Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt

Report on Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) for the CADTM World Assembly, Dakar, 13 -16 November 2021

by CADTM AYNA

Synthesis based on the responses received on the following questionnaire, from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Haiti, Uruguay (...)

For an immediate release of Fatima Zahra Ould Belaid, member of ATTAC CADTM Morocco

by [fr] ATTAC/CADTM Maroc [en] ATTAC/CADTM Morocco

Police officers arrested Fatima Zahra Ould Belaid, activist of ATTAC CADTM Morocco, on November 25, 2021 at her home in (...)

Operating Charter 2021

by CADTM International

(Operating charter of the CADTM International Network as amended by the World Assembly of the CADTM that convened in Dakar (...)

Report on Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) for the CADTM World Assembly, Dakar, 13 -16 November 2021

by CADTM AYNA

Synthesis based on the responses received on the following questionnaire, from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Haiti, Uruguay (...)

Das Kapital’s Unfortunate Fate, in South African Left Scholarship and Political Strategy

by Patrick Bond

Abstract: One of the great paradoxes in what has been for the last half-century amongst the world’s most intense sites of (...)

The Moroccan energy sector: A permanent dependence

by Jawad Moustakbal

Although Morocco gained its independence in 1956, the country’s energy sector has remained dependent – on fossil fuels and on (...)

The central bankers’ dilemma

by Michael Roberts

“The inflation that we got was not at all the inflation that we were looking for,” US Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell said in (...)

“Your Debt Is Someone Else’s Asset”: Calls Mount to Cancel Debt & Halt Wealth Transfer to the Rich

by Amy Goodman, Astra Taylor , Nermeen Shaikh

As calls grow for Biden to extend the moratorium on student debt, we speak with the Debt Collective’s Astra Taylor and feature (...)

Why Eurozone countries’ debt to the ECB must be cancelled

by Andrej Hunko, CADTM Europe, Cristina Quintavalla, Eric Toussaint, Leïla Chaibi, Manon Aubry, Miguel Urbán Crespo, Paul Murphy, Sonia Mitralias

Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic public debt in the eurozone has increased by an average of 20%. The reason (...)

Indian farmers script a victory

by Sushovan Dhar

Millions of Indians were greeted by pleasant news on 19 November as Narendra Modi, the Indian Prime Minister, announced his (...)

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 (...)

No Climate Justice without Debt Justice

by [fr]Collectif[es]Colectivo[en]Collective[pt]Coletivo

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

Rio Linglong: Eco Uprising in Serbia

by Nenad Glišić

The case of the brutal exploitation of Vietnamese workers in the Chinese company LingLong and the servile attitude of the (...)

Glasgow’s ‘Conference of the Polluters’ again confirms that global arson needs local fire extinguishers

by Desmond D’Sa, Patrick Bond

Global elite failure, yet again The United Nations COP26 Glasgow Climate Pact signed on November 14 is another confirmation (...)

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 (...)

[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 (...)

The coronavirus pandemic has widened the gap between the Global North and the Global South

by Eric Toussaint

Confronted with the coronavirus pandemic that started end of 2019-beginning of 2020, the governments of long-standing (...)

Death of Doing Business Report greatly exaggerated as World Bank announces rebranding plans

by Bretton Woods Project

On 16 September civil society organisations had occasion for celebration, as the World Bank announced the cancellation of the (...)

World inequality

by Michael Roberts

The world has become more unequal in income and wealth in the last 40 years. That’s according to the World Inequality Report (...)