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  • Series : Bretton Woods, the World Bank and the IMF : 70th anniversary (Part 6)

    The cancellation of German debt in 1953 versus the attitude to the Third World and Greece

    26 August 2014, by Éric Toussaint

    The United States cancelled the debts of some of its allies. The most obvious instance of this kind was the way the German debt was largely cancelled by the 1953 London Agreement. In order to make sure that the economy of West Germany would thrive and thus become a key element of stability in the Atlantic bloc, the creditor allies led by the United States made major concessions to German authorities and corporations - concessions that went beyond debt relief. A comparison between the way West Germany was treated after WWII and the current attitude to developing countries or to Greece today is a telling story.

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  • Series : Bretton Woods, the World Bank and the IMF: 70th anniversary (Part 5)

    Why the Marshall Plan ?

    25 August 2014, by Éric Toussaint

    As its initial name indicates (International Bank for reconstruction and development), the World Bank (WB) had two main objectives:
    1. bring financial support to the reconstruction of the countries that had been devastated by the Second World War;
    2. grant loans to contribute to the development of backward countries (as developing countries were then called). The US, that call the music at the WB and on the international scene, decided that they would do without the WB for their reconstruction mission in Europe and unilaterally set up a large financial programme intended to restore the European productive apparatus in the countries within their orbit.

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  • A Renewed Strategic Perspective on Socialist Work in the Labor Movement

    16 August 2014, by Labor Commission of Solidarity

    This February, the Solidarity Labor Commission held a two-day retreat at which we reflected on Solidarity’s labor work and the rank-and-file union perspective that has guided it for decades. This outline of a renewed strategic perspective is what emerged from our discussions. Although there is much here that is new, this perspective reflects our attempt to interpret the trajectory of union reform work since the 1980s and the political dynamics of the current period through the lens of Solidarity’s long-standing commitment to a politics of “socialism from below.”

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  • Women’s liberation:? The Marxist tradition

    15 August 2014, by Sharon Smith

    “If women’s liberation is unthinkable without communism, then communism is unthinkable without women’s liberation.”

    —Russian revolutionary Inessa Armand

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