10 Reasons To Abolish The Imf And The World Bank: Open Media Pamphlet

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The massive street protests of Seattle in 1999 gave birth to a new global movement which protests the policies and practices of international financial institutions like the WTO and the IMF, a movement that by 2001 in Genoa had greatly multiplied in size. Here, with ten concise arguments to challenge these institutions and all advocates of "free trade", a respected sociologist outlines how trade "liberalisation" further widens the gap between rich and poor in all nations. Revealing the lies and hypocrisies behind the IMF's lending policies in the Third World, which actually threaten local democracies and force cuts to social programs, Danaher offers the perfect primer for readers of all backgrounds. With humour and clarity he discusses the impact "free market" ideology has on international politics, the environment, and the quality of everyone's lives.

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"This excellent and accessible collection tells how to blow the whistle on the global pillage of the World Bank and the IMF." - Jeremy Brecher on 50 Years is Enough "[Globalize This!] is...a window into a new movement. There is a sense of the new mood of struggle - the anger, the passion and the remarkable clarity of purpose in challenging a system gone bad." - Bookmarks' Review of Books

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Kevin Danaher is a co-founder of Global Exchange, an international human rights organisation. In addition to work for numerous newspapers, he has written and edited many books, including Globalize This!: The Battle Against the World Trade Organization and Corporate Rule and 50 Years is Enough: The Case Against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Anuradha Mittal is the co-director of Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy, a member-supported non-profit that is committed to establishing food as a fundamental human right.