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CADTM successfully holds Citizen Debt Audit Training in Nairobi
19 August 2018 - by David Calleb Otieno
The Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debts (CADTM) successfully held a three days training on Citizens Debt Audit in Nairobi, Kenya. The training that attended by delegates from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Burundi was organized by the (...) -
Africa : Strengthening the anti-debt initiatives in Kenya
15 August 2018 - by Sushovan Dhar
CADTM collaborated with Kenyan social movements to organise a training on debt audit and also a meeting to strengthen the anti-debt activities in Kenya. This programme held from July 29-30 at Nairobi (in the slums of Kangemi) witnessed the (...) -
Debts and feminisms: an overview of the book project – first chapter
13 August 2018 - by Camille Bruneau
Feminism and the situation of women is an ever-growing concern for the CADTM network, which becomes almost unavoidable in the broad fight against domination(s). Women are indeed impacted by debt in several ways; as the main contractors of (...) -
Solidarity & support Call - Toward international organizations and activists advocating for freedom and people’s rights
20 July 2018 - by ATTAC/CADTM Morocco
“RIF Hirak” prisoners in Morocco are facing undeserved sentences Let’s expand the international solidarity until the drop of adjudications and their release. The Appeal Court of Casablanca stated on Tuesday, 26 June 2018, heavy sentences (...) -
Vulture funds defeated
The Belgian Supreme Court announces its verdict : total victory against the vulture fund NML Capital
4 June 2018 - by CADTM
Press release Total victory for CADTM, Committee for the abolition of Illegitimate Debt, the CNCD – 11.11.11 and its Flemish counterpart represented by Oliver Stein from the chambers of the Progress Lawyers Network. Today 31 May 2018 the (...) -
Save the date! The CADTM’s Summer Days will take place on 7, 8 and 9 September 2018
28 May 2018 - by CADTM
The Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt will held its 2018 Summer Days at La Marlagne, Namur, on September 7, 8 & 9. The CADTM’s Summer Days will start on the evening of Friday 7 September in La Marlagne and will carry on (...) -
The Egyptian Network for the Abolition of Debt and the Right to Equitable Development (ENADED)
8 May 2018 - by CADTM, ENADED
Today, as capitalism has an increasing tendency to globalize all aspects of human life, our struggle must be globalized too. It is essential to develop networking strategies with other organizations of the same spheres of struggles. Capitalism (...) -
Colombo Declaration on Illegitimate Debts 7th CADTM South Asia Workshop
17 April 2018 - by CADTM
We, the participants of the 7th CADTM South Asia workshop from Bangladesh, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Japan as well as from Belgium and France gathered at Colombo, Sri Lanka from 6-8 April 2018 acknowledge and affirm that illegitimate (...) -
South Asia: New creditors and new forms of debt peonage
17 April 2018 - by Nathan Legrand
The seventh CADTM South Asia regional workshop was successfully held in Colombo (Sri Lanka) from April 6 to April 8, 2018, with participants from Sri Lanka, but also from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, as well as from Japan, France and (...) -
Understanding the crisis is too important to be left to specialists alone. This is why “Bankocracy” is so important
16 April 2018 - by Avishek Konar
The Great Recession, from the middle of 2007 onwards, has rocked the global economy. This has led to at least a couple of things. The legitimacy of neoliberalism in the west—qua ‘there is no other alternative’—has been shattered, and vast majority (...) -
We struggle against illegitimate public and private debt which are at the core of the capitalist system
6 April 2018 - by Eric Toussaint
The seventh CADTM South Asia regional workshop started in Colombo (Sri Lanka) on April 6, 2018, with participants coming from Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Japan, Belgium and France. Around forty people, most of them being (...) -
The Bamako Seminar, The CADTM network reinforces the struggle against illegitimate debt !
27 December 2017 - by Nathan Legrand, Fatima Zahra El Beghiti
The CADTM International network delegations met in Bamako, Mali, from 15 to 25 November 2017 to follow several political training and coordination activities. Indeed the third “women, debt and microcredit” seminar, the annual CADTM training (...) -
Final declaration of the Bamako “Women, Debt and Microcredit” seminar
29 November 2017 - by CADTM International
We, women of the CADTM Africa network, from Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, Guinea, Conakry, Mali, Morocco, Niger, Congo Democratic Republic, Republic of Congo, Senegal, Togo, as well as Argentina have met for the 3rd session (...) -
From Geneva to Belgrade: The Great Question of Public Debt
23 October 2017 - by Nathan Legrand
The CADTM was invited to speak at the “Debt Conference” held in Geneva on 5 October, and also participated in activities in Belgrade on 6 and 7 October. Our programme was highly charged and proved most valuable. Geneva, 5 October : « Debt (...) -
People must self-organize and keep up the pressure on their governments if we are to bring about radical change
16 August 2017 - by Eric Toussaint, Victor Lustres
Eric Toussaint (Namur, Belgium, 1954) is co-founder and spokesperson for the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM), an international network which includes local committees in more than 30 countries and fights to elaborate (...) -
Down with illegitimate public and private debt
4 July 2017 - by Eric Toussaint
What we are fighting is a capitalist system that destroys nature. We have to fight a capitalist system which, within the two centuries since the so-called Industrial Revolution, has accumulated enough greenhouse gases to trigger climate (...) -
Choosing is defiance ! – 5th CADTM Europe Summer School
27 April 2017 - by CADTM Belgium
Save the dates and sign up here ! From Friday 30th of June to Sunday 2nd of July, the 5th CADTM Europe Summer School will be held in the cultural center of La Marlagne in Wépion near Namur (Belgium). The system will never fall, if it is not (...) -
Concerted efforts in South Asia against debt and microcredit
5 April 2017 - by Renaud Vivien, Sushovan Dhar, Nathan Legrand
CADTM South Asia held a Workshop in Dhaka, Bangladesh from 3-4 March 2017. This international event brought together activists, journalists and members of various organizations from the host country, India and Nepal , actively resisting public (...) -
Demystifying Alexander Nahum Sack and the doctrine of odious debt
14 February 2017 - by Eric Toussaint
We here publish, in its entirety, Eric Tousaint’s study of the odious debt doctrine. Only extracts have previously been published. Rarely do people, whether detractors or defenders of the doctrine elaborated by Alexander Sack, take the time to (...) -
8 hours against illegitimate debt
Debt system and capitalism: what are the links?
12 January 2017 - by Mariella Caponnetto
Minutes from the keynote speech: The “debt, capitalism’s lethal weapon” Speakers: Silvia Federici (feminist activist, emeritus professor of social sciences at Hofstra University, New York, USA), Éric Toussaint (spokesperson for CADTM (...) -
The CADTM Network Global Assembly at the crossroads of mobilizations for the abolition of illegitimate debt
21 December 2016 - by CADTM International
To coordinate its international and continental work, the CADTM network holds its Global Assembly (NGA) regularly. After Bouznika in Morocco in 2013 The network’s determination, coupled with the energy deployed by RAID-ATTAC-CADTM Tunisia, both (...) -
The Doctrine of Odious Debt: from Alexander Sack to the CADTM
24 November 2016 - by Eric Toussaint
Alexander Nahum Sack (Moscow 1890 – New York 1955), a Russian lawyer who taught in Saint Petersburg then in Paris, is considered to be one of the founders of the doctrine of odious debt. The doctrine, based on a series of precedents in (...) -
The CADTM Italy is born
18 October 2016 - by Chiara Filoni
Following the successful meeting between secular and Catholic entities in Genoa on July 15th of this year, which also lead to the Charter of Genoa for the abolition of illegitimate debts, twenty Italian movements and progressives met on (...) -
Sixth and final part of the interview “History of the CADTM’s Anti-Debt Policies”
The Work and Lessons of the Truth Committee on Greek Public Debt
10 October 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 (...) -
Part 5 of the interview “History of the CADTM’s anti-debt Policies”
Why Alexis Tsipras Buried Suspension of Payment and the Debt Audit Well Before the 2015 elections
6 October 2016 - by Eric Toussaint, Stathis Kouvelakis, Benjamin Lemoine
Introduction by Stathis Kouvelakis A thorough examination of the causes of the capitulation of Greece’s government in July 2015 and the signing of a third Memorandum of Understanding reveals one of the principal lines of division of the period (...)
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