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Last week saw the biggest movement of strikes and demonstrations by public sector workers since the defeat of the movement over pensions in 2003.

The LCR has raised 350,00 Euros in just six months.

Respect, the new left coalition in Britain formed out of the anti-war movement, held a well-attended day-school to prepare its general election intervention on Saturday January 15 in London. It was attended by well over a hundred people, many of them local organisers of Respect.

This is a moment of unbearable sorrow and despair. People have nowhere to turn, in particular the fishing folk along coastal lines. In those regions Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim poor people have been made destitute. The tsunami disaster has no doubt opened the eyes of people throughout the world. There is mass sympathy and rethinking on our common human future. But behind this wave of sympathy there are vultures circulating, waiting for an opportunity to grab the flesh of the poor.

Sri Lankan New Left Front condemns the induction of foreign troops to Sri Lanka under cover of relief and rescue operations.

Many thousands of people have been killed and over 2.5 million people displaced by the deadly Tsunamis that swept across South East Asia, hitting Sri Lanka the hardest. Many of our comrades including trade union members have been definitely affected in coastal areas.

Global capital and its ruling organizations failed miserably in this tsunami disaster to warn us in time.

CADTM France, urged "total cancellation of the
external debt" of countries devastated by the tsunami.

Over twenty thousand anti-globalisation activists from across Europe descended on Alexandra Palace for the Third European Social Forum.