3 December, according to reports received from the union. Seyyed Davoud Razavi and Abdolreza Taraazi, members of the Executive Board, and Gholamreza Gholam-Hosseini, another union activist, were arrested at the bus company’s Khavaran…

  • Everyone is equal under the law oh, except those who prefer Sharia

    EVERYONE IS EQUAL UNDER THE LAW OH, EXCEPT THOSE WHO PREFER SHARIA The BBC Radio 4 programme Law in Action this week claimed that it had uncovered evidence that Islamic sharia law was being practised in Britain in secret courts. Youth worker Aydarus Yusuf, 29, told how he helped convene an unofficial court which uses…

  • Women’s Right to Equality

    See article in The Australian, which quotes my piece on the veil by clicking here. BTW, thanks for all the comments you have made here, in other blogs and or via email. I will discuss the points you have raised along with those in the above article in my next TV programme.