What now for Greece – collapse or resurrection?
Neoliberal economics planned in Brussels and Berlin will push Greece into third-world working conditions
The reporting of the Greek tragedy over the last couple of years gives the impression that economics is a master science. Yet, the mainstream economists who gave Lehman Brothers a certificate of rude health just before its collapse, predicted tat by 2012 the Greek economy would start growing. The economy shrank by 7% last year and a further 6% contraction is predicted for this year, with worse to come. This is the fastest slump in recent times. The discipline of this type of economics is often closer to a confidence trick than a science.
Eric Toussaint, Doctor of Political Science and President of the Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt (CADTM), is a member of the Commission for an Integral Auditing of Public Debt in Ecuador (CAIC) whose findings resulted in Ecuador stopping its repayment of part of its debt. He claims that Greece must stop paying its debt and must rise up against the Troika (the European Central Bank, the IMF and the European Commission) otherwise it will sink into the doldrums of permanent recession. 
Eric Toussaint, docteur en sciences politiques et président du Comité pour l’Annulation de la Dette du Tiers Monde (CADTM) est membre de la Commission d’audit intégral sur le crédit public en Equateur (CAIC) dont l’action a abouti à la suspension de paiement d’une partie de la dette équatorienne. Pour lui, la Grèce doit arrêter de payer la dette et doit se rebeller face à la Troïka composée de la Banque centrale européenne, du FMI et de la Commission européenne sans quoi elle s’enlisera dans une récession permanente. 
A propos du livre de Daniel Bensaïd, Marx I’intempestij. Grandeurs et misères d’une aventure critique (XIXe-XXe siècles) Fayard, 1995, 415 pages 
Negotiations to reduce Greek debt have been suspended after no agreement could be reached last week. At some point in the near future Greece seems certain to default on its obligations. But the drama surrounding the talks in Athens, Berlin and Paris shows that there will be nothing co-operative about Greek default. It is a ruthless contest dominated by the so-called troika: the European Union, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. 
We, people of all continents, gathered in the Assembly of the Social Movements during the Thematic Social Forum Capitalist Crisis and Social and Environmental Justice, fight against the causes of a systemic crisis expressed as the economic, financial, political, food, and environmental crisis, that puts at risk the survival of humankind. Decolonizing oppressed peoples and confronting imperialism is the main challenge of the social movements of all over the world. 
It is two years since Daniel Bensaïd left us. To mark the occasion, the Fourth International secretariat organized a seminar on his thought and action. This was not a big public initiative but three days of work to look further into a series of questions tackled by the theoretician, philosopher and political militant that Daniel was. 
Des voix s’élèvent – dans les rues de Hongrie et dans les institutions de l’UE – contre la Loi fondamentale que le gouvernement ultra-nationaliste d’Orban vient de mettre en vigueur.
In Francia l'appello ha superato le 50 mila adesioni, in Belgio le associazioni Attac e Cadtm hanno fatto ricorso al Consiglio di Stato contro i 54 miliardi per salvare la banca Dexia, in Grecia c'è un comitato attivo da un anno. Incontriamoci anche in Italia 
Cuando se ha incrementado la deuda pública, ¿por qué no se alude a los rescates y recapitalizaciones bancarias; subvenciones al capital explícitos –como las de la industria a la automoción– e implícitos –como el sistema tarifario que se aplica a las compañías eléctricas–, o las desgravaciones, deducciones y exenciones fiscales al capital –en impuestos, en las cotizaciones sociales, etc.–? 
We will save the markets, not the climate. That is how we can summarize the outcome of the 17th Conference of Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCC) which took place in Durban, South Africa between 28 November and 10 December 2011. 
Hossam el-Hamalawy is a leading Egyptian journalist, photographer, and socialist activist from Cairo who maintains the widely followed blog