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At the beginning of May, the Red-Green Alliance, an organization of 4 000 members which includes practically all the currents of the Danish radical and ant-capitalist left, held its annual national conference.

The populist demagogy used in this campaign will lead to anti-social,
repressive and antidemocratic measures, which will undoubtedly
provoke very broad resistance and struggles.

In a vicious act of class reprisal Ignacio del Valle Medina, Felipe Alvarez Hernández and Héctor Galindo Gochicua, leaders of the Peoples Front for the Defense of the Land in Atenco, were sentenced on Saturday 5 May to 67 years 6 months jail each for the events in Atenco in early May 2006.

The General Secretary of the Labour Party Pakistan, Farooq Tariq, was arrested from his Lahore office by a heavy contingent of Punjab Police at 1:30 p.m on Friday 4 May.

Declaration made by Olivier Besancenot after the first results of the French presidential election were announced.

Four thousand people crammed in to the Mutualité meeting hall on April 18 to hear Olivier Besancenot, despite the rally falling in the school holiday period. A giant screen was erected outside the hall so that several hundred people who couldn’t find places inside the hall could follow the meeting.

Hundreds of ultra-exploited brick kiln workers are on strike in the Nesher Feroz district of Sind province - for better wages, and against bonded labour servitude.

The plenary meeting of the International Committee of the Fourth International took place in the Netherlands in February.

Labour Party Pakistan has postponed its scheduled three days congress. The congress was due to be held from 24-26th March at Lahore. This is to join the mass movement against the military regime.

On March 18 in Russia national rallies in solidarity with fighting unions were called by Ford union leader Alexei Etmanov. In St. Petersburg, Samara, Voronezh, and Surgut there were rallies organised by the unions and left groups.