This page provides not just an anarchist analysis of the World Bank and IMF, but also links to excellent resources that have been published by other groups. In October one of their members will be speaking in Ireland about these protests. Vadim Barek, Solidarita's international secretary explains what the IMF means to workers in the Czech republic and why they are organising against the summit. If you've ever owed money to a bank, you'll know it's not a pleasant experience. Depending on whether they think you're good for the money, the bank will either screw you in the short term or milk you dry over the longer haul.
Banks are in the business of making money and generally they'll stop at nothing to get their way.
The current International Monetary Fund and World Bank meeting is a symbol of the control of the international financiers and bosses of global companies over the countries of the former soviet block. This globalisation is based on the globalisation of the exploitation of workers. Capitalism is the system that ensures maximum benefits for a tiny number of the worlds people by imposing misery, joblessness, insecurity and a degraded life on all the rest of us. The World Bank, GATT and Free Trade by Noam Chomsky Their early role was in helping to carry through the reconstruction of the state capitalist industrial societies that had been wrecked by the Second World War. At this point we move into controversy.