Break the imperialist deathgrip of debt!
Fight U.$. Dependency on the Rest of the World
The majority of the world's people suffer exploitation and oppression at the hands of the minority. The Jubilee 2000 Campaign addresses this situation, taking advantage of the religious significance of the year 2000 and calling for a "debt-free start to the Millennium for a billion people." This movement calls for cancellation of unpayable debts for the "world's poorest countries" by the end of the year 2000. This includes over 50 countries that carry a debt burden of 93% of their total incomes.The campaign name is inspired by the scriptural year when slaves are set free. MIM and RAIL do not need religious significance to call for an end to the death grip of debt payments that keep Third World countries controlled by imperialism and in poverty. This is a good opportunity to mobilize people who can see the justice in ending Third World peoples' strangulation through debt.
Since the 1980s many Third World countries have taken out huge loans from the United $nakes, England, Japan and other imperialist countries and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (WB) which act as banks run by the imperialists. These loans far exceeded the capacity of the countries to repay. As a result, the interest and further loans taken out to pay back original loans have led to spiraling debt. The imperialists have stolen from the rest of the world and owe reparations. The majority of the world should NOT owe imperialists for loans taken out in efforts to rebuild from imperialist plunder.
The debt problems go with economic inequality between rich and poor. "In 1960, income of the wealthiest 20% of the world's population was 30 times greater than that of the poorest 20%. Today it is over 60 times greater." The vast majority of the people in the U$ fall within the wealthiest 20% group. Most in the United $nakes benefit from the debt deathgrip on the rest of the world, and in order to truly fight oppression, Amerikkkans must fight against this privilege.
Learn how Structural Adjustment Policies have been used to further repress Third World peoples, how to support national self-determination, how 134,000 children can be saved from starvation every week and how this all depends on ending the imperialist deathgrip of debt.
Contact the Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist League (RAIL) and The Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM) for more info on future talks and protests around this issue. All are welcome to get involved.
For more information on the Jubilee 2000 movement, see MIM's website.
Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM)
P.O. Box 3576, Ann Arbor, MI 48106
http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/ mim@mim.org
Do you agree with the text of this flyer? Have questions but want to generate discussion with others? Want to print off a few hundred and hand them out or post them around town? Please do, it is vital that more individuals and organizations take an activist role in opposing imperialism and its abuse of the world's people. Then get in touch, let us know you're doing this work so we can give credit to everyone who's doing work to expose the tactics of imperialist debt production.