Social movements
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The Fitch rating agency downgraded France’s rating.
France Shown Yellow Card
13 May 2023 - by Yvette Krolikowski
On Friday 28 April 2023, the Fitch financial rating agency downgraded France’s rating from AA to AA- with ’stable outlook’. The agency said, “Political deadlock and (sometimes violent) social movements pose a risk to Macron’s reform agenda and could (...) -
France: What happens when Macron has already been defeated but the great popular movement has not yet won?
9 May 2023 - by Yorgos Mitralias
After almost four months (!) of enormous mobilizations by the workers’ and popular movement, unprecedented in post-war France (!), the conclusion of the French unions’ struggle against the pension (anti-)reform might appear to be obvious: the (...) -
The pension crisis (France): Faced with social anger, Macron replaces legitimacy with police batons
29 March 2023 - by Léon Crémieux
With the coup de force of article 49.3 on 16 March, Macron and his government have provoked a new impetus of popular mobilization in all its forms: renewable strikes, blockades, demonstrations and even the movement of university and high school (...) -
May 1968 - March 2023!
27 March 2023 - by Yorgos Mitralias
At a time when those who declare, even among the French elites (!), that we are witnessing the emergence of a “new May 68” are multiplying, while noting that in the country now reigns .... “an insurrectional atmosphere”, one can now reasonably ask: (...) -
Youth mobilize against Macron’s scorn
27 March 2023 - by Maxime Perriot
One week after the French government used article 49,3 of the Constitution to impose its reform of the retirement age thus short-circuiting the parliament, popular mobilization has intensified and seen an important increase in the number of (...) -
Macron’s up against the wall, let’s not let the 49.3 save him
20 March 2023 - by Léon Crémieux
Macron and his government have just attempted to force their way through on 16 March, by trying to impose their law on pensions without any vote in the National Assembly by using Article 49.3 of the Constitution, a real “hold-up”, allowing them to (...) -
The Paris Commune of 1871, banks and debt
20 March 2023 - 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, (...) -
It is time to do justice to former slaves
22 février 2023 - par Hilary Beckles
Stand Up to Racism Dorset - meeting Join the call for justice for slavery - reparations now ! Time’s Up, Richard Drax Wednesday 1 March, 7.30pm The Dorford Centre, Bridport Road, Dorchester DT1 1RR Speakers : David Denny, Caribbean Movement for (...) -
Pensions: The trial of strength to make Macron give way
8 February 2023 - by Léon Crémieux
After the big demonstrations of 19 January, which were already comparable to the great demonstrations of 1995 and 2010 (during the mobilizations against attacks by previous governments on the pension system), the demonstrations of 31 January (...) -
France: towards a social explosion of historic proportions!
3 February 2023 - by Yorgos Mitralias
The international media may say hardly a word, but that does not mean that these days France is not being shaken by the biggest social eruption of the last several decades! In particular, on Tuesday January 31st the demonstrations against (...) -
Call for a global counter-summit of social movements to the IMF-WB Annual Meetings to be held in Marrakech from 9 to 15 October 2023
23 January 2023 - by CADTM International
In order to promote unity of action, the CADTM proposes that a common call to this counter-summit be drafted. It is addressed to all movements wishing to join forces in defence of humanity The Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group (WBG) and (...) -
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 (...) -
Morocco: The protest march on December 4, 2022, and its background
12 December 2022 - by Eric Toussaint, Jawad Moustakbal
On Sunday, December 4, 2022, a national march was organised in the city of Rabat. It brought together some 3,000 people under the slogan “All together against the high cost of living, oppression, and repression”; it was organised by the national (...) -
25 November - International day for elimination of violence againt women
Violence against women*: a systemic issue
30 November 2022 - by CADTM International
(* The term ‘woman’ applies to any person who defines herself as female) On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women the CADTM International network highlights the urgent need for a systemic approach to this global (...) -
The debt and climate crises : Why climate justice must include debt justice
21 October 2022 - by Tess Woolfenden, Dr Sindra Sharma Khushal
The CADTM supports the following text, which shows the link between debt and climate crises and contributes some relevant ideas on this issue. However, we do not believe that radical changes such as debt cancellations will come from major (...) -
Call for solidarity with the journalist-activist Ghassen Ben Khelifa
9 September 2022 - by CADTM International, North African Food Sovereignty Network (NAFSN - Siyada) , North African School of Popular Education
On Tuesday 6 September 2022, at 11am, in Tunis, a dozen members of the special security forces in civilian clothes searched the home of journalist and political activist Ghassen Ben Khelifa, coordinator of the website Inhiyez, and President of (...) -
SL Govt - Stop Labeling Student Protesters and Activists as Terrorists!
28 August 2022 - by Collective
We are a group of feminists writing to call urgent attention to the extra-constitutional attempts of the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) to suppress dissent. Lacking a popular mandate, hunting down student protesters and activists, including a (...) -
Success for the Summer University of ATTAC CADTM Morocco
7 August 2022 - by ATTAC/CADTM Morocco
ATTAC CADTM Morocco organized its summer university in Tangiers on 29, 30 and 31 July 2022, with for its theme ‘a development model that guarantees popular sovereignty must break with capitalism.’ Opening public lecture It was organized on the (...) -
‘Weeks when decades happen’
28 July 2022 - by Balasingham Skanthakumar
“There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen”, as Lenin never actually said. The estrangement between the regime-state in Sri Lanka and its core constituencies, while widening over the course of the pandemic (...) -
The task of solidarity implies a struggle for the complete cancellation of the Third World debt
22 July 2022 - by Ernest Mandel
We publish an interview with Ernest Mandel (1923-1995), a Marxist activist, known particularly for his economic and political analyses. Ernest Mandel supported the formation of CADTM from the beginning and spoke in the first large international (...) -
Mexico: Oaxaca Declaration against illegitimate debt (April 2022)
6 June 2022 - by National Promorora for the Suspension of Public Debt Repayment
Starting April 26, 2022, various activities were carried out in different parts of Mexico by the COMMITTEE FOR THE ABOLITION OF ILLEGITIMATE DEBT, in coordination with the NATIONAL PROMOTORA FOR THE SUSPENSION OF PUBLIC DEBT REPAYMENT, and the (...) -
People around the world demand IMF to cancel Ukraine’s unjust debt
3 March 2022 - by VIktoriia Pihul
The CADTM publishes this petition which emanates from citizens of Ukraine and which rightly asks for the cancellation of the Ukrainian debt. Correctly the initiators of this petition state that the “Chaotic borrowing and antisocial debt (...) -
The new, young and radical feminist movement, at the forefront of popular resistance in Greece!
15 December 2021 - by Sonia Mitralias
What has happened in Greece over the last two years is worthy of attention: never before in the history of the country has the issue of women’s rights had so much attention in the press, been the subject of such passionate public debate and (...) -
Indian farmers script a victory
8 December 2021 - by Sushovan Dhar
Millions of Indians were greeted by pleasant news on 19 November as Narendra Modi, the Indian Prime Minister, announced his government’s intention to repeal the three contentious Farm Bills which were intended to ‘fix’ the country’s ailing (...) -
A success for CADTM: the world assembly of the network, held in Dakar from 13-16 November, 2021
16 November 2021 - by CADTM International
The Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM) network held its conventional World Assembly from 13-16 November 2021, at Dakar, Senegal. This was the third World Assembly after the first in Morocco (May 2013) and the second in (...)
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