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The North’s New Debt Trap for the South

North Africa and the Middle-East: A new wave of debt

26 May 2021 - by Eric Toussaint, Omar Aziki, Milan Rivié

In the first three parts we have observed the evolution of the DCs’ external debt over the last twenty years. The first part shows a dramatic increase of indebtedness, which multiplied by 2.5 with a steep acceleration from 2008 onward. The second (...)
The First Decade of the Arab Revolutionary Process

11 January 2021 - by Gilbert Achcar

Ten years ago, on 17 December 2010, a young street vendor in the town of Sidi Bouzid in central Tunisia sparked a political firestorm that soon engulfed the whole country, before spreading across the entire Arabic-speaking region, in what has (...)
The Corona pandemic and the Struggle for our Peoples’ Resources and Food Sovereignty

22 May 2020 - by Omar Aziki

This is a transcript Omar Aziki’s presentation of the [North African Network for Food Sovereignty->https://siyada.org/en and was a part of our first webinar in Arabic. North African Network for Food sovereignty Today, it appears that the (...)
Call of peoples, organizations, movements and networks in North Africa and the Middle East/The Arab region – For the cancellation of debts and dropping of the “free trade” agreements

20 May 2020 - by Collective

To address the Corona pandemic and its severe consequences: the need to break with the tools of imperialist domination over our peoples: indebtedness and “free trade” agreements The people of North Africa and the Middle East/The Arab region are (...)
Statement by the Regional Secretariat

Coronavirus Pandemic in the Shadow of Capitalist Exploitation and Imperialist Domination of People and Nature

31 March 2020 - by Siyada

The Coronavirus pandemic is threatening to truly become a humanitarian disaster at a global scale. It coincides with and exacerbates a multifaceted global crisis: political, economic, social, environmental and climatic. In other words, we are (...)
More than just a “Spring”: the Arab region’s long-term revolution

14 November 2019 - by Gilbert Achcar

The Arab region is immersed in a long-term revolutionary process that pits youth-led movements against authoritarian rulers and neoliberal capitalism, explains Gilbert Achcar. When in late 2018 the people of Sudan took to the streets demanding (...)
Final statement of the first assembly of the North African Network for Food Sovereignty

7 January 2019 - by North African Network for Food Sovereignty

The first assembly of the North African Network for Food Sovereignty took place on 7-9 December 2018 in Agadir, Morocco. It gathered delegations from Egyptian, Tunisian, Algerian and Moroccan trade unions, cooperatives and associations that are (...)
The Maghreb seminar proclaims: “No to colonial agreements, for the defence of people’s sovereign right on their agricultural, food and environmental systems.”

19 February 2018 - by War on Want

In December, ATTAC Morocco, a member of the global network for the abolition of illegitimate debts (CADTM), organised a seminar in Agadir, Morocco with the participation of activists from Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco, to discuss the (...)
EU-ACP Parliamentary Assembly calls for the suspension of debt repayments of “Arab Spring” countries

“The request for a temporary suspension of the repayment of debts of the so-called ’Arab spring’ countries cannot be ignored by the European Commission and the Member States,” declared MEPs Elie Hoarau and Gabi Zimmer of the GUE/NGL European (...)