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Series : 70 years since Bretton Woods, the World Bank and the IMF (Part 2)
The World Bank assists the powerfull witch-hunters
by
Eric Toussaint22 July
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Blockupy International Invites Movements, Networks, Organisations to an Open Assembly in Brussels, September 26-27
by Blockupy Frankfurt
21 July
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Last part of the series: The Banks and the “Too Big to Jail” Doctrine (Part 9)
The Impunity Enjoyed by the Banks must Stopby Eric Toussaint
17 July
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Global Campaign Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity
Week of mobilization to stop corporate crimes and impunityby Dismantle corporate power and stop impunity
16 July
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Africa loses $58 billion to rest of the world every year
by Jubilee Debt Campaign
16 July
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The debt business: NML Capital pockets a billion of Bankia’s failed credits
The vulture funds that corner Argentina also comes for youby Fatima Fafatale , Jérome Duval
16 July
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Series : 70 years since Bretton Woods, the World Bank and the IMF (Part 1)
Concerning the founding of the Bretton Woods’ Institutionsby Eric Toussaint
15 July
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Judge Griesa: It is just not to pay an illegitimate and immoral debt
by Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
2 July
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Spain
Telefonica-Movistar: a united fight against exploitationby Esther Vivas
1 July
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Movements against Spanish state debt
For a new social deal that can transform Europeby Sergi Cutillas
1 July
Contrary to common belief, the mission of the World Bank is not to reduce poverty in developing countries. The Bank’s mission, as originally conceived by the victors of the Second World War, the United States and Great Britain in particular, was to help rebuild Europe, and secondarily to promote (...)
Call for building together a transnational space of initiative for a Europe from below, through, against and beyond current Europe
We, as Blockupy international coordinating group, met in Berlin on June 21st, to discuss the outcomes of the May of Solidarity and the future perspectives. During (...)
We all know the saying “Too big to fail.” In managing the crisis the banks have caused, the governments of the industrialised countries have adopted a new doctrine that might be summed up as “Too big to jail.”
Whereas the US and European justice systems are faced with very serious wrongdoing by the (...)
Final statement from the Global Campaign Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity regarding the WEEK OF MOBILIZATION TO STOP CORPORATE CRIMES AND IMPUNITY
Social movements demand access to justice for those affected by human rights violations and ecological crimes committed by corporations! (...)
New research published today by 10 UK and African NGOs reveals Africa is losing $192 billion every year to the rest of the world – almost 6 and a half times the amount of ‘aid’ given back to the continent. This research is the first attempt to calculate Africa’s losses across a wide range of areas. (...)
The speculative funds that have taken Argentina to the edge of a new bankruptcy are spreading in the Spanish market.
The vulture fund NML Capital that, together with others, has Argentina on the edge of suspending payments, is already devouring the rotting flesh of the Spanish market. Elliott (...)
70 years ago, the 22nd of July 1944, the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, better known as the Bretton Woods Conference, that had lasted for three weeks, reached a conclusion. It was attended by representatives from 44 countries. In order to prevent a recurrence of economic (...)
An open letter from Nobel Peace Laureate, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, to Thomas Griesa, the US judge presiding over the ‘debt trial of the century’ between Argentina and two vulture funds in New York.
Mr. Thomas Griesa Judge of the United States District Court Southern District of New York, USA
Receive (...)
The tentacles of Spain’s Telefonica Movistar spread far and wide. I refer not only to the interests of their shareholders, such as banks BBVA and La Caixa, or close links with political power, and their “representatives” on the board, but its “army” of workers. In Spain, the company claims to have (...)
Since the awakening of the squares in 2011 the political atmosphere in the Spanish state has changed dramatically. “Frustration, despair and fear, instead of being channelled towards the far right, have gone towards the creation of opportunities to meet other people facing similar situations, (...)
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