All the articles
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Europe: No “LEXIT” without “Another Europe Possible” - based on struggles in/outside/against the EU
22 September 2016 - by Catherine Samary
Since the Greek trauma – both the neo-colonial diktat from the Euro-group and agreement by Tsipras to submit despite the popular OXI – the European radical left has debated “Plans B” without any strategic or tactical consensus. The referendum in the United Kingdom (UK) is the bitter illustration of this, without the anti-racist left opposed to the (...) -
Tata Mundra Project: Time to End World Bank Immunity
21 September 2016 - by Sushovan Dhar
Fisher-folks, farmers and marginal wage earners in Gujarat, India were shocked to hear about the US federal district court ruling in March this year that the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private lending arm of the World Bank Group, enjoys absolute immunity and therefore cannot be sued in the US. Earlier, Budha Ismail Jam and (...) -
Part 5 of the interview “History of the CADTM’s anti-debt Policies”
Greece: Leaders’ Ambivalence regarding debt and the financial system, even though resistance started on a promising note
20 September 2016 - by Eric Toussaint, Benjamin Lemoine
Interview with Eric Toussaint, spokesperson and co-founder of the international network of the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM). Interview by Benjamin Lemoine. |1| This interview presents the genealogy of the anti-debt struggle, the campaigns for debt cancellation, the empirical foundation, the political battles and the (...) -
World Bank Knew Agriculture Loans to Uzbekistan Support Forced Labor
19 September 2016 - by Sputnik News
World Bank has been aiding and abetting the Uzbek government’s gross human-rights abuses, which violates international law on responsibility of international organizations for financial complicity in international crimes, according to the report of the International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF). WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The World Bank may be in (...) -
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COP22 in Marrakech, Morocco: What strategy for the social movements facing climate change ?
15 September 2016 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc
Morocco is preparing to host the Conference of the Parties (COP22) on climate change in Marrakech between 7th and 18th November 2016. This conference is taking place in the context of a worsening ecological crisis, in itself a dimension of the crisis of civilisation that the capitalist system is going through. This year’s COP also comes at a (...) -
BRICS banking and the debate over sub-imperialism
15 September 2016 - by Patrick Bond
ABSTRACT: Notionally funded at $100 billion each, the BRICS Contingent Reserve Arrangement (CRA) and New Development Bank (NDB) represent ‘sub-imperial’ finance, insofar as by all indications they fit into – instead of providing alternatives to – the prevailing world systems of sovereign debt and project credits. If in Africa, for example, the (...) -
Greece: A Country for Sale
13 September 2016 - by Eleni Portaliou
The most persistent myth concerning Syriza’s capitulation to the troika is that it was a “forced choice.” To put it differently, “there was no alternative” to signing a third memorandum, given an extremely unfavorable balance of forces at a European and international level. This is the only seemingly rational argument Tsipras and his followers have (...) -
Investment chapters in Trade Agreements
13 September 2016 - by Piedad Mancero
Submitted at the World Social Forum by invitation of Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, - Berlin, Germany I. Background. Since the beginning of the millennium, public awareness of the costs and subjugation several countries in the region were suffering gradually emerged in Latin America. Those countries admitted recurring pressures for foreign (...) -
Philippines: Duterte’s Budget, Foreign Debts and Pork Barrel
12 September 2016 - by Business World, Freedom from Debt Coalition, YAP D. J.
MANILA, Philippines – The Duterte administration’s proposed 2017 national budget has allocated P6.13 billion in foreign debt service for 13 fraudulent, wasteful or useless loans, the Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) bared in a recent news release. Duterte’s budget allocates P.6.13B for questionable foreign debts “For all of the hoopla about (...) -
UNCTAD14: A mirage of distorting mirrors
12 September 2016 - by Yash Tandon
People not versed in the complexities of the diplomatic world of distorted mirror images in Geneva or Accra or Nairobi may wonder in awe at the agreements negotiated in their name by their representatives in multilateral forums like UNCTAD. But, truth be told, UNCTAD is in no position to deliver the mandate that it got in Nairobi. “I’m (...) -
No to WTO and Free Trade Agreements
’TTIP Stalls, WTO and FTAs Must Fall’
9 September 2016 - by La Via Campesina
On September the 10th, the International Day of Action Against WTO, La Via Campesina, the International Peasant Movement that brings together over 200 million peasants from 164 member organisations in 73 countries, commemorates the death of Lee Kyung Hae and continues to struggle to END WTO. Last year in Kenya, Nairobi at the 10th WTO (...) -
The USA’s repudiation of the debt demanded by Spain from Cuba in 1898: What about Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, etc.?
8 September 2016 - by Eric Toussaint
The USA declared war on Spain in the middle of 1898, and sent their navy and troops to “liberate” Cuba from the Spanish yoke. Spain was defeated and negotiations between the two countries began in Paris in order to reach a peace agreement, finally signed in December 1898. During these negotiations, the Spanish authorities defended the following (...) -
Tackling vulture funds: New UNHRC report demands a human rights approach
8 September 2016 - by Tiago Stichelmans
At its upcoming session on 20 September, the UN Human Rights Council will discuss a new report, coordinated by Jean Zielger, on the harmful activities of vulture funds and their impact on human rights. This report shows how vulture funds negatively impact human rights and gives recommendations on how the international community, as well as (...) -
Gabon: France calls for calm after 50 years of support to the Bongo regime
8 September 2016 - by Survie
Voting for the presidential election in Gabon took place on Saturday 27th August. While Ali Bongo seems to have lost the election, according to results produced by the opposition at the exit polls, he decided, as in 2009, to impose himself by force. Since Wednesday evening, various events were violently suppressed by military and police (...) -
Audita Sanidad – Audit Healthcare
7 September 2016 - by Audita Sanidad
The citizen working group on a healthcare debt audit “Audit Healthcare”, launched in April 2013 and based in Madrid, comprises of a group of citizens who hope to offer their fellow citizens and social movements a rigorous instrument to help estimate debt in public healthcare and identify what part is illegitimate in order to be able to declare (...) -
The IMF’s IEO Evaluation of the Greek Program: Going beyond a Mea Culpa?
7 September 2016 - by Daniel Munevar
The Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of the IMF recently published its report on the response of the organization to the European crisis. The analysis focuses on the performance of the IMF in the context of the programs for Greece, Portugal and Ireland. It provides a valuable insight into the conflicts within the IMF itself, and especially (...) -
“The New Green Revolution”
5 September 2016 - by Rémi Vilain
“Addressing extreme poverty and hunger around the world.” These are two goals that have not ceased to appear on “good-practicing and well-intentioned” international institutions’ agendas for several decades. If these objectives are really on the agenda - 800 million people suffer from hunger around the world, of which 2/3 are country people, and (...) -
The bleak anniversary of the 3rd Greek memorandum
1 September 2016 - by Anouk Renaud
The 13th July 2015 will from now on be considered to mark Greece’s surrender. On this date, the Syriza-Anel government led by Alexis Tsipras finalised an agreement with the European Union, which resulted in the official signing of a third memorandum on the 14th August 2015 - a true volte-face by the government with respect to its campaign (...) -
Changing Haiti with PAPDA’s Ricot Jean-Pierre
31 August 2016 - by Johanna Kougbeadjo
No social and political changes can be achieved without the men and women who dedicate their lives to the improvement of their communities’ living conditions. Ricot Jean-Pierre is one of them. As the program director of our partner the Platform to Advocate Alternative Development in Haiti (PAPDA), Ricot works restlessly to better the lives of (...) -
The coming collapse
30 August 2016 - by Renaud Duterme, Pablo Servigne
Western civilisation has allowed some groups of humans to possess material wealth as incredible as it is useless. This preying has been made possible through the free-exchange imposed on people, the pillaging of natural resources, the general commercialisation of all public goods, and the idolisation of technology and progress. Today, the (...)
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