The transcript of Dialogos Radio’s interview with political scientist and historian Eric Toussaint of the Committee for the Abolition of Third-World Debt (CADTM), who spoke to us about his recent meetings with members of the Greek government and about the formation of a new parliamentary commission that will audit Greece’s public debt. This interview aired on our broadcasts for the week of March 26-April 1, 2015. Find the podcast of this interview here.
MN: Joining us today on Dialogos Radio and the Dialogos Interview Series is political scientist and historian Eric Toussaint, the spokesperson for the Committee to Abolish Third-World Debt. He is one of the founding members of the Committee to Abolish Third-World Debt, as well as the International Debt Observatory, and he participated in the creation of the World Social Forum in 2001. He’s also the author of several books, including Bankocracy, Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers, and The World Bank: A Critical Primer. Eric, welcome to our program today.
ET: Happy to be with you.
MN: To get us started, share with us a few words about the Commission to Abolish Third-World Debt and its work.