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In defence of nude protest

Azar Majedi of the Organisation of Women’s Liberation – Iran has attacked the Nude Photo Revolutionary Calendar and supporting video of Iranian women as being

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You can be against both

Interview with Hamid Taqvaee, leader of the Worker-Communist Party of Iran which aired on TV International English. Maryam Namazie: There is an escalating propaganda war

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Women are women

It is crucial to speak about the rights of ‘Muslim’ women, go beyond the issue of the veil, and talk about secularism, particularly in light

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Good for everybody

Interview with Hamid Taqvaee, leader of the Worker-Communist Party of Iran which aired on TV International English. Maryam Namazie: You wrote the Manifesto of the

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Rights trump culture & religion

Cultural relativism and its more seemingly palatable multiculturalism have lowered standards and redefined values to such depths that not only are all cultures and beliefs

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The new totalitarianism

MANIFESTO: After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new totalitarian global threat: Islamism. We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance

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The Age of Secularism

Speech given at the British Humanist Association conference held during June 10-12, 2005. Iranian New Year in March is a celebration of the first day

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Heads or tails

Message to 'Women from Iraq & Iran: Visionaries for Peace in the 21st Century Conference', Westfield State College, Westfield Massachusetts, April 14-17, 2005. I know

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Workers show muscle

Interview with UK-based civil rights activist Bahram Soroush which was broadcast on International TV. Fariborz Pooya is hosting in place of Maryam Namazie until further

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Not the last

Transcript of an interview with Azar Majedi which was broadcast on International TV on November 7, 2004. Majedi is the head of the Organisation for

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Release Izadi now!

Maryam Kousha is editor of the English bi-weekly publication of the Organisation for Women's Liberation. The interview aired on International TV October 24, 2004. Maryam

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Saying no

When you think about apartheid, you can't help but remember the anti-apartheid movement of the 70s and 80s. At the time, there was hardly anyone

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Against a nuclear Iran

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

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No, she was not mad

Sixteen-year-old Ateqeh Rajabi was publicly hanged in the city centre in Neka in the northern Iranian province of Mazandaran on 15 August for “acts incompatible

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No can do

Imagine at a synagogue somewhere in London. Jews are working together to send out £1m worth of books, DVDs and videos about Judaism and the

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Taming the turban

Transcript of a program on TV International English which aired July 26, 2004. Maryam Namazie: George Bush has pledged that if re-elected he will bring

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Rights vs. religion

Transcript of a program on TV International English which aired July 26, 2004. Maryam Namazie: We received an email from an irate “concerned happy Muslim

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Hejab ban?

Transcript of a program on TV International English which aired July 12, 2004. Maryam Namazie: The recent European Human Rights Court's decision in support of

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Freedoom for fundamentalists?

Interview with Fariborz Pooya and Bahram Soroush on TV International English on July 12. Maryam Namazie: I want to start by discussing Qaradawi's visit to

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Saving children from the chador

A ban on conspicuous religious symbols in state schools and state institutions has caused heated debate regarding secularism vs. religious freedoms giving us the opportunity

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Two thumbs down

June 28th interview with Bahram Soroush, a UK-based civil rights activist, on Islamophobia. The interview was aired on TV International English. Maryam Namazie: One Islamic

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Wider goal

Transcript of interview on TV International conducted by Fariborz Pooya while host Maryam Namazie is away until end of March. The guest, Hamid Taqvaee, is

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