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Catastroïka

2 June 2012 - by Katerina Kitidi, Aris Chatzistefanou

The creators of Debtocracy, a documentary with two million views broadcasted from Japan to Latin America, analyze the shifting of state assets to private hands.
Greece : The IMF and Lagarde get it wrong

31 May 2012 - by Eric Toussaint, Damien Millet

Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has made a declaration concerning Greece and Africa that requires explanation. The third world debt crisis started thirty years ago. Under strong and increasing (...)
Resisting with the Greeks

30 May 2012 - by CADTM Europe

In the recent elections on May 6, Greek voters sanctioned the coalition forces which had applied austerity plans and surrendered to the dictates of the Troika (the IMF, the ECB and the European Commission). New Democracy and the PASOK (...)
Create one, two, three, many Greeces!

24 May 2012 - by Sonia Mitralias

Speech in the great anti-capitalist demonstration in Frankfurt, Germany, May 19, 2012 Comrades, I come from Greece, a country destroyed and desperate, a country in ruins but still standing tall. From this Greece that resists and has shouted (...)
Greece: here come the vulture funds

19 May 2012 - by Nick Dearden

Financial ’investors’ have already made a killing on Greek debt, but this activity isn’t inevitable – such vultures can be challenged Not everyone is unhappy about the desperate straits of the Greek economy. A group of financial “investors” made a (...)
Greece already defaulted on the creditors’ terms; what they fear is default on the debtor’s terms

19 May 2012 - by Christina Laskaridis

Whether Greece will default on its debt obligations and what the consequences of that might be has been headline news following elections on 6th May and the seismic shift in the political landscape. The threat of the electorate voting (...)
Greece: Common Statement by Professors of Constitutional Law

On February 12, 2012, the Greek Parliament approved yet another austerity bill to secure a second “bailout” from the Troïka. While Greek citizens protested in the streets against this denial of their basic rights, five Greek Professors of (...)
Greek Debt Audit Campaign Announcement : “Debt Audit for cessation of payments and debt cancellation”

The Greek Debt Audit Campaign aims to open up the books of public debt and considers that the demand, as it was raised today, Tuesday 8th May by the leader of Syriza – Uniting Social Front, Alexis Tsipras, is ripe and essential. The proposal to (...)
Seismic election results in Greece: the radical left-wing coalition comes first in all major cities and among people aged 18-35

8 May 2012 - by Eric Toussaint

1. Results The radical left-wing coalition Syriza becomes the second “party” in numbers of voters as it moves from 4.5% at the previous elections (2009) to 16.8% (52 MPs instead of 13). It is the first party in the major agglomerations and among (...)
Women of Europe, Demonstrate Solidarity with Greek Women!

22 March 2012 - by Sonia Mitralias

Interview with Sonia Mitralias, a founding member of the Initiative of Greek Women against the Debt and the Austerity Measures, as well as of the Greek Committee against the Debt. The Initiative of Greek Women Against the Debt and the (...)
For a mass movement of European solidarity with the Greek people and active resistance to austerity policies

21 March 2012 - by Yorgos Mitralias

Athens, March 13, 2012 - Why does European public opinion find the misfortunes of the Greek people so moving? And why, day by day, does this feeling grow more broad and deep and transform itself into the will to act, to do something to show (...)
Video

Debt : The Greeks and Debtocracy

18 March 2012 - by Aldous

A documentary film entitled Debtocracy – Chréokratia (Chréos is the Greek word meaning “debt”) has become wildly popular in Greece since that country has been systematically drained while in the clutches of the IMF. Here is a translation of the film (...)
Great Britain. Osborne must stop the Greek vultures

12 March 2012 - by Jubilee Debt Campaign

Campaigners tell Chancellor to legislate against vulture funds taking action against Greece in British courts Global justice campaign group Jubilee Debt Campaign has warned the British Government that London courts could be used by vulture (...)
Press Release

The CADTM condemns the disinformation campaign on the Greek debt and the rescue plan by private creditors

12 March 2012 - by CADTM

On Thursday night (8 March 2012) more than 85% of private creditors (banks, insurance companies, pension funds, etc.) agreed to take part in the restructuring of the Greek debt by cancelling EUR 107 billion. On paper it looks as though they are (...)
We will NOT pay the debt of bankers and speculators! We will NOT reclaim GREEK DEBT TO THE PEOPLE!

Spanish media report on the “success” of the Greek debt reduction operation. What is not said is that this leads the way to a new “rescue”, a new loan of 130,000 million euros, in which the Spanish Government participates. It will mean new (...)
Greece is a smokescreen to hide the mother of all bank bailouts

22 February 2012 - by Nick Dearden

Eurozone finance ministers who sat in Brussels and decide Greece’s future last night should have attended yesterday’s well-timed University of London conference on learning lessons from Latin America. The central lesson is of urgent importance: (...)
Greece at war in 2012, as Spain was in 1936 for the people of Europe!

21 February 2012 - by Sonia Mitralias

History is moving apace and the cataclysmic events of these last few days in Greece should by now have convinced even the most reluctant among us. For the Europe of today, Greece appears to be playing the same role that Spain did for Europe in (...)
Moisis Litsis, journalist at the Greek daily newspaper, Eleftherotypia: “Greece is a laboratory for the policy of austerity”

20 February 2012 - by Moisis Litsis, Fátima Martín

Greece experienced on Tuesday, Feb. 6 another day-long general strike in the midst of negotiations of the government with the creditors and with the EU over the next bailout. Moisis Litsis, economic analyst of the Greek daily newspaper, (...)
Anti-poverty campaigners say Greek austerity package is ‘structural adjustment for Europe’

EU must not ‘enslave’ Greece at behest of banks

Anti-poverty campaigners say Greek austerity package is ‘structural adjustment for Europe’ Ahead of today’s meeting of Eurozone Finance Ministers in Brussels to discuss the €130bn bailout of Greece’s creditors, campaigners from Jubilee Debt (...)
Tragedy of Greece is a lesson to all

17 February 2012 - by Jeremy Corbyn

Greece has been under pressure since 2008, as its debt ratio broke eurozone rules. Cuts were enforced, ratings agencies downgraded the country’s status, interest rates on bonds went up, more cuts were made to pay the debts, bigger debts accrued (...)
Eleftherotypia’s Workers are back with their own newspaper !

15 February 2012 - by Moisis Litsis

Here it is ! Done ! The workers at Eleftherotypia, one of the biggest and most prestigious greek daily newspapers, go forward undertaking the great endeavour of editing their own newspaper “Workers at Eleftherotypia”! As from Wednesday, Feb. (...)
Greek Debt Audit Campaign Announcement

The International Treaty and Memorandum which accompany the ‘haircut’ of Greek public debt pushes the populace further into impoverishment. They will enshrine a dramatic drop in both living standards and working conditions, and implicitly enslave (...)
Greek hospital now under workers’ control

Health workers in Kilkis, Greece, have occupied their local hospital and have issued a statement saying it is now fully under workers control. The general hospital of Kilkis in Greece is now under workers control. The workers at the hospital (...)
For Greece default is the only option

27 January 2012 - by Costas Lapavitsas

Negotiations to reduce Greek debt have been suspended after no agreement could be reached last week. At some point in the near future Greece seems certain to default on its obligations. But the drama surrounding the talks in Athens, Berlin and (...)
Press Announcement

Greek Debt Audit Campaign

16 November 2011 - by Greek Auditing Commission of the Public Debt

The appointment of L. Papademos as Prime Minister marks a turn towards authoritarianism The EE and the Bankers seal our creditor’s dictatorship The appointment of the new government at our creditors’ behest, sealed by the EU and the bankers (...)