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The market : the new faith

10 May 2010 - by Eric Toussaint

Practically all political leaders - whether from the traditional Left or the Right, from the North or the South - have a quasi-religious faith in the market, especially the financial markets. Or rather, they themselves are the high priests of (...)
Hopenhagen, hypocrisy and Coca-Cola

29 December 2009 - by Farooq Sulehria

India’s leading environmentalist, Vandana Shiva had her ’’heart just sank’’ as she got off the flight at Copenhagen airport, when the first thing she ’’saw was a Coca-Cola bottle’’ as sponsor for ’’Hopenhagen’’. Sponsored by notorious corporate giants, (...)
UK Film Screening Features Panel with Leading Voices on World Poverty

28 November 2009 - by Share The World’s Resources

Press release: The British Film Institute and Share The World’s Resources will be screening the award winning documentary ‘The End of Poverty?’ at the BFI Southbank on 12th December 2009 at 2pm. UK Film Screening Features Panel with Leading (...)
USA. Heads, they win and the people lose. Tails... they continue winning and the people paying.

9 November 2009 - by Daniel Munevar

During recent weeks the press has abounded with comments on the anniversary of the major events of the financial crisis of 2008. Among those significant events that have attracted more press coverage are the fall of Lehman Brothers coupled with (...)
In the South as well as the North: from the Great Transformation in the 1980s to the current crisis

1 October 2009 - by Eric Toussaint

After World War II, there was a period of strong economic growth in the North in the 1950s and 60s (the “thirty-year boom”), which enabled workers to improve their social conditions significantly. They fought to obtain a major increase in buying (...)
Series: A Glance in the Rear View Mirror to Understand the Present

From Friedman and Hayek to Greenspan passing through the duo World Bank-IMF: Neo-liberal dogmas

30 September 2009 - by Eric Toussaint

Series: A Glance in the Rear View Mirror to Understand the Present (Part 6 [1]) From Friedman and Hayek to Greenspan passing through the duo World Bank-IMF: Neo-liberal dogmas The neo-liberal current made the University of Chicago one of its (...)
Criminalisation of social movements and poverty: a feminist outlook

21 July 2009 - by Tárzia Medeiros

The headway made by globalised capitalism, especially in Latin America, has set this region in the eye of the hurricane of social protest and the convergence of different anticapitalist struggles. A few years ago, sectors of the anticapitalist (...)
Series: A Glance in the Rear View Mirror to Understand the Present (Part 5)

Keynesian Revolution and neo-liberal Counter-revolution

15 July 2009 - by Eric Toussaint

As a result of the depression of the 1920s and 1930s, a new wave of critics tackled the neo-classical creed on a largely pragmatic basis. This new wave was international and involved political leaders and economists from differing belonging to (...)
Keynes: A Man for this Season?

10 July 2009 - by Walden Bello

One of the most significant consequences of the collapse of neoliberal economics, with its worship of the “self-regulating market,” has been the revival of the great English economist John Maynard Keynes. Not only do his writings make Keynes (...)
Series: A Glance in the Rear View Mirror to Understand the Present (Part 4)

The 1970s: Liberal ideology returned with a vengeance

25 June 2009 - by Eric Toussaint

The 1970s: Liberal ideology returned with a vengeance (Part 4) Liberal ideology returned with a vengeance in the 1970s, in response to the economic crisis in the main industrialised capitalist countries. The crisis marked the beginning of a (...)
Series: A Glance in the Rear View Mirror to Understand the Present (Part 3)

The 1930s to the 1970s: liberalism eclipsed Eric Toussaint

19 June 2009 - by Eric Toussaint

Although a strong influence throughout the nineteenth and first third of the twentieth century, liberal thinking was eclipsed for the long period that lasted from the middle of the 1930s to the end of the 1970s . Yet during the 1920s (...)
Peru: Why are the indigenous peoples protesting?

16 June 2009 - by Forúm solidaridad Perú

• The Peruvian Amazon is inhabited by over 50 different ethnic groups. • Each ethnic group has a close tie to the territory it inhabits. The indigenous peoples and the territory that belongs to them. They are inseparable. For the indigenous (...)
A Glance in the Rear View Mirror to Understand the Present (Part 2)

Neo-liberal ideology is a hard nut to crack

13 June 2009 - by Eric Toussaint

neo-liberal ideology has conquered so many of our collective representations that it has largely dominated political and economic thinking over the last three decades. Although it is currently questioned, it is still deeply embedded in the minds (...)
Pakistan is not out of the woods

4 May 2009 - by Abdul Khaliq

Almost a year ago in August 2008, Pakistan was at the brink of default. Its foreign exchange reserves were hitting the bottom rock of $4 billion, depleting rapidly in the range of $250 to $330 million weekly, which were hardly sufficient to (...)
Bangladesh: our sovereignity is not for sell out to IFI’s

9 March 2009 - by Equity and Justice

Summary During last couple of weeks in January 2009, there was news coverage in the country’s major print media that the representatives of WB and IMF (World Bank and International Monetary Fund) would visit Bangladesh sometime in February to (...)
Which Crises? What are the responses from the South?

5 January 2009 - by Eric Toussaint

Transcription of the video entitled: “Global and original analysis of the crises that are shaking the world today.”
Which development facing poverty?

24 September 2008 - by Nicolás Angulo Sanchez

When we speak of human development and the reduction of poverty, we must not refer to the unleashed consumption of goods (from cars, computers, increasingly powerful cell phones down to an almost unlimited variety of any product), but to the (...)
Thousands demonstrate against neo liberal agenda and price hike in Pakistan

7 June 2008 - by Farooq Tariq

Over 3000 activists and supporters of Labour Party Pakistan took part in rally at Lahore against the ongoing neo liberal policies of present Pakistan People’s Party government. They were chanting slogans against the price hike, American (...)
Poverty and Development

26 May 2008 - by Nicolás Angulo Sanchez

There is a narrow and reciprocal relation between the reduction of poverty, development and human rights, because human development consists in the fulfillment of human rights and therefore, in the progressive reduction of poverty. Human (...)
Against Sectarian Violence and Its Neoliberal Roots: A Call for a Citzen’s Lebanon

13 May 2008 - by Attac Lebanon

Attac Lebanon’s analysis of the current dramatic escalation of violence in the streets of Beirut The violence in the streets of Beirut is the climax of verbal sniping and attacks that has been accumulated for the past 2 years even faster than (...)
The 2008 International Critics’ Week at the Cannes festival selected Philippe Diaz’ movie The End of Poverty ?

With so much wealth in the world, how is it possible that there should be so much poverty ? The end of poverty ? takes us back to the beginning of the modern age, which is also the beginning of the colonial period, to understand not just when (...)
Evo Morales’ 10 Commandments to save the Planet

Bolivian President Evo Morales said today that to save the planet requires putting an end to the capitalist model and for the North to pay its Ecological Debt. This was the first of 10 points presented by Morales at the inauguration of the UN’s (...)
CONSTITUTIONAL ASSEMBLY NEVER AGAIN (NUNCA MAS) FOREIGN MILITARY BASES OR TROOPS IN ECUADOR

3 April 2008 - by Helga Serrano N.

The National Assembly that is writing a new Constitution for Ecuador approved the following article on April 1, 2008: “Ecuador is a territory of peace. No foreign military bases or foreign installations for military purposes may be installed. (...)
International petition

Speculation and collapse : enough !

Freedom for finance is destroying society. Every day, in both North and South, shareholders silently pressure firms and workers to extract higher and higher returns. The situation becomes dramatically visible when major crises display the (...)
Succesful international action of civil non violent disobedience « Nato Game Over » on March 22^th 2008 at NATO headquarters in Brussels

24 March 2008 - by CADTM Belgium

Saturday March 22th at ten days from the next NATO’ summit in Bucarest, 450 demonstrators from 17 European countries opposing the war logical sustained by NATO were jailed for several hours (from 6 to 10 hours) at Brussels law Courts. Among them (...)