Islam
Demonstration over death in Plumstead
On Sunday, while the media was focused on the protests at the Danish embassy, another protest involving the Somali community in London was occurring, ignored by almost all media sources.
The robbers who shot dead WPC Sharon Sharon Beshenivsky in Bradford last year, allegedly have links to the Somali community in the Woolwich/Plumstead area. The local youths have accused the cops of being out for revenge and running a racist vendetta against them. On January 10th Police raided a house in Plumstead looking for a suspect.
The Trouble with Islam
Over 130 years ago the anarchist Micheal Bakunin wrote "I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him." Writing of the Christian churches in Europe, he said "In talking to us of God they propose, they desire, to elevate us, emancipate us, ennoble us, and, on the contrary, they crush and degrade us.
Mutiny in Banja Luka, Bosnia - ICG
As our text on the war in Yugoslavia and the struggles taken up by the proletariat against the permanent degradation of their conditions of life went to press mutinies broke out in certain sectors of the Serbian army, confirming that even in the worst situation of counter-revolution our class continues to be the only viable alternative to the horrors of capitalism.
From Communism #9, September 1993
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'Terrorism': bad language?
Mairtin O'Cathain reflects on uncritical use of the word terrorist by many on the left, including anarchists and libertarian communists (and Organise! for that matter) and examines the meaning of the words Terror and Terrorism.
From a term applied to the exercise of violence by the state to one that is used to identify the enemies of the state these are now among the most politically loaded words in the English language.
On September 11 and "Against the Double Tragedy"
{Note: Looking back over this, I regret only one phrase, which I think is survivable as this was written immediately after the establishment of the suicide bombers as members of al-Qaeda. Even so the phrasing is poor. Chris Wright, November 29 2005.}
Can a Muslim Be an Indian? - Gyanendra Pandey
Can a Muslim Be an Indian?
GYANENDRA PANDEY
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