Neoliberalism

The triple failing of the big private banks

18 March 2008 - by Eric Toussaint, Damien Millet

Since August 2007, US and European banks have constantly made headline news concerning the deep crisis they are going through and its knock-on effect on the neoliberal economic system as a whole. Asset depreciation for these banks currently (...)
Presentation for the Department of Development Studies - School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London

New Left-Wing Governments in South America : Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador : A First Balance-Sheet

27 February 2008 - by Eric Toussaint

Here is the presentation of Eric Toussaint during The Globalisation Lectures, organised by the Department of Development Studies School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of (...)
Press

The « Rebel »’s reply

8 February 2008 - by Jérôme Ollier

Jérôme Ollier’s reply to the President of the Brussels Stock exchange published by Le Soir on page 19 of its 7 February issue
Green shoots amidst debt chaos

10 January 2008 - by Eric Toussaint

As regards North/South relations [1], we are at present in a situation which is exactly the opposite of the financial crises of the past 25 years. The credit bubble has begun to deflate and is moving towards the developing countries in the form (...)
An international economic situation dominated by the bursting of the North’s private debt and housing bubbles

10 January 2008 - by Eric Toussaint

Updated January 2008 The crisis that swept through the US in August 2007 is not over yet and the international repercussions will be deep and lasting. When the housing bubble burst in August 2007, it shook financial markets worldwide. This (...)
Green shoots amidst debt chaos

4 December 2007 - by Eric Toussaint

December 2007 As regards North/South relations, we are at present in a situation which is exactly the opposite of the financial crises of the past 25 years. The credit bubble has begun to deflate and is moving towards the developing countries (...)
An international economic situation dominated by the bursting of the North’s private debt and housing bubbles

22 November 2007 - by Eric Toussaint

The crisis that swept through the US in August 2007 is not over yet and the international repercussions will be deep and lasting. When the housing bubble burst in August 2007, it shook financial markets worldwide. This housing crisis is closely (...)
Strategies of the Left in Latin America

29 October 2007 - by Claudio Katz

The call to build socialism of the twenty-first century has re-opened the strategic discussion on the Latin American left. Once again characterizations of socialism and courses of action are being analyzed to advance the socialist objective. (...)
2015 is just around the corner !

29 October 2007 - by Eric Toussaint

This article is published in “Rebel Voices of the World” , HB Editeur, Forcalquier, 2007, ISBN 978-2-914581-79-0. We are on the threshold of 2015 : only nine years to go and the picture ahead is very troubling. Clearly, the living conditions of (...)
Press release

CADTM denounces the exponential enrichment of the few while the fundamental rights of billions go unheeded

Forbes magazine has just published its annual list of the world’s richest individuals, and CADTM cannot remain silent in the face of the out-and-out scandal that lies behind these figures. According to Forbes, there are currently 946 (...)
Press release

Hungary: CADTM denounces government’s outrageous schemes to enforce a neoliberal economic policy

24 September 2006 - by CADTM

Hungary has faced its third week of demonstrations against Prime Minister, Ferenc Gyurcsany, member of the Socialist Party, a recording of whom revealed last Sunday the lies and the basically anti-democratic behaviour. In order to win (...)
When solidarity depends on the magnanimity of a few

7 August 2006 - by Damien Millet

On Monday 26th of June, the two most wealthy people in the world made the headlines together. The first one, Bill Gates, heads a charity to which the second one, Warren Buffet, promised a large share of his fortune. At first sight, the (...)
Anne Krueger, the White Knight of globalisation

8 March 2004 - by Eric Toussaint

Anne Krueger, First Deputy Managing Director of the IMF: “Our central role is to facilitate the process of globalization. In a very real sense, that is what we exist for”.
The globalist project in crisis

The Economics of Empire

5 January 2004 - by Walden Bello

We have, in short, entered a historical maelstrom marked by prolonged economic crisis, the spread of global resistance, the reappearance of the balance of power among center states, and the reemergence of acute inter-imperialist (...)