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Declaration of the Assembly of Social Movements ESF

26 June 2006 - by Assembly of Social Movements

Declaration of the Assembly of the social movements during the 4th European Social Forum held in Athens, the 7th of May 2006.
Call from the Social Movements Assembly WSF

Call from the socials movements assembly held in the polycentric World Social Forum in Caracas, the 29th of january 2006.
Press release

Prevent A Man-Made Disaster: Cancel Indonesia’s Debt

Jubilee USA press release: Indonesia Requires Debt Cancellation to Rebuild after Earthquake.
International press

Whatever is the IMF to do about the US?

8 June 2006 - by Joseph Stiglitz

The IMF’s meeting this spring was lauded as a breakthrough, with officials given a new mandate for “surveillance” of the trade imbalances that contribute significantly to global instability. The new mission is crucially important, both for the (...)
GUINEA: Unions threaten indefinite strike

7 June 2006 - by IRIN

Guinea’s two most powerful trade unions have threatened to call an unlimited general strike from Thursday unless the government acts on demands issued two weeks ago. May fuel price rises, implemented in line with International Monetary Fund’s (...)
Stiglitz: Those Who Must Be Compensated Are the Bolivians, Not the Companies

6 June 2006 - by Rosa Rojas

The manner in which Bolivia negotiates with the affected companies will be the key factor, according to the financial organization. The failure of the neoliberal model imposed by the US is evident, maintains the Nobel laureate in (...)
Call for global actions against International Financial Institutions

At the 2nd South-North International Consultation on Resistance and Alternatives to Debt Domination, representatives of movements and organizations from more than 50 countries agreed on four joint initiatives for the coming years. One of these (...)
Call for global actions against International Financial Institutions

At the 2nd South-North International Consultation on Resistance and Alternatives to Debt Domination, representatives of movements and organizations from more than 50 countries agreed on four joint initiatives for the coming years. One of these (...)
Press Release

Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt calls for the end of the Paris Club

15 May 2006 - by CADTM France

Paris, AFP (France Press Agency) - In a communiqué Monday, the Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt (CADTM) called for the “absolute suppression” of the Paris Club, a “true institutional anomaly” that celebrates its fiftieth birthday on (...)
WSF in Karachi: Who speaks for change?

11 April 2006 - by Tariq Ali

Independent voices can be heard in Pakistan but NGOs are shifting social movements While Pakistan was opening the World Social Forum (Asia) in the last week of March with virtuoso performances of Sufi music, the country’s rulers were marking (...)
Rich country development aid sets record

PARIS, April 4, 2006 (press release AFP Agence France Presse) - Official development assistance to developing countries from member countries of the OECDs Development Assistance Committee last year rose 31.4 percent to a record high of 106.5 (...)
Zambia: Building Consciousness Against IMF Policies

5 April 2006 - by The Post

Everything in life seems to have its own time. Who could imagine a representative of the Zambian business community criticising the policies of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and other multilateral institutions? For many (...)
Operation Corporate Freedom: The IMF and World Bank in Iraq

5 April 2006 - by Basav Sen, Hope Chu

While the three-year U.S. occupation of Iraq faces a quagmire in operations, the economic forces of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank are moving full speed ahead implementing various economic reforms that will cause (...)
More To Be Done On Debt Relief

3 April 2006 - by Mark Engler

If you think the third world debt crisis was solved at the meetings of G8 leaders last summer, think again. Last July, debt relief was all the rage. Bono crooned at the Live 8 benefit concert in London—one of almost a dozen taking place (...)
Press Release

The CADTM appalled by World Bank’s empty promises on debt

Nine months after the much-trumpeted announcement in London by the G8 (eight most industrialised countries), the World Bank has only just revealed its mode of cancelling the debt owed to it by some 17 heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC). The (...)
World Social Forum in Caracas

[WSF-Caracas] We, the people of the south, are the actual creditors

31 January 2006 - by Laura Yanela

Representatives of diverse social movements and networks from the entire continent spoke out that the people of the south are the actual creditors of all historical, social and ecological debts. The participants in the Assembly spoke about the (...)
Press release

The CADTM condemns the IMF for blocking six very poor countries’ hopes of debt relief

19 December 2005 - by CADTM

Last summer the summit meeting of the eight most industrialised countries (G8) decided that the 18 highly indebted poor countries that had satisfied the many demands imposed on them could benefit from a complete cancellation of their debt to (...)
A polycentric forum for a convergent social movement

[Interview with E.Toussaint] World Social Forum 2006: Defining priorities and common axes

5 December 2005 - by Sergio Ferrari

The next World Social Forum is to be... polycentric. It will take place in 2006, in a « decentralised » fashion, in Caracas (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela), Bamako (Mali) and Karachi (Pakistan). To grasp the potential of the World Social (...)
The World Bank : oiling the wheels of corruption in Chad

5 December 2005 - by Eric Toussaint, Damien Millet

The World Bank’s bombast about good governance, corruption and reducing poverty is a farce. In reality, the World Bank is supporting an oil pipeline project that allows a notorious dictator to fill his pockets and thumb his nose at the world. (...)
Dispossessing Africa’s Wealth

28 October 2005 - by Patrick Bond

There is a timeless line of argument from Walter Rodney’s 1973 book How Europe Underdeveloped Africa: ’The question as to who and what is responsible for African underdevelopment can be answered at two levels. Firstly, the answer is that the (...)

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Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt

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