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Attac Sweden: The time has come: Let's shut down the financial casino

Attac's statement on the financial crisis and democratic alternatives. A historic window of opportunity is opening. It will depend on pressure from public opinion whether a real change of course is achieved.
Another finance system is possible: Stability and solidarity before profits.

A. Systemic changes instead of piecemeal repair
B. A new Bretton Woods instead of "self-regulating market forces"
C. Breaking the dominance of financial markets
D. Mitigating the effect of the crisis on real economy and "speculator pays principle"
E. Reforms in central parts of the system

to read Attac's statement on the financial crisis from September 2008, visit

attac.se/kampanjer/3503/the-time-has-come-lets-shut-down-the-financial-casino

Related Link:

Porto Alegre Manifesto: Twelve proposals for another possible world - January 2005 - Melbourne Social Forum

www.melbournesocialforum.org/joomla/index.php/component/content/article/47-jose/111-porto-alegre-manifesto
 
 

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