Tens Years After: challenges and Proposals for another possible world

 

Nancy Neamtan 

The past decade has been dominated by an acceleration of the process of globalization that has modified an entire series of power relationships within and between countries and continents. In certain parts of the globe, progress has been made in the establishment of more democratic governments. In other parts of the globe, the situation has stagnated or has deteriorated.

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Ten years later: challenges and proposals for another possible world

Susan George

Although the World Social Forum’s meetings are always hopeful occasions, none of us will find much to celebrate as we look back on the year just past.  It climaxed with the Copenhagen Catastrophe—exceptionally bad news for the human race– but it had also witnessed two appallingly conventional G-20 meetings whose clear objective was to return to Business as Usual in the shortest possible time.    The G-20s remedy consisted in saving the IMF from extinction by handing it $750 billion worth of taxpayers’ money with absolutely no conditions.   Thus the Fund is once more free to impose drastic structural adjustment policies on its victims.   There was a brief flurry over tax-havens but the G-20 fixed things so that none of them needed to worry and made the ridiculous announcement that there were no longer any countries on the OECD black-list. 

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