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[Video] What solutions for the countries of the South crushed by the burden of the debt ?
20 September 2021 - by Iolanda Fresnillo, Omar Aziki, Ndongo Samba Sylla, Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, Anaïs Carton
CADTM Summer University 2021: Global Crisis, Debt Cancellation for Social Justice! Thursday 16 September, 6.30-8.30 p.m. - What solutions for the countries of the South crushed by the burden of the debt? With Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky (...) -
[Video] Your debt or your life: a feminist approach to the multidimensional crisis
16 September 2021 - by Silvia Federici, Camille Bruneau, Verónica Gago
CADTM Summer University 2021: Global Crisis, Debt Cancellation for Social Justice! Tuesday 14 September 2021 With Silvia Federici and Verónica Gago Silvia Federici, an Italian-American scholar, teacher, and activist from the radical (...) -
On September 24, we will strike to demand for intersectional climate justice! #Uproot The System
15 September 2021 - by Fridays for future
We’re in the midst of a climate crisis, mass species extinction, a world health pandemic, socio-economic inequality crises, and more. The current system actively strives towards highlighting the voices of the most privileged through a racist and (...) -
Booms and bezzles
14 September 2021 - by Michael Roberts
Major stock markets are hovering near all-time highs and commodity prices (food and materials) are rocketing. At the other end of the scale, short-term interest rates are near or below zero, and even long-term government and corporate bonds are (...) -
Multinational Corporations and COVID-19: Intellectual property rights vs. human rights
11 September 2021 - by Peter Rossman
The multilateral trading system anchored by the WTO is not confined to cross-border trade in physical goods. It was also designed to protect corporate knowledge monopolies. Developing countries were told that strict adherence to the rules of (...) -
The “Hot Spring” Showed That Greeks Were Willing to Fight
9 September 2021 - by Stathis Kouvelakis
Ten years ago, Greece was gripped by square occupations expressing mass opposition to EU austerity policies. The movement’s strength was its ability to rally Greeks from outside the organized left — yet it was ultimately defeated by its lack of a (...) -
The IMF’s announcement of $650 billion in Special Drawing Rights: advertising effect
8 September 2021 - by CADTM, Eric Toussaint, Milan Rivié
Milan Rivié and Éric Toussaint interviewed by the CADTM CADTM: In late August 2021 the IMF announced that it would supply the global economy with US$650 billion to meet urgent needs. This would be achieved through an increase in Special Drawing (...) -
[VIDEO] FESTIVAL SESSIONS: Growing private debt, vulnerability and inequality in South Asia
7 September 2021 - by Farooq Tariq , Sushovan Dhar, Amali Wedagedara, Nalini Ratnarajah
Presented by: South Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradication (SAAPE), Progressive Plantation Workers Union (PPWU) India, Manitham Trust India, Bangladesh Nari Progati Sangh (BNPS), South Asia Tax and Fiscal Justice Alliance (SATaFJA). Session is (...) -
The US Lost in Afghanistan. But US Imperialism Isn’t Going Anywhere
7 September 2021 - by Gilbert Achcar
The United States suffered grave losses in Iraq and Afghanistan, just as it did in Vietnam. But we shouldn’t mistake revisions of US military strategy after calamitous failures for a turn away from US imperialist ambitions. The debacle of the (...) -
CADTM Summer University 2021 webinars, registration open
6 September 2021 - by CADTM
In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic and its aggravating effect on the multidimensional crisis congenital to capitalism, the same destructive policies are still being imposed: the rich continue to capture ever greater parts of the World’s (...) -
BRICS New Development Bank Corruption in South Africa
5 September 2021 - by Patrick Bond
1. Introduction: Raised – and dashed – expectations for the BRICS replacing Western banking In 2013 in Durban, at the heads-of-state summit of the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) bloc, a New Development Bank (NDB) and Contingent (...) -
Earthquakes, storms and colonial debt: The need for debt relief in Haiti
1 September 2021 - by Tess Woolfenden
The Caribbean country of Haiti was hit by a devastating earthquake in which 250,000 lives were lost and 1.5 million were displaced. Just like many other countries in the Caribbean and around the world, Haiti’s crushing debts are hampering its (...) -
Einstein and Landau: Scientific geniuses as well as ... anti-capitalists and anti-Stalinists!
31 August 2021 - 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. And yet, both of them share several common features: They occupy first-rank positions in the short list of the greatest (...) -
Credit ratings are punishing poorer countries for investing more in health care during the pandemic
31 August 2021 - by Ramya Vijaya
Economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic depends on sustained investment, low-income nations face a major obstacle: their credit ratings. A credit rating, like a credit score, is an assessment of the ability of a borrower – whether it’s a (...) -
The Jackson Hole dilemma
30 August 2021 - by Michael Roberts
Next weekend, the central bankers of the world meet in a slimmed down COVID annual jamboree at Jackson Hole has more than doubled to $8tn. The European Central bank has total assets worth more than €8tn, the Bank of Japan has about $6tn, while (...) -
The opening of the trial for the assassination of Thomas and his companions is a victory for justice, but will the whole truth be known?
23 August 2021 - by Réseau International « Justice pour Sankara justice pour l’Afrique »
PRESS RELEASE Finally! The Thomas Sankara assassination trial will open on 11 October 2021. After years of waiting and despairing, the families of the victims, their lawyers, the people of Burkina Faso, whose insurrection in 2014 was a (...) -
How Austerity Helped to Ignite Greece’s Historic Wildfires
22 August 2021 - by Stelios Foteinopoulos
If Ferdinand Lassalle lived today, he would be able to watch his ideas age badly. In 1862, Lassalle, speaking to a socialist gathering in Berlin, outlined his theory of the night-watchman state – a neoliberal concept whereby the state transfers (...) -
The relative decline of US imperialism
22 August 2021 - by Michael Roberts
The swift collapse of Afghanistan puppet government when US troops withdrew from the war with the Taliban and left the country after 20 years has been likened to the fall of Saigon at the end of the 30-year ‘American’ war against the Vietnamese (...) -
Global North ‘climate reparations’ to prevent Southern fossil-fuel conflict
19 August 2021 - by Patrick Bond
Abstract The climate crisis is amplified by socio-political and economic injustices everywhere but in 2021, perhaps nowhere as acutely as northern Mozambique. There, the Cabo Delgado province is a site for military intervention against Islamic (...) -
SAAPE stands in solidarity with the people of Afghanistan
18 August 2021 - by SAAPE
SAAPE extends its solidarity to women, men and children of Afghanistan who are once again at the toxic crossroads of war and violence, political instability and an uncertain future. The return of the Taliban in the Afghanistan government is a (...)
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