Brazil

• Parliamentary Inquiry Commission (CPI) of the Public Debt in Brazil: main achievements so far

  
  by Maria Lucia Fattorelli, Rodrigo Vieira de Ávila, Auditoria Cidadã da Dívida

  10 April 2010

  Brazil currently spends 36% of its federal budget on interest and repayments of its external and domestic debt, while social areas such as health receive less than 5%, and education less than 3%. This is also a reality in several countries of the South. Therefore, the Parliamentary Inquiry Commission (CPI) of the Public Debt in Brazil represents a great achievement of social movements in Brazil and also Latin America. In early 2008, the Member of Parliament (MP) Ivan Valente (PSOL / SP) (...)

• August 19, 2009 : A Historic day for Brazil

  by Auditoria Cidadã da Dívida

  3 September 2009

  August 19, 2009, was a historic day in the struggle for official auditing of public debt in Brazil, a process already drafted in the Federal Constitution of 1988, and demanded for many years by the Brazilian social movements, especially Auditoria Cidadã da Dívida ("Citizens’ Auditing the Debt"), a campaign that begun after the National Plebiscite about the Debt in 2000, in which more than 6 million Brazilians participated. At 3 p.m. on that day the 16th Plenary meeting of the House of (...)

• An interview with Eric Toussaint, by Pauline Imbach

  A New Start with the 2009 WSF

  
  by Éric Toussaint

  3 March 2009

  Some talked about a new start for the movement for another globalization with the World Social Forum in Belém. Do you think this is the case? Since the World Social Forum (WSF) went through difficult moments in 2006, 2007, and 2008, we can really call this 9th edition a new start. It was a huge success in various respects. First it drew a considerable participation, with 133,000, possibly 140,000, registered participants. This is remarkable and makes the Belém WSF one of the most popular. (...)

• World Social Forum Belém do Pará – Brazil 2009

  Declaration of the Assembly of Movements fighting to overcome debt domination

  15 February 2009

  The Assembly of Movements working on the Debt issue took place on February 1 within the context of the alliances day at the WSF 2009 held in Belem. It involved the participation of several organisations and networks, with strong presence of member organisations of Jubilee South and the CADTM network. The conclusions set forth herein reflect the position of various anti-debt networks and movements which had already started an important convergence process, as shown by the WSF declaration of (...)

• Interview of Sushovan Dhar in Belém

  13 February 2009

  Interview of Sushovan Dhar (CADTM India) in Belém, to Al Jazeera Part 1 Part 2

• Call for the signature of NGOs, trade unions and social movements Belem, February the 1st of 2009

  Let’s put finance in its place !

  13 February 2009

  For a new economic and social model The financial crisis is a systemic crisis that emerges in the context of global crises (climate, food, energy, social…) and of a new balance of power. It results from 30 years of transfer of income from labour towards capital. This tendency should be reversed. This crisis is the consequence of a capitalist system of production based on laissez-faire and fed by short term accumulation of profits by a minority, unequal redistribution of wealth, an unfair (...)

• World Social Forum 2009, Belém do Para, Brazil

  Women’s Assembly Declaration

  by Women Assembly

  9 February 2009

  In the year in which the WSF joins with the population of the Pan-Amazon, we, women from different parts of the world gathered in Belém, reaffirm the contribution of indigenous women and women from all forest peoples as political subjects that enriches feminism in the framework of the cultural diversity of our societies and strengthens the feminist struggle against the patriarchal capitalist global system. The world is currently experiencing various crises that demonstrate that this system (...)

• Urban Movements Building Convergences at the WSF 2009

  3 February 2009

  The current financial crisis demonstrates the limits of capitalism, the hazards of malign neglect in its insufficient regulation and the rush to posses and consume more. The financial crisis, with its manifold consequences, is just one of many threats to life in cities and human settlements everywhere, distorted by land speculation, urban megaprojects, agrobusiness and the privatization of public goods and services, multiply forms of social exclusion and the environmental catastrophe. (...)

• Shared concerns and issues emerging from the 1st science and democracy World Forum

  3 February 2009

  This text is the initial result of the 1st Science & Democracy World Forum which took place in Belém on 26-27 January 2009. It has been written and accepted by citizens of 18 countries from 4 continents. It initiates an open and inclusive global process that seeks to build an international network of movements, organizations and individuals concerned about issues of science and technology and other forms of knowledge in relation to societal and democratic concerns. BROAD ISSUES AND (...)

• Developing countries: dangerous times for the internal public debt

  
  by Éric Toussaint

  11 October 2008

  Since the second half of the 1990s, the internal public debt of the world’s developing countries has increased significantly. This increase is now reaching alarming proportions in a number of middle-income countries. While some very poor countries have not yet been affected, the historical trend indicates a continuing rise in the debt level for developing countries. At enormous cost to the countries concerned. According to the World Bank, the internal public debt of all developing countries (...)

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