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Activists in the global movement for debt abolition are gearing up to mobilize in Marrakesh, Morocco, where the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) are holding their annual meeting October 9-15, despite the devastating earthquake that laid waste last month to whole sections of the (…)
For the second time since they were founded, the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are holding their annual meetings in Africa. They will take place from 9 to 15 October in Marrakech, Morocco. Next year will mark the 80th anniversary of their founding. We are saying: 79 (…)
An Open Letter to the Governments of the Group of Seven States on the occasion of their 49th Summit, Hiroshima, Japan
Excellencies,
As you, leaders of seven of the world’s richest countries convene for your 49th summit, many Asian countries of the Global South are gripped more tightly than (…)
The Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will be held from 9 to 15 October 2023 in Marrakech, Morocco. The IMF is taking centre stage as the multi-faceted crisis that has affected the world since 2020 deepens. It has signed credit agreements (…)
Manila, Nov. 1, 2021 — “The G20’s declaration comes as no surprise and only further exposes where its interests really lie – in ensuring the profitable business of lending with no regard for deep, widespread human suffering and intensifying climate change,” said Lidy Nacpil, coordinator of the (…)
CADTM: In late August 2021 the IMF announced that it would supply the global economy with US$650 billion to meet urgent needs. This would be achieved through an increase in Special Drawing Rights. What exactly does that mean?
Milan Rivié and Éric Toussaint: The 190 countries that are members (…)
In December 2020, on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the signature of the Paris Agreement on Climate, the UN General Secretary sounded the alarm because the situation has fundamentally worsened. In this article we analyze what the World Bank and the IMF have done in connection with the (…)
When the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared Covid-19 a global pandemic in March, it meant understanding that no one is safe unless everyone is safe. To fight against its spread, it’s in everyone’s interest to bring the pandemic under control. The reality though is that there is a huge gap (…)
YOU CAN’T REALLY understand the world, especially global North-South relationships, without understanding how foreign aid works. The Debt System will help you do that. The book argues for the necessity of a radical restructuring of global finance.
Eric Toussaint is a leading figure in the (…)
In 2019, the World Bank (WB) and the IMF will be 75 years old. These two international financial institutions (IFI), founded in 1944, are dominated by the USA and a few allied major powers who work to generalize policies that run counter the interests of the world’s populations.
Series: (…)
This English version of the interview originally published in French by the independent online journal Le Vent Se Lève (LVSL) has been fully revised and complemented by Eric Toussaint. [1]
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Éric Toussaint has a PhD in Political Sciences and is spokesperson for the CADTM (Committee (…)
On Monday, 7 January 2019, Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank (WB) has announced his resignation. Kristalina Georgieva, the current Chief Executive Officer of the World Bank will assume the role of interim President effective February 1 till the President of the United States, Donald (…)
The “debt system” is gathering steam In Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, just as in the highly industrialized countries, after going through several fundamental changes over the past 40 years. Mainly since the outbreak of the Third World debt crisis in the early 1980s.
Austerity (…)
Introduction
Throughout human history, private debt has been used by the dominant classes to subjugate, despoil, expropriate, and dispossess the toiling classes (among whom women have always been the hardest-hit victims): small farmers, artisans, fishers, and on up to the salaried workers of (…)
We here publish, in its entirety, Eric Tousaint’s study of the odious debt doctrine. Only extracts have previously been published.
Rarely do people, whether detractors or defenders of the doctrine elaborated by Alexander Sack, take the time to understand the international lawyer’s framework of (…)
To coordinate its international and continental work, the CADTM network holds its Global Assembly (NGA) regularly. After Bouznika in Morocco in 2013 The network’s determination, coupled with the energy deployed by RAID-ATTAC-CADTM Tunisia, both made the organization of this international (…)
Interview with Eric Toussaint, spokesperson and co-founder of the international network of the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM). Interview by Benjamin Lemoine. This sixth and final part discusses the events that took place in Greece between 2010 and the accession to power (…)
Introduction by Stathis Kouvelakis
A thorough examination of the causes of the capitulation of Greece’s government in July 2015 and the signing of a third Memorandum of Understanding reveals one of the principal lines of division of the period – a division that is not simply a matter of (…)
Interview with Eric Toussaint, spokesperson and co-founder of the international network of the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM). Interview by Benjamin Lemoine.
This interview presents the genealogy of the anti-debt struggle, the campaigns for debt cancellation, the (…)
Interview with Eric Toussaint, spokesperson and co-founder of the international network of the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM). Interview by Benjamin Lemoine
This interview presents the genealogy of the anti-debt struggle, the campaigns for debt cancellation, the (…)
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