For the first time in a decade, people in Europe are experiencing what those in the global South have known for generations: the power of debt to dictate the course of people’s lives.

 Debt Week 2011

Millions of people are living in extreme poverty while governments use our money to bail out a financial system that is making the world more unequal. From 8-16 October 2011 we will join with Jubilee groups around the world for a week of action against debt and the international financial institutions.

 We will be demanding debt justice NOT debt slavery.
 In the UK, we will be making the links between debt justice and two of the big news stories of the year:

 End Britain’s Dodgy Deals.

 As democracy movements strengthen across North Africa and the Middle East, countries like Egypt are being asked to repay dictator debts to the UK government – and they don’t even know what the money was used for. 

 Debtocracy. 

It’s the debt documentary that has taken Greece by storm. From the history of Greece's debt, to the different ways countries like Ecuador and Argentina have stood up for democratic control over national finances, Debtocracy is an essential tool for understanding the European debt crisis.