the continuing debt crisis in the poorest countries. 19,000 children die every day as a result of the debt. The IMF and World Bank have heightened this crisis by imposing Structural Adjustment Programmes - these demand the privatisation of services and cuts in social spending. The G8 - the heads of the eight richest nations - are supporting the imposition of further attacks in the shape of GATS, the General Agreement on Trade and Services, which seeks to privatise health and social services across the whole world.
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the growing demand that the debt of the poorest nations is dropped. Since November 1999 in Seattle, every gathering of the World Trade Organisation, IMF, World Bank or heads of state has been met with large protests. These protests have spanned debt protesters, environmentalists, campaigners against privatisation and trade unionists.
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the formation of Globalise Resistance - an umbrella group brining together different strands of opposition to neo-liberal politics, from environmentalists to anti-privatisation campaigners and trade unionists.

that the debt of the poorest nations should be scrapped

that the drive to privatise services such as hospitals and schools should be stopped

that GATS should be stopped