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3 October 2018
Indonesia tsunami - a disaster compounded by capitalism
This horrific catastrophe also poses urgent questions over the failure of the Indonesian authorities to warn the population, and not to have a disaster relief plan in place
7 March 2018
Japan - toxic legacy of the Fukushima disaster
The magnitude 9 Tohoku earthquake of March 2011 was powerful enough to move the largest island of Japan 2.4 metres east. The tsunami which followed sparked the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. 15,000 lives were lost.
Fukushima I courtesy of Digital Globe
23 March 2011
After Japan's tsunami disaster -: The earthquake off Japan's east coast and the giant tsunami wave that followed on 11 March has, at the time of writing, officially killed over 8,500 people with another 13,000 people still missing...
Japan: earthquake and tsunami: an aerial view of tsunami damage in Tōhoku, photo from Wikipedia
16 March 2011
Japan: Tsunami results in misery for millions
As we go to press the horrendous tsunami and earthquakes have claimed an estimated 3,000 lives in Japan. The final toll could be tens of thousands...
10 March 2010
Chile earthquake: Natural disaster, state catastrophe
ON 27 February a powerful earthquake and the tsunami which followed, devastated the Chilean city of Concepcion and the surrounding area...
19 January 2006
One year on... where is the relief?
Sri Lanka: The tsunami legacy: WORKING PEOPLE around the world gave generously in order to support the victims of the 2004 tsunami - well before their respective governments began to release their statements of sympathy...
24 November 2005
Big gains for United Socialist Party
SRI LANKA'S presidential election was held against the backdrop of a faltering three-year ceasefire between the government and separatist Tamil Tigers (LTTE), a badly performing economy, and a population sti...
30 June 2005
Sri Lanka: The struggle for survival and justice goes on
THE PEOPLE in Sri Lanka who lost everything in the tsunami disaster of 26 December are still left with nothing...
14 April 2005
Three months after the tsunami, government inaction fuels the flame
of protest
Peter Taaffe, General Secretary of the Socialist Party (England and Wales) and member of the CWI International Secretariat, recently returned to London from Sri Lanka. ...
19 March 2005
'Third World Debt' - who gains from Brown's plans?
GORDON BROWN urged activists at Labour's Scottish conference to join the July demonstration demanding global justice at the Edinburgh G8 summit...
5 March 2005
Tsunami relief - the failure of capitalism
JIM HENSMAN, a long-time Socialist Party member from Coventry, was visiting family and friends in Sri Lanka when the tsunami hit...
12 February 2005
Socialism can 'make poverty history'
TENS OF thousands of people, many of them young, filled Trafalgar Square on 3 February...
5 February 2005
After the tsunami: Victims treated like beggars
AS WE arrived back in the eastern part of Sri Lanka, a graveyard silence greeted us - scores of eyes tired of crying for their kith and kin taken by the killer tsunami...
29 January 2005
Poverty adds to chaos in Aceh and Sri Lanka
ONE MONTH after the tsunami disaster struck the coasts of the Indian Ocean the costs are still being counted...
22 January 2005
USP campaigns for democratic relief and reconstruction programme: THE GROTESQUE picture of devastation is slowly emerging and haunting us. In the context of 40,000 reported deaths in Sri Lanka, the United Socialist...
22 January 2005
Aceh: Indonesian military sabotage relief work
THE CATASTROPHIC effects of the tsunami in Aceh on the northern edge of Sumatra, Indonesia, have been made worse by a lack of relief coordination, bureaucracy, corruption, and the continued Indonesian 'state of emergenc...
22 January 2005
Tsunami early warning - the failure of capitalism
CAPITALIST GOVERNMENTS worldwide are now promising to set up an Indian Ocean tsunami early warning network by 2006, for as little as $20 million-$30 million...
15 January 2005
Sri Lanka after the tsunami - opportunities and tensions
FOLLOWING THE tsunami in Sri Lanka, more than 40,000 people have lost their lives and there are about 800,000 refugees...
15 January 2005
Action needed on global warming
THE TSUNAMI disaster highlighted the dangers of coastal communities being inundated due to cyclones, floods and extreme weather events...
15 January 2005
Tsunami disaster: Will the West's aid ever arrive?
THE GENEROUS response of people worldwide to the plight of the tsunami victims is a graphic example of human solidarity and internationalism...
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