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The Paris Commune of 1871, banks and debt
19 February 2021 - by Eric Toussaint
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the extraordinary experience of the Paris Commune, it is fundamental to draw a number of lessons from it. The measures a government takes regarding its Central Bank, the debts of working class people, (...) -
Planting budgetary time bombs in Africa: the Macron Doctrine En Marche
14 January 2021 - by Ndongo Samba Sylla, Daniela Gabor
‘A French Jeremy Corbyn, and in power!’ you’d think after reading the first few paragraphs of Macron’s recent interview in Le Grand Continent. He condemns the Washington Consensus, the paradigm of ‘less state intervention, privatisations, structural (...) -
Total Uganda case in France: the Court of Appeal of Versailles remands the case to the commercial court
11 December 2020 - by Survie, Les Amis de la Terre, CCFD-Terre Solidaire , ActionAid France-Peuples Solidaires, Collectif Ethique sur l’étiquette
The Versailles Court of Appeal today issued its decision on the case against the oil giant Total led by six French and Ugandan associations - Friends of the Earth France, Survie, AFIEGO, CRED, NAPE and NAVODA - which constitutes the first legal (...) -
Publicity stunt, lies and omission on African debt, Macron bets on the Paris Club
7 July 2020 - by Milan Rivié
On 13th and 15th April 2020, French President Emmanuel Macron drew the world’s attention by calling for a “massive cancellation” of Africa’s debt. A few hours later, the G20 disavowed it by decreeing a suspension of payments of the poorest (...) -
President Macron never intended to cancel African debt
4 May 2020 - by Pauline Imbach
Had we been born yesterday, we would have been tempted to believe that the question of African debt was finally going to be taken seriously. Emmanuel Macron, wielding a magic wand, was about to cancel the continent’s debts, once and for all. Yet, (...) -
The Only Oxygen Cylinder Factory in Europe is Shut down and Macron Refuses to Nationalize It
1 April 2020 - by Jérôme Duval
Although no information is circulating about the stock of oxygen cylinders in France, which are very useful in these times of acute health crisis and which Italy cruelly lacks, the only factory capable of producing them in Europe remains closed. (...) -
Tunisia’s Truth Commission vs France, the IMF and World Bank
8 September 2019 - by Olfa Belhassine
On July 16, Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission (IVD) sent two memorandums calling first on France and then on the World Bank and International Monetary Fund to apologize and pay reparations to Tunisian victims. It says they all have a “share (...) -
Call for mobilization to defend our alternatives against the G7
6 June 2019 - by Alternatives G7
France is the host country of the next G7 meeting to be held in Biarritz from 24 to 26 August 2019. For decades, the G7 has played the role of an economic and financial directorate alongside the IMF, the WTO and the World Bank. Today, it is (...) -
Crackdown on the French Yellow Vest Movement: an Undeclared State of Emergency
21 January 2019 - by Jérôme Duval
According to Vincent Brengarth, a lawyer at the Paris Bar, in recent years we have been witnessing a disturbing drift in police repression in France, more specifically since November 2015 when the state of emergency was pronounced and extended (...) -
Thomas Piketty and public debt
14 January 2019 - by Eric Toussaint
Thomas Piketty recently published an opinion in the newspaper Le Monde, “1789-2019, the return of debt”, (in french) which deserves to be read. We republish an article by Éric Toussaint on the positions of Thomas Piketty and that of CADTM on (...) -
Macron’s Announcements: Smoking to preserve tax injustice and gifts to the rich
13 December 2018 - by Attac France
While the whole country has a strong desire for more social and fiscal justice, Emmanuel Macron has finally spoken out, after three weeks of silence, but refuses to change course. Behind some “social” measures that hide a weakening of social (...) -
Gilets jaunes (yellow vests): learning from history and acting now
11 December 2018 - by Eric Toussaint
Some consider that if you are involved in a movement against a tax (supposed, in theory at least, to redistribute wealth) rather than for higher wages, say (in the broad sense, including social security), you are part of a right-wing movement. (...) -
Egypt: a repression made in France
9 July 2018 - by FIDH
A new report reveals today how the French State and several French companies have participated in the bloody Egyptian repression of the past five years by supplying Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s regime with military and surveillance equipment. By (...) -
Cameroon: He testified against Bolloré: “Of course I’m worried”
20 April 2018 - by Véronique Groussard, Emmanuel Elong
Emmanuel Elong, the farmer who came from Cameroon specifically for the lawsuit filed by the Bolloré group against France 2, tells of the psychological pressure you are under when you confront a major group in Africa. Emmanuel Elong is an (...) -
No TAV: feeding the fire of resistance in northern Italy
18 January 2018 - by Frank Barat
The decades-old struggle of the No TAV movement in northern Italy is an inspiration to environmentalist and anti-capitalist movements worldwide. When I get to Turin airport, on a warm autumn day, the smell of smoke is overwhelming. The weather (...) -
Haiti: From trafficking to debt
11 November 2017 - by Jérôme Duval
This Caribbean country is not in debt, it is a creditor. It is France which owes it money. Explanation by Jerome Duval, of CADTM. Translated by Jenny Bright. Poverty in colonised countries has greatly increased due to a transfer of debt: the (...) -
France, Presidential Elections : Ten Proposals to Beat the European Union
18 April 2017 - by Eric Toussaint, Costas Lapavitsas, Stathis Kouvelakis, Olivier Besancenot, Zoe Konstantopoulou, Miguel Urbán Crespo, Marina Albiol, Teresa Rodríguez, Rommy Arce, Angela Klein
It is again clear from the current election campaign in France that a large proportion of the population wants left-wing radical solutions to exit the crisis. The impressive number of people attending Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s rallies and joining his (...) -
When France Used the Public Debt to Colonise Morocco
17 February 2017 - by Adam Barbe
It is now widely recognised that the French protectorate over Morocco was acquired thanks to that country’s public debt. Guy de Maupassant in Bel Ami (1885) alludes to this possibility twenty years before the event! Yet still today many (...) -
Lagarde Trial: A business class get-out-of-jail free card
5 January 2017 - by CADTM France, CADTM Belgium
The committee for the abolition of illegitimate debts reacts to the French Court of Justice’s verdict, exempting the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). On Monday 19th of December 2016, the French Court of Justice gave (...) -
Press release
The LuxLeaks and Lagarde trials: for how much longer will the judiciary protect financial delinquents?
20 December 2016 - by CADTM France, CADTM Switzerland , CADTM Belgium , Attac Luxembourg, CADTM Spain
LuxLeaks trial: the wrong ones are in the dock! On 12th December the trial of Antoine Deltour, Raphaël Halet and Edouard Perrin – the two whistleblowers and the journalist who brought the Luxleaks scandal out into the open— opened again in (...) -
Gabon: France calls for calm after 50 years of support to the Bongo regime
8 September 2016 - by Survie
Voting for the presidential election in Gabon took place on Saturday 27th August. While Ali Bongo seems to have lost the election, according to results produced by the opposition at the exit polls, he decided, as in 2009, to impose himself by (...) -
Blockupy International Coordinating Group, May 15th 2016
Let’s strike back! Towards a Global debout, against Loi Travail and neoliberal European labor reforms!
17 May 2016 - by Blockupy Frankfurt
Blockupy International supports the convergence of struggles that is currently taking place in France against the Labor Bill and its system and austerity policies which are creating a society of injustice, precarity and inequalities. The (...) -
France’s Nuit Debout movement: Overturning a World
13 May 2016 - by Stathis Kouvelakis, Frédéric Lordon
France’s Nuit Debout movement has the potential to not just defeat a single law, but to move beyond defensive struggles. After a month of occupations, France’s Nuit Debout movement is beginning to confront crucial questions about its political (...) -
April 28th: Blockupy goes Paris and Nuit Debout!
28 April 2016 - by Blockupy Frankfurt
Blockupy International Coordination sends a strong message of solidarity to all those who are fighting now against the labor bill imposed by the French government, a fight that is taken up by young and old, by industry and precarious workers, by (...) -
International call by #NuitDebout
18 April 2016 - by NuitDebout
We call on peoples movements across the world to mobilise for justice and real democracy on the 15 of May, 2016 for a #GLOBALDEBOUT. We invite you to come to Paris for an International Gathering of movements at Place de la Republic on May 7 and (...)
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