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Around Europe students from the Spanish state are taking the lead in organising camps and protests in solidarity with their compatriots.

Somyot Prueksakasemsuk is a well-known Thai labour activist and leading
member of the Red shirts movement. On the 30th of April, he was
arrested for the crime of Lèse Majesté by the Thai police. He is now in jail and the Thai court refused to release him on bail.

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The Inspector General of Police (IGP) of Sri Lanka Mahinda Balasuriya has promised rights activists that steps will be taken to investigate the attack on the NSSP general secretary, journalists and party members at the Katunayaka airport. The pledge came following a petition signed by many in Sri Lanka and elsewhere.

The Northeastern region of the Trade Union National Council (NTUC) of Japan, present in the affected areas, is playing an active role in organising solidarity with the earthquake and tsunami victims.

The dictator Gaddafi is resisting the heroic rebellious struggle of the people with bombs, bullets and mercenaries. His past confrontations with imperialism are nothing but ancient history. Almost 20 years ago Khadafi became a staunch ally of the interests of multinational oil companies, U.S. and European imperialism. His dictatorship prohibits the organisation of political parties, trade unions and students movements, with prison and torture for anyone who tries to express disagreement.

Francisco Louçã states that "the left which stands against military aggression can never accept the kind of violence which is being visited upon Libya ”.

The Libyan dictatorship’s brutal repression against the people’s revolution provides the best excuse for imperialist military intervention which has the effect of holding back the unfolding revolutionary process throughout the Arab world. The ‘no-fly’ zone decided by the UN Security Council has come after Gaddafi had been allowed to re-take a large part of the liberated area.

The Libyan population which rose against Gaddafi faces today an outburst of fatal violence. The dictator would like to drown the revolt in a blood bath. Our full and total solidarity goes to the Libyan people who should be given the means to defend themselves, the weapons which it needs to drive out the dictator, to conquer freedom and democracy.

Japan has faced one of the worst ever earthquakes, followed by a devastating tsunami and now a nuclear disaster one cannot yet estimate the gravity of…