Brussels (16 May 2014) – A Tribunal on EU economic governance and the Troika took place in Brussels on 15-16 May. Eleven witnesses from ten countries in Southern, Eastern and Western Europe gave testimony to the failure of the EU and Troika policies to address the crisis. In fact many testified that the strategy of the austerity policy measures is a deliberate attack on working people’s... Read more
The programs of austerity and privatizations imposed by the Troika decide on the lives of millions of people in Europe. Together with people in Europe and the whole world we resist the rehabilitation of capitalism on the backs of employees as well as unemployed, retirees, migrants and the youth. Together with them we say: "We don't owe, we won't pay!"... Read more
In 1999 I reviewed Susan George’s original Lugano Report, a Swiftian satire in which a shadowy group of advisers gather in the luxurious Swiss resort to recommend the best ways to preserve capitalism in the new millennium. In How To Win the Class War she reconvenes her fictional working party to consider developments during the past decade and make suggestions as to how to further protect the... Read more
Does the world need more information about the evils of capitalism?... Read more
She discusses how austerity policies in Europe mirror the structural adjustment programmes adopted by developing countries in the 1970s and 1980s, and argues that satire and black humour have more chance of engaging people in debates about complex economic issues. Watch the video here (2.49 min) Read the interview with Susan George in The Guardian
In a discreet villa in Switzerland, carefully chosen experts have been assembled by a shadowy group of wealthy and powerful commissioners and tasked with answering a single big question: how, amid the global financial crisis, can a renaissance of western capitalism be best ensured? This is the Machiavellian scene that opens the latest book from Susan George, the prolific Franco-American... Read more
Susan George has a world wide reputation as a searing critic of capitalist globalisation and as an activist for international social justice. Her first 'Lugano Report' more than a decade ago attracted attention in part because she wrote it in the persona of a sinister international cabal planning the future neo-liberal world economic order. In it George predicted, well ahead of the event, the... Read more
Pocas personas disfrutan tanto como Susan George (Ohio, 1934) de desnudar el cinismo de las grandes corporaciones y los gobiernos al servicio del capital. George, quien no se despeina al declarar que no es economista sino activista y voz incómoda para las injusticias, retó a los poderosos con su blasfemo “Informe Lugano” que, junto con otros 13 títulos de los que es autora, sigue su lema de ... Read more
Al igual que la peste en el siglo XIV, el azote de la deuda ha ido migrando paulatinamente del Sur al Norte. La Yersinia pestis del siglo XXI no se propaga a través de las ratas infestadas de pulgas, sino del letal fundamentalismo neoliberal, infestado de ideología. Antes, sus adalides tenían nombres como Thatcher o Reagan; ahora suenan más bien a Merkel o Barroso. Pero el mensaje, la... Read more
Like plague in the 14th century, the scourge of debt has gradually migrated from South to North. Our 21st-century Yersinia pestis isn’t spread by flea-infested rats but by deadly, ideology-infested neoliberal fundamentalists. Once they had names like Thatcher or Reagan; now they sound more like Merkel or Barroso; but the message, the mentality and the medicine are basically the same. The... Read more
