UK’s financial watchdog fails to protect debt-trap victims
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has called for a crackdown on high-interest lending but its proposals do not go far enough, says the End the Debt Trap coalition.
Ghana’s debt situation worsens as lenders continue to be bailed out
• IMF projections for debt, revenue and interest all over-optimistic • But public spending cut by more than initially planned • Debt crisis expected to continue for next twenty years,…
We still need a debt jubilee: 20 years on from the Birmingham human chain
Twenty years ago today, as a wide-eyed 16 year old, I went on my first ever protest. Travelling to Birmingham with a group from my church, we joined 70,000 others…
Black and brown communities hit hard by rising student debt
The marketisation of the higher education sector and rocketing student debts impacts Black and brown communities in the UK, writes Ilyas Nagdee in this guest blog.
UK willing to back loans to Malaysian government for weapons
Proposal for Eurofighter exports takes no account of 1MDB scandal where Malaysian government guarantees were used to embezzle loans 1MDB loans were given under UK law – critics of Malaysian…
Community project aims to write off local debt
A former high street bank in Walthamstow is being run for community benefit in a pioneering and artistic project to print money and abolish local debt.
All over the world debt injustice hurts women most
From austerity in the UK, to the new debt crisis in Africa, the effects of debt-servicing and policy conditions are not gender-neutral.
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Remembering Jubilee 2000 supporter Ian Marks
Ann Pettifor shares a moving tribute to Ian Marks who made a crucial contribution to the Jubilee 2000 movement
Petition hand-in: stop exporting healthcare debt
This week we delivered hundreds of campaign postcards to the Department of Health, calling for an end to the promotion of private finance for healthcare in the global south.
