A History of Sovereign Debts and their Repudiation, Haymarket books, Chicago, 2019 Bankocracy (2015);[2] and The Life and Crimes of an Exemplary Man (2014).
Born in Namur in 1954, Éric Toussaint lived in the mining village of Retinne, near Liège (Belgium), where his parents were teachers.
In 1970, Éric joined the IVth International and helped to create the "Workers Revolutionary League" (Ligue révolutionnaire des travailleurs – LRT) in May 1970, and became a member of the Politburo alongside Ernest Mandel.
He was particularly active in strikes and workers' movements in Liège (where he was a teacher) where the population was overwhelmed by the burden of the city's public debt throughout the 1980s.
Since 2000, he has been involved with leftist governments and popular movements in Latin American and elsewhere on the themes of debt, the Bank of the South and other alternatives.
[16] Between April and November 2015, Éric Toussaint was the Scientific coordinator of the Truth Committee on the Greek Public Debt set up[17] and terminated[18] by the President of the Hellenic Parliament.
Between 1975 and 1994, Toussaint taught several subjects in many public institutions of technical and vocational education of the city of Liege, including history.
Between 1980 and 1984, he also taught economics at the André Renard Foundation, the training school for FGTB (General Federation of Labour of Belgium, biggest union in Wallonia and Brussels) activists, in Liège.
Between 1994 and 2014, his trade union, the General Confederation of public services – education branch (affiliated to the FGTB), released him to focus entirely on CADTM activities.