Goodnight Greece – Good morning Colony!
Our friends in the Greek Debt Audit Campaign have responded to this week’s Eurogroup statement on Greece: Greek Debt Audit Campaign announcement on the November 27 Eurogroup decision. On November…
MPs inquiry calls for end to Dodgy Deals
A cross-party group of MPs has released a report into UK Export Finance – or what we call the Department for Dodgy Deals. The report, covered on the front page…
Florence blog: How much longer can we abandon Greece?
Ten years ago 60,000 activists converged in Florence for the first European Social Forum to discuss building another world. That meeting, four months before the invasion of Iraq, catalysed the…
Egypt groups speak out against IMF loan
Egyptian civil society and political groups have written an open letter to the head of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, and the Egyptian President, to oppose the IMF’s proposed $4.8 billion…
Greece on the brink as bailout and austerity cycle deepens
The social and economic crisis in Greece is continuing, as the country votes on more cuts demanded by the Troika in return for a new bailout loan. The ‘Troika’ of…
Scale of UK arms loans to dictators revealed for first time
Ed Davey may have misled parliament over Egypt's dictator debts
Open letter from Nobel Peace Prize winner over Vulture Fund dispute
Argentine organisations – led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel – have denounced the violation of sovereignty and the illegitimacy of the debt claimed by vulture fund NML…
Egypt blog 4: A Middle East Beanfeast
Another reason why Egypt shouldn’t be paying its odious Mubarak-era debt was highlighted by a teachers’ protest yesterday against the appalling under-investment in education here. While there is a theoretical…
Egypt blog 3: Who will pay the price?
Spent the day at the brilliant conference which looked at ‘who will pay the price’ for decisions to pay Mubarak’s debt and take Egypt down the so-called ‘free market’ economic…
Egypt blog 2: What should Egypt ‘swap’ for Mubarak’s debts?
Today we’re taking part in a conference organised by activists from the Drop Egypt’s Debt Campaign, a campaign which is rapidly growing in profile. The campaign has just issued a…
