The World Economic Forum is taking place in Davos, Switzerland from January 21 to 25: WEF draws world leaders to Davos. (Hat tip: Baldy.)

Last year the Davos meeting was the scene of a gigantic antisemitic and anti-American Moronic Convergence, and with Paul Bremer and John Ashcroft attending, this year’s event may drive the Euroleft into a serious psychotic episode:

On Tuesday anti-globalisation groups in Switzerland called for further protests against US policy in Iraq.

They plan to host a one-day conference in Zurich on Saturday ahead of the annual gathering of the WEF.

Other issues on the agenda at “The Other Davos” include plans to demonstrate against cuts in social security spending.

Alessandro Polizzari, secretary of Attac Switzerland and the event’s coordinator, said around 1,000 people representing 50 organisations were expected to attend.

British author Tariq Ali and the American economist, David Harvey, have been invited to take part.

The theme for this year’s event is “The globalisation of violence – Imperialism and global dispossession”.

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