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Unitedly we fight against debt and all other oppressions!
2 February 2020 - by CADTM Asia
A region that was the poster boy of neo-liberal growth and for its emerging middle class is back in news for wrong reasons. The 2018 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) by UNDP and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (...) -
The Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM) on private debt and human rights
13 January 2020 - by Chiara Filoni, Eva Betavatzi, Mats Lucia Bayer
This is our contribution to the appeal made by the UN Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of all human rights, Mr. Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky. Mr. (...) -
ATTAC/CADTM MOROCCO Member of CADTM International Network
Morocco: Immediate freedom for Omar Radi (Activist & Journalist)
30 December 2019 - by ATTAC/CADTM Morocco
Immediate freedom for Omar Radi (Activist & Journalist) No to the repression of free voices and forms of expression that reject injustice and demand democracy. Solidarity with all political prisoners and popular struggles. The Moroccan (...) -
The Debt System - book review
17 December 2019 - by Phil Armstrong
The Debt System argues that international debt is a system of exploitation of poorer countries, which should be regarded as illegitimate, finds Phil Armstrong This book tells a story of exploitation and the use of indebtedness by western (...) -
For food sovereignty in Morocco
24 November 2019 - by ATTAC/CADTM Morocco
The ATTAC/CADTM Morocco organization has recently published its study in Arabic on agricultural policy in Morocco and its multiple impacts on small farmers, on agricultural workers, on economy and on environment. The title is: ’For food (...) -
South Africa: Resistance and Research for Alternatives to Illegitimate Debt and for Ecosocialism
3 May 2019 - by Eric Toussaint
Report on the CADTM International mission to South Africa 31 March – 12 April 2019, part 2. First part available here Wednesday 3 April: Cape town and Cape of Good Hope: highly visible social and racial segregation The fourth day was (...) -
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 (...) -
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 (...) -
Good year of fighting in 2019!
28 December 2018 - by CADTM International
It really makes sense to be part of an international network such as the CADTM, which is fighting the debt system and all forms of oppression all over the world. We cannot tolerate injustice against anyone anywhere and we know we have to act in (...) -
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 (...) -
Mexico: creation of a CADTM launching committee
4 October 2018 - by CADTM
A meeting was held in Mexico City, in the lecturers’ hall at the Faculty of Economics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) on 1st October 2018 to launch the creation of a Mexican chapter of the CADTM. The UNAM counts four (...) -
How do patriarchy and capitalism jointly reinforce the oppression of women?
13 September 2018 - by Camille Bruneau
In the summary of the first chapter, we have laid out a number arguments for the necessity of feminism today. They include violence, the lack or suppression of fundamental rights, under-representation in politics, poverty, economic (...) -
CADTM successfully holds Citizen Debt Audit Training in Nairobi
19 August 2018 - by David Calleb Otieno
The Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debts (CADTM) successfully held a three days training on Citizens Debt Audit in Nairobi, Kenya. The training that attended by delegates from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Burundi was organized by the (...) -
Africa : Strengthening the anti-debt initiatives in Kenya
15 August 2018 - by Sushovan Dhar
CADTM collaborated with Kenyan social movements to organise a training on debt audit and also a meeting to strengthen the anti-debt activities in Kenya. This programme held from July 29-30 at Nairobi (in the slums of Kangemi) witnessed the (...) -
Debts and feminisms: an overview of the book project – first chapter
13 August 2018 - by Camille Bruneau
Feminism and the situation of women is an ever-growing concern for the CADTM network, which becomes almost unavoidable in the broad fight against domination(s). Women are indeed impacted by debt in several ways; as the main contractors of (...) -
Solidarity & support Call - Toward international organizations and activists advocating for freedom and people’s rights
20 July 2018 - by ATTAC/CADTM Morocco
“RIF Hirak” prisoners in Morocco are facing undeserved sentences Let’s expand the international solidarity until the drop of adjudications and their release. The Appeal Court of Casablanca stated on Tuesday, 26 June 2018, heavy sentences (...) -
Vulture funds defeated
The Belgian Supreme Court announces its verdict : total victory against the vulture fund NML Capital
4 June 2018 - by CADTM
Press release Total victory for CADTM, Committee for the abolition of Illegitimate Debt, the CNCD – 11.11.11 and its Flemish counterpart represented by Oliver Stein from the chambers of the Progress Lawyers Network. Today 31 May 2018 the (...) -
Save the date! The CADTM’s Summer Days will take place on 7, 8 and 9 September 2018
28 May 2018 - by CADTM
The Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt will held its 2018 Summer Days at La Marlagne, Namur, on September 7, 8 & 9. The CADTM’s Summer Days will start on the evening of Friday 7 September in La Marlagne and will carry on (...) -
The Egyptian Network for the Abolition of Debt and the Right to Equitable Development (ENADED)
8 May 2018 - by CADTM, ENADED
Today, as capitalism has an increasing tendency to globalize all aspects of human life, our struggle must be globalized too. It is essential to develop networking strategies with other organizations of the same spheres of struggles. Capitalism (...) -
Colombo Declaration on Illegitimate Debts 7th CADTM South Asia Workshop
17 April 2018 - by CADTM
We, the participants of the 7th CADTM South Asia workshop from Bangladesh, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Japan as well as from Belgium and France gathered at Colombo, Sri Lanka from 6-8 April 2018 acknowledge and affirm that illegitimate (...) -
South Asia: New creditors and new forms of debt peonage
17 April 2018 - by Nathan Legrand
The seventh CADTM South Asia regional workshop was successfully held in Colombo (Sri Lanka) from April 6 to April 8, 2018, with participants from Sri Lanka, but also from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, as well as from Japan, France and (...) -
Understanding the crisis is too important to be left to specialists alone. This is why “Bankocracy” is so important
16 April 2018 - by Avishek Konar
The Great Recession, from the middle of 2007 onwards, has rocked the global economy. This has led to at least a couple of things. The legitimacy of neoliberalism in the west—qua ‘there is no other alternative’—has been shattered, and vast majority (...) -
We struggle against illegitimate public and private debt which are at the core of the capitalist system
6 April 2018 - by Eric Toussaint
The seventh CADTM South Asia regional workshop started in Colombo (Sri Lanka) on April 6, 2018, with participants coming from Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Japan, Belgium and France. Around forty people, most of them being (...) -
The Bamako Seminar, The CADTM network reinforces the struggle against illegitimate debt !
27 December 2017 - by Nathan Legrand, Fatima Zahra El Beghiti
The CADTM International network delegations met in Bamako, Mali, from 15 to 25 November 2017 to follow several political training and coordination activities. Indeed the third “women, debt and microcredit” seminar, the annual CADTM training (...) -
Final declaration of the Bamako “Women, Debt and Microcredit” seminar
29 November 2017 - by CADTM International
We, women of the CADTM Africa network, from Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, Guinea, Conakry, Mali, Morocco, Niger, Congo Democratic Republic, Republic of Congo, Senegal, Togo, as well as Argentina have met for the 3rd session (...)
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