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This event will be organized with the Greek social movement with the support of civil society organizations, trade unions, NGOs, political and cultural personalities from all around Europe.

Eurodad-Glopolis International Conference 2013 'Debt, finance and economic crisis – consequences and solutions'

Prague, 3 to 5 June

The Eurodad biennial conference is a leading forum for discussion, idea-sharing and collective strategising for civil society groups advocating for reform of development finance.

International Protest on the 1st of June

Europe is under a violent attack by the financial capital, represented by the troika (IMF, ECB, EC). This offensive crosses Europe and it must be defeated by an international struggle.

World Social Forum

The World Social Forum is an open meeting place where social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any form of imperialism, come together to pursue their thinking, debate ideas democratically, for formulate proposals, share their experiences freely.

2012 World debt figures

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Banks versus the People: The Underside of a Rigged Game!

by Éric Toussaint

12 January

The first three parts of the series ’Banks versus the People: the Underside of a Rigged Game!’ published in 2012, have been collected together in this one document. This series is to be continued during January 2013. Part 1 : 2007-2012: Six years that shook the banking world Since 2007-2008, the (...)
Bank bailout

Ireland World Record Attempt: Most Expensive Bank Bailout Ever

by Anglo: Not Our Debt Campaign

12 January

December 16, 2012: An application has been lodged with the offices of the Guinness Book of Records to recognise Ireland’s as the World’s Most Expensive Bank Bailout, per capita. The World’s Most Expensive Bank Bailout bid is being submitted by the campaign group Debt Justice Action, on behalf of (...)
Series: Banks versus the People: the Underside of a Rigged Game! (Part 3)

The greatest offensive against European social rights since the Second World War

by Éric Toussaint

12 January

Part One of this series “” was published on 2 December, 2012.. See 2007-2012: Six years that shook the banking world Part 2 "The ECB and the Fed at the service of the major private banks" was published on 10 December 2012. We should not underestimate the capacity of the elites to make the most (...)
Vulture funds

UK campaigners place advert in Buenos Aires Herald telling vulture funds: ‘Claws off Argentina’

by Jubilee Debt Campaign

11 January

Jubilee Debt Campaign has placed a full-page advert in the Buenos Aires Herald today, congratulating Argentina on the return of their ship the Libertad which had been impounded in Ghana following a case brought by vulture fund NML (...)
Venezuela: After the Chavez victory

by Franck Gaudichaud

22 December 2012

The state of health of Venezuelan president Higo Chávez is such that it is possible new elections will have to take place following his victory in October 2012. International Viewpoint correspondent Franck Gaudichaud was in Venezuela in October and made this assessment of the outcome of that (...)
The World Bank must be held responsible

by Éric Toussaint

18 December 2012

This is the preface to the upcoming Japanese edition of Eric Toussaint’s book The World Bank: A Critical Primer (Pluto Press, London). The book was originally published in French in 2006. There are two English editions, one by Pluto Press in London and another by Vak in India. There are four (...)
Series : Debt cancellations : a historical perspective (part 3)

Personal endebtment and debt forgivness in the Roman empire

by Jean Andreau

17 December 2012

There was no public debt in Grecian-Roman antiquity. This absence is peculiar to the period, unlike Italian cities of the late middle ages and modern times, and modern states. Some Greek cities certainly did borrow publicly, especially in the Hellenistic period, but such loans were always (...)
Why the EU needs Croatia (even more than Croatia needs the EU)

by Srećko Horvat

11 December 2012

Croatia is expected to become the 28th member of the European Union by July 2013. Strangely enough, as things stand now the EU might have more to gain from this accession than Croatia does. When in late 2005 the accession negotiations between Croatia and the EU officially started, a leading (...)
Series: Banks versus the People: The Underside of a Rigged Game! (Part 2)

The ECB and the Fed at the service of the major private banks

by Éric Toussaint

10 December 2012

Part One of this series “2007-2012: Six years that shook the banking world” was published on 2nd December, 2012. The actions of the European Central Bank and the “Fed” Beginning in June 2011, the European banks entered a highly critical phase. Their situation was almost as serious as on 15 (...)
Statement

The real debt is to the rights of the people of Argentina

7 December 2012

The retention of the frigate Liberty in Ghana, and the recent New York court decisions ordering the country to pay new, multimillion dollar sums, reveal the persistence of a serious debt problem that continues to condition our present and future. In the most immediate, what is at stake is a new (...)

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Eurodad-Glopolis International Conference 2013 'Debt, finance and economic crisis – consequences and solutions'

International Protest on the 1st of June

World Social Forum

2012 World debt figures