Politics / Debt

Haiti’s so-called ‘independence debt’ helped lay the ground for the crisis in the country today. Harold Isaac reports.

5 reasons why debt is a feminist issue. Words by Amy Hall

When Covid-19 plunged many countries further into debt crises, the G20 came up with a plan that was supposed to help alleviate the debt burden. Four years later, not one country has reached a deal. Amy Hall explores why.

Yanis Varoufakis explores how we can transform debt from ball and chain to an enabler of shared prosperity.

Know your debt; Twin powers; Where the money flows; Household debt.

How can we build our power to abolish illegitimate debt? Astra Taylor speaks to Amy Hall about founding Debt Collective, a US-based union for debtors.

Action, and further reading on climate capitalism.

Rising costs, Covid-19 and austerity have pushed too many countries – and households – into unmanageable debt. Amy Hall asks how we got here, and finds a movement shaking off the stigma of debt and getting organized.

In too deep, by Husna Ara.

Spain’s human shields against evictions, by Luke Stobart.

As the International Monetary Fund keeps pushing austerity, Zambian journalist Zanji Valerie Sinkala explores whether that’s really a solution to her country’s economic woes.

Inflation, poverty and hunger, debt, profit and inequality.

Initiatives, action, and further reading on the cost of living.

As the cost of living crisis becomes entrenched, Nick Dowson examines the scene of the crime, tracks down the culprits and proposes a route to resolution.

Report from Pakistan by Farooq Tariq.

Payback time, by Danny Chivers.

Mozambican campaigners call for debt cancellation.

If the global financial crisis symbolized the decline of the West, it also signalled that the future belongs to China – a superpower that ‘understands’ the developing world better than the US, IMF or World Bank, according to Martin Jacques.

It’s 10 years since the global financial system almost sent the world into a great depression. Yohann Koshy takes stock of what went wrong and where we are now.

Josh Eisen and Richard Swift tour the offshore world to find out why governments are drowning in debt.