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Welcome to the new Algerian revolution: an interview with Hamza Hamouchene
22 April 2019 - by Hamza Hamouchene
In 2011, a wave of revolutionary struggle swept the Middle East and North Africa, often bringing down dictatorships that had governed for decades. Millions protested on the streets, occupied public spaces and demanded “bread, freedom and social justice”. Having broken through the fear produced by years of repression, the Arab Spring became an (...) -
From the BRICS countries to the townships: racial and social segregation continues
22 April 2019 - by Eric Toussaint
Over 25 years ago now the people of South Africa won the struggle to end the Apartheid regime. [1] Nevertheless, even though it is now against the law, de facto racial segregation is still apparent. Moreover the capitalist assault on the majority of the population is blatant. The class struggle is all the more clearly perceptible as the main (...) -
A delicate moment
17 April 2019 - by Michael Roberts
The IMF-World Bank meeting in Washington this weekend revealed again that the world economy is slowing down and the prospect of an outright recession is getting much higher. The IMF economists cut their outlook for global growth to the lowest since the global financial crisis of 2009 amid a bleaker outlook in most major advanced economies and (...) -
Ecosocialism: For a fighting ecological trade-unionism
16 April 2019 - by Daniel Tanuro
How can we reconcile social struggle and environmental struggle? This question poses problems for trade unionists. To avoid a climate catastrophe, it would be necessary to reduce economic activity, to suppress useless or harmful production, to give up a substantial part of the means of transport ... But what would happen to employment then? (...) -
Recent unrest reveals continuing revolutionary spirit in Haiti
16 April 2019 - by Abayomi Azikiwe
Mass demonstrations against imperialist hegemony have rocked the western hemisphere’s poorest nation of Haiti. During the month of February, hundreds of thousands of Haitians took to the streets to demonstrate in response to the horrific economic crisis sweeping the Caribbean nation. For ten straight days, workplaces, schools and normal (...) -
The mountain of corporate debt will be the seed of the next financial crisis
13 April 2019 - by Eric Toussaint
The scene is again set for a new major international financial crisis. Central bankers, leaders of institutions such as the IMF, the OECD and the Bank for International Settlements are all aware of the situation. Many articles in the specialized press proclaim it. One of the factors is the enormous accumulation of debt by large private (...) -
Care debt: patriarchy and capital on the offensive, feminist economics as a proposal
10 April 2019 - by Blanca Bayas
In recent years, the concept of “care debt”, associated with the time and work women have devoted to domestic and care tasks, has been widespread, thus sustaining the impact of the current crisis and making the functioning of the capitalist and patriarchal system viable. What does the idea of “care debt” entail and what does it denounce? What (...) -
Algeria in revolt: “We woke up and you will pay!”
9 April 2019 - by Hamza Hamouchene
The abdication of President Bouteflika is a historic victory for the Algerian people — but the struggle for a true democratic transition is far from over. What is happening in Algeria is truly historic. The people won the first battle in their struggle to radically overhaul the system. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, president for the past twenty (...) -
Crisis deepens as global South debt payments increase by 85%
9 April 2019 - by Jubilee Debt Campaign
- External debt payments by developing country governments grew by 85%, as a proportion of government revenue, between 2010 and 2018 For the countries with the highest payments, in two-thirds public spending is falling The largest cuts were in Egypt, Cameroon, Angola and Mongolia, all of which are on IMF loan programmes Figures released by (...) -
ReCommonsEurope Manifesto: a left-wing initiative in Europe
8 April 2019 - by Eric Toussaint
While the campaign for the European elections on 26 May 2019 draws very little interest, the initiative launched by ReCommonsEurope with its ‘Manifesto for a new popular internationalism in Europe’ is on to a promising start. The text was drafted over some twelve months by sixteen people from six different countries (Belgium, Bosnia, France, (...) -
Series: 1944-2019, 75 years of interference from the World Bank and the IMF (Part 6)
Why the 1953 cancellation of German debt won’t be reproduced for Greece and Developing Countries
8 April 2019 - by Eric Toussaint
In 2019, the World Bank (WB) and the IMF will be 75 years old. These two international financial institutions (IFI), founded in 1944, are dominated by the USA and a few allied major powers who work to generalize policies that run counter the interests of the world’s populations. The WB and the IMF have systematically made loans to States as (...) -
In memory of Paulino Nuñez
8 April 2019 - by CADTM
Paulino Nuñez was an active member of the Venezuelan anti-debt network, the CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt) and of CADTM-AYNA (Abya Yala/Nuestra America the CADTM Latin America and Caribbean network). He was an untiring standard bearer, an avid reader, inquirer into the reality of his country and all the popular (...) -
Structural violence and the struggle for state power in Rwanda
8 April 2019 - by Andy Storey
The 1994 Rwandan genocide occurred despite the existence of a peace and power sharing agreement (the Arusha Accords) to which all parties to the conflict had ostensibly subscribed. This paper addresses the failings of the Arusha peace and power sharing process and makes three core arguments. The first argument is that the Arusha process was (...) -
Socialise Housing across Europe!
5 April 2019 - by Collective
Tomorrow, Saturday 6 April, many actions will take place across Europe to cry out loudly that it is time to stop the financialisation of housing and to defend the right to decent housing for all. CADTM supports these actions and signed this call made by several European associations (Portugal, Greece, Netherlands, Germany). The mobilizations (...) -
The case of Chevron in the Ecuadorian Amazon:
The ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada closes the doors to end impunity
5 April 2019 - by Stop corporate impunity
The Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples´ Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and End Impunity regrets the ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada regarding the case of Chevron in the Ecuadorian Amazon, and reaffirms the urgent need to establish a UN Binding Treaty on Transnational Corporations and Human Rights. The Global Campaign to Reclaim (...) -
Mozambique: impact of Cyclone Idai boosts case for non-repayment of secret loans, says UN rights expert
4 April 2019 - by Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky
GENEVA (29 March 2019) – “The realisation of economic, social and cultural rights in Mozambique should not be jeopardised by the servicing of the country’s debt and in particular its ‘secret loan’ component. Human rights and devastating impacts of Cyclone Idai must imperatively be considered in debt discussions,” says UN human rights expert Juan (...) -
India and the Colonial Debt
4 April 2019 - by Sushovan Dhar
The English East India Company, as is well known, obtained, besides the political rule in India, the exclusive monopoly of the tea-trade, as well as of the Chinese trade in general, and of the transport of goods to and from Europe. But the coasting trade of India and between the islands, as well as the internal trade of India, were the (...) -
Rwanda: A look back at the 1994 genocide
3 April 2019 - by Eric Toussaint
Starting on 7 April 1994, in less than three months, nearly one million Rwandans – the exact figure has not yet been determined - were exterminated because they were (or supposed to be) Tutsis. Tens of thousands of moderate Hutus were also slaughtered. This was indeed a genocide, that is, the deliberate destruction of an entire community (...) -
South Africa Suffers Capitalist Crisis Déjà Vu
3 April 2019 - by Patrick Bond
A year ago, the majority of South Africans stared into the abyss. They faced either a continuation of corrupt misrule by a stereotypical kleptocrat—Jacob Zuma—whose anti-imperialist rhetoric failed to disguise worsening austerity, or a potentially dramatic change of political direction toward liberal capitalism. [1] Next door in Zimbabwe, Robert (...) -
Kenyan Peasants League to Hold First Peasants Agroecology Summer School
1 April 2019 - by Kenyan Peasants League
The Kenyan Peasants League (KPL) a member of La Via Campesina Southern and Eastern Africa Regional Collective is set to hold a Peasants Agroecology Summer School at Mariwa Village in Migori County, Kenya on 15 to 17 April 2019. Hosted by Mariwa and Mulo Clusters, the Summer School will among other things serve as a launch of KPL Mariwa – Mulo (...)
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