Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt

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 (...)

The crisis triggered by the pandemic and the economic policy of the European Union

by Daniel Albarracín

This chapter will address the pandemic crisis at the level of political economy and, in particular, the fundamental decisions (...)

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 (...)

Evolution of the external debt of developing countries between 2000 and 2019

by Eric Toussaint, Milan Rivié

An update of the three part series “A new trap of indebtedness of the South to the North” published in September-October 2020. (...)

In memory of Patrice Lumumba, assassinated on 17 January 1961

by Eric Toussaint

On 17 January 2021, we commemorate the 60th anniversary of the assassination of Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961). After a (...)

Western Imperialism and the Role of Sub-imperialism in the Global South

by Ana Garcia, Miguel Borba, Patrick Bond

AT FIRST BLUSH, JOE BIDEN’S ELECTION as U.S. president brings respite from a world threatened by Donald Trump’s (...)

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 (...)

The crisis triggered by the pandemic and the economic policy of the European Union

by Daniel Albarracín

This chapter will address the pandemic crisis at the level of political economy and, in particular, the fundamental decisions (...)

The First Decade of the Arab Revolutionary Process

by Gilbert Achcar

Ten years ago, on 17 December 2010, a young street vendor in the town of Sidi Bouzid in central Tunisia sparked a political (...)

Lessons from a decade of student activism in the UK

by Hector Rios-Jara

The pandemic has exposed the disgraceful failures of market reforms in the British higher education sector. But the (...)

Algeria: Preparing for the long struggle ahead

by Hamza Hamouchene, Selma Oumari

COVID-19 has been a blessing to the ruling classes in Algeria. However, the popular Hirak movement has not said its last word (...)

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, (...)

Strengthening Agro-business Capitalism and Weakening Federalism

by Pritam Singh

India is currently rocked by farmer’s protest. Tens of thousands of farmers have surrounded India’s capital, New Delhi, where (...)

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: (...)

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 (...)

World Bank: Investigate Cambodia’s Micro-Loans

by Human Rights Watch

The World Bank Group should investigate alleged coerced land sales and other rights abuses linked to predatory lending and (...)

11 questions / 11 answers about the new global debt crisis and how it can be radically reduced

by Eric Toussaint, Mats Lucia Bayer, Olivier Bonfond

Introduction: The current crisis is the most severe since 1929. It is a multi-dimensional crisis of capitalism as it affects (...)