Global Left Midweek – May 24, 2023
Portside
Nakba at 75
Nakba at 75
Nakba at 75
Pakistan Demands Debt Cancellation and Climate Justice
The Bullet
Holding the government accountable for its lack of preparedness is crucial. However, given the sheer scale of the impact of the climate crisis on the Global South, talking about adaptation has its limitations.
Dismantling Bretton Woods To Pay the Climate Bill
The Nation
Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados, has a plan to create a new financial system that would fund climate spending. She put forward the Bridgetown Agenda would suspend IMF debt payments for the poorest countries.
Will Biden Ever Stand Up to the IMF’s Abuses of Power?
The Guardian
The IMF claims to deliver stability, strength, and solidarity. Its record shows the opposite.
The IMF Is Utterly Indifferent to the Pain It's Causing
Indepent Media Institute
Over these four decades, fires have burned on the streets of the countries that have gone to the IMF and then forced austerity upon their populations.
The Mexican Debt Crisis and the World Bank
Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt
Who was really responsible for the Mexican debt crisis? Did Mexico start it?
The Ordeal of Julian Assange: The Corruption, Voter Fraud and a Neoliberal Dark Turn Behind His Arrest and Expulsion
Portside
Assange's arrest, The INA Papers Scandal and the IMF deal
books
Yanis Varoufakis’s Doomed Fight Against Austerity
The New Republic
This volume is an insider's account of Greece's recent struggle to preserve the general welfare of its people in the fact of the belt-tighening demands of the managers of the international financial system. Reviewer Rensin offers an assessment.
labor
Moroccan Unions Call National Strike To Protest Economic Reforms
Reuters
Moroccan unions call for a 24 hour national strike on October 29 to protest cuts in pensions and subsidies for gasoline and fuel oil. These cuts have been demanded by the International Monetary Fund.
labor
Irish Doctors Strike to Protest Work Hours Amid Austerity
The Wall Street Journal
There is a growing impatience with austerity among public-sector workers, as the government prepares a budget for 2014 that will inflict a seventh year of spending cuts and tax increases. Irish governments have sought to control costs in response to the country's worst-ever property and banking crisis that started over five years ago. The country is obliged by its bailout with the European Union and International Monetary Fund to public sector spending and jobs cuts.
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