Comité pour l'abolition des dettes illégitimes

Egypt

Debt, Dictatorship, and Democratization

20 April 2011 - by Robert Howse, Ruti Teitel

NEW YORK – After Saddam Hussein’s fall, the United States successfully pressed creditors to write off much of Iraq’s external debt. Senior American officials, including Paul Wolfowitz, later President of the World Bank, argued that the Iraqi people (...)
Egypt’s debt must fall with Mubarak’s regime

18 February 2011 - by Nick Dearden

The debts of Egypt and Tunisia must be cancelled if the people on the streets of Cairo and Tunis are to take control of their economy and hold Western countries to account In the best tradition of dictators, Hosni Mubarak pillaged Egypt’s (...)
The Arab revolution is underway: after Tunisia, Egypt in turn ignites...

8 February 2011 - by Fathi Chamkhi, Jérôme Duval

“The memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be taken away, and for such people, with such memories, revolt was always an inch below the surface.” This text is dedicated to numerous Egyptians who, in these days of January, have paid (...)