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19 January 2023 : Big succes for social mobilization in France against the neoliberal government
20 January 2023 - by CADTM International
The international CADTM expresses its warm support to the people who are mobilising in France against elitist government attacks on the pension system. We are glad to see the huge success of the mobilisation of the national day of action on 19 (...) -
French fossil imperialism, South African subimperialism and anti-imperial resistance
15 December 2022 - by Patrick Bond
Abstract As protest against TotalEnergies stretching from South Africa’s Cape coastline to eastern Uganda rises, the main Big Oil target of African climate activists is facing an historic choice. It can continue long-standing patterns of (...) -
International Appeal for the Trial Relating to the Assassination of Thomas Sankara and his Fellow Victims be Filmed
19 October 2021 - by Réseau International « Justice pour Sankara justice pour l’Afrique »
Keep the memory of the trial for posterity After a long wait of 34 years, by National, African and International opinion, the trial relating to the assassination of Thomas Sankara and his fellow victims has finally opened on 11 October 2021 (...) -
Michel Husson: an activist in the economy and an economist who inspired politics
22 July 2021 - by Eric Toussaint
Michel Husson’s decease will leave many comrades all over the world with a deep sense of loss and bereavement. Michel Husson (1949-2021), who had a solid training as an economist, was a keen observer of the capitalist system and its evolution (...) -
Karl Marx Saw Signs of the Socialist Future in the Paris Commune
24 May 2021 - by Stathis Kouvelakis, David Broder
Today marks 150 years since the start of the Bloody Week, when the French army drowned the Paris Commune in blood. For Karl Marx, the Paris revolution was the greatest working-class uprising in his lifetime — and a model for what socialism might (...) -
Africa: How France Continues to Dominate Its Former Colonies in Africa
26 April 2021 - by Ndongo Samba Sylla, Fanny Pigeaud, Chris Dite
In France’s former African colonies, imperialist monetary policies from Paris continue to cripple domestic economies and undermine democracy. Colonialism in Africa won’t have meaningfully come to an end until true economic sovereignty is allowed (...) -
Sankara case and companions. The trial quickly! ... Blaise Compaoré must be extradited and France must cooperate!
16 April 2021 - by Réseau International « Justice pour Sankara justice pour l’Afrique »
Press Release The decisions of the pre-trial hearing, published on April 13, 2021, confirm the indictment of the main defendants. The case has now been referred to the Military Tribunal for due process. We demand that Blaise Compaoré be (...) -
The Sankara Affair : Press release of the Network Justice for Sankara
19 March 2021 - by Réseau International « Justice pour Sankara justice pour l’Afrique »
The French authorities must immediately make all documents concerning the assassination of Thomas Sankara available to Burkina Faso courts Press Release On 28 November 2017, on official visit to Burkina Faso, Emmanuel Macron, the French (...) -
Paris Commune 150: the economics
18 March 2021 - by Michael Roberts
Today is the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Paris Commune. The Commune (Council) was formed as result of what should be considered the first uprising and revolution led by the working class in history. This new class was the product (...) -
The Paris Commune of 1871, banks and debt
18 March 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 (...)
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