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Economic Crisis

Toxic Aid: on the European Bill of Fare

Éric Toussaint

In May 2010 the European Commission created the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), financed with several hundred billion euros. Aid was intended for three years, but it is already clear that this limit will be overstepped. It is conditional on the concerned countries implementing austerity policies that are supposed to restore them to solvency.

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Chile

In the depths of a Chilean winter: the promises of a social and political spring

Pierre Mouterde

Courtesy of the harsh southern winter, it is in the cold and rain that Chilean students have been fighting for their demands for nearly three months now.
They are nonetheless planting seeds – as the mobilizations of civil society continue to grow – that offer the promise of a formidable social and political spring; a spring which could give us plenty to think about, here in Quebec. Because observing the echoes of this social effervescence which led on 23 and 24 August, 2011 to a general strike called by the trade union movement, you cannot help but be struck by the inescapable dead ends of the neoliberal model and by the means that a society must deploy to try and oppose it successfully.

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Greece

"A country being bled white and destroyed by those who claim to save it"

Sonia Mitralia

This contribution in the opening session of the London Conference "Europe against Austerity", organized by the Coalition of Resistance on October 1st 2011, was greeted by a standing ovation.

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