Social movements

Submission to the Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights By Civil society organizations in Sri Lanka

12 September 2018 - by Collective

This submission to the Independent Expert on Foreign Debt and Human Rights comes at an important juncture in the trajectory of Sri Lanka’s socio-political and economic development. In 2015 the country took a definitive turn after the presidential election, which had led to the election of a new (...)
The Long March to Post-Capitalist Transition: Pan-Africanist Perspectives

29 August 2018 - by Ameth Lô

The centenary of the October 1917 Russian Revolution, a world-shaking historic event, was an occasion for celebration throughout the world. Many diverse interpretations are advanced as to its success in achieving a radical transformation of society, both in terms of its history and its overall (...)
CADTM successfully holds Citizen Debt Audit Training in Nairobi

19 August 2018 - by David Calleb Otieno

The Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debts (CADTM) successfully held a three days training on Citizens Debt Audit in Nairobi, Kenya. The training that attended by delegates from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Burundi was organized by the Kenyan Social Movements for the Abolition of (...)
Africa : Strengthening the anti-debt initiatives in Kenya

15 August 2018 - by Sushovan Dhar

CADTM collaborated with Kenyan social movements to organise a training on debt audit and also a meeting to strengthen the anti-debt activities in Kenya. This programme held from July 29-30 at Nairobi (in the slums of Kangemi) witnessed the participation of more than 50 grass roots activists (...)
East Africa citizen debt audit

14 August 2018 - by Leader Baraka, Eliud M.A. Letungaa

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The Haitian people revolt, demonstrators control almost all the country

26 July 2018 - by Régine Vinon

Three people were killed on Friday 13 July 2018 during demonstrations against the Haitian government’s decision to increase fuel prices. Journalists saw the bodies of two protesters who were shot in the Delmas area of Port-au-Prince during clashes with the police. It was not clear who shot them. (...)
BRICS labour: is it time for more class snuggle – or struggle – in an era of repression, austerity and worker militancy?

18 July 2018 - by Patrick Bond

Across the world, trade unions are under unprecedented threat, as just witnessed in the United States where the Janus vs. AFSCME Supreme Court decision denudes an already weak labour movement of public sector power, for conservatives are aiming at “starving unions of funds and eventually (...)
Protest Movements in Morocco and the Role of the Political Left in Mobilization against Neoliberal Policies

12 June 2018 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc, Aznague Ali

In Morocco, the experience of the 20 February Movement indicated that the left faces real dilemmas. Some of its currents refused to get involved in the Movement due to the presence of obscurantist forces, while other currents drew closer to the obscurantists themselves under the pretext of (...)
Armenia’s unfinished revolution

25 May 2018 - by Armen Abagyan

Bells of triumph are ringing in the streets of Yerevan following the deposition of now-former Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan. Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead. The spectre of totalitarian rule and unbridled corruption enervating the already impoverished Armenian people is no more. Such is the (...)
The World Social Forum is dead! Long live the World Social Forum?

26 March 2018 - by Francine Mestrum

This was my conclusion, but it did not last for long, just the first days of the Forum. Today, I am not that sure anymore. Maybe we are stuck with the old apolitical forum and with a powerless International Council. What does this mean for the future? Salvador de Bahia in Brazil is a (...)
New Era in War on Workers: The Ramaphosa Presidency in South Africa

19 March 2018 - by Irvin Jim

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) views the appointment of Cyril Ramaphosa to the position of President of the Republic of South Africa, as a new era in the war against workers and the working class majority in the country. It is also important for us to state that we (...)
For our dead, not a minute of silence, but rather a whole life of struggle!

17 March 2018 - by World March of Women

The World March of Women expresses its sadness and deep indignation at the murder of Marielle Franco, a feminist militant and city councillor of PSOL - Partido Socialismo e Liberdade in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She was shot dead inside her car on Wednesday, March 14. In this moment (...)
International Day for Women’s Rights: Debt is not just a financial instrument, it is also a gendered tool

15 March 2018 - by Marie-Laure Coulmin Koutsaftis

Wherever austerity and structural adjustment policies are implemented allegedly to face a foreign debt, they prevent women’s empowerment and destroy women’s rights whereas actually women are the true creditors at both national and international levels. The #MeToo hashtag should not conceal the (...)
8M Manifesto: We become more when we are united. Together we are more

8 March 2018 - by La Huelga Feminista

Every March 8th we honour the women’s alliance to struggle for our conquered rights. In the past, It was because of many women fighting together that we succeeded and got some of the rights we have today. A long genealogy of activists, suffragettes and unionist women has fought before us. Among (...)
The Greek left and its “Macedonian” drift or how we open the door to the fascist menace!

6 March 2018 - by Yorgos Mitralias

So, it is a “distasteful surprise” that Thedorakis publicly rubs himself up against apologists for racism, anti-Semitism, anti- communism and the nightmare of “ethnic purity”? Undoubtedly distasteful, but not a surprise. And if the problem were only Mikis, it would not be much harm. However, since (...)
#Wethewomenjournalistsstop

5 March 2018 - by Feminist collective

We, the women journalists from dozens of media and communication agencies, press offices, and, in general, workers from media and journalism companies, support the feminist general strike that has been called for this coming March 8. In addition, we urge all our female co-workers to join the (...)
Women across the globe are planning to strike on March 8. Here’s why

3 March 2018 - by Cinzia Arruzza , Tithi Bhattacharya, Sarah Jaffe

We’re now into the second year of the Trump administration, and the last year has been filled with ups and downs, important victories, successful holding campaigns, and painful defeats. We’ve learned a lot, but there is always more to learn, more to be done. In this now-weekly series, we talk (...)
International Women’s Day Declaration, 2018

1 March 2018 - by World March of Women

On the 8th of March2018, International Women’s Day, we from the World March of Women, diverse women from all peoples, races and ages, come together once again to reaffirm that we will keep marching until we are all free from all the oppression from the patriarchal, capitalist and colonial (...)
Tunisia: protesting austerity, demanding sovereignty

26 February 2018 - by Hamza Hamouchene

The recent protests show that Tunisia is still a cauldron of popular resistance against neoliberal and neo-colonial attacks on the country’s sovereignty. Around 800 people were arrested, dozens were injured and at least one person was killed in a violent police crackdown on the protests that (...)
Tunisia: “The promised economic miracle never happened” – A continuation of the uprisings of 2011

30 January 2018 - by Gilbert Achcar

For the specialist of the Arab world Gilbert Achcar, the Tunisian revolt was “foreseeable”. And it is a continuation of the uprisings of 2011. Originally from Lebanon, which he left in 1983 for Paris, Berlin and now London, at the School of Oriental and African Studies, where he is professor of (...)
Tunisia: January, the month of logical revolts

26 January 2018 - by Fausto Giudice

It was predictable, it was foreseen and it happened: Tunisia exploded from below on Monday, the 8th of January. In all parts of the country, marginalised youths attacked police stations, supermarkets, authorities – tax centres, municipalities, governorates - and blocked trains, and clashed (...)
Labour strikes in Serbia: the Pit of Foreign Investment

22 January 2018 - by Aleksandar Matković

A number of strikes in recent months points to wrong policies for subsidizing private investment and curtailing labor rights. The entire economic politics of the Serbian Government is based on two assumptions, both of which are false. Firstly, that the existing labour market problems cannot (...)
The Rage of the Poor in Iran

10 January 2018 - by Araz Bağban

The protests against the high cost of living in the cities of Khorasan province on December 28th soon spread to many cities of Iran incredibly quick and almost turned into a revolt within a week. The protests primarily targeted the high cost of living, financial difficulties and corruption. (...)
The IMF mission to Iran expressed enthusiastic support for elimination of the universal cash transfer

7 January 2018 - by Peter Bakvis

Some colleagues will have seen the communiqué issued by the ITUC on Thursday concerning the widespread protests in Iran, underscoring the “spiralling inflation and the continued decline in real incomes” in the country (see the full comuniqué below). Several media have similarly identified (...)
Final statement of the Peoples’ Summit “WTO Out, Building Sovereignty”

29 December 2017 - by Confluencia fuera OMC

The Peoples’ Summit “WTO Out, Building Sovereignty” gathered on December 11-13, 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, against the XI Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in this city. The networks and trade unions, human rights, territorial, students, women, political, (...)