n30/a16 - G77 ALLIANCE ?!

At the same time as the many thousands of wonderful
dedicated young people in Washington so powerfully
convinced the IMF/WB and the world that Seattle had
only been the BEGINNING, the G77 comprising 133
poor countries "coincidentally" held a historic summit in
Havanna.

Its prominent leaders voiced full support of the protests
in Washington and its major concrete demands, debt
cancellation and fair trade, are identical with those of the
Mobilization for Global Justice.

Except for individual progressive leaders, the notion of the
summit naturally could not include the basic root of all
of the misery, the corporate rule, because many of the
133 governments are corrupt.

But with regard to the actual concrete policies there should
be all reason to seek a historic formal alliance with G77.

For instance, after an analysis of the money involved,
we could urge them all to collectively stop paying their
"debts" to the bloodsuckers.

Of course the analysis beforehand must confirm that the
consequent stop of annual aid from the rich countries
amounts to less than the total annual debt payments.

As the balance may be negative for some of the poor
countries, all of the 133 countries in solidarity should
set up a fund comprising all of the saved "debt" payments
and redistribute them so as to keep everybody indemnified.

Such fund has the additional merit of benefitting most the
countries that have bowed less to the imperialist "debt"
payment demands.

Another concrete issue for a formal alliance with G77
could be financial support from the G77 countries to
their citizens to participate in our actions.

No G77 country now can doubt that such comparatively
small money will pay a million times.

Ole Fjord Larsen,
member of United Peoples, http://www.unitedpeoples.net