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Philippines: For debt audit and repeal of automatic debt servicing
26 September 2016 - by Freedom from Debt Coalition, Butch Fernandez
FDC calls on PDU30 to prioritize debt audit, repeal of 40 year-old auto-debt payments MANILA, Philippines – Doves seemed to flock in Malacañang today as activist group Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) carried their demands for debt audit and (...) -
Part 5 of the interview “History of the CADTM’s anti-debt Policies”
Greece: Leaders’ Ambivalence regarding debt and the financial system, even though resistance started on a promising note
20 September 2016 - by Eric Toussaint, Benjamin Lemoine
Interview with Eric Toussaint, spokesperson and co-founder of the international network of the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM). Interview by Benjamin Lemoine. [1] This interview presents the genealogy of the anti-debt (...) -
Philippines: Duterte’s Budget, Foreign Debts and Pork Barrel
12 September 2016 - by Freedom from Debt Coalition, Business World, YAP D. J.
MANILA, Philippines – The Duterte administration’s proposed 2017 national budget has allocated P6.13 billion in foreign debt service for 13 fraudulent, wasteful or useless loans, the Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) bared in a recent news (...) -
Audita Sanidad – Audit Healthcare
7 September 2016 - by Audita Sanidad
The citizen working group on a healthcare debt audit “Audit Healthcare], Health Centres, social movements, etc., we have incorporated into the [Citizen Group against Corruption->https://xnet-x.net/grupo-ciudadano-contra-la-c -
An open letter to the Most Honourable Abdelilah Benkirane, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Morocco, in response to untruths about the Moroccan public debt
29 August 2016 - by Salaheddine Lemaizi
From: Salaheddine Lemaizi, Militant at ATTAC Morocco To: The Most Honourable Abdelilah Benkirane, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Morocco Subject: response to untruths about the Moroccan public debt Most Honourable Prime Minister, I (...) -
Part 4 of the interview “History of the CADTM’s anti-debt Policies”
From Dashed Hopes to Success in Ecuador: the examples of South Africa, Brazil, Paraguay and Ecuador
25 August 2016 - by Eric Toussaint, Benjamin Lemoine
Interview with Eric Toussaint, spokesperson and co-founder of the international network of the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM). Interview by Benjamin Lemoine. This interview presents the genealogy of the anti-debt (...) -
Part 3 of the interview “History of the CADTM’s anti-debt Policies”
Argentina: Further Action against Illegitimate Debt
17 August 2016 - by Eric Toussaint
Interview with Eric Toussaint, spokesperson and co-founder of the international network of the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM). Interview by Benjamin Lemoine This interview presents the genealogy of the anti-debt (...) -
Part 2 of the interview “History of the CADTM’s anti-debt Policies”
The First Testing Grounds for the CADTM’s Methods to Counter Illegitimate Debt: the examples of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo
11 August 2016 - by Eric Toussaint, Benjamin Lemoine
Interview with Eric Toussaint, spokesperson and co-founder of the international network of the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM). Interview by Benjamin Lemoine This interview presents the genealogy of the anti-debt (...) -
Video
The Greek debt, a European Tragedy
22 July 2016 - by CADTM, Productions du Pavé
The animated video “ The Greek debt. a European tragedy” here presented is the result of an intense effort of sensibilisation realised by the collective “Production du Pavé” and the CADTM staff. This video intends to sum up in a simple and easy (...) -
Puerto Rico: The audit now in progress has already revealed that the debt is largely illegal
27 June 2016 - by Pierre Gottiniaux
The island of Puerto Rico, which is part of the Commonwealth of the United States, is staggering under the weight of an unsustainable debt of nearly $73 billion. Its neo-colonial legal structure prevents it from restructuring its debt and (...) -
The CADTM network supports the bill relating to the audit of the public debt that has just been submitted to the Tunisian parliament
22 June 2016 - by CADTM International
On June 14th, a bill relating to the audit of the public debt was submitted to the Assembly of the Representatives of the People, the Tunisian parliament. This bill was co-signed by 73 MPs from all parliamentary groups except for the Islamist (...) -
Éric Toussaint: ‘If governments do not want citizen debt audits, it is because they are hiding something’
7 June 2016 - by Eric Toussaint, Maialen Mariscal Ruben Plaza
According to Éric Toussaint, States should default on their payments in order to renegotiate and radically reduce their debts. San Sebastian (Basque Country – Spain) – Éric Toussaint staunchly campaigns for the cancellation of a State’s debt (...) -
In the context of the CADTM network’s Global Assembly held in Tunis
CADTM AYNA appeals to the Venezuelan government to set up a Citizens’ Debt Audit and offers its support
12 May 2016 - by CADTM AYNA
Tunis, 30th April 2016 - An appeal to facilitate implementation of a Public Citizens’ Debt Audit and to guarantee transparency in public funds was approved by the Latin-American continental meeting of the Committee for the Abolition of (...) -
Daniel Munévar, economist and former adviser to Varoufakis, participates in the Conferences for a Plan B for Europe
In the European game of chess, Greece is a pawn that Germany thought to sacrifice
21 April 2016 - by Enric Llopis
The meetings with experts and representatives of the Troika (the European Commission, the ECB and the IMF) are like clashing against a wall of the deaf. This is because a number of reasonable and well-supported proposals may be presented but (...) -
The 1994 Rwandan Genocide - The Use of Rwanda’s External Debt (1990-1994)
7 April 2016 - by Michel Chossudovsky, Pierre Galand
Twenty-two years after the 1994 Genocide, the role of financial institutions has to be fully understood. Development aid and foreign loans were channelled towards financing the military and paramilitary. The donors turned a blind eye. This (...) -
Workshops on citizen debt audits at the Madrid conference “For a Plan B for Europe”
31 March 2016 - by Jérémie Cravatte
On the second day of the Plan B conference in Madrid, the hundreds of participants spread themselves among the various proposed workshops. This report is about the two workshops on the debt issue, organized by PACD (Citizens’ Debt Audit Platform, (...) -
Fifth ICAN Assembly: retrieving new energies!
28 March 2016 - by Chiara Filoni
ICAN conference. The vigour shown by the PACD, the citizens’ debt audit platform in Spain, who organised this meeting, as well as the debt chapter of the Plan B Conference, was echoed in the renewed level of motivation that it inspired in the (...) -
London’s councils should audit their debt before raising tax rates
18 March 2016 - by Jamie Griffiths
Last year council tax became the biggest debt problem for families in the UK, overtaking credit card debt as the biggest strain and leading to threats from bailiffs, court action and increased business for exploitative payday lenders. As funding (...) -
Summary of the 1 March 2016 session at the European Parliament “Restructuring of debt – reconstruction of democracy”
Video: Maria-Lucia Fattorelli: “Before anything else can be done, there must be a debt audit”
17 March 2016 - by Maria Lucia Fattorelli
Several members of the Greek Debt Truth Committee (GDTC) attended the session on 1st March 2016 at the European Parliament in Brussels on the topic “Restructuring of debt – reconstruction of democracy”. The session was organized by Nikolaos (...) -
Plan B doesn’t include a reform of the EU
17 March 2016 - by Eric Toussaint, Amanda Andrades
Éric Toussaint (Namur, Belgium, 1954), PhD in Political Science from the University of Liege and Paris VIII, has spent at least 26 years analyzing and denouncing how the IMF and the World Bank use debt “to discipline a country.” First, focusing on (...) -
Greece
The Truth Committee on Public Debt returns to Greece through Europe. It becomes an Association and continues its works
17 March 2016 - by Truth Committee on the Greek Public Debt
Zoe Konstantopoulou: “The Truth Committee will continue its works, whether the European Commission, the ECB and the Government like it or not”. Great enthusiasm in Brussels and Liege. 13 Left and Green MEPs declare their support on the (...) -
Video: The Ecuador debt audit, a seven minute summary
2 March 2016 - by Eric Toussaint, Hugo Arias Palacios, Aris Chatzistefanou
In seven minutes, Eric Toussaint and Hugo Arias, members of the Ecuadorian debt audit commission that sat in 2007 - 2008, summarise its ins and outs, and explain the success of the suspension of payments that Ecuador decided as a result of the (...) -
World Debt Figures 2015
23 February 2016 - by CADTM
The ‘debt system’ involves using public resources to pay creditors instead of meeting the basic rights and needs of people. The relationship between creditors and debtors is strongly biased in favour of the (...) -
Zoe Konstantopoulou: “The Truth Committee on Public Debt is the target of political heckling by the new supporters of memoranda”
On 22 December 2015, during a press conference at the seat of the Bar Association in Athens, the former President of the Greek Parliament, Zoe Konstantopoulou, and two members of the Truth Committee on Greek Public Debt, Georges Kassimatis, an (...) -
Greece: Why Capitulate? Another Way Is Possible (text version of the video of the same name with explanatory notes and references)
16 December 2015 - by Eric Toussaint
Éric Toussaint critiques SYRIZA’s attitude since 2010 regarding the debt, explaining how the Greek government came to sign the disastrous agreement of 13 July 2015. One of the fundamental explanations is their failure to take the audit of Greece’s (...)
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