Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt

Report on Europe for the World Assembly of the CADTM international network Dakar from 13 to 16 November 2021

by CADTM Europe

Synthesis of answers received from 10 countries: Italy, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, France, (...)

Report on the International Economic and Political Situation Presented to the CADTM Global Network Assembly in Dakar in November 2021

by Eric Toussaint

We publish the written version of the report presented by Eric Toussaint at the World Assembly of the CADTM network held in (...)

A success for CADTM: the world assembly of the network, held in Dakar from 13-16 November, 2021

by CADTM International

The Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM) network held its conventional World Assembly from 13-16 November (...)

Pakistan in a perfect debt spiral with the worst impacts of the pandemic

by Abdul Khaliq

Pakistan is one of the 52 countries facing severe debt crisis. The most critical problem faced by the country’s economy is (...)

Globalization from Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama and Ferdinand Magellan until today

by Eric Toussaint

The beginning of Globalization goes back to the outcomes of the first voyage of Christopher Columbus that brought him, on (...)

G20 initiative leads to less than a quarter of debt payments being suspended

by Jubilee Debt Campaign

Lower income countries which applied for scheme have spent $36.4 billion on external debt payments during the pandemic, and (...)

The Jackson Hole dilemma

by Michael Roberts

Next weekend, the central bankers of the world meet in a slimmed down COVID annual jamboree at Jackson Hole has more than (...)

Whose Home Is This? At Least 55,625 Properties Under the Hammer in Real Estate Auctions — and Counting

by Sotiris Sideris

A data-driven research into housing financialization in Greece and the restructuring of the country by the markets, (...)

Paradigm shifts

by Susan Watkins

Emerging from year zero of the pandemic, the us and eu have adopted recovery programmes widely acclaimed as historic turning (...)

No Climate Justice without Debt Justice

by Collective

The climate emergency is fuelling the accumulation of debt in countries in the global south. Countries suffering from the (...)

“Blah, Blah, Blah”: Youth Climate Activists Slam Political Inaction at U.N. Summit Ahead of COP26

by Democracy Now!

Thousands of youth climate activists marched through the streets of Milan last week demanding world leaders meet their (...)

On September 24, we will strike to demand for intersectional climate justice! #Uproot The System

by Fridays for future

We’re in the midst of a climate crisis, mass species extinction, a world health pandemic, socio-economic inequality crises, (...)

As Climate Crisis Worsens, the Case for Eco-socialism Strengthens

by Patrick Bond

A fierce intellectual battle continues over the ideological character of green politics. The overall conflict that emerged in (...)

Lessons from the assassination of Fikile Ntshangase: Climate violence, the “Right to say No!”, uncompensated resource extraction, financial profiteering and unpaid ecological debt in South Africa’s coal mining belt

by Patrick Bond

Fikile Ntshangase died aged 63 on October 22, 2020, assassinated by three thugs who entered her house – with several (...)

“Blah, Blah, Blah”: Youth Climate Activists Slam Political Inaction at U.N. Summit Ahead of COP26

by Democracy Now!

Thousands of youth climate activists marched through the streets of Milan last week demanding world leaders meet their (...)

[Video] Your debt or your life: a feminist approach to the multidimensional crisis

by Camille Bruneau, Silvia Federici, Verónica Gago

CADTM Summer University 2021: Global Crisis, Debt Cancellation for Social Justice! Tuesday 14 September 2021 With Silvia (...)

Einstein and Landau: Scientific geniuses as well as ... anti-capitalists and anti-Stalinists!

by Yorgos Mitralias

Almost everyone knows the name of Einstein, but that of Lev Landau is familiar only to a few followers of the exact sciences. (...)

What can be done now to ameliorate poverty, unemployment and inequality?

by Bruce Baigrie, Jaco Oelofson, Jeff Rudin, Jonathan Cannard, Keamogetswe Seipato, Maxine Bezuidenhout

“What are the status quo limits to what can be done about poverty, unemployment and inequality?” This sentence, buried deep in (...)

Coronavirus: Global Collective Commons vs Big Pharma

by Eric Toussaint

Research and production of vaccines were largely financed by public money The development and production of anti-Covid (...)

Development banks have no business financing agribusiness

by Collective

On the eve of an annual gathering of public development banks in Rome, groups from around the world have signed a letter (...)

[Press release] Debt Crisis: a wasted G20 Summit

by CADTM International

As usually happens on the eve of the annual assemblies of the IMF and the World Bank, a G20 summit was held on 13 October (...)