The crisis reaches far beyond the European Union
by Eric Toussaint
Even if Europe is hard hit, the crisis by no means limited to the European Union: almost all the industrialized economies are in a state verging on coma. Depending on the country, unemployment remains high or is increasing. Even in the so-called emerging countries including BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China), the strong growth is tending to slow down.
Reconocen la Deuda en Europa y España como Ilegítima y proponen el No Pago
Ante la posibilidad de un rescate, expertos y activistas proponen una auditoria ciudadana de la deuda
10 de octubre por Campaña Quién Debe a Quién
El encuentro “Viviendo en Deudocracia: la deuda en los países del Norte, aprendiendo del Sur”, que ha reunido durante dos días a más de 300 participantes, se clausura hoy con una reunión en la que activistas 20 organizaciones y redes de la sociedad civil, incluyendo el 15M, inician el trabajo conjunto hacia la auditoria ciudadana de la deuda en nuestro país.
THE OCCUPIED WALL STREET JOURNAL - Issue 2
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The Occupied Wall Street Journal - Issue #2
European Conference Against Austerity & Privatisation & in defence of the Welfare State
Sonia Mitralia speaks out
Sonia Mitralia, from CADTM in Greece, addressed the recent Europe against Austerity Conference in London as follows:
Je viens de Grèce, un pays en train d’être saigné à blanc et détruit par ceux qui prétendent le sauver, le Fonds Monétaire International, la Banque Centrale Européenne et la Commission Européenne. Apres l’adoption, l’application et surtout…l’échec des quatre traitements de choc appelés
Discours de Sonia Mitralia à la Conférence de Londres contre l’austérité, organisée par la Coalition of Resistance (1er octobre 2011)
Je viens de Grèce, un pays en train d’être saigné à blanc et détruit par ceux qui prétendent le sauver, le Fonds Monétaire International, la Banque Centrale Européenne et la Commission Européenne. Apres l’adoption, l’application et surtout…l’échec des quatre traitements de choc appelés Memoranda, et l’application actuellement du cinquième, qui est le plus dur et inhumain, la Grèce n’est plus le pays qu’on connaissait : Maintenant, les rues se vident après le coucher du soleil, les restaurants cherchent désespérément des clients et les magasins des rues commerçantes désertées tombent en ruine.
Declaration of the European Conference Against Austerity
"Το βίντεο από την Ευρωπαϊκή Διάσκεψη ενάντια στη Λιτότητα, που έγινε στο Λονδίνο τη 1η Οκτωβρίου, είναι μοντάζ των Επιτροπών Δράσης Ευρώπη και αποτελεί κάλεσμα για τις παγκόσμιες κινητοποιήσεις στις 15 Οκτωβρίου"
This European conference meets not a moment too soon.
The peoples of Europe face an unprecedented social, political and economic crisis.
Our governments are implementing the most savage spending cuts designed to destroy all the social gains of the post-war period. These will wreck the lives of millions by devastating jobs, pay, pensions, health, education and other services.
Published in Socialist Resistance (www.socialistresistance.org)
Apple’s rotten core
None of the eulogies for Steve Jobs are likely to have much to say about the people who made his fortune writes Liam Mac Uaid. Apple has pioneered an aggressive anti-union strategy both in the Chinese factories that manufacture its gadgets and the Apple stores that sell them. The company’s story is more one of hyper-exploitation than affable geekery.
« Occupy Wall Street », ou quand la rage envahit les Etats-Unis
Le pont de Brooklyn a une longueur de près de deux kilomètres. Deux kilomètres suspendus en l’air par des câbles d’acier sur les eaux de l’East River et qui, le 1er octobre, se remplirent d’une masse de gens bien différents des touristes habituels qui s’y pressent pour assister au romantique coucher de soleil sur Manhattan :
Why Pakistan says adieu to IMF program?
by Abdul Khaliq
Existing $11.3 billion Stand By Agreement (SBA) is 8th program with IMF, going to be ended on a bitter note.
Having kept the IMF at arm’s length for over a year now is anything but good news.
The government of Pakistan has taken the latest decision to say ‘adieu’ to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) at least for the time being, after the existing $11.3 billion Stand By Arrangement (SBA) program, is to be ended on 30 September 2011.This is the 8th SBA program with the IMF to conclude on an unsuccessful note, since 1950 when Pakistan joined the Fund. Out of these eight programs six were contracted with democratic governments.
In the eye of the storm: the debt crisis in the European Union (7/7)
Alternative ways out of crisis
by Eric Toussaint
In July-September 2011 the stock markets were again shaken at international level. The crisis has become deeper in the EU, particularly with respect to debts. The CADTM interviewed Eric Toussaint about various facets of this new stage in the crisis.
Part 7: Alternative ways out of crisis |1|
In the eye of the storm: the debt crisis in the European Union (6/7)
Has the crisis peaked yet
by Eric Toussaint
In July-September 2011 the stock markets were again shaken at international level. The crisis has become deeper in the EU, particularly with respect to debts. The CADTM interviewed Eric Toussaint about various facets of this new stage in the crisis.
Part 6: Has the crisis peaked yet
In the eye of the storm: the debt crisis in the European Union (5/7)
CDS and rating agencies: factor(ie)s of risk and destabilization
by Eric Toussaint
In July-September 2011 the stock markets were again shaken at international level. The crisis has become deeper in the EU, particularly with respect to debts. The CADTM interviewed Eric Toussaint about various facets of this new stage in the crisis.
Part 5: CDS and rating agencies: factor(ie)s of risk and destabilization |1|
Ιn the eye of the storm: the debt crisis in the European Union (4/7)
A European Brady deal: austerity for life
by Eric Toussaint
In July-September 2011 the stock markets were again shaken at international level. The crisis has become deeper in the EU, particularly with respect to debts. The CADTM interviewed Eric Toussaint about various facets of this new stage in the crisis.
Part 4: A European Brady deal: austerity for life |1|
October 8 to 16, 2011
WEEK OF GLOBAL ACTION AGAINST DEBT AND IFIs
Break the chains of debt!
The system of debt continues to devastate the lives of people around the world. People in the South face the daily impacts and consequences of the financial indebtedness of their countries, which far from having been "relieved" is growing in step with the crisis and the pursuit of extraordinary profits by the most concentrated forms of capital. They continue also to bear the burden of the unpaid historical, social, ecological, and climate debts which are increasing as well to the rhythm of false solutions to the global crisis.
25 September 2011
Anticapitalism and environmentalism as a political alternative
by Esther Vivas
We cannot analyse the global ecological crisis separately from the crisis in which we are immersed or the critique of the economic model that has led us into it.
The starting point for today’s debate is to note that humanity is in a global ecological crisis that is an intrinsic part of the systemic crisis of capitalism. And one of the differences from past economic crises, from that of the 1970s or the crash of 1929, is precisely its ecological aspect.
In the eye of the storm: the debt crisis in the European Union (3/7)
The ECB, ever loyal to private interests
by Eric Toussaint
In July - September 2011 the stock markets were again shaken at international level. The crisis has become deeper in the EU, particularly with respect to debts. The CADTM interviewed Eric Toussaint about various facets of this new stage in the crisis.
19 September 2011 - www.guardian.co.uk
The real debate is how
A Greek default and exit must be taken in the people’s interests – not entrusting the process to the EU, IMF and banks.
Greece is facing an economic and social disaster, the result of its so-called rescue by the “troika” of the EU, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank. Greece must change course to avoid a grim future for its people: it must default on its debt and exit the eurozone.
16 September 2011 - Debt and Development Coalition Ireland
An Audit of Irish Debt
Summary
This is an audit of Irish sovereign debt, and as such seeks to quantify and explain the debts, both real and contingent, for which the Irish people have become responsible.
The great Greek bond bazaar
by Eric Toussaint
In the eye of the storm : the debt crisis in the European Union (2/7)
In July-September 2011 the stock markets were again shaken at international level. The crisis has become deeper in the EU, particularly with respect to debts. The CADTM interviewed Eric Toussaint about various facets of this new stage in the crisis.
Part 2: The great Greek bond bazaar
In the eye of the storm: the debt crisis in the European Union
by Eric Toussaint
In July-September 2011 the stock markets were again shaken at international level. The crisis has become deeper in the EU, particularly with respect to debts. The CADTM interviewed Eric Toussaint about various facets of this new stage in the crisis.
First part: Greece