What global tax basis and what kind of a global tax regime?

NIGD News and Notes September 2005

In this issue:
I. Toward the Polycentrics ? - The World Social Forum process sets roots
II. International taxation as part of the blue print for future proposals for EU constitution?
III. Searching the Global Tax Base - a perquisite for global taxes
IV. The Nervous System of Internationalism and Solidarity
V. Open letter to Foreign Ministers Tuomioja (Finland) and Kikwete(Tanzania)
VI. NIGD events

I. Towards the Polycentrics ? -The World Social Forum process sets roots
by Mikko Sauli and Teivo Teivainen
Read the Report from the World Social Forum International Council meetings in Barcelona, in June.

2. WSF IC Bamako meeting
In 2006 the WSF will be held in a polycentric manner in Caracas, Venezuela, Karachi, Pakistan and in Bamaki, Mali. Preparations are in full swing and a preparatory meeting will be held at the end of September in Bamako

3. Racism in the white left and electoral politics
By Marc Becker
Read the Radfest social forum report

4. Africa Commission of the WSF in Finland
In Finland a group of organisations together with NIGD have launched an Africa Commission of the WSF in Finland. A first meeting was held in September, introducing the WSF Africa process and debating some of the emerging points for discussion. The second meeting got feed back from WSF IC preparatory meeting in Italy, Peruggia. Read more on the ACWSF and the notes of the meetings.

II. International taxation as part of the blue print for future proposals for EU constitution?
by Thomas Wallgren
Following the French referendum on the EU constitution, Thomas Wallgren analyses that the European Union has travelled too far down the neo-liberal dead-end. Europeans may need a new blue-print for their political cooperation and a new blue-print also for their economic and social policies.

In a separate intervention, Mikael Böök suggests that international taxation, should be one of the central innovations of a future constitution. It should legitimize and encourage the implementation of global taxes such as the CTT.

III. Relaunching the CTT Draft Treaty
by Mikael Böök and Matti Kohonen
"Global taxes are a tool to fix the global economy towards a more just and stable direction. We have new tools that we can use now". Mikael Böök writes on the relaunching of the CTT Draft treaty during the Democratising Globally week in Helsinki in September.

2. Global Tax Justice
by Matti Kohonen
At the CTT Draft Treaty relaunching event, Matti Kohonen calculated the price of national sovereignty

3. Searching the Global Tax Base - a prerequisite for global taxes
by Matti Kohonen
Matti Kohonen calls for a better understanding of the global tax base, a prerequisite for setting up a global tax regime.

IV. The Nervous System of Internationalism and Solidarity
by Peter Waterman
Peter Waterman sends us a message from Mariátequi.

Letter from Lima
by Peter Waterman
In his letter from Lima, Peter Waterman asks if the world is still broad and alien.

V. Open letter to Foreign Ministers Tuomioja (Finland) and Kikwete(Tanzania)
Civil society calls for structural changes and transformations in the global political and economic systems.

VI. NIGD Events
See our Rendezvous page