Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt

The year of the pandemic

by Michael Roberts

It is one year to the day since the World Health Organisation (WHO) [declared the COVID-19 outbreak or epidemic as a (...)

South Africa: Vaccine Apartheid or Equality?

by South African Federation of Trade Unions, Rehad Desai

We are in the middle of a global shortage of supplies of COVID-19 vaccines. We are reliving the saga that happened early in (...)

The G20’s wrong solutions and the need to suspend debt repayment

by Eric Toussaint

Last April, the G20 launched the idea of debt service suspension by poor countries until the end of 2020. What actually (...)

Puerto Rico’s Multi-layered Crisis

by Rafael Bernabe

THE RECENT ELECTIONS in Puerto Rico produced some startling results: both a surge in the vote for progressive, including (...)

Debt and Covid-19 in Ecuador, Kenya, Pakistan, the Philippines and Zambia

by Eurodad

This series of articles has been produced by Eurodad in collaboration with our global partners on the implementation of the (...)

Latin America and the Caribbean are facing a serious debt crisis

by Eric Toussaint, Milan Rivié

In the previous three parts we have observed the evolution of the DCs’ external debt over the last twenty years. The first (...)

Sunny side of the Alps clouding up: Slovenia in the grips of a right-wing tornado

by Ana Podvršič, Jaša Veselinovič

After less than a year since the start of the epidemic, Slovenia barely resembles a country that, for a long time, has been (...)

Call for the Housing Action Day on 27 and 28 March 2021

by Collective

The Housing Action Day launched by the European Action Coalition for the right to Housing and the City will take place in 75 (...)

Greece: A Lost Democracy

by Eva Betavatzi

The authoritarianism of the Greek government is increasing every day, and so is protest against it. For several weeks now, (...)

Latin America has once again entered a period of strong social and political turbulence

by Franck Gaudichaud

Franck Gaudichaud recently wrote and coordinated two collective works drawing a critical assessment of “progressive” political (...)

Greece: Broad response to the neoliberal authoritarianism of the right-wing government

by Panos Petrou

In Greece, the year 2021 began with an offensive by the government led by prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. A new law aims (...)

Peasant Struggles in India, a Feminist Perspective

by Archana Prasad

Archana Prasad spoke with Capire about women’s work and lives in India and the struggles against corporate power and (...)

Nigeria: Extraction-driven devastation: an interview with Nnimmo Bassey

by Nnimmo Bassey, ROAPE

In early 2021, anti-extractivist struggles won two major legal victories against Shell Oil’s operations in Nigeria. These wins (...)

Measuring Capital’s Super-Exploitation of People and Nature in South Africa: First-Cut Empirical Evidence drawing upon Rosa Luxemburg’s Methodology

by Patrick Bond

Introduction Super-exploitation is again a hot topic of debate within international political economy scholarship, in part (...)

“Too late to be pessimistic! Ecosocialism or collapse”

by Daniel Tanuro, Mats Lucia Bayer

We interview Daniel Tanuro, author of the book “Trop tard pour être pessimistes! Écosocialisme ou effondrement”, published this (...)

Thomas Piketty: a progressive global tax on capital

by CADTM

About Piketty’s central idea to create a global progressive tax on capital Piketty declares that “appropriate updating of the (...)

Thomas Piketty, the CADTM and Public Debt

by CADTM

Piketty and public debt Piketty devotes a dozen very interesting pages to the question of public debt over the last two (...)

Latin America has once again entered a period of strong social and political turbulence

by Franck Gaudichaud

Franck Gaudichaud recently wrote and coordinated two collective works drawing a critical assessment of “progressive” political (...)

A grim new year for debt-trapped rural women in Sri Lanka

by Meera Srinivasan

M. Champa Irangani is in no mood to celebrate ‘Avurudu’, or New Year, the biggest annual festival that Sri Lanka’s majority (...)

IMF and debt: a new consensus?

by Michael Roberts

There is much talk among ‘progressive’ economists that the IMF and the World Bank have turned over a new leaf. Gone are the (...)

Neoliberalism: An increasing gap among incomes and tax gifts to Capital

by CADTM

Evolution of low and high salaries since the 1960s The May 1968 general strike in France led to a considerable increase in (...)