Author: Maryam Namazie

International TV interview with Azar Majedi June 26, 2005 Maryam Namazie: A commemorative ceremony was held for Mansoor Hekmat on 2 July in London. I’d like to ask you to explain this phenomenon of Mansoor Hekmat. What is it exactly? Azar Majedi: Mansoor Hekmat is a great Marxist thinker, the leader of the Worker-communist movement…

1. A government from the Middle Ages which still executes individuals for ‘enmity against god’ or ‘morality crimes’, ‘acts incompatible with chastity’, stones people to death for having sex and has executed over 100,000 people in two decades cannot at the same time profess ‘democracy in Iran is transparent and for everyone, compared with Western…

Saudi Shame Maryam Namazie Published in Gay Times June 2005 Gay people are routinely facing harassment, arrest, torture, flogging and execution in Saudi Arabia. It’s no wonder the gay rights group OutRage! has labelled Saudi Arabia one of the most homophobic countries in the world. In May alone, as many as 92 men were arrested…

International TV interview with Hamid Taqvaee May 29, 2005 Maryam Namazie: The Islamic Republic of Iran is holding its presidential ‘election’ on June 17. You have stated this is not a real election. Why do you say that? Hamid Taqvaee: Actually by any standards, these cannot be called elections. The first reason is that in…

International TV interview with Mohsen Ebrahimi May 22, 2005 Maryam Namazie: Condoleezza Rice was recently in Iraq in order to encourage the ‘newly elected’ government to include more Sunnis in the drafting of the constitution because she claims it will end the ‘insurgency’. Is this a step forward in your opinion? Mohsen Ebrahimi: It is…

International TV interview with Hamid Taqvaee May 22, 2005 Maryam Namazie: There is a debate on the open democracy website entitled ‘Iran between democracy and revolution’. The debate has been started by Mohsen Sazegara who was part of Khomeini’s inner sanctum. He had a key role in creating the notorious Revolutionary Guards, the Islamic Pasdaran,…

International TV interview with Bahram Soroush and Fariborz Pooya May 2, 2005 Maryam Namazie: Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London, has published a dossier called ‘Why the Mayor of London Will Maintain Dialogues with All of London’s Faiths and Communities’. Basically, this report is in response to a criticism of his love affair with Qaradawi…

The USA, Political Islam and 21st Century Humanity Maryam Namazie Message to Women from Iraq & Iran: Visionaries for Peace in the 21st Century Conference Westfield State College Westfield, Massachusetts, USA April 14-17, 2005 I know that peace in the 21st century can often be difficult to envision especially when we – our lives, our…

International TV interview with Ali Javadi August 9, 2004 Maryam Namazie: Iran has angered USA and European countries by re-starting parts of its nuclear program and refusing to abandon efforts to master uranium enrichment. Iran has declared that threats to send its nuclear case to the U.N. Security Council will not make it drop its…

International TV interview with Azar Majedi November 7, 2004 Maryam Namazie: Theo van Gogh, a film director and journalist, was assassinated in broad daylight in Amsterdam on November 2. He was repeatedly stabbed and his throat slit. They say his assassin has “radical Islamic fundamentalist convictions”. There is a debate on whether this is the…