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Italy’s banking problems: A useful guide to the implications of “bail-in”
24 July 2016 - by Daniel Munevar, Chiara Filoni
Obscured since the beginning of the crisis by more dramatic developments by banks elsewhere in Europe and the US, Italian banks have long dragged issues of low profitability and near insolvency. Now, after the surprising results of the Brexit (...) -
Teaser
The Greek debt, a European tragedy
17 June 2016 - by CADTM
Teaser of the animation short film “The Greek debt, a european tragedy” that will show you another truth about the Greek crisis. Based on the report of the Truth Committee on Greek Public Debt. -
TNI - State of Power 2016
14 June 2016 - by TNI
TNI’s fifth annual State of Power 2016 report explores the intersect of power and democracy. Featuring prominent activists and academics, its essays feature the long battle between economic power and popular democracy, expose the different powers (...) -
Daniel Munévar, economist and former adviser to Varoufakis, participates in the Conferences for a Plan B for Europe
In the European game of chess, Greece is a pawn that Germany thought to sacrifice
21 April 2016 - by Enric Llopis
The meetings with experts and representatives of the Troika (the European Commission, the ECB and the IMF) are like clashing against a wall of the deaf. This is because a number of reasonable and well-supported proposals may be presented but (...) -
What is to be Done with the Banks? Radical Proposals for Radical Changes
13 April 2016 - by Eric Toussaint, Michel Husson, Costas Lapavitsas, Ozlem Onaran, Patrick Saurin, Stathis Kouvelakis, Francisco Louça, Stavros Tombazos, Michael Hudson, Giorgos Galanis, John Weeks, Miguel Urbán Crespo, Pete Green, Gilbert Achcar, Alan Freeman, David Harvey, Andy Kilmister, Philippe Marlière, Thomas Marois, Sabri Öncü, Susan Pashkoff, Alfredo Saad Filho, Benjamin Selwyn, Pritam Singh
Nine years after the outbreak of the financial crisis that continues to produce damaging social effects through the austerity policies imposed on victim populations, it’s time to take another look at the commitments that were made at that time by (...) -
East and Central European Social Forum in Wroclaw
4 April 2016 - by Pierre Gottiniaux
Europe is about to implode. This was the first point made at the East and Central European Social Forum which was held in Wroclaw from 11th to 13th March 2016. Since the banking crisis broke out in 2008, rapidly becoming a worldwide crisis of (...) -
Workshops on citizen debt audits at the Madrid conference “For a Plan B for Europe”
31 March 2016 - by Jérémie Cravatte
On the second day of the Plan B conference in Madrid, the hundreds of participants spread themselves among the various proposed workshops. This report is about the two workshops on the debt issue, organized by PACD (Citizens’ Debt Audit Platform, (...) -
Fifth ICAN Assembly: retrieving new energies!
28 March 2016 - by Chiara Filoni
ICAN conference. The vigour shown by the PACD, the citizens’ debt audit platform in Spain, who organised this meeting, as well as the debt chapter of the Plan B Conference, was echoed in the renewed level of motivation that it inspired in the (...) -
Summary of the 1 March 2016 session at the European Parliament “Restructuring of debt – reconstruction of democracy”
Video: Maria-Lucia Fattorelli: “Before anything else can be done, there must be a debt audit”
17 March 2016 - by Maria Lucia Fattorelli
Several members of the Greek Debt Truth Committee (GDTC) attended the session on 1st March 2016 at the European Parliament in Brussels on the topic “Restructuring of debt – reconstruction of democracy”. The session was organized by Nikolaos (...) -
Declaration For a Democratic Rebellion in Europe
25 February 2016 - by Plan B Europe
Since the start of the global economic crisis, a new movement has arisen across the world. It is a movement for true democracy and participation, for the right of the people to decide for themselves and have their mandate respected and (...) -
Madrid: Plan B - Complete program
15 February 2016 - by Plan B Europe
“Society has now started to work towards a radical change in the policies of the EU. There are many proposals on the table that could do away with austerity,” says the Plan. Complete program in english (without participants, see in spanish (...) -
“We Need a Plan B for Europe”: Interview with Éric Toussaint
9 February 2016 - by Eric Toussaint, Gokhan Terzioglu, Steve Knauss, Antoine Dolcerocca
Potemkin Review met with Dr. Éric Toussaint, a founding member and President of the Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt (CADTM) - Belgium, and a global spokesperson for the movement. Author of more than a dozen books on the political (...) -
The Challenges for Regional Integration - Bolivia joining Mercosur and Cuba – US relations
5 February 2016 - by Julio C. Gambina
Latin American Integration continues to be discussed as a way of addressing the repercussions of capitalism’s global crisis and aspiring to a different development of the global order. In recent days, a Mercosur meeting was held in Paraná, (...) -
SYRIZA, PODEMOS, and European Movements Against Illegitimate Debt
1 February 2016 - by Eric Toussaint
Éric Toussaint (at the European Citizens’ Assembly on Debt) The need for a Plan B in Europe After the Greek government’s capitulation to the creditors and the European institutions in July 2015, it is urgent for a Plan B to be developed. If we (...) -
Plan B for Europe
15 January 2016 - by Plan B Europe
In July 2015, we witnessed a financial coup d’état carried out by the European Union and its institutions against the Greek Government, condemning the Greek population to continue suffering the austerity policies that had been rejected on two (...) -
U.S. Workers and Puerto Rico’s Crisis
4 January 2016 - by Rafael Bernabe
Puerto Rico has been in the news lately, particularly the financial news. The possibility that its government may default on part of its $73 billion public debt has drawn the attention of Wall Street analysts. The New York Times has deemed the (...) -
Greece: an alternative
18 December 2015 - by Eric Toussaint
In August-September 2013, I drafted a course of measures to be implemented in Greece in case the radical left won the election. On 10 September, 2013 I sent this draft to the activists of Greece and elsewhere to ‘gather critical comments and (...) -
Greece: Why Capitulate? Another Way Is Possible (text version of the video of the same name with explanatory notes and references)
16 December 2015 - by Eric Toussaint
Éric Toussaint critiques SYRIZA’s attitude since 2010 regarding the debt, explaining how the Greek government came to sign the disastrous agreement of 13 July 2015. One of the fundamental explanations is their failure to take the audit of Greece’s (...) -
Slideshow presenting the citizens’ audits process and the struggle against illegitimate public debt, in the context of EU economic governance
4 December 2015 - by Eric Toussaint
Slideshow that accompanied the lecture, by Eric Toussaint, to a training session organized by the European Trade Union Institute (training centre of the European Trade Union Confederation). This session was attended by union leaders from the (...) -
For a Standing Plan B Conference in Europe
Declaration, Paris, November 14th, 2015 Following the tragic terrorist attacks in Paris, our thoughts are with the victims and their relatives. We express our deepest indignation and full solidarity, from the two shores of the Mediterranean (...) -
Greek Community Clinic of Elliniko rejects the European Citizen’s prize awarded by the European Parliament
20 October 2015 - by Fátima Martín
The self-managed Metropolitan Community clinic of Elliniko rejected the European Citizen’s Prize 2015 awarded by the European Parliament. The same Parliament whose president, the German Social Democrat Martin Schulz, threatened the Greeks with (...) -
Together we can cool the planet!
18 October 2015 - by La Via Campesina, GRAIN
For many years, La Vía Campesina and GRAIN have been telling the world about how the agroindustrial food system causes half of all greenhouse gas emissions. But the world’s governments are refusing to face these problems head on, and the Paris (...) -
The Third Memorandum is Unsustainable just like the previous two
1 October 2015 - by Truth Committee on the Greek Public Debt
We observe again the same assumption which underlay the two previous MoU and which has been proven wrong: a strong fiscal restraint is compatible with a recovery in growth. 1. The political economy of the third MoU The main scenario of the (...) -
Restructuring public debts : CADTM International has debt auditing at the core of its A & B Plans
25 September 2015 - by CADTM International
On 10 September 2015, The General Assembly of the United Nations adopted, by a substantial majority (136 votes in favour, 6 against and 41 abstentions), a resolution on the nine principles to be followed in public debt restructuring. A (...) -
Open letter to Yanis Varoufakis: Plan B is democracy
1 August 2015 - by Thomas Coutrot
Dear Yanis Varoufakis, For five months, you have personified the hopes of many European citizens. You have brought a wind of intellectual rigor and honesty in the circle of gray men of the Eurogroup. You tried tenaciously to respect the (...)
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