Back جمعية أطاك Arabic Attac Catalan Attac Czech Attac Danish Attac German ATTAC Esperanto Asociación por la Tributación de las Transacciones Financieras y la Acción Ciudadana Spanish ATTAC Estonian Transakzio finantzarioak zergapetzeko eta hiritarren ekintzarako elkartea Basque ATTAC Finnish

Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions and for Citizens' Action

Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions and for Citizens' Action
AbbreviationATTAC / attac
Founded3 June 1998; 26 years ago (1998-06-03)
TypeVoluntary association
Location
OriginsA single-issue movement that was founded in France after Ignacio Ramonet published an editorial in Le Monde diplomatique that read « Disarm the markets[1] ». Supporters founded an association to promote the Tobin tax.
Area served
Worldwide
MethodPopular education, meetings, conferences, counter-arguments documents
Members90,000
Websitewww.attac.org
Countries or jurisdictions that have ATTAC branches
French ATTAC members protest during the 27th G8 summit in Genoa, Italy, 2001
An ATTAC poster in the French countryside, 2004
An ATTAC banner in front of Cologne Cathedral, Germany, 2004
French ATTAC members protesting privatisation and the "dismantling" of public services, 2005
An ATTAC stall at the Volksstimmefest, Vienna, Austria, 2005 (details)

The Association pour la Taxation des Transactions financières et pour l'Action Citoyenne (Association for the Taxation of financial Transactions and Citizen's Action, ATTAC) is an activist organisation originally created to promote the establishment of a tax on foreign exchange transactions.

  1. ^ Ignacio Ramonet, Disarming the markets, Le Monde diplomatique, December 1997.
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