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The Bretton Woods Institutions’ colonial paradigm / Read
This article describes the neo-colonial paradigm of the “twin” Bretton Woods Institutions (BWIs) – the World Bank (today called the World Bank Group/WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Read more
Born for war: The lost history of the World Bank and IMF in conflict / Read
This piece aims to critically question whether the IFIs’ deepening interventions into war is appropriate, as their neoliberal models of development and peace continue to contribute to worsening inequality and violence, as conflicts explode across the globe. Read more
Financing plunder: The World Bank and resistance in India’s North East / Read
The World Bank (WB) and other international financial institutions (IFIs) have been involved extensively in financing development projects in India’s North East. This intensified especially since India adopted the Act East Policy in 2014. Read more
About A People’s History of the IMF-World Bank
It will be crucial to mark the 80 years of Bretton Woods from the perspective of peoples and their organisations who struggle against the Bank and the Fund for violating people’s rights and sovereignty. Today, a People’s History of the IMF-World Bank is best written by peoples and organisations in struggle themselves, as tools to further organise to reject the imperialist dictates of these institutions in the present – towards supporting the vision of shutting these institutions down to reclaim our future.
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