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Jemna in Tunisia: An inspiring land struggle in North Africa

25 April 2017 - by Hamza Hamouchene

Jemna is a beacon of hope for a Tunisia where its people have sovereignty over their land and resources. Jemna needs to be supported, celebrated and emulated for the sake of its people and for our sake. Over the past several years, the people of Jemna, a region in southern Tunisia famous for (...)
The government actively blocks the unity of the protests

15 April 2017 - by Marko Stričević

Current mass protests throughout the Republic of Serbia are the culmination of years of dissatisfaction of the population with the systematic devastation of the welfare state, privatization of public enterprises and the persistent insistence of political and economic elites on the introduction (...)
For a free and sovereign Haiti

30 March 2017 - by Collective

Hundreds of popular organizations, networks and movements of Latin America and the Caribbean launched a Week of Solidarity with Haiti, March 15-22, with a petition demanding the total withdrawal of the troops that occupy that country and closure of the UN Mission (MINUSTAH). They also want the (...)
How Was the March 8 International Women’s Strike Woven Together?

16 March 2017 - by Ni Una Menos Collective

Last October 19, the call for a women’s strike to protest the femicide of sixteen year old Lucía Pérez, who was stabbed to death, connected male violence with forms of labor, economic, social, and territorial violence and precarization, and denounced them as a new “pedagogy of cruelty” on women’s (...)
Chilean copper miners on indefinite strike against BHP

5 March 2017 - by Franck Gaudichaud

About 2500 workers have been on strike since February 9 at the Escondida mine in Chile’s north. Owned by two Anglo-Australian mining giants, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, Escondida is the largest producer of “red gold” in the world. The mine extracts about 900,000 tonnes a year. This represents 20% (...)
International Women’s Strike US Platform

1 March 2017 - by International Women’s Strike USA

The International Women’s Strike on March 8th, 2017 is an international day of action, planned and organized by women in over 30 different countries. In the spirit of solidarity and internationalism, in the United States March 8th will be a day of action organized by and for women who have been (...)
18^th February Sahrawi Women’s Day

16 February 2017 - by World March of Women

A tireless struggle for freedom From the World March of Women we want to send to our Sahrawi sisters all of our solidarity for the celebration of their day and express all our recognition and admiration for their strength and constancy with which they lead their fight of decades for their (...)
African labour and social militancy, Marxist framing and revolutionary movement-building

1 February 2017 - by Patrick Bond

It is a great period to be a revolutionary activist in Africa. Yet the sense of stop-start progress and regress in so many sites of struggle reflects in part how poorly the working-class, poor, progressive middle class, social movements and other democrats have made alliances. The African (...)
The struggle for socialism in Mauritius

30 January 2017 - by Rajni Lallah

Mauritius is being, and will continue to be, seriously hit by economic crisis, perhaps more than other countries, because as a nation, Mauritius was invented by an emerging capitalist system that populated it though successive waves of Dutch, French and British colonisation and the slave trade. (...)
Speech at the Women’s March on Washington: History cannot be deleted like web pages

23 January 2017 - by Angela Davis

Civil rights activist Angela Davis spoke at the Women’s March on Washington on Saturday in front of a crowd of hundreds of thousands who gathered in the nation’s capital to protest the Trump administration. Davis, who is known for writing such books as Women, Race, and Class, made a passionate (...)
CALL TO ACTION!

18 January 2017 - by Argentina Mejor Sin TLC

Let’s put a stop to the WTO’s agenda and to Free Trade Agreements and investment provisions! Let’s build commercial relations that serve peoples’ interests and protect the environment! In 2017, let’s bring the ‘battle in Seattle’ to Buenos Aires! In recent years, commercial liberalization on a global (...)
We thank all of you – The Ecuadorean government has desisted in its intent to close Acción Ecológica

17 January 2017 - by Acción Ecológica

Acción Ecológica, an Ecuadorian organisation that the CADTM has been collaborating with for the last 12 years, was under the threat of being banned by the Rafael Correa government. Two weeks ago the CADTM joined the numerous left-wing organisations and personalities demanding that the ban be (...)
For people’s seizure of power: Ten proposals to avoid a repetition of the Greek capitulation

5 January 2017 - by Eric Toussaint

I propose ten measures for the people’s seizure of power, ascertaining that the experience of the Greek capitulation of 2015 is not revisited. The first proposal: a left-wing government must disobey the European Commission (EC) in a very transparent manner with prior announcements. The party, or (...)
Dakota (USA) – Standing Rock: Battle Won, But War Continues

13 December 2016 - by Barry Sheppard

Native Americans and their allies won an important battle in their fight to prevent the Dakota Access Pipeline to go through historic tribal lands of the Sioux, and under part of the Missouri River where the Sanding Rock Sioux reservation gets its drinking water. The battle was joined by the (...)
The New World Struggles to be Born

11 December 2016 - by Gustave Massiah

The situation seems to be desperate. The offensive of the right wing and the far right movements occupies space and minds. It spreads out in the media and claims to express the shift of societies to the right. This is not the case and nothing has been decided yet. Societies resist and (...)
BRICS failed to challenge imperialism: Medha Patkar

5 November 2016 - by Prakash Kamat

She accused that in all these countries, private corporations are increasingly taking control of democratic institutions. Activist Medha Patkar commented that BRICS has failed to challenge the hegemony of imperialist States. She accused that in all these countries, private corporations are (...)
‘Hats Off!’ to the 31^st National Assembly of Women

1 November 2016 - by Maria Elena Saludas

The National Assembly of Women or ‘Encuentro Nacional de Mujere’s (ENM) is an annual event which has taken place in Argentina since 1986. It provides a space for women that is deeply democratic, pluralistic, self-financed, federal and fair. Women from all over Argentina and Latin America come (...)
India on Strike

10 October 2016 - by Kunal Chattopadhyay, Soma Marik

In the midst of a right-wing onslaught, Indian workers carried out one of the largest strikes in world history. On September 2, 180 million Indian workers participated in a massive one-day strike that extended across the country and engaged employees in every economic sector. Likely the largest (...)
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COP22 in Marrakech, Morocco: What strategy for the social movements facing climate change ?

15 September 2016 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc

Morocco is preparing to host the Conference of the Parties (COP22) on climate change in Marrakech between 7th and 18th November 2016. This conference is taking place in the context of a worsening ecological crisis, in itself a dimension of the crisis of civilisation that the capitalist system (...)
Zoé Konstantopoulou unmasks the reality of debt in the Social Forum: “The people did not know the truth”

23 August 2016 - by Rototom

Debts that suffocate citizens and governments prefer to rescue the banking or real estate sector before restoring social stability. Zoé Konstantopolou and Eric Toussaint Social talk about Debtocracy at the Social Forum. Expenses, cuts, debt increase, rescue… Such words seem to mark the daily life (...)
WMW Declaration at the World Social Forum 2016, Montréal

22 August 2016 - by World March of Women

The World Social Forum took place from the 9th to the 14th August in Montreal, Quebec, a territory that we acknowledge as indigenous territory of the Mohawk people. This acknowledgement makes visible the colonization of these territories, as well as to take collective responsibility of the (...)
Criminalizing solidarity: Syriza’s war on the movements

19 August 2016 - by Theodoros Karyotis

The eviction of three occupied refugee shelters in Thessaloniki marks another episode in the Greek government’s war on grassroots solidarity efforts. In the early morning of July 27, refugee families and supporters who were sleeping at Thessaloniki’s three occupied refugee shelters — Nikis, (...)
Monsanto in retreat: movement from the grassroots

12 August 2016 - by Silvia Ribeiro

Since August 1st, the news is spreading that Monsanto had to abandon the construction of one of the biggest factories in the world for producing transgenic seed that was to be installed in Córdoba, Argentina, in the municipality of Malvinas Argentinas. From there they had planned to distribute (...)
The International Context of Global Outrage (in 5 parts)

28 July 2016 - by Eric Toussaint

We publish in a single block a series of articles written by Eric Toussaint |1| late 2011 - early 2012 which deals with the international context of global outrage. The text traces the milestones of the altermondialist movement between the early 1990s and 2012. Looking back on the movements (...)
Genoa: the fifteenth anniversary of the great demonstrations against the G8 and Berlusconi’s bloody repression

26 July 2016 - by Eric Toussaint

From July 18 to 23 Genoa remembers the demonstrations against the G8 (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, UK and USA) that took place exactly 15 years ago. On 19 July the CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debts) co-organised, along with Fondazione Palazzo ducale di (...)