Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt

The Belgian Supreme Court announces its verdict : total victory against the vulture fund NML Capital

by CADTM

Press release Total victory for CADTM, Committee for the abolition of Illegitimate Debt, the CNCD – 11.11.11 and its Flemish (...)

Law against the activities of vulture funds

by Belgian State

CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt) is releasing the text of the Belgian law that aims at curtailing the (...)

An Analysis of Argentina’s 2001 Default Resolution

by Martin Guzman

This report cites as an important positive step the Belgian Law on vulture funds passed on 12 July 2015. But it is currently (...)

Argentina: Macri’s Neoliberal Fantasies

by Claudio Katz

In the middle of his term, Argentinian president Mauricio Macri cannot hide the monumental abyss between his promises and (...)

BRICS in Africa: “You are either at the table or on the menu”

by Patrick Bond

At a Johannesburg BRICS think tank, scholars get drunk on their own rhetoric South African academics and think tanks met on (...)

China vs the US: The new imperial scramble for Africa and global rivalries

by Lee Wengraf

Lee Wengraf writes that the rush for profits, economic volatility and militarization across Africa promises only instability, (...)

As Japan’s workers are facing increasing economic difficulties, Student Debt is still a major concern in the country

by Tsutomu Teramoto

The seventh CADTM South Asia regional workshop was successfully held in Colombo (Sri Lanka) from April 6 to April 8, 2018, (...)

The first capitulation of Tsipras and Varoufakis at the end of February 2015

by Eric Toussaint

“I signed the formal letter of request and, with revulsion in my stomach, had it sent to the creditors. It was a thing of (...)

“Castor Case” citizen lawsuit

by Collective

Here we published an article on the Castor Case in Spain and the citizen initiative to suit before National High Court the (...)

Armenia’s unfinished revolution

by Armen Abagyan

Bells of triumph are ringing in the streets of Yerevan following the deposition of now-former Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan. (...)

The World Social Forum is dead! Long live the World Social Forum?

by Francine Mestrum

This was my conclusion, but it did not last for long, just the first days of the Forum. Today, I am not that sure anymore. (...)

New Era in War on Workers: The Ramaphosa Presidency in South Africa

by Irvin Jim

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) views the appointment of Cyril Ramaphosa to the position of (...)

Bio-piracy: the sale of Uganda’s lakes to investors

by Mary Serumaga

The fishermen of Kabarole District appear to have blown the whistle on an audacious act of bio-piracy. They brought to the (...)

Land-grabbing and the Financialization of Agricultural Land

by Mary N. Taylor

On the occasion of the publication of the report Transnational Corporations and Land speculation in Brazil by Rede Social de (...)

European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) launches a peasant agroecology manual on how to phase out the use of pesticides

by La Via Campesina

Europeans are fundamentally questioning the use of pesticides. In 2017, more than one million citizens signed the European (...)

How to Socialize the Banking Sector

by Eric Toussaint, Patrick Saurin

Because capitalists have demonstrated just how far they are willing to go, taking risks (risks whose consequences they refuse (...)

What measures should a popular government take towards banks?

by Eric Toussaint, Jeanne Chevalier, Patrick Saurin

Economic heterodoxy and the programmes of deliquescent social democratic parties lack a structured project for the (...)

Save the date! The CADTM’s Summer Days will take place on 7, 8 and 9 September 2018

by CADTM

The Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt will held its 2018 Summer Days at La Marlagne, Namur, on September 7, (...)

The political economy of a long depression

by Joseph Choonara

It is now a full decade since the financial turmoil that heralded the beginning of the “long depression”. On a global scale, (...)

Report on CADTM activities in Sri Lanka and India, 6 - 19 April 2018

by Eric Toussaint

Several articles were published in French, English, Spanish and Portuguese on the CADTM website; they focused on the (...)

EU-Tunisia negotiations: Free trade without trading freedoms?

by FTDES

Spring 2018 is about to see two fundamental negotiations for Tunisia conducted between representatives of Tunisia and the (...)