Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt

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 (...)

What kind of austerity after the Covid crisis?

by Eva Betavatzi

The present circumstances seem to rule out – for a time – using public debt considered to be excessive as a pretext for drastic (...)

Neoliberal Authoritarianism in Egypt

by Yanis Iqbal

The whiplash of authoritarianism is being ruthlessly used in Egypt. On January 6, 2021, Ahmed Khalifa, social news editor of (...)

Ecuador: Historic urban vote against large scale mining in referendum

by Miriam Lang

Ecuador’s third largest city Cuenca, of more than 600.000 inhabitants, has voted clearly against large-scale mining on (...)

Stand with Africans to Cancel the debt!

by CADTM Africa , Womin

Debt cannot be repaid, first because if we don’t repay, lenders will not die. That is for sure. But if we repay, we are going (...)

“Exceptional circumstances can help indebted States”

by Eric Toussaint

A judgment by the Court of Justice of the European Union states that a State is entitled to impose losses on its creditors. (...)

The strategic debates of the European left - from Recommons Europe to the pandemic

by Catherine Samary, Srećko Pulig

On 13 December as part of the “Subversive Festival” in Zagreb, two European zoom-panels were organised presenting the two texts (...)

Regrets, Apologies and Repair for Belgium’s Colonial Harms

by Valerie Arnould

Former colonial countries appear increasingly willing to engage in processes akin to transitional justice in order to (...)

International appeal for the immediate release of all political prisoners in Russia

by Collective, CADTM, Dianne Feeley , Eric Toussaint, Fatima Zahra El Beghiti, Fernanda Melchionna, Gilbert Achcar, Miguel Urbán Crespo, Myriam Bregman, Noam Chomsky, Suzi Weissman, Tariq Ali

This urgent appeal was written in collaboration with activists and intellectuals living in Russia. At the end of January (...)

Homeownership, poverty, and legislative pitfalls in Romania

by Enikő Vincze , Ioana Florea

There is a myth about the Romanians being “natural” homeowners. It was propagated by the dominant right-wing anti-communist (...)

The lessons of the Indian farmers’ struggle

by Sushovan Dhar

The Farmers struggle and its partial advance has shown us the way. Strong movements from below can have the potential to take (...)

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 (...)

Barbarians at the barn: private equity sinks its teeth into agriculture

by GRAIN

Financial flows going into agriculture are growing more and more institutionalised – and more and more private. To be sure, (...)

The strategic debates of the European left - from Recommons Europe to the pandemic

by Catherine Samary, Srećko Pulig

On 13 December as part of the “Subversive Festival” in Zagreb, two European zoom-panels were organised presenting the two texts (...)

Books in the year of the COVID

by Michael Roberts

Every year, I do a post on books that I have reviewed during the last 12 months. What’s a bit surprising in this year of the (...)

Presentation of the second ReCommons Europe manifesto – A key encounter in the search for alternatives

by Mats Lucia Bayer, ReCommons Europe

The ReCommons Europe meeting-days took place in Brussels on 22 and 23 September 2020 under the title Let Us Act Now: (...)

Development or Underdevelopment?

by Amali Wedagedara

The Sri Lankan economy revealed a principal contradiction during the last two weeks. The Colombo Stock Market was becoming (...)

Planting budgetary time bombs in Africa: the Macron Doctrine En Marche

by Daniela Gabor, Ndongo Samba Sylla

‘A French Jeremy Corbyn, and in power!’ you’d think after reading the first few paragraphs of Macron’s recent interview in Le (...)

IMF’s continued VAT push inconsistent with rhetoric on progressive taxes

by Bretton Woods Project

Summary IMF backs regressive VAT despite progressive tax rhetoric in pandemic response Broader tax trends steadily shift (...)