In Photos: World Beyond Banks protest activities at the WB-IMF meeting in Bali
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CASE STUDIES: Beyond the “Green Economy”: Global movements for climate justice in a fracturing world
by Nicola Bullard & Tadzio MüllerGAIA: Global Anti-Incinerator Alliance/Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives Who is in it? What is the purpose?GAIA is a worldwide alliance of more than 650 grassroots groups,...
Read More[Statement] It’s Time to Outlaw Land Grabbing, Not to Make It “Responsible”!
Français|EspañolOn 18-20 April 2011, a gathering of some 200 farmland investors, government officials and international civil servants will meet at the World Bank headquarters in Washington DC to discuss how to operationalise...
Read MoreThe G 20, Global Capital, and the Conjuncture: An Interview with Walden Bello
(From International Socialist Review, November-December 2009 (No. 68)) Walden Bello is a longtime global justice activist, professor of sociology, president of the Freedom from Debt Coalition, and senior analyst at Focus on the...
Read MoreThe Gr8 Climate Sale
The issue of climate change has come to the forefront and people both in the North and the South have been feeling the devastating effects of global warming. However, the links between the neo-liberal system and the model of...
Read MoreAlternative views of the economic crisis: Walden Bello interviewed by the BBC
The dramatic downturn gripping the global economy has breathed new life into old questions about how best to run our economic systems. Politicians, business leaders and policymakers searched for solutions at this year’s...
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‘There is no alternative to socialism’
by SMITU KOTHARI & BENNY KURUVILLA
Interview with Egyptian economist Samir Amin.
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Samir Amin: “It was the financial corporations that asked the governments to step in and ‘nationalise’ them. The rescue package was drafted by them, and they are in control of most of the bailout money.”
The financial crisis continues to spread rapidly across the world, crippling banks, stock markets and manufacturing industries and leaving hundreds of thousands jobless in its wake. Two days after the much hyped meeting of the Group of 20 in Washington, D.C., economist Samir Amin shared his insights into and analysis of the arduous road ahead for economic globalisation and the urgent need for a course change from capitalism and the possibilities of a new internationalism in the form of a Bandung II initiative.
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Poznan Declaration: World vs. Bank
Nations are gathering in Poznan, Poland under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). To meet their obligations towards developing countries and repay their climate debt, industrialized countries must agree to appropriately and adequately finance adaptation, mitigation, and technology development and transfer. The World Bank Group is positioning itself to control key financial mechanisms of the UNFCCC.
We, the undersigned organizations, oppose any World Bank role in aninternational climate change convention regime, for the following reasons:
The G8 communique on climate : regression, not a forward movement
(Statement of organizations affiliated with the G8 Action Network, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, July 9, 2006) The G 8’s communiqué regarding their action on climate is actually inaction being masked as movement. It is a great fraud...
Read MoreThe G8 communique on climate : regression, not a forward movement
(Statement of organizations affiliated with the G8 Action Network, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, July 9, 2006)
Read MoreCivil society’s choice at the G8 Summit : the road of Genoa or the road of Gleneagles?
By Walden Bello* (Speech at the opening plenary of the People’s Summit, Sapporo Convention Center, Hokkaido, Japan, July 6, 2008.) The Group of Eight came into being in 1975 as the G7 at a time that the world was embroiled in...
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World Bank casts its dark shadow over G8
MEDIA ADVISORY: Friends of the Earth International, La Via Campesina, Focus on the Global South
HOKKAIDO, Japan July 7, 2008 – The World Bank is officially launching its “climate investment funds” backed by Japan, the US and the UK during the G8 meeting in Hokkaido, Japan, 7-9 July.
The funds – which have already been criticised by developing country governments – will be used to finance so-called clean technology including coal and agrofuels, loans for adapting to climate change and to set up carbon trading schemes that allow industrialised countries to buy their way out of emission reductions.
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