The recent 2007/2008 global financial crisis shook the world up and generated perfidious results in peoples’ lives around the world. Austerity measures are already known and applied in many parts of the world and they are increasingly becoming part of the official discourses of states and international finance agencies. These measures often deny social rights and in turn are detrimental to the poor. Technocratic solutions are often applied, which favor the instigators of the crisis: the banks and international financial institutions; the global elite; and powerful
corporations. This system has encouraged continuous processes of criminalization of peoples’ struggles, the rise of fascism and the strengthening of undemocratic authoritarian regimes worldwide.