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Dam debt: Understanding the dynamics of Suriname’s debt crisis
22 January 2021 - by Eurodad, Daniel Munevar
In November 2020, Suriname joined ranks with Zambia, becoming the second country to default on its sovereign debt in the aftermath of Covid-19. In this briefing, we explore the origins of Suriname’s debt crisis and highlights the substantial (...) -
Version 2.0: The North’s New Debt Trap for the South
Evolution of the external debt of developing countries between 2000 and 2019
19 January 2021 - by Eric Toussaint, Milan Rivié
An update of the three part series “A new trap of indebtedness of the South to the North” published in September-October 2020. At the end of the 1990s and the early years of the new millennium, developing countries (DC) were emerging from an (...) -
What are the challenges of World Social Forum 2021 in relation to the global situation?
18 January 2021 - by Gustave Massiah
Introduction of the January 7, 2021 session organized by CRID and ATTAC for the preparation of the January 2021 WSF. The challenges of the World Social Forum 2021 are high. In a deep contradictory world situation, it must make it possible to: (...) -
In memory of Patrice Lumumba, assassinated on 17 January 1961
17 January 2021 - by Eric Toussaint
On 17 January 2021, we commemorate the 60th anniversary of the assassination of Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961). After a resounding victory in the first real elections in which the Congolese participated, Patrice Lumumba became Prime Minister of (...) -
“Exceptional circumstances can help indebted States”
14 January 2021 - by Eric Toussaint
A judgment by the Court of Justice of the European Union states that a State is entitled to impose losses on its creditors. This is a most significant decision. Several States facing a radical change of circumstances because of the impact of (...) -
Planting budgetary time bombs in Africa: the Macron Doctrine En Marche
14 January 2021 - by Ndongo Samba Sylla, Daniela Gabor
‘A French Jeremy Corbyn, and in power!’ you’d think after reading the first few paragraphs of Macron’s recent interview in Le Grand Continent. He condemns the Washington Consensus, the paradigm of ‘less state intervention, privatisations, structural (...) -
Western Imperialism and the Role of Sub-imperialism in the Global South
13 January 2021 - by Patrick Bond, Ana Garcia, Miguel Borba
AT FIRST BLUSH, JOE BIDEN’S ELECTION as U.S. president brings respite from a world threatened by Donald Trump’s climate-denialist, dictator-coddling, xenophobic, racist, misogynist, rules-breaking regime. On second thought, 2021 will also initiate (...) -
UK: In the shadow of student rent strikes
11 January 2021 - by Robert Firth
Outside the media fanfare surrounding the recent wave of university-based militancy, one community’s fight against developers goes on. Robert Firth reports On Manchester’s Oxford Road, in the city’s university district, there is a building that (...) -
The First Decade of the Arab Revolutionary Process
11 January 2021 - by Gilbert Achcar
Ten years ago, on 17 December 2010, a young street vendor in the town of Sidi Bouzid in central Tunisia sparked a political firestorm that soon engulfed the whole country, before spreading across the entire Arabic-speaking region, in what has (...) -
The strategic debates of the European left - from Recommons Europe to the pandemic
8 January 2021 - by Catherine Samary, Srećko Pulig
On 13 December as part of the “Subversive Festival” in Zagreb, two European zoom-panels were organised presenting the two texts translated into Croatian produced by the network Recommons Europe (see (...) -
IMF’s continued VAT push inconsistent with rhetoric on progressive taxes
6 January 2021 - by Bretton Woods Project
Summary IMF backs regressive VAT despite progressive tax rhetoric in pandemic response Broader tax trends steadily shift burdens to women and those least able to pay In September, the IMF hosted the first of a series of webinars (...) -
Lessons from a decade of student activism in the UK
6 January 2021 - by Hector Rios-Jara
The pandemic has exposed the disgraceful failures of market reforms in the British higher education sector. But the resistance of students continues. n years ago, tens of thousands of students flooded the streets of London protesting against (...) -
World Bank: Investigate Cambodia’s Micro-Loans
5 January 2021 - by Human Rights Watch
The World Bank Group should investigate alleged coerced land sales and other rights abuses linked to predatory lending and over-indebtedness in the micro-loan sector, Human Rights Watch said today. These longstanding problems have worsened (...) -
Algeria: Preparing for the long struggle ahead
4 January 2021 - by Hamza Hamouchene, Selma Oumari
COVID-19 has been a blessing to the ruling classes in Algeria. However, the popular Hirak movement has not said its last word yet. In 2020, the Algerian uprising embarked on its second year and despite the immense difficulties and challenges (...) -
India: Long march to peasant unity
4 January 2021 - by Ranjini Basu
The unprecedented unity among peasant organisations is not a sudden development. It has been built over several struggles, which have expanded the base of the peasant and snowballed into the massive protests against the new farm laws. The (...) -
Part One: a Declaration... for Life
3 January 2021 - by Collective
January 1st, 2021 TO THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD: TO PEOPLE FIGHTING IN EUROPE: BROTHERS, SISTERS AND COMRADES: In these previous months, we have established contact between ourselves by various means. We are women, lesbians, gays, (...) -
As South African climate justice veterans fall, consciousness begins reviving, from below and across
2 January 2021 - by Patrick Bond
On three days last week – December 23-25 – South Africa’s east coast province of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) lost three of its clearest voices for social justice and environmental sanity: rural women’s leader Sizani Ngubane (74), trade unionist Patrick (...) -
11 questions / 11 answers about the new global debt crisis and how it can be radically reduced
29 December 2020 - by Eric Toussaint, Olivier Bonfond, Mats Lucia Bayer
Introduction: The current crisis is the most severe since 1929. It is a multi-dimensional crisis of capitalism as it affects simultaneously democracy, health, the economy, climate, environment and social rights. The current health crisis (...) -
ATTAC CADTM Morocco: 20 years of struggle for another possible Morocco – one of social and environmental justice, of dignity and freedom
23 December 2020 - by Omar Aziki
In which background was ATTAC CADTM Morocco born? Global situation The 1990s were marked by a rise in struggles against the neoliberal globalisation which was unrelenting after the fall of the Berlin Wall. A series of global networks were (...) -
Climate and environmental crisis: Sorcerer’s apprentices at the World Bank and the IMF
23 December 2020 - by Eric Toussaint
In December 2020, on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the signature of the Paris Agreement on Climate, the UN General Secretary sounded the alarm because the situation has fundamentally worsened. In this article we analyze what the World (...)
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