Ignacio Ramonet

Ignacio Ramonet (2011)

Ignacio Ramonet (born May 5, 1943 in Redondela , Spain ) is a Spanish journalist and media scientist . He is Honorary President of Attac and co-organizer of the World Social Forum .

Life

Ignacio Ramonet spent his youth in Tangier . He studied engineering and sociology in Bordeaux , Rabat and Paris. He received his doctorate from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in semiotics . He has been working in France since 1972.

Ramonet teaches audiovisual communication theory at the Denis-Diderot University in Paris . From 1991 to March 2008 he was director of the Paris monthly newspaper for international politics, Le Monde diplomatique . Since then he has headed the Spanish edition of this newspaper.

The leading article “Désarmer les marchés” - “Disarm the markets” - published in Le Monde diplomatique in December 1997 brought the Attac movement into being, which is critical of globalization. The reason was the financial crisis that broke out this year in Southeast Asia. Ramonet traced this back in his article to the previously detached currency speculation wave. He attacked the dominance of the financial markets and the unrestricted flow of capital and described them as a threat to democracy and the stability of states. Ramonet called for the establishment of a "worldwide organization that should work to raise a Tobin tax for the benefit of the people". The abbreviation Attac arose from the French name of this organization, "Association pour une taxation des transactions financières pour l´aide aux citoyens" .

Articles by him and her have appeared in Germany. a. in the left newspaper Junge Welt . Since November 2008, his leading articles from the Spanish edition of Le Monde diplomatique have been published in German translation in the news magazine Background and the Latin America news portal amerika21.de . The German edition of Le Monde diplomatique also publishes translations of his articles on a regular basis.

Prices

• Prix ​​LiberPress as “best journalist of the year”, Girona 1999
• Prix ​​Colombe d'Or for “best foreign peace-defending journalist”, Rome , 2000
• Rodolfo Walsh Prize for Journalism from the University of La Plata (Argentina), 2003
• “Prix de la Communication culturelle Nord-Sud” (Prize for North-South International Understanding), Rabat , 2003
• José Couso Prize for Freedom of the Press, Ferrol (Spain), 2006

Fonts

• With love from Hollywood. Cinema, television, commercials , Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-85869-235-2
• 21st Century Wars. The world before new threats , Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-85869-247-6
• The communication trap. Power and Myths of the Media , Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-85869-185-2
• The new masters of the world. Global politics at the turn of the millennium , Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-85869-148-8
• Fidel Castro. Mein Leben , Rotbuch Verlag Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86789-038-0 (Original title: Fidel Castro. Biografía a dos voces)

Web links

Commons : Ignacio Ramonet  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Ignacio Ramonet in the catalog of the German National Library
• German edition of " Le Monde diplomatique "

Individual evidence

1. ^ To our readers
2. ↑ Article in German translation ( Memento from April 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Background
4. ↑ amerika21.de
5. ↑ The big row
6. ↑ http://liberpress.com/Francia/Prix%20Liberpress.htm
7. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2003/10/A/10630
9. ↑ http://www.actu.ma/remise-paris-prix_i8835_1.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/biographie.asp?ref_aut=492&lg_pp=fr