Category: News
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One-finger response to ISIS (Islamic State)
ISIS has a one-finger salute. Here’s Maryam Namazie and Fariborz Pooya’s One-finger response to ISIS (Islamic State)
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Maryam Namazie tears ISIS flag
At the World Humanist Congress this weekend, I urged Humanists to stop self-flagellating and called on them to focus on the fascists of our era – the Islamists – rather than looking inwards to the so-called “aggressive atheists”. It’s during a question and answer period with Richard Dawkins where I also mention his contribution to…
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ISIS is the fascism of our times
داعش فاشىسم اين دوره در دفاع از مردم کردستان عراق و سينجار ISIS is fascism of our time In support of people of Sinjar 8 August 2014
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The lives of thousands of people in Iraqi Kurdistan are in danger
Statement by the Worker-communist Party of Iran Following the atrocities of the barbaric Islamic terrorist group ISIS in Iraq, thousands of people have fled to the mountains from fear of this group, and are in danger of dying. In the past five days, areas to the east of Mosul, including the town of Shangal, have…
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We are all anti-ISIS
ISIS is the banner of this era’s fascism. We are all anti-Fascists; we are all anti-ISIS. #UniteforSinjar
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2 August: Campaign for the release of Reza Shahabi, Behnam Ebrahimzadeh and Shahrokh Zamani
Solidarity pickets have been organised in Sydney, London, Birmingham, Frankfurt, Berlin, Koln, Oslo, Toronto and Gothenburg. Reza Shahabi, a member of the executive board of the Union of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs United Bus Company (Vahed), has been jailed for his part in the great bus workers’ strike in 2006 and in forming the…
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With the People of Israel and Palestine Against the War of Terrorists!
Since 8 July, the Israeli military has killed nearly 1,400 Palestinians, a majority of whom have been civilians. It has wounded 8000 people. 3 Israeli civilians have been killed along with 56 Israeli soldiers during this time. At least 15 women and children have been killed when the Israeli state hit a UN-run school and…
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Equality and Human Rights Commission rules that gender segregation is unlawful
Press Release 23 July 2014 One Law for All, Southall Black Sisters, the Centre for Secular Space, and the LSESU Atheist Secularist Society have welcomed the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) ruling against gender segregation in universities and students’ unions. On 17 July, the EHRC published its guidance on gender segregation, stating that: “Gender…
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We must break hold of pro-Islamist lobby on the Law Society
Please see an open letter to the leading Pakistani lawyer Asma Jahangir about her forthcoming talk at the Law Society, which has endorsed sharia-compliant wills. Dear Asma Jahangir, We are writing to you regarding your forthcoming conversation at the Law Society on Law, Gender and Religion on the 30th July. We are very pleased you…
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Moroccan activists defying fasting rules beaten; Join 20 July International Day to Defy Fasting Rules
On July 19th at 7.30pm, the Alternative Movement for Individual Liberties (M.A.L.I.) and the Council of Ex-Muslims of Morocco held a sit-in in front of the parliament in Rabat, Morocco for the International Day to Defy Fasting Rules. The sit in denounced the violation of freedom of conscience and called on the Moroccan government to repeal Article…
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پليس به روزه خواران مراکشى حمله کرد٬ به روز بين لمللى روزه خوارى بپيونديد
در ۱۹ ژوئیه در 07:30، جنبش آلترناتيو برای آزادی های فردی و شورای اکس مسلم از مراکش به تحصن در مقابل مجلس در رباط برای روز بین المللی روزه خوارى تحصن کردند و نقض آزادی عقیده را محکوم کردند وخواستار لغو قانون 222 از قانون مجازات که با کنوانسیون های بین المللی حقوق بشر ناسازگار شدند. قانون 222 می گوید: “یک فرد معمولا شناخته شده…
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20 July: Intl Day to defy fasting rules
The Bread and Roses team will be at Hyde Park across from Serpentine cafe at 1pm on Sunday 20 July to defy fasting rules during Ramadan in solidarity with the many beaten, harassed, flogged and arrested for eating and drinking during Ramadan in Iran and elsewhere.You can either join our picnic if you are close…