Social movements

A boot is crushing the neck of American democracy

2 June 2020 - by Cornel West

Here we go again. Another black person killed by the US police. Another wave of multiracial resistance. Another cycle of race talk on the corporate media. Another display of diversity with neoliberal leaders, and another white backlash soon to come. Yet this time might be a turning point. The (...)
“Business as usual” at Socfin and Bolloré...

26 May 2020 - by CADTM France, Collective

On 26 and 27 May 2020, the Socfin and Bolloré groups hold their annual general meetings. Socfin, which is 39,7% owned by Bolloré, controls 400,000 ha of oil palm and rubber tree concessions in ten African and Asian countries with the participation of Bolloré. While in Luxembourg and Paris, (...)
A Feminist Strike against Debt

18 May 2020 - by Verónica Gago, Luci Cavallero

Recently, the transnational feminist movement has taken up the struggle against debt as a banner of struggle as part of the dynamics of the feminist strike. Around the world we have said, “We want ourselves alive and debt free!” (Argentina), “It is us against debt!” (Puerto Rico), “They owe us a (...)
Cancel the debt so doctors and nurses can keep saving lives

7 May 2020 - by Collective

A call for urgent action to support doctors and nurses on the frontlines of the Coronavirus pandemic. We are all health workers, nurses, doctors. Every day we are on the frontline fighting this virus. Every day we are on the wards, in the emergency rooms. Every day we see first-hand the (...)
Citizen Action is Central to the Global Response to Covid-19

27 April 2020 - by Walden Bello, Isabel Ortiz

NEW YORK and MANILA, 22 April 2020 (IPS) - The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has created an unprecedented human and economic crisis. Governments are taking strong actions, enforcing quarantines to reduce contagion, testing populations, building emergency intensive care units. Governments have (...)
Franck Gaudichaud: “Look at Chile to understand the kind of world they want us to live in”

22 April 2020 - by Jérôme Duval, Franck Gaudichaud

Franck Gaudichaud* returned a few weeks ago from a stay in Chile and gave us an interview to talk about more than six months of social unrest that shook the country. The Chilean uprising began in October 2019 and spread like wildfire in the student movement after the Piñera government’s (...)
List of signatories of the Manifesto for a new popular internationalism in Europe

2 April 2020 - by ReCommons Europe

Today, 2nd of April 2020, we publish again the list of the 160 first signatories of the Manifesto for a new popular internationalism in Europe, which was publicly presented in March 2019. In the current context of the Covid-19 epidemic, we think it is more than ever important to push the (...)
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. The employees of Luxfer’s oxygen cylinder (...)
The Algerian revolution: the struggle for decolonization continues

25 March 2020 - by Hamza Hamouchene

After more than one year of weekly protests, the Algerian uprising continues unabated. It has booked historical victories, but there is a long road ahead still. Algeria is going through a revolutionary phase. The mass-scale uprising that started in February 2019 has been sustained for more (...)
The CADTM supports the struggle of the Lebanese people to break away from social injustice and shake off the burden of illegitimate debt

10 March 2020 - by CADTM

As the Lebanese government suspends any payment of its external debt from 9 March 2020, the CADTM reasserts its support to the Lebanese people in a struggle that started in October 2019. Popular meetings and marches have been continuously organized in Lebanese towns and neighbourhoods since the (...)
President Lula’s “realpolitik” and the “alterglobalisation” movement

13 January 2020 - by Eric Toussaint, Frédéric Lévêque

An interview with Eric Toussaint of the CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of the Third World Debt) by Frédéric Lévêque, in Geneva, in the context of the “Illegal G8” counter-summit, following his meeting on 2 June 2003 with President Lula of Brazil Context: On the occasion of the annual summit of (...)
The conservative offensive and the return of class war in Latin America

16 December 2019 - by Franck Gaudichaud, Antoine Pelletier

Several countries in Latin America are currently experiencing very powerful class conflicts and extremely violent repression on the part of reactionary forces and the state. The following report is an overview by Franck Gaudichaud on the situation in various countries and the dynamics of their (...)
Extractivism and resistance in North Africa

23 November 2019 - by Hamza Hamouchene

Northern African countries are key suppliers of natural resources to the global economy, from large- scale oil and gas extraction in Algeria and Tunisia, to phosphate mining in Tunisia and Morocco, to water-intensive agribusiness paired with tourism in Morocco and Tunisia. The commodification (...)
« We are at the beginning of the end of neoliberalism in Chile »

19 November 2019 - by Franck Gaudichaud

Franck Gaudichaud is a specialist of contemporary Chile, president of the association France Amerique Latine and member of the editorial board of Contretemps. He is a political scientist and teaches Latin American history at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France (1). Here he develops (...)
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 an end to Omar al-Bashir’s authoritarian rule, (...)
Final Declaration of the Global Campaign to Claim People’s Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and End Impunity in Relation to the V Session of the OEIGWG

22 October 2019 - by Stop corporate impunity

Final Declaration of the Global Campaign to Claim People’s Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and End Impunity in Relation to the V Session of the OEIGWG. Mr. Chair President and delegations of the States present, This statement is made on behalf of the Global Campaign to Reclaim (...)
The revolution in Sudan is far from over

27 August 2019 - by Mohammed Elnaiem, Dr. Mohammed Abdelraoof

Today (August 17, 2019), the Sudanese military and civil opposition are singing a political agreement — meanwhile the revolution is carried forth by grassroots organizers. A political agreement has been reached between the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) — the broad alliance of civil society (...)
Puerto Rico rises...

24 July 2019 - by CADTM AYNA

CADTM Latin America and the Caribbean (CADTM - ABYA YALA - Our America) stands in solidarity and marches along with the brave Puerto Rican people and, among them, the comrades with whom we participated in the Latin American and Caribbean Week against Illegitimate Debts, held from December 2 to (...)
Puerto Rico: people are in the streets against sexism, homophobia, austerity and corruption

21 July 2019 - by Pierre Gottiniaux

A political scandal recently pushed thousands of Puerto Rican people into the streets to march under the catchword ‘Ricky Renuncia!’, Ricardo, quit! - Ricardo Rossello is the island’s current governor. On 11 July 2019, an anonymous source published personal messages from the governor’s Telegram (...)
Post-Bouteflika Algeria: For a Democratic Transition

6 July 2019 - by Jérôme Duval

In Algeria, the slogan Yatnahaw ga’, “that they all blow off”, sums up the widely shared popular will to put an end to the “Bouteflika system”. It is a question of setting in motion a process of transition to a Second Republic. In homage to Ramzi Yettou, a victim of repression who died at the age (...)
Chase those crazy baldheads out of town: Resisting the rise of authoritarianism in occupied Haiti

12 June 2019 - by Kolektif Anakawona

Editorial Statement: As protesters prepare for another manifestation on Sunday, June 9, LeftEast publishes this piece on the current events in Haiti by the Anakawona Collective in cooperation with Commune. “To change things, we need to be outraged./ If we are outraged, we will organize./ If we (...)
The Sudanese revolution is our honour! Down with the Transitional Military Council!

6 June 2019 - by CADTM International

Since mid-December 2018, Sudan has been going through a major popular uprising. The social explosion has been driven by poverty, precarious living conditions and unemployment (which strongly affects young people, as elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa). It was triggered by the record (...)
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 the space where seven of the world’s greatest (...)
Welcome to the new Algerian revolution: an interview with Hamza Hamouchene

22 April 2019 - by Hamza Hamouchene

In 2011, a wave of revolutionary struggle swept the Middle East and North Africa, often bringing down dictatorships that had governed for decades. Millions protested on the streets, occupied public spaces and demanded “bread, freedom and social justice”. Having broken through the fear produced by (...)
Algeria in revolt: “We woke up and you will pay!”

9 April 2019 - by Hamza Hamouchene

The abdication of President Bouteflika is a historic victory for the Algerian people — but the struggle for a true democratic transition is far from over. What is happening in Algeria is truly historic. The people won the first battle in their struggle to radically overhaul the system. (...)