19 January 2019 by Eric Toussaint , Bill Fletcher
On January, Friday the 18th, Éric Toussaint was interviewed by Bill Fletcher for WPFW FM, a progressive Washington based radio station, about the current situation in Nicaragua. You can listen to the interview below.
Éric Toussaint made frequent visits to Nicaragua and the rest of Central America between 1984 and 1992. He took part in the organization of the voluntary work brigades with trade unionists and other militants of international solidarity that went out from Belgium to Nicaragua between 1985 and 1989. He was one of the FGTB (General Federation of Belgian Labour) activists on Nicaraguan issues. He met with various members of the Sandinista Directorate: Tomas Borge, Henry Ruiz, Luis Carrion, Victor Tirado Lopez in the period from 1984 – 1992. He had close links with the ATC, the Sandinist association of agricultural workers. He was invited to the 1st Congress of the FSLN in July 1991 and the 3rd Forum of Sao Paulo held in Managua in July 1992. At the International Institute for Research and Education in Amsterdam, he taught courses in the 1980s on the FSLN’s revolutionary strategy before they came to power and in the post-1979 period.
Recently Éric Toussaint wrote this article with Nathan Legrand.
Éric Toussaint and Bill Fletcher talk about Nicaragua
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Source: WPFW FM
is a historian and political scientist who completed his Ph.D. at the universities of Paris VIII and Liège, is the spokesperson of the CADTM International, and sits on the Scientific Council of ATTAC France.
He is the author of Greece 2015: there was an alternative. London: Resistance Books / IIRE / CADTM, 2020 , Debt System (Haymarket books, Chicago, 2019), Bankocracy (2015); The Life and Crimes of an Exemplary Man (2014); Glance in the Rear View Mirror. Neoliberal Ideology From its Origins to the Present, Haymarket books, Chicago, 2012, etc.
See his bibliography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric_Toussaint
He co-authored World debt figures 2015 with Pierre Gottiniaux, Daniel Munevar and Antonio Sanabria (2015); and with Damien Millet Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank: Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers, Monthly Review Books, New York, 2010. He was the scientific coordinator of the Greek Truth Commission on Public Debt from April 2015 to November 2015.
26 May 2021, by Eric Toussaint , Roberto González Amador
The North’s New Debt Trap for the South
North Africa and the Middle-East: A new wave of debt26 May 2021, by Eric Toussaint , Omar Aziki , Milan Rivié
The North’s New Debt Trap for the South
An unsustainable burden of debt afflicts the peoples of Sub-Saharan Africa10 May 2021, by Eric Toussaint , Milan Rivié
The North’s New Debt Trap for the South
Latin America and the Caribbean are facing a serious debt crisis3 May 2021, by Eric Toussaint , Milan Rivié
29 April 2021, by Eric Toussaint
The North’s New Debt Trap for the South
Developing countries in the stranglehold of debt26 April 2021, by Eric Toussaint , Milan Rivié
Series title: Ecuador: Progress and limits of resistance to the policies of the World Bank, the IMF and other creditors
Ecuador: Resistance against the policies imposed by the World Bank, the IMF and other creditors between 2007 and 201115 April 2021, by Eric Toussaint
14 April 2021, by Eric Toussaint
Series: 1944-2021, 77 years of interference from the World Bank and the IMF (Part 28)
The World Bank did not Foresee the Arab Spring Popular Uprisings and still Promotes the very same Policies that triggered them12 April 2021, by Eric Toussaint
6 April 2021, by Eric Toussaint
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has been an activist since his teen years. Upon graduating from college he went to work as a welder in a shipyard, thereby entering the labor movement. Over the years he has been active in workplace and community struggles as well as electoral campaigns. He has worked for several labor unions in addition to serving as a senior staffperson in the national AFL-CIO.