The whistle-blowing website Wikileaks is stop its publication of classified files.
Wikileaks said that it would focus no assurance survival in future instead on raising funds.
This announcement came after what the group called a blockade by US-based finance companies.
This followed its disclosure on the internet of hundreds of thousands of secret US government files and diplomatic cables.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said that since last
December an "arbitrary and unlawful financial blockade" had been imposed
by Bank of America, Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and Western Union.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said "The attack has decreased 95% of our revenue,"
The former computer hacker said the organisation had lost
"tens of millions of dollars in lost donations at a time of
unprecedented operational costs".
"A handful of US finance companies cannot be allowed to decide how the whole world votes with its pocket," he added.
Mr Assange said Wikileaks must "aggressively fundraise in order to fight back against this blockade and its proponents".
He said the group was taking pre-litigation action against
the blockade in Iceland, Denmark, the UK, Brussels, the United States
and Australia and had lodged an anti-trust complaint at the European
Commission.
Wikileaks spokesman, Kristinn Hrafnsson said its website will be reopen for submissions of confidential documents on 28 November.
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