Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt

List of signatory organisations: End the private patent system! For a pharmaceutical industry under popular control and a free, universal and public vaccination system.

by Collective, World March of Women, ATTAC, CADTM International, TNI

At the initiative of CADTM International, two hundred and fifty social organisations, trade unions, NGOs and other movements (...)

List of the first 360 signatures of people who support the End the Private Patent System Manifesto! #FREECOVIDPATENTS

by Collective, Achin Vanaik, Arundhati Roy, CADTM International, Cinzia Arruzza , Eric Toussaint, Nancy Fraser, Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, Tithi Bhattacharya, Vijay Prashad

Among the personalities supporting the End the Private Patent System Manifesto! For a pharmaceutical industry under popular (...)

More than 350 personalities from all over the world support the Manifesto “End the Private Patent System”

by CADTM International

As a new round of negotiations begins at the World Trade Organization (WTO), more than 350 personalities from around the (...)

North Africa and the Middle-East: A new wave of debt

by Eric Toussaint, Milan Rivié, Omar Aziki

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

Solidarity with the Palestinian People

by CADTM International

The Israeli colonial aggression on the Gaza Strip lasted 11 days. A ceasefire has now come into effect. This aggression (...)

Debt relief & the Paris Club historical perspective | Overview of debt in Africa

by Eurodad, Jaime Atienza, Muchimba Siamachoka, Rémi Vilain, Tirivangani Mutazu

The third session of the Debt Wednesday’s training course will introduce the concepts of debt relief, together with an (...)

Greece: Information Note of the “Committee on Family Law and Consensus Joint Custody”

by Committee on Family Law and Consensus Joint Custody

Since November 2020, 24 women’s organizations and collectives have set up the “Committee on Family Law and Consensus Joint (...)

The Earldom of Larios Uses Debt Blackmail to Build a Golf-Course on Agricultural Land

by Eric Toussaint

Here we have a concrete example, in 2021, that plunges us into the debt system and history as it has been created through the (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

‘Unequal ecological exchange’ worsens across time and space, creating growing Northern environmental liabilities

by Patrick Bond, Rahul Basu

What is “unequal ecological exchange,” especially when applied to resource flows affecting the Global South and its future (...)

APMDD Statement on the 54^th Annual Meeting of the Asian Development Bank

by APMDD

At this 54th annual meeting of the Board of Governors of the Asian Development Bank, we challenge the leadership and staff of (...)

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 (...)

List of the first 360 signatures of people who support the End the Private Patent System Manifesto! #FREECOVIDPATENTS

by Collective, Achin Vanaik, Arundhati Roy, CADTM International, Cinzia Arruzza , Eric Toussaint, Nancy Fraser, Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, Tithi Bhattacharya, Vijay Prashad

Among the personalities supporting the End the Private Patent System Manifesto! For a pharmaceutical industry under popular (...)

More than 350 personalities from all over the world support the Manifesto “End the Private Patent System”

by CADTM International

As a new round of negotiations begins at the World Trade Organization (WTO), more than 350 personalities from around the (...)

End the system of private patents!

by Collective, World March of Women, CADTM International, TNI, Womin

Thanks to a huge scientific effort based on international collaboration and historic amounts of public money, humanity has (...)

Stop blaming the victims of the microfinance crisis!

by Amali Wedagedara, Nedha de Silva

The exponential growth of the microfinance industry in Sri Lanka does not correspond with its contribution to reducing (...)

Unmasking the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor

by GRAIN

In 2018, China’s biggest agrochemical corporation, Sinochem Group Co, announced that it had conducted field trials of hybrid (...)

Sri Lanka: Microfinance debt trap: Still awaiting reprieve

by Maheesha Mudugamuwa

Thousands of innocent villagers, especially in the Northern, Eastern, and North Central Provinces are holding protests to (...)