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Sri Lanka: No agreement with the IMF!
15 April 2022 - by Eric Toussaint, Sushovan Dhar
A Sri Lankan delegation will travel to Washington next week to try to secure up to $4 billion from the International Monetary Fund and other lenders to help the island nation pay for food and fuel imports as well as stem defaults on its debt. (...) -
[Video] Illegitimate debt and debt audits | Overview of debt in Asia
3 June 2021 - by Eric Toussaint, Iolanda Fresnillo, Eurodad, Daniel Jeong-Dae Lee, Kjetil Abildsnes
Panelists Eric Toussaint, Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM) Daniel Jeong-Dae Lee, United Nations’ Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) Iolanda Fresnillo, Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer, (...) -
An eco-feminist reading of debt to think differently about auditing
4 March 2021 - by Camille Bruneau
The citizen audit of public debt is an essential tool to regain control of public finances, first, by making data on the debt process and budget allocation accessible and clear in order to determine their legitimacy, second, by drawing economic (...) -
Kenyan activists raise questions about debt...
29 January 2021 - by Kenya Debt Abolition Network
Report of Kenyan Debt Zoom Dialogue Held on 13 January 2021 at 2PM to 4PM 1.0 - INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND On 13 January 2021 the Kenya Debt Abolition Network (KDAN) which is a social movement of Kenyan individual and organization whose (...) -
30 years of CADTM
(Video) Fattorelli : “The solution will come from grassroots, conscious, mobilized and united”
19 October 2020 - by Maria Lucia Fattorelli
Message from Maria Lucia Fattorelli (founder and spokesperson of the Citizen Debt Audit in Brazil, member of CADTM) for the 30th anniversary of CADTM. -
What is the Citizen Debt Audit ?
28 February 2020 - by Jawad Moustakbal
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Puerto Rico: Successful Campaign against Illegitimate Debt
15 December 2018 - by Eric Toussaint
Puerto Rico is a colony of the United States. Its inhabitants, although they have US citizenship, cannot vote for the president of the United States. Puerto Ricans elect a single representative to the US Congress, but this representative has no (...) -
Debt & Democracy in Newham: A Citizen audit of LOBO loans
4 December 2018 - by Research For Action
Executive Summary A dramatic withdrawal of central government funding in the last decade has exposed the crisis in local government. Austerity measures are forcing closures of youth centres and libraries, reducing bin collection and increasing (...) -
Summary of The Debt System A History of Sovereign Debts and their Repudiation
10 October 2018 - by Víctor Manuel Isidro Luna
The book The Debt System. A History of Sovereign Debts and their Repudiation will be published later in 2018 by Haymarket in Chicago https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1234-the-debt-system . The original French edition has been published in (...) -
Proposed Solutions by the Dialogue Reference Group on Ballooning Kenyan Debts are False and Flawed
25 September 2018 - by David Calleb Otieno
The Kenyan Peasants League (KPL), a member of La Via Campesina and part of the Kenyan Social Movements for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debts has been following closely the just concluded Dialogue Reference Group meeting that brought together a (...) -
East Africa citizen debt audit
14 August 2018 - by Leader Baraka, Eliud M.A. Letungaa
Slide-show presented by our comrades from Tanzania at the three days training on Citizens Debt Audit, held in Nairobi. <![endif]—> -
[Film] The Audit. An Enquiry into Greek Debt
20 June 2018 - by CADTM, ZinTV
18 June 2015: the Truth Committee on Greek Debt presented a preliminary report while negotiations between the newly elected Greek government and European Institutions made the headlines across the media. The Committee’s findings were that the (...) -
“Stop Repaying Illegitimate Debt”
4 May 2018 - by Eric Toussaint, Amra Ismail
While in Colombo, Sri Lanka, for the 7th CADTM South Asia workshop in April, Éric Toussaint was interviewed by the Daily Mirror, a major Sri Lankan daily newspaper. He answered questions on illegitimate debts, China’s Belt and Road Initiative, (...) -
The Audit, an inquiry into Greek debt
27 February 2018 - by CADTM, ZinTV
The Audit, an inquiry into Greek debt (L’Audit, enquête sur la dette grecque), a film by Maxime Kouvaras Produced by ZIN TV in collaboration with the CADTM (Committee for the abolition of illegitimate debt) 26’ – French version with English (...) -
Preface to Eric Toussaint’s book on the Greek debt
Greece: our struggle against odious and illegitimate debt
11 August 2017 - by Zoe Konstantopoulou
It is with great joy and with a keen sense of my historical duty that I agreed to write the preface to the collection of articles by Éric Toussaint, which is being published in Greek by RedProject in 2017. Working with Éric Toussaint since (...) -
Spain: The Municipal Network against Illegitimate Debt held a second successful meeting in Cadiz
17 June 2017 - by Jérôme Duval, Fátima Martín
The Municipal Network Against Illegitimate Debt and Fiscal Cuts is expanding to the level of the autonomous regions [the Spanish State consists of 12 autonomous communities, among which Andalusia, Catalonia, the Basque country, the Madrid (...) -
Venezuela: Resolution of the Continental Assembly of the CADTM AYNA (Latin America and Caribbean)
9 May 2017 - by CADTM AYNA
Resolution of the Continental Assembly of the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt - Abya Yala Nuestra América (CADTM AYNA / Latin America and Caribbean) on the situation in Venezuela During its 2017 Continental Assembly, held in (...) -
Debt audit: An alternative weapon against state capture
20 February 2017 - by Mary Serumaga
Many African nations are mired in huge debts arising from foreign loans that have hardly benefitted the people. The citizens need to audit these debts. Odious debts should be repudiated, damn the consequences. Moreover, as Thomas Sankara (...) -
For people’s seizure of power: Ten proposals to avoid a repetition of the Greek capitulation
5 January 2017 - by Eric Toussaint
I propose ten measures for the people’s seizure of power, ascertaining that the experience of the Greek capitulation of 2015 is not revisited. The first proposal: a left-wing government must disobey the European Commission (EC) in a very (...) -
The Greek audit Commission battles on !
18 November 2016 - by Anouk Renaud
The Greek Debt Truth Commission that was created in April 2015 to audit the Greek public debt, on the initiative of Zoe Konstantopoulou, former President of the Greek Parliament (the Vouli), has held another meeting in Athens on the 5, 6 and 7 (...) -
LADA - Local Authority Debt Audits
17 November 2016 - by Debt Resistance UK
Debt Resistance UK (DRUK) is a group of researchers, activists and campaigners dedicated to challenging the narrative of debt as apolitical and inevitable. This booklet introduces our research into how bankers, brokers and advisors have tricked (...) -
Oviedo Manifesto
More than 580 elected representatives, including councillors, MPs and MEPs have signed the Oviedo Manifesto, an association against illegitimate debts that was presented to the Spanish Parliament on Wednesday, October 19, 2016. More than 40 (...) -
Fathi Chamkhi (Tunisia): “Cancel all debts proven to be illegitimate by audit”
24 October 2016 - by Fathi Chamkhi, Dominique Lerouge, Bertold du Ryon, Freddy Mathieu
Fathi is a member of the leadership of the Tunisian Popular Front, who has also been a militant in the Assembly for International Alternative Development (RAID Attac/Cadtm in Tunisia) since it was founded. He played a leading role in the (...) -
Sixth and final part of the interview “History of the CADTM’s Anti-Debt Policies”
The Work and Lessons of the Truth Committee on Greek Public Debt
10 October 2016 - by Eric Toussaint, Benjamin Lemoine
Interview with Eric Toussaint, spokesperson and co-founder of the international network of the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM). Interview by Benjamin Lemoine|1| This interview presents the genealogy of the anti-debt (...) -
Part 5 of the interview “History of the CADTM’s anti-debt Policies”
Why Alexis Tsipras Buried Suspension of Payment and the Debt Audit Well Before the 2015 elections
6 October 2016 - by Eric Toussaint, Stathis Kouvelakis, Benjamin Lemoine
Introduction by Stathis Kouvelakis A thorough examination of the causes of the capitulation of Greece’s government in July 2015 and the signing of a third Memorandum of Understanding reveals one of the principal lines of division of the period (...)
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