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 (...)

Vaccine Apartheid and the Delta Variant

by Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan

The term “delta” in science and mathematics denotes a difference, or a gap; as in the delta between two values. In geography, a (...)

Immunity is liberty

by Amitabha Sarkar

We publish this important article by Amitabha Sarkar from India, scholar of international development of health politics, (...)

The IMF’s announcement of $650 billion in Special Drawing Rights: advertising effect

by CADTM, Eric Toussaint, Milan Rivié

Milan Rivié and Éric Toussaint interviewed by the CADTM CADTM: In late August 2021 the IMF announced that it would supply the (...)

The US Lost in Afghanistan. But US Imperialism Isn’t Going Anywhere

by Gilbert Achcar

The United States suffered grave losses in Iraq and Afghanistan, just as it did in Vietnam. But we shouldn’t mistake revisions (...)

BRICS New Development Bank Corruption in South Africa

by Patrick Bond

1. Introduction: Raised – and dashed – expectations for the BRICS replacing Western banking In 2013 in Durban, at the (...)

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 (...)

USA: Imperialist Keynesianism

by Ashley Smith

In his address to Congress, Joe Biden celebrated his American Rescue Plan and promoted his American Jobs and American (...)

The “Hot Spring” Showed That Greeks Were Willing to Fight

by Stathis Kouvelakis

Ten years ago, Greece was gripped by square occupations expressing mass opposition to EU austerity policies. The movement’s (...)

South Africa: Towards a General Strike

by Amandla, Zwelinzima Vavi

“If we strike one by one, we will be defeated. […] And the discussion must be, ‘fix the economy, fix the economy, this growth (...)

Chris Hedges: Julian Assange and the Collapse of the Rule of Law

by Chris Hedges

[Chris Hedges->https://scheerpost.com/category/chris-hedges gave this talk at a recent rally in New York City in support of (...)

BRICS New Development Bank Corruption in South Africa

by Patrick Bond

1. Introduction: Raised – and dashed – expectations for the BRICS replacing Western banking In 2013 in Durban, at the (...)

How Austerity Helped to Ignite Greece’s Historic Wildfires

by Stelios Foteinopoulos

If Ferdinand Lassalle lived today, he would be able to watch his ideas age badly. In 1862, Lassalle, speaking to a socialist (...)

Global North ‘climate reparations’ to prevent Southern fossil-fuel conflict

by Patrick Bond

Abstract The climate crisis is amplified by socio-political and economic injustices everywhere but in 2021, perhaps nowhere (...)

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 (...)

CADTM University 2021: Global Crisis, Debt Cancellation for Social Justice!

by CADTM

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic and its aggravating effect on the multidimensional crisis congenital to capitalism, (...)

Multinational Corporations and COVID-19: Intellectual property rights vs. human rights

by Peter Rossman

The multilateral trading system anchored by the WTO is not confined to cross-border trade in physical goods. It was also (...)

Credit ratings are punishing poorer countries for investing more in health care during the pandemic

by Ramya Vijaya

Economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic depends on sustained investment, low-income nations face a major obstacle: their (...)

The debt of integration: Montenegro’s Chinese loan and the traps of Europe

by Tijana Okić

The Balkans debt crisis continues to ravage the economies of the region, with Montenegro vainly turning to the EU for a (...)