I have long been sympathetic to the concept of long cycles in capitalist production and accumulation. This is the idea that ...

The historic 10 th session of negotiations for a UN treaty to hold transnational corporations (TNCs) accountable for their ...

In 1996 the IMF and the World Bank launched an initiative aimed at reducing the debt burden for some 41 heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC), whose total debts amount to about 10% of the Third World ...

Recently, there has been a spate of articles and commentary about ‘US exceptionalism', namely that the US economy is bounding ...

According to the doctrine, for a debt to be odious it must meet two conditions: 1) It must have been contracted against the interests of the Nation, or against the interests of the People, or against ...

The mobilizations at the 3 rd Asia-Europe Summit (ASEM) which met on October 20 and 21, 2000 in Seoul (South Korea), represented a new stage in the struggle against neoliberal globalization. Attending ...

The members are the private banks that lend to Third World states and companies. During the 70s, deposit banks had become the main source of credit for countries in difficulty. By the end of the ...

In July 2024, the World Bank and the IMF will be 80 years old. 80 years of financial neo-colonialism and the imposition of austerity policies in the name of debt repayment. 80 years is enough! The ...