Leaked minutes of IMF meetings in 2010 show that Argentina, Brazil, India, Russia and Switzerland all argued that some Greek debt owed to private banks should be cancelled before any…
The cost of austerity packages imposed in the name of paying debts in Europe has been high. In Portugal fees for health care have been imposed, costs for utilities have…
The UK government has backed loans to Pakistan, Indonesia and the Gambia without conducting any assessment of their impact, or the ability of the countries to repay. The revelations come…
Yesterday we handed in the 10,000 Jubilee for Justice paper chains we’ve collected around the country over the last year to Downing Street. Here are some photos and a short…
I sometimes get asked, ‘If all countries are in debt, then who are they in debt to’? It’s a good question. Have we discovered life on another planet, who are…
One year ago today, a bill to audit the Tunisian public debt was submitted to the Assembly, but this democratic initiative has been blocked by global finance.
I bumped into the Business Minister whilst cycling through South London. Cycling to my Econowhat? reading group through Stockwell in South London last week, my eyes were drawn to the…
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…
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…
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…
