In solidarity with the Greek people, against illegitimate debts and austerity measures, let us mobilize!
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For joint actions around the Greek elections, and for large Euro-Mediterranean’s mobilizations in autumn 2012! |
The response to the financial and economic crisis is the same everywhere: cuts in expenditure and austerity measures under the pretext of reducing deficits and the repayment of a public debt which is the direct outcome of 20 years of neoliberal policies. Governments in the service of finance and big European capital are actually using this pretext to further reduce social spending, lower wages and pensions, privatize health care, dismantle social benefits and deregulate labour laws, increase taxes on the majority while social and tax giveaways are generalized for the big companies and the highest net worth households.
Lors des élections du 6 mai dernier, les électeurs grecs ont sanctionné les forces de la coalition qui ont appliqué les plans d’austérité et se sont soumis aux diktats de la Troïka (FMI, BCE et Commission européenne). La Nouvelle Démocratie et le PASOK ont payé le prix de leur totale soumission aux créanciers de la Grèce. Le LAOS, parti d’extrême droite et membre de la coalition précédemment au pouvoir, a quasiment disparu de la scène publique. 
May 16, 2012 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — This article does not aim to give a full account of the current Greek political crisis. Rather, the crisis will be discussed with a focus on the failure of the Greek left to form a united front in the hour of need of the masses, with a historical look at the nature of the Greek left and the parties involved in it. 
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Citizens, 15M/Indignados assemblies and various social networks and organizations around the country are building the Citizen Debt Audit Platform to demonstrate the illegitimacy of debt, identify those responsible of the crisis and demand not to pay an illegitimate debt. 
The Popular Campaign to Drop Egypt’s Debt demands, in an open letter, that all conditionality clauses relating to the proposed $3.2 billion IMF loan to Egypt be revealed
Minqi Li (minqi.li [at] 
La jornada de huelga se ha desarrollado en plena efervescencia, las calles de muchas ciudades y pueblos han sido tomadas por miles de personas y multitud de piquetes, acciones y concentraciones. Por la tarde, el corazón de las urbes se ha bloqueado por las diferentes manifestaciones que marchaban contra la reforma laboral por todo el Estado. 
Activistas lanzan un proceso de Auditoría Ciudadana para demostrar la ilegitimidad de la deuda, denunciar a sus responsables y exigir el NO PAGO de la deuda ilegítima 
We, African organizations at the Alternative World Water Forum, in Marseille from 14 to 17 March 2012, 
Par MYRIAM MARTIN Membre du Conseil politique du NPA, HÉLÈNE ADAM Membre du Conseil politique du NPA, PIERRE-FRANÇOIS GROND Membre du Conseil politique du NPA 
We now have a debt structure that will lead to ructions between the EU, the IMF and a Greece asked to consent to suicide 
Amidst a general atmosphere of an extreme lack of transparency it has come to our knowledge that Egypt had sealed agreements with three European countries pertaining to the implementation of debt swap programs, and is currently negotiating with two further countries. The countries in question according to informal sources are Germany, France, Italy and Belgium. The Popular Campaign to Drop Egypt’s Debt would like to raise strong concerns regarding the conditions under which these agreement are being negotiated, as well as the practice of debt swap itself under the given circumstances.