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The Davos Class

The Davos class run our major institutions, know exactly what they want, and are well organized, but they have weaknesses too. For they are wedded to an ideology that isn't working and they have virtually no ideas nor imagination to resolve this.

Will the Mercozy deal save Greece and the Euro?

In a podcast debate, four activist researchers debate why the European Union is wedlocked to economic policies that will only worsen the crisis and further undermine democratic control of public budget.

 

 

A Coup D'Etat in the European Union?

European Union workers’ pretentions to better pay and working conditions, shorter working lives, munificent retirement benefits, long holidays and time off for this and that have got to be brought under control!  Enough is enough! 

Susan George au Devoir - Récompenser les coupables, punir les victimes

On est dans un système d'injustice parfaite: on récompense ceux qui ont créé la crise et on punit ses innocentes victimes.

End financial control of European governance

The Euro crisis is clear evidence that we need to break out of the economic straight-jacket imposed by the Lisbon Treaty, the European Central Bank and the over-powerful financial sector.

Abandon the Washington Consensus, forge the Istanbul Consensus

The world has had more than enough of the Washington Consensus. It’s time to impose an Istanbul Consensus based on common sense, low-cost solutions, public honesty and simple justice and give the people of the LDCs, at last, a chance.

The politics of achieving the Right to Water

Privatisation offers nothing to the 43 percent of Africans in cities who have no access to water. On World Water Day 2011, experts met in Cape Town to share experiences of successful public-public partnerships for equal public access.

Video: What must be done to save Europe's economy?

Despite the bailouts and the hype - nothing significant has actually changed in the financial industry; and the crisis in Europe remains. Susan talks about what still must be done to prevent further economic crises in Europe, stabilise, and green the economy.

Voices from the World Social Forum

Although initiated as a counter-forum to Davos, the World Social Forum has evolved beyond it now, focusing on the root causes of problems facing humanity and developing real alternatives as solutions.

Video: Susan George on the WTO, World Bank and IMF

The WTO is trying to privatise and commodify every human activity.

Wasted, ravaged, destroyed: a plea for an end to this disastrous economic model.

Capitalism is the greatest waste machine invented by mankind: the natural resources of our planet have been plundered, and the social costs are enormous. 

Waste and capitalism

How the current economic model wastes people, communities, resources and money.

Whose Crisis? Whose Future?

Whose Crisis? Whose Future? contrasts the stark realities of multiple crises facing human society, during a period of growing poverty, insecurity and austerity, with the vast amount of wealth that has been concentrated in a few hands, and asks what kind of policy going forward can address this inbalance.

Prevailing policy for our times: reward the guilty, punish the innocent

After a brief period of destabilisation, self-justification and the occasional mea culpa, the very people and institutions that plunged the world into crisis have re-emerged unscathed, as the fount of truth and all reasonable policy.

Key issues on the table at the 8th Asia Europe People's Forum

Ahead of the Asia Europe People's Forum (AEPF) which coincides with the official ASEM8 summit this year in Brussels, four TNI scholar-activists - Susan George, Praful Bidwai, Ben Hayes and Walden Bello - discuss some of the key struggles facing citizens from both regions.

European Union: most anti-democratic and neoliberal in history

At the Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM) in October, Asian governments should not take any lessons on democracy or economics from the European Union. We have to make common cause between Asian and European social movements, because we are all losing out from current policies.

Susan George: Leurs crises, nos solutions

La 'classe de Davos' constitue un monde où la finance détermine l'économique qui détermine le social. Il faut inverser l'ordre des priorités.

Video: Their Crises, Our Solutions, with Susan George

Susan George talks live at the annual TNI fellows meeting about her new book Their Crises, Our Solutions, on the banks, the economy and justice. 

Interview on France Culture - Alter-Globalisation for Susan George

Susan spoke at length on France Culture talking about the converging economic, social and environmental crises of globalization, and what alternatives exist to the current state of affairs. Susan's new book Their Crisis, Our Solutions has just been published in French (Leurs Crises, Nos Solutions) and Spanish (Sui Crisis, Nuestra Soluciones), and is due out in English in September.

Interview with Susan George at Enlazando Alternativas, Madrid 2010

Susan talked about the meaning and significance of Enlazando Alternativas as it met for the fourth time at the EA4 summit in Madrid, May 14-18 2010.