All the articles
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Something’s got to give
14 June 2019 - by Amandla Editorial
The election of a new government should be a time of celebration. 25 years since the end of Apartheid should be the time of immense celebration. Yet, 25 years since the “dawn of democracy” and South Africans are engulfed by extreme forms of anger, disillusionment and alienation. 22 million adults of voting age are so alienated that they did not (...) -
Chase those crazy baldheads out of town: Resisting the rise of authoritarianism in occupied Haiti
12 June 2019 - by Kolektif Anakawona
Editorial Statement: As protesters prepare for another manifestation on Sunday, June 9, LeftEast publishes this piece on the current events in Haiti by the Anakawona Collective in cooperation with Commune. “To change things, we need to be outraged./ If we are outraged, we will organize./ If we are organized, we will become stronger./ If we are (...) -
The Sudanese revolution is our honour! Down with the Transitional Military Council!
6 June 2019 - by CADTM International
Since mid-December 2018, Sudan has been going through a major popular uprising. The social explosion has been driven by poverty, precarious living conditions and unemployment (which strongly affects young people, as elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa). It was triggered by the record inflation that pushed up the price of basic (...) -
Lonmin’s murder, by money
6 June 2019 - by Patrick Bond
Autopsy reveals Lonmin—the British-South African company—corpse’s poisoning by microfinance, ‘development finance’ and corporate finance. The death of the 110-year old mining house Lonmin at a London shareholders meeting on 28 May occurred not through bankruptcy or nationalisation, as would have been logical at various points in time. It was the (...) -
Call for mobilization to defend our alternatives against the G7
6 June 2019 - by Alternatives G7
France is the host country of the next G7 meeting to be held in Biarritz from 24 to 26 August 2019. For decades, the G7 has played the role of an economic and financial directorate alongside the IMF, the WTO and the World Bank. Today, it is the space where seven of the world’s greatest economic powers and the European Commission come (...) -
Series: 1944-2019, 75 years of interference from the World Bank and the IMF (Part 10)
The World Bank’s support of the dictatorship in Turkey (1980-1983)
3 June 2019 - by Eric Toussaint
In 2019, the World Bank (WB) and the IMF will be 75 years old. These two international financial institutions (IFI), founded in 1944, are dominated by the USA and a few allied major powers who work to generalize policies that run counter the interests of the world’s populations. The WB and the IMF have systematically made loans to States as (...) -
Global Sovereign Debt Monitor 2019
29 May 2019 - by Erlassjahr.de, Jürgen Kaiser
Currently, 122 out of 154 countries examined are critically in debt, just under 80 per cent. The situation is particularly alarming in Bhutan, Mongolia, Gambia, Cape Verde Islands, Jamaica, Bahrain and Lebanon. In almost three-quarters of the 122 critically indebted countries, the majority of debt indicators has worsened over the last years. (...) -
Explaining gender violence in the neoliberal era
27 May 2019 - by Tithi Bhattacharya
Let us begin with an image: a naked white man pursuing a low-wage Black female asylum seeker down the corridors of an expensive Manhattan hotel in order to force her to have sex with him. The man, of course, is the then-director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and the woman, (...) -
Debt is the Hidden Issue in These Elections
26 May 2019 - by UndebtedWorld
The citizens of the European Union are called to vote this week for the European Parliament. It is not a real parliament, and it lacks prospects for becoming one, since all important decisions are taken by the unelected heads of the European Commission and the European Central Bank, dubbed “the worst-run Central Bank in the world”. These (...) -
ReCommonsEurope: Manifesto for a New Popular Internationalism in Europe
26 May 2019 - by Eric Toussaint, Esther Vivas , Catherine Samary, Costas Lapavitsas, Stathis Kouvelakis, Tijana Okic, Nathan Legrand, Alexis Cukier, Jeanne Chevalier, Yayo Herrero
This text is the short version of the “Manifesto for a New Popular Internationalism in Europe”, which was published on 21 March 21 2019 in English, French and Spanish. This Manifesto has been drawn up by a group of activists and researchers from a dozen or so countries in Europe who wish to propose a blueprint to be carried out by the popular (...) -
Inequality and risk – both rising
23 May 2019 - by Michael Roberts
The US Federal Reserve governor Lael Brainard, in a speech in Washington, revealed the extent of rising inequality in the US. Using the latest income and wealth data, she outlined that the incomes and wealth of working-class (the American establishments like to use ‘middle-class’) households in the US have been squeezed in the last 50 years and (...) -
21 May Global #AntiChevron Day
Open Letter to Ecuador on the Chevron Case
23 May 2019 - by Collective
Mr. Lenín Boltaire Moreno Garcés President of the Republic of Ecuador 21 May 2019 Regarding the Chevron-Texaco Case in Ecuador Mr. President, We who belong to many international civil society social organizations and networks who are committed to human rights and social, economic and environmental justice are writing to you because we are (...) -
Massive Mobilisation of the International Civil Society on the Global Anti-Chevron Day #AntiChevron
22 May 2019 - by Collective
Press release Amsterdam/Geneva/Quito May 21st 2019 268 organisations, networks, social movements and trade unions from different continents, representing more than 280 millions of persons, are mobilised to denounce the Chevron’s impunity in Ecuador and ask the president of Ecuador to support the Chevron case in favour of the indigenous and (...) -
Series: 1944-2019, 75 years of interference from the World Bank and the IMF (Part 9)
The World Bank and the Philippines
22 May 2019 - by Eric Toussaint
In 2019, the World Bank (WB) and the IMF will be 75 years old. These two international financial institutions (IFI), founded in 1944, are dominated by the USA and a few allied major powers who work to generalize policies that run counter the interests of the world’s populations. The WB and the IMF have systematically made loans to States as (...) -
China’s Corporate Debt: On the Way to Crisis? Part 3
Challenges Posed by Recent Shifts in the Composition of Chinese debt
21 May 2019 - by Alice Jetin Duceux
As we have seen in the previous part of this study, despite the government’s spectacular stimulus plan, growth has been continually slowing over the past decade. Massive investment and growing corporate debt can no longer maintain a high rate of growth. Some party leaders have euphemistically dubbed this trend the “new normal”. Slower growth is (...) -
Debt is the Hidden Issue in These Elections
21 May 2019 - by UndebtedWorld
The citizens of the European Union are called to vote this week for the European Parliament. It is not a real parliament, and it lacks prospects for becoming one, since all important decisions are taken by the unelected heads of the European Commission and the European Central Bank, dubbed “the worst-run Central Bank in the world”. These (...) -
If Politicians Can’t Face Climate Change, Extinction Rebellion Will
21 May 2019 - by David Graeber
A new movement is demanding solutions. They may just be in time to save the planet. On April 15, thousands of activists from a movement called Extinction Rebellion started occupying several sites in central London, shutting down major roads and demanding the country’s politicians take immediate, drastic action in the face of climate change. (...) -
Feminism and ecology: the same struggle? – The shaping of ecofeminism
13 May 2019 - by Marijke Colle
The ecofeminist movement was born a few decades ago from the observation that there is an analogy between the exploitation of women and the exploitation of nature. In the current context of urgency and collapse and as the concept of the convergence of struggles resurfaces, interest in this feminist movement is resurfacing. For Marijke Colle, (...) -
Series: 1944-2019, 75 years of interference from the World Bank and the IMF (Part 8)
World Bank and IMF support to dictatorships
6 May 2019 - by Eric Toussaint
In 2019, the World Bank (WB) and the IMF will be 75 years old. These two international financial institutions (IFI), founded in 1944, are dominated by the USA and a few allied major powers who work to generalize policies that run counter the interests of the world’s populations. The WB and the IMF have systematically made loans to States as (...) -
South Africa: Resistance and Research for Alternatives to Illegitimate Debt and for Ecosocialism
3 May 2019 - by Eric Toussaint
Report on the CADTM International mission to South Africa 31 March – 12 April 2019, part 2. First part available here Wednesday 3 April: Cape town and Cape of Good Hope: highly visible social and racial segregation The fourth day was spent seeing Cape Town and its region out to Cape of Good Hope about 70 km (55 miles) away. This time (...)
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