[Peace-discuss] Opposition to BORing neoliberalism

[C. G. Estabrook]

Growing opposition to BOR-ing (Bush-Obama-Romney) economic and military policies should note the parallel uprisings against neoliberalism in Europe and LA.

"...With the world economy faltering, German attempts at austerity may backfire. In the 1990s, the IMF’s high-handed structural adjustment programmes helped to make Latin America the vanguard continent for opposition to neo-liberalism. 

"Syriza, only a fraction behind the NPD in the June 2012 election [in Greece], has dispatched one of its leading economists to Buenos Aires to discuss Argentina’s experience of default. Ecuador’s successful debt audit — opening the government’s books and undertaking a democratic assessment of what was owed and what was ‘odious’ — offers further lessons. 

"If the oligarchies that have run the EU since Maastricht have never won the active support of their populations for the direction of their rule, up till now they have not met any real political resistance. It remains to be seen whether this drastic new turn of the vice, in crisis conditions, can screw the popular will down again so easily."

from <http://www.newleftreview.org/II/75/susan-watkins-another-turn-of-the-screw>
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