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IV439 - August 2011 pdf

robm — 2011-08-31T12:47:00Z

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- IV439 - August 2011 / PDF

Why agreements with the Troika are odious

Éric Toussaint, Renaud Vivien — 2011-08-31T08:08:56Z

Greece, Ireland and Portugal are the first three countries in the eurozone to agree to â€˜bailout' plans with the so-called Troika consisting of the European commission, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) which place them under the direct tutelage of their creditors. Yet these agreements, which generate new debts and force unprecedented austerity measures on the population, can be challenged under international law. They are in fact â€˜odious' and therefore illegitimate. As the odious debt doctrine clearly affirms, the debts of the State must be incurred and the funds from it employed for the needs and in the interest of the State. However, the Troika loans are conditioned by austerity measures that flout international law and make it impossible for these countries to get out of the crisis.

- IV439 - August 2011

One year after floods: Women continue struggle to rebuild life and livelihood

Bushra Khaliq — 2011-08-30T18:03:58Z

One year ago during the month of July/August, the floodwaters that ravaged southern parts of Pakistan have long receded. Though gone are the makeshift tent camps on roadsides revival of normal life and livelihood still remain a challenge. Thousands continue a daily struggle to support their families and re-establish livelihoods. As a new monsoon season is on full swing, last year's trauma and economic pain still linger. While last year's victims struggle to recover, others now worry that changing world weather patterns will cause renewed flooding.

- IV439 - August 2011 / Ecology and the Environment, Women, Pakistan, Solidarity after disasters

A Brief History of the present crisis

Hillel Ticktin — 2011-08-29T10:32:22Z

This article is a summary and development of the argument that I have been writing in the journal Critique, both in the Critique Notes and a number of articles.

- IV439 - August 2011 / Economy

Baba Jan: The most wanted political activist in Gilgit Baltestan

Farooq Tariq — 2011-08-28T15:26:16Z

"I just spoke to Baba Jan, the most wanted political activist of Gilgit Baltestan these days."

- IV439 - August 2011 / Pakistan

"The revolution has just begun"

Gilbert Achcar — 2011-08-27T10:40:47Z

The journal Al-Akhbar interviewed Gilbert Achcar on the current stage of the Arab revolutions in June 2011. The translation and introduction we publish here were published in their English-language edition on 24 August 2011.

- IV439 - August 2011 / Arab Revolutions

Remembering Manning Marable

Elizabeth Kai Hinton — 2011-08-27T10:37:51Z

Malcolm X has been getting quite a bit of the attention lately, especially with respect to A Life of Reinvention â€” and deservedly so â€” but as Professor Marable himself would tell you, no one shaped his intellectual development more than W.E.B. Du Bois.

- IV439 - August 2011

Call for a European Conference against Austerity, Cuts and Privatisation and in Defence of the Welfare State

2011-08-26T19:02:22Z

A new movement has risen in Europe. In Greece in May a series of general strikes shook the government. In France last autumn, millions went on strike and took to the streets to oppose the increase in pension age. There have been general strikes in Spain, Italy and Portugal. In Britain, a new student movement has taken to the streets against the dismantling of universal education. Ireland has seen its biggest trade union march for a generation and there have been large protests in Germany, Romania, Iceland and elsewhere.

- IV439 - August 2011 / Europe

We are against the Government's austerity budget: We must stop them, fight back now, they should pay their deficit!

Sinistra Critica (Critical Left) — 2011-08-26T18:28:53Z

The Berlusconi government's decision to bring forward their austerity measures , in response to the diktat of the ECB (European Central Bank) and the â€˜international markets' shows up the hypocrisy and platitudes of recent months – the economic crisis reveals its true face as yet another massacre of people's living standards. It is caused by the unfettered drive for profits of a blocked capitalism that is neither able to guarantee our well being nor give us a dignified future.

- IV439 - August 2011 / Italy

Police crackdown in Hunza Galgit Baltistan

Nisar Shah — 2011-08-25T23:45:10Z

Following a police crackdown in Hunza Galgit Baltistan twenty people have been arrested including 6 Labour Party Pakistan and Progressive Youth Front activists. Baba Jan is the main accused, he will not surrender. Human Rights organisations should take immediate notice of this grave situation.

- IV439 - August 2011