G8 / G20

Group composed of the most powerful countries of the planet: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the USA, with Russia a full member since June 2002. Their heads of state meet annually, usually in June or July.

G20 Summit in Buenos Aires: A non-event amidst citizen protests

22 December 2018 - by María José Romero, Bodo Ellmers, Tove Maria Ryding

When the global financial crisis broke, the world looked to the G20 to find solutions. But as G20 leaders recently gathered in Buenos Aires 10 years on for their 2018 Summit, it was all too clear that ‘too big to fail banks’ have grown even bigger while we’re stuck with a vastly expanded shadow (...)
We denounce the government’s cyber-espionage of Argentinian social movements. Spying is illegal!

12 November 2018 - by ATTAC/CADTM Argentina

From ATTAC Argentina, we denounce the “cyber-espionage” put in place by the Argentinian government against the social organizations which are members of the Confluence Fuera G20 / IMF (G20 and IMF – Out), as reported in several newspapers. We repudiate this action by the government, the Ministry (...)
Imperialism and Dependency: Similarities and Differences with the Marini era

8 May 2018 - by Claudio Katz, Richard Fidler

The main theorist of dependency anticipated trends of neoliberal globalization. He analyzed productive globalization, the centrality of exploitation and the relative weight of surplus value transfers. But the employment crisis exceeds what was envisaged by Marini, in a scenario disrupted by the (...)
The dark side of infrastructure investment in Africa

12 June 2017 - by Collective

With its Compact with Africa the German G20 presidency is actively promoting private loans and investment as solutions to infrastructure deficiencies on the African continent. The Compact aims at using public resources in order to improve the investment climate and mobilize private capital to (...)
Genoa: the fifteenth anniversary of the great demonstrations against the G8 and Berlusconi’s bloody repression

26 July 2016 - by Eric Toussaint

From July 18 to 23 Genoa remembers the demonstrations against the G8 (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, UK and USA) that took place exactly 15 years ago. On 19 July the CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debts) co-organised, along with Fondazione Palazzo ducale di (...)
G20 finance ministers cannot hide failure to tackle major issues

24 September 2014 - by Jesse Griffiths

The communiqué from this weekend’s G20 finance ministers’ meeting in Cairns tried to paper over increasingly evident cracks in the global economy, trumpeted an OECD initiative to reduce tax dodging which is not as good as it seems, continued to focus on privately funded infrastructure, and (...)
G20 : the Symbol of a System Failure

7 November 2011 - by Eric Toussaint

The G20 is no more legitimate than its progenitor the G7 (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK and USA). It was launched by the industrialized countries three years ago when they were beginning to feel the effects of the biggest economic crisis since the 1930’s. The G20 was thwarted from (...)
Peoples against G20

CADTM Activities at G20 counter summit Wedensday November 2nd 9.30-12am Citizen debt audit : YES it is urgent ! Proposed by : CADTM Europe - ATTAC Europe – Jubilee UK - EN FR ES Speakers : Eric Toussaint (CADTM Belgium), Jonathan Stevenson (Jubilee UK)., Representatives of the French (...)
Why is demonstrating in Nice against the G20 the 1^st to 3^rd November 2011 essential ?

30 October 2011 - by Eric Toussaint

In the context of global crisis, what is at stake at the G20 meeting under French presidency? The crisis is worsening, especially for the most industrialized countries. The governments of the so called “emerging” countries such as Brazil, China, India and Russia wish to gain greater hearing in (...)
Put people, not finances, first

For the G8, May 21 and 22 in Deauville For the G20, from October 31 to November 5, 2011 in Cannes Gathered together here in Dakar during the Convergence Assembly for Action against the G8/G20 at the World Social Forum, we - the social movements, trade unions, international solidarity (...)
Call to mobilization for the G8 and G20 in France in 2011

In November, France will take over the Presidency of the G8 and the G20 and will be organizing their summits in June and November 2011. But while summits pass, the economic, financial, ecological and social crises remain. The last G8 and G20 meetings (in Pittsburgh 2009 and Toronto 2010) did (...)
G-20 still does not have a consensus on how to get out of the crisis. It’s time to restart a democratic and inclusive debate about the crisis

12 November 2010 - by Latindadd

More than two years have passed since the holes in the neoliberal system’s ability to generate the world population’s wellbeing became apparent. The crisis generated by this model is so huge that it requires the cooperation of all the countries of the globe. Within this framework, the G7 tried to (...)
Vain and Void, neither G8 nor G20!

28 June 2010 - by Eric Toussaint, Damien Millet, Sophie Perchellet

As at previous meetings, the Toronto summit of the exclusive G20 club to which the world’s richest countries invited the heads of state of the major emerging countries once again raised great expectations only to conclude with an empty bubble. As in London in 2008, then Pittsburgh in 2009, the (...)
The G20 in Pittsburgh showed us how pitifully fearful our leaders have become.

28 September 2009 - by Bill Quigley

Out of fear of the possibility of a terrorist attack, authorities militarize our towns, scare our people away, stop daily life and quash our constitutional rights. For days, downtown Pittsburgh, home to the G20, was a turned into a militarized people-free ghost town. Sirens screamed day (...)
Small hopes for a shift leftwards in economy

9 July 2009 - by Patrick Bond

A COUPLE of Nobel prize-winning economists are giving major talks in Joburg this week. Many in civil society hope the visits by two of global capitalism’s best-known critics can pull local economic policy debates further leftwards: towards meeting social needs, not market dogmas and corporate (...)
A G20 meeting for naught

2 April 2009 - by Eric Toussaint, Damien Millet

The G20 summit meeting in London from April 1st onward was loudly announced and publicized. Those 20 industrialized and emergent countries (G20) are meeting to find solutions to the crisis. But long before the end of the summit, it is clear that they will not rise to the challenge. The G20 (...)
G20: an inconsistent script to be thoroughly rewritten

17 November 2008 - by Eric Toussaint, Damien Millet

The G20 summit that brought together major industrialised and emergent countries in Washington on 15 November 2008 is a dismal failure. The international financial crisis is deep indeed, stock markets lost close to 40% of their capitalisation in October 2008, financial markets are awaiting (...)
Counter-summit against G8 at Japan and Peoples’ Forum in Africa – No rest for the struggles !

14 July 2008 - by Eric Toussaint, Eric De Ruest, Pauline Imbach

Report prepared by Eric De Ruest, Pauline Imbach and Eric Toussaint on the basis of messages from Japan and Mali. For the CADTM international network the beginning of this summer resonates with the counter-summit ! Myriam BOURGY (CADTM – Belgium), Sushovan DHAR (VAK – India) and Yoko AKIMOTO (...)
The G8 Communique on Climate: Regression not a Forward Movement

Statement of Organizations Affiliated with the G8 Action Network, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, July 9, 2006 The G 8’s communiqué regarding their action on climate is actually inaction being masked as movement. It is a great fraud being perpetrated on the global community that would significantly (...)
Open letter to the Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda

Hokkaido, Japan - 6 July 2008 We environmentalists, social movements, peasant farmers, workers and civil society organisations ? in solidarity with 23 Korean farmers and trade unionists who were denied entry to Japan denounce the authorities? unwillingness to allow their participation in (...)
Make the Hokkaido Summit the Last Summit of the G8!

Declaration of Participants in the International Solidarity Days of the G8 Action Network, July 8, 2008 The G8 Summit opened in Hokkaido yesterday with the usual rhetoric of concern about conditions in Africa. These are statements that few people in Africa an d the rest of the world take (...)
Japan follows singapore in dealing with foreign activists

9 July 2008 - by Walden Bello

Trade, climate change, skyrocketing oil prices, and debt have been the topics of discussion in the parallel civil society events to the Group of Eight Summit, but the issue that has drawn the greatest attention is the Japanese authorities’ heavy handed approach to security for the official (...)
Make use of G8 summit to ask for debt write-off

9 July 2008 - by Koalisi Anti Utang (KAU-Anti Debt Coalition Indonesia)

Jakarta - The Anti Debt Coalition (KAU) has called on the government to capitalize on the summit which will take place near Lake Toya Hokaido, Japan, on July 7-9, 2008 to ask for the writing off of Indonesia’s foreign debt. This had to be done by Indonesia on the ground that 91 percent of (...)
G8 Final Statement

The gathering of the most powerful countries of the world is an occasion for the people of the world to demand that this G8 Summit address the twin ‘tsunamis’ that plague humanity today – the food and climate crisis – and the continuing problem of Debt that has contributed significantly to these (...)
Mobilisations in Rostock : G8 behind fences, alternatives blossom

12 June 2007 - by La Via Campesina

In the aftermath of the Heiligendamm summit, it appears clearly that the G8 has lost all credibility and legitimacy. As it now happens for most high level world meetings, the G8 summit that took place in Heiligendamm, Germany, from June 6 to 8 had to hide behind barbed fences and in a civil (...)