Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt

South Africa: Vaccine Apartheid or Equality?

by South African Federation of Trade Unions, Rehad Desai

We are in the middle of a global shortage of supplies of COVID-19 vaccines. We are reliving the saga that happened early in (...)

The G20’s wrong solutions and the need to suspend debt repayment

by Eric Toussaint

Last April, the G20 launched the idea of debt service suspension by poor countries until the end of 2020. What actually (...)

Covid 2021: more calamity ahead?

by Michael Roberts

The news that a COVID-19 vaccine could well be available by the start of 2021 sent the stock markets of the world shooting up (...)

Ecuador: From Rafael Correa to Guillermo Lasso via Lenin Moreno

by Eric Toussaint

On 11 April 2021, Guillermo Lasso (52,4%), the right-wing candidate, defeated Andres Arauz, the candidate supported by Rafael (...)

Ecuador’s poisoned loans from the World Bank and the IMF

by Eric Toussaint

Ecuador provides an example of a government which officially decided to investigate the process of indebtedness so as to (...)

Sri Lanka’s household debt and the pound of flesh

by Amali Wedagedara

The complexity of the agrarian debt problem and the attractiveness of the idea of debt abolition made the cancellation of (...)

Call for the Housing Action Day on 27 and 28 March 2021

by Collective

The Housing Action Day launched by the European Action Coalition for the right to Housing and the City will take place in 75 (...)

Greece: A Lost Democracy

by Eva Betavatzi

The authoritarianism of the Greek government is increasing every day, and so is protest against it. For several weeks now, (...)

Russia: Origin and consequences of the debt repudiation of February 10, 1918

by Eric Toussaint

In February 1918, the repudiation of the debt by the Soviet government shocked international finance and sparked off (...)

Greece: Broad response to the neoliberal authoritarianism of the right-wing government

by Panos Petrou

In Greece, the year 2021 began with an offensive by the government led by prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. A new law aims (...)

Peasant Struggles in India, a Feminist Perspective

by Archana Prasad

Archana Prasad spoke with Capire about women’s work and lives in India and the struggles against corporate power and (...)

A Letter to Omar

by Jawad Moustakbal

Omar Radi and Jawad Moustakbal are both members of Attac Morocco, a Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung partner organization. Together, (...)

“Too late to be pessimistic! Ecosocialism or collapse”

by Daniel Tanuro, Mats Lucia Bayer

We interview Daniel Tanuro, author of the book “Trop tard pour être pessimistes! Écosocialisme ou effondrement”, published this (...)

As South African climate justice veterans fall, consciousness begins reviving, from below and across

by Patrick Bond

On three days last week – December 23-25 – South Africa’s east coast province of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) lost three of its clearest (...)

Climate and environmental crisis: Sorcerer’s apprentices at the World Bank and the IMF

by Eric Toussaint

In December 2020, on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the signature of the Paris Agreement on Climate, the UN General (...)

Latin America has once again entered a period of strong social and political turbulence

by Franck Gaudichaud

Franck Gaudichaud recently wrote and coordinated two collective works drawing a critical assessment of “progressive” political (...)

Learning from Hilferding’s Finance Capital: Money, banking and crisis tendencies

by Patrick Bond

Introduction A century ago, as the Weimar Republic was set up in Germany, the leading Marxist strategist aiming to socialise (...)

An eco-feminist reading of debt to think differently about auditing

by Camille Bruneau

The citizen audit of public debt is an essential tool to regain control of public finances, first, by making data on the debt (...)

IMF and debt: a new consensus?

by Michael Roberts

There is much talk among ‘progressive’ economists that the IMF and the World Bank have turned over a new leaf. Gone are the (...)

Neoliberalism: An increasing gap among incomes and tax gifts to Capital

by CADTM

Evolution of low and high salaries since the 1960s The May 1968 general strike in France led to a considerable increase in (...)

Ecuador: Resistance against the policies imposed by the World Bank, the IMF and other creditors between 2007 and 2011

by Eric Toussaint

Ecuador provides an example of a government which officially decided to investigate the process of indebtedness so as to (...)