25 September 2011
Anticapitalism and environmentalism as a political alternative
by Esther Vivas
We cannot analyse the global ecological crisis separately from the crisis in which we are immersed or the critique of the economic model that has led us into it.
The starting point for today’s debate is to note that humanity is in a global ecological crisis that is an intrinsic part of the systemic crisis of capitalism. And one of the differences from past economic crises, from that of the 1970s or the crash of 1929, is precisely its ecological aspect.


In July - September 2011 the stock markets were again shaken at international level. The crisis has become deeper in the EU, particularly with respect to debts. The CADTM interviewed Eric Toussaint about various facets of this new stage in the crisis.
A Greek default and exit must be taken in the people’s interests – not entrusting the process to the EU, IMF and banks.
This is an audit of Irish sovereign debt, and as such seeks to quantify and explain the debts, both real and contingent, for which the Irish people have become responsible.
In July-September 2011 the stock markets were again shaken at international level. The crisis has become deeper in the EU, particularly with respect to debts. The CADTM interviewed Eric Toussaint about various facets of this new stage in the crisis.
In July-September 2011 the stock markets were again shaken at international level. The crisis has become deeper in the EU, particularly with respect to debts. The CADTM interviewed Eric Toussaint about various facets of this new stage in the crisis.
We live in a world of plenty. Today food is produced for 12
François Chesnais vient de publier un livre important, intitulé "Les dettes illégitimes. Quand les banques font main basse sur les politiques publiques" (Editions Raisons d’agir, 2011). Un livre pédagogique dégageant les mécanismes financiers et bancaires à l’origine de la dette dite souveraine. Il indique aussi l’actualité d’une bataille européenne pour l’annulation des dettes illégitimes. Dans l’article ci-dessous, il met en relief les traits saillants du thème qu’il traite dans son ouvrage.
During the early 1940s, Berlin, in order to have financial means of securing its strategic objectives in the Balkans, the Mediterranean basin and Libya, had imposed the most strict conditions on Greece, under occupation, to finance and feed the German armies active in the area. Greek agriculture was almost entirely feeding the German armies in the Libyan front.
Ya son incontables las comparaciones del antecedente argentino con el desmoronamiento de Grecia. Los analistas intentan discernir si las medidas adoptadas por el primer país aliviarían o agravarían la situación del segundo. 