This October, for only the second time since they were founded, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund will hold their annual joint meeting on the African continent. And activists will be there in Marrakesh to meet them.

A growing coalition is promoting a global ‘counter-summit’, kicking off on Indigenous Resistance Day on 12 October and running until 15 October, the anniversary of the murder of revolutionary Burkina Faso president Thomas Sankara, who had called for a united front against debt in 1987.1