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How Europe underdevelops Africa and how some fight back

Patrick Bond and Richard Kamidza

In even the most exploitative African sites of repression and capital accumulation, sometimes corporations take a hit, and victims sometimes unite on continental lines instead of being divided-and-conquered.

Petition protesting Telecom Italia's case against Bolivia at World Bank tribunal, ICSID

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The letter below and updated petition was delivered on 20 March 2008 to World Bank President Zoellick and ICSID General Secretary Ana Palacio and to contacts for ETI and their lawyers, Telefonica, Telecom Italia, World Bank external affairs, and the ICSID secretariat.

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The story of a Dutch letterbox which could cost Bolivia a fortune

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Oliver Shykles

Telecom Italia's case against Bolivia at a secretive World Bank tribunal, ICSID, heralds an increasingly pro-corporate approach against southern countries under the aegis of the EU's Global Europe project.

Bilateral Investment Treaties represent the codification of a new...

No to Corporate Europe – Yes to Global Justice!

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Seattle to Brussels Network

As members of the Seattle to Brussels Network (S2B), we are calling for concerted efforts to roll back the strategy of the European Union called “Global Europe: Competing in the World”, the EU’s unfair bilateral trade agreements and corporate power.

As members of the Seattle to...

ICSID/Telecom Italia: hands off Bolivia!

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“Some multinational companies take over our natural resources, privatize basic services, fail to pay taxes and then, when they have no arguments in their defense, they go to the so-called ICSID. And then, in that World Bank tribunal, no country wins against the multinationals. So why do we need...

Permanent People’s Tribunal on European Multinationals In Latin America – Union Fenosa

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Michael Clayton exposes the corporations -- again

Saul Landau

Testimonies at 'World vs Bank'

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Strategic Corporate Initiative

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Petroleum TNCs in Columbia – Death traded for Petrol and Profits

Brid Brennan