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• Remembering Ahmed Ben Bella, first President of independent Algeria who passed away on the 11th April, 2012 at 96

  
  by Eric Toussaint

  14 April 2012

  Ahmed Ben Bella had spent more than 21 years of his life in jail: 6 years in French prisons (1956-1962) and 15 years after he was overthrown in Algeria on 19 June 1965 by a military coup led by Colonel Houari Boumedienne. I will straightaway recall some personal memories. Between 1994 and 2005 I met Ahmed Ben Bella on several occasions. The first time was in Geneva in 1994 at a lecture I had given on the issue of Third World debt. He spoke up from the audience without any ado, focusing on (...)

• Eleftherotypia’s Workers are back with their own newspaper !

  
  by Moissis Litsis

  15 February 2012

  Here it is ! Done ! The workers at Eleftherotypia, one of the biggest and most prestigious greek daily newspapers, go forward undertaking the great endeavour of editing their own newspaper “Workers at Eleftherotypia”! As from Wednesday, Feb. 15th, the kiosks all over the country are displaying one more newspaper next to the usual ones, a newspaper written by its own workers. A newspaper which does not only aim at bringing to the fore the fight of Eleftherotypia’s workers, but also seeks to be (...)

• Our AAA : Audit, Action, Abolition

  
  by Eric Toussaint, Damien Millet

  4 February 2012

  AAA… three letters that ring like a sardonic laugh denoting the top credit rating given by the ratings agencies. A company or a State with an AAA rating is considered credit-worthy by lenders and speculators and can borrow at more favourable rates. But to obtain – or maintain – this symbolic grade, European governments will go to any lengths, including the application of austerity policies that place their economies under the diktat of creditors. The AAA is a front that conceals social (...)

• G20 : They are taking us for a ride, we won’t pay their debt !

  
  by Pauline Imbach

  2 November 2011

  On the occasion of the 10th edition of the People’s Forum , the African counterpoint to the G20 Summit, close to 900 African activists are expected to come together in the Malian town of Niono. Whereas Ministers from the world’s 20 richest countries, Central Bank Governors and Heads of State will be meeting in Cannes on 3 and 4 November, to “restore confidence, support growth and the creation of jobs, and to maintain financial stability”, African citizens will be meeting and organizing (...)

• Declaration of the European Conference Against Austerity

  4 October 2011

  This European conference meets not a moment too soon. The peoples of Europe face an unprecedented social, political and economic crisis. Our governments are implementing the most savage spending cuts designed to destroy all the social gains of the post-war period. These will wreck the lives of millions by devastating jobs, pay, pensions, health, education and other services. The world financial crisis of 2008 was transformed into a crisis of state debt – nation states bailed out the (...)

• Anti-capitalism and environmentalism as a political alternative

  by Esther Vivas

  24 September 2011

  We cannot analyse the global ecological crisis separately from the crisis in which we are immersed or the critique of the economic model that has led us into it. The starting point for today’s debate is to note that humanity is in a global ecological crisis that is an intrinsic part of the systemic crisis of capitalism. And one of the differences from past economic crises, from that of the 1970s or the crash of 1929, is precisely its ecological aspect. Indeed, we cannot analyse the global (...)

• From the Global North to the Global South: debt in its many states (1st part)

  The debt in developing countries: a dangerous unconcern

  
  by Eric Toussaint

  7 January 2011

  Summary of the first part: Both in absolute figures and in percentage of their gross domestic product, industrialized countries are more highly indebted that developing countries. The crisis has different consequences in the North and in the South. The conjuncture seems to be temporarily favourable to governments of developing countries, but whether this situation can last depends on policies in China and industrialized countries. An unfavourable turn is possible. In such conditions the (...)

• CADTM AYNA Network holds Seminar entitled "Proposals and Social Alternatives Sovereign Debt Against"

  
  by Daniel Munevar

  22 October 2010

  The 16th and 17th of September of 2010, took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the Seminar "Sovereign and Social Alternatives Proposed Against Debt" organized by the CADTM AYNA Network. With the presence of more than 80 participants, the discussion allowed to analyze the recent trends in the evolution of public debt at the regional level and highlighted the importance of undertaking sovereign measures as a key tool in the fight against the system of the debt. The activities began with a (...)

• Presentation for the Joint Social Conference

  Public budgets, taxation, debt

  
  by Pascal Franchet

  27 September 2010

  Workshop: public budgets, taxation, debt Since the early 1980s, fiscal policies have favoured a neo-liberal orientation of the economy, directly inspired by the Chicago School. The various tax reforms have generated very significant declines in tax revenues whilst aggravating inequality, exacerbating primary balances, increasing the financing needs of States and inflating national public debts. Social resistance, although now less acute than in previous periods, has prevented a sharp (...)

• Speech by Eric Toussaint at the United Nations on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

  Despite the fact that the millennium goals are exceedingly modest, they will not even be achieved

  
  by Eric Toussaint

  27 September 2010

  See video _______________________ This speech was given at a special event of the General Assembly session of the United Nations in New York on 15 September 2010. I. Despite the fact that the millennium goals are exceedingly modest, they will not even be achieved. On a global level, the limited percentage decrease in the number of those living on less than $1.25 a day is the result of growth in China and India, countries which did not subscribe to the Washington Consensus. Humankind (...)

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