Global Justice School / École altermondialiste 2003

Alternative politics II: rethinking trade and finance

Eric Toussaint <cadtm@skynet.be>

1st Part:

The struggle for debt cancellation and to put an end to structural adjustment policies

A front of debtor nations

Alternative means of funding development

Redistributing ill-gotten goods

Mobilizing national resources through fiscal reform and land reform

Right to protectionism

Control over capital movements

Tobin Tax and other global taxes

Public aid to development / Reparations

South-South trade agreements

Coalition of producer countries

Recovering control over natural resources and re-nationalizing privatized firms

2nd part

Latin America

Ongoing political experiences

Brazil: Lula government's neo-liberal course

Argentina: from the prerevolutionary crisis of Dec. 2001 to "back to business"

Venezuela: Attempt to change things from above. Most advanced current experience.

Cuba: resistance.