Press releases

The EU Summit taking place in Brussels this Thursday, 14th March, is set to increase poverty and inequality within Ireland and across the EU, according to campaigners. ‘For a European Spring’ – a coalition of movements from 13 countries, including Ireland – are registering their opposition to the EU approach to the Eurocrisis, including through a big demonstration in Brussels on the 14th. The (...)

As coordination unit for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt - Abya Yala Our America CADTM AYNA - social organisation struggling against the illegitimate debt that Northern countries have imposed on the peoples of the South - we express our profound sorrow at the death of Commander President HUGO RAFAEL CHAVEZ FRIAS. We grieve over the loss (...)

Responding to direct racist threats from the nazi party Golden Dawn against one of the founding members of CADTM Greece Moisis Litsis*, the international CADTM network wishes to highlight how serious a danger the rise of fascism is, a development that is the direct consequence of the deterioration of social conditions imposed by creditors claiming that paying public debts is more important (...)

Tunis, 6 February 2013 Today Wednesday 6th February 2013, the criminal hand of treachery took the life of comrade Chokri Belaïd, general secretary of the ’United Democratic Patriotic Party’ and a major personality of the Popular Front. By this assassination he has been withdrawn from the social, democratic and national struggle at a moment when he is most needed. Alive, the comrade and martyr (...)

We express our sorrow and send our condolences and solidarity to his wife, two daughters, his party, the Popular Front and the Tunisian people as a whole. Chokri Belaid was a leading figure of the Tunisian Revolution. He was always opposed to political violence today and in the past and defended democracy and social justice. The GUE/NGL understands the emotion aroused by this cowardly (...)

We unreservedly condemn the violations of human rights by the armed groups that control the northern part of Mali. We stand alongside women and all victims of abuse. We also denounce the military intervention France has been carrying out since 10 January, 2013. The French government is not waging war in northern Mali to defend democracy and guarantee respect for human rights, as is being (...)

The judgement clearly states that it is not the responsibility of the parent nation of a banking company to cover the costs of the guarantees to their banking system, and the safety net structure must be financed by the banks themselves. This implicitly confirms that the normal liquidation process, as applied to ’Landsbanki’ (Icesave’s mother company) is quite correct when a bank, even too big (...)

Joining forces for a peaceful, social, ecological and democratic Europe. During the "Florence 10+10" rally, 10 years after the first European Social Forum in Firenze (2002), the "Alter Summit" was launched, with an audience of 850 people from 20 countries in Europe, representing more than 100 organizations, including many unions (national or European), social movements, research institutes (...)

The CADTM is pleased at the prospect of collaboration between Tunisia and Ecuador to audit Tunisia’s debt. At the request of the President of Tunisia, Ecuador’s President, Rafael Correa, has just announced that he will be sending a team of economists to Tunisia to provide advice and share his country’s experience with debt auditing. The assistance comes after a member of Tunisia’s National (...)

On the week of the Equinox, community activists and residents from Dublin 7 and Dublin 12 have organised mock “equinox sacrifices” to “appease the ECB gods”. The campaign is calling for the Anglo "promissory note" payment of €3.1 billion, due on March 31st, to be stopped and urges the government to instead use the money to fund vital public and community-based services that are currently being run (...)