This article was written by Leo Brown, who was our new Campaign & Events Assistant. I had the opportunity to attend the Reimagining the Econom y conference we were hosting as part of the Edinburgh World Justice Festival at the Edinburgh Methodist Church. The one day conference brought together academics, campaigners and politicians to open […]
How the response to the last crisis laid the foundations for the next
This article was written by Bodo Ellmers, Policy and Advocacy Manager – Debt and Financial Reforms. Eurodad, European Network on Debt and Development Ten years after the last crisis began, global debt levels are higher than before, and debt vulnerabilities are increasingly hard to manage. That’s why activists all over the world are standing up to call […]
Chaos and Creativity: campaigning against RBS
This article was written by Ric Lander. “Make It Happen” was an RBS slogan that meant far more than they intended. In the mid-2000s activists had spent years of fighting oil spills, pipelines and mega coal mines and the damage they cause. When they began to look deeper into how these projects came about they […]
Pearls of a Private Banking System
This article was written by Hugh Cullen, Scottish Socialist Party National Secretary. “The only surprise of the Economic Crisis of 2008 was that it came as a surprise to so many” Joseph Stiglitz, Freefall. The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) takes no glee from the crises of capitalism that socialists have tirelessly exposed for the past […]
Ten years on: the future depends on our movement for global justice
This article was written by Nick Dearden. Nick is the director of the social justice campaigning organisation, Global Justice Now, one of Jubilee Scotland’s member organisations. I was in Quito, Ecuador, on 15 September 2008, the day investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed and the financial crisis exploded. Appropriately enough, I was there to celebrate Ecuador’s ‘debt […]
Understanding China’s New Silk Road to Prosperity and Power
This article was written by Dorothy Grace Guerrero The West have largely ignored or underestimated China’s New Silk Road Project, Beijing’s most ambitious project to date. Now that it is becoming the biggest channel for outward investments and creating a more connected Eurasia from Spain to Indonesia, governments are waking up and jostling to get on […]
Microcredit: a solution or simply different problems?
This article was written by one of our volunteers, Elena Scarso, and edited by Jubilee Scotland. Banks are often considered the cause of economic and financial issues. Trying to change this opinion, in 1983 Muhammad Yunus had the idea to create a microcredit institute able to support poor people by means of loans on easy […]
Student Debt: An Ongoing Economic Crisis
This is a guest blog post written by Mark Borthwick. You can contact him via: MDBorthwick@gmail.com This piece refers to the English student loan system and when it refers to the government it is referring to the government at Westminster and not at Holyrood. Extract This blog post aims to illustrate how student loans work […]
The Italian Brain Drain: How to Take the Best from the Worst
This article was written by one of our volunteers, Elena Scarso, and edited by Jubilee Scotland. The 2008 financial crisis involved serious consequences for the whole Western world. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the southern side of Europe, historically the poorer than the northern countries, were the worst affected.Spain, Greece and Italy had […]