Social movements
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The Paris Commune of 1871, banks and debt
19 February 2021 - 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, (...) -
International appeal for the immediate release of all political prisoners in Russia
17 February 2021 - by CADTM, Eric Toussaint, Collective, Tariq Ali, Dianne Feeley , Miguel Urbán Crespo, Gilbert Achcar, Fatima Zahra El Beghiti, Myriam Bregman, Noam Chomsky, Fernanda Melchionna, Suzi Weissman
This urgent appeal was written in collaboration with activists and intellectuals living in Russia. At the end of January 2021, a wave of mass protests swept through all of Russia’s major cities. The occasion for these protests was the arrest of (...) -
Homeownership, poverty, and legislative pitfalls in Romania
2 February 2021 - by Ioana Florea, Enikő Vincze
There is a myth about the Romanians being “natural” homeowners. It was propagated by the dominant right-wing anti-communist ideology after 1990, in an effort to legitimise the private property market as the only housing solution and to (...) -
The lessons of the Indian farmers’ struggle
28 January 2021 - by Sushovan Dhar
The Farmers struggle and its partial advance has shown us the way. Strong movements from below can have the potential to take on the Hinduvta juggernaut much more than stitching electoral alliances. What will be the fate of this movement six (...) -
“Too late to be pessimistic! Ecosocialism or collapse”
27 January 2021 - by Daniel Tanuro, Mats Lucia Bayer
We interview Daniel Tanuro, author of the book “Trop tard pour être pessimistes! Écosocialisme ou effondrement”, published this year by Éditions Textuel. As an ecosocialist activist and member of the Anticapitalist Left, Daniel Tanuro is one of the (...) -
UK: In the shadow of student rent strikes
11 January 2021 - by Robert Firth
Outside the media fanfare surrounding the recent wave of university-based militancy, one community’s fight against developers goes on. Robert Firth reports On Manchester’s Oxford Road, in the city’s university district, there is a building that (...) -
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 (...) -
Lessons from a decade of student activism in the UK
6 January 2021 - by Hector Rios-Jara
The pandemic has exposed the disgraceful failures of market reforms in the British higher education sector. But the resistance of students continues. n years ago, tens of thousands of students flooded the streets of London protesting against (...) -
Algeria: Preparing for the long struggle ahead
4 January 2021 - by Hamza Hamouchene, Selma Oumari
COVID-19 has been a blessing to the ruling classes in Algeria. However, the popular Hirak movement has not said its last word yet. In 2020, the Algerian uprising embarked on its second year and despite the immense difficulties and challenges (...) -
Part One: a Declaration... for Life
3 January 2021 - by Collective
January 1st, 2021 TO THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD: TO PEOPLE FIGHTING IN EUROPE: BROTHERS, SISTERS AND COMRADES: In these previous months, we have established contact between ourselves by various means. We are women, lesbians, gays, (...) -
ATTAC CADTM Morocco: 20 years of struggle for another possible Morocco – one of social and environmental justice, of dignity and freedom
23 December 2020 - by Omar Aziki
In which background was ATTAC CADTM Morocco born? Global situation The 1990s were marked by a rise in struggles against the neoliberal globalisation which was unrelenting after the fall of the Berlin Wall. A series of global networks were (...) -
In defence of the rights of indigenous and peasant communities against Chevron: Open letter to the President of Ecuador
17 December 2020 - by CADTM International, Collective
In solidarity with tens of thousands of people affected by the biggest environmental disaster that has hit the Ecuadorian Amazon, more than 240 organizations, networks, movements, and unions –representing more than 285 million people (...) -
Explaining gender violence in the neoliberal era
9 December 2020 - by Tithi Bhattacharya
Social reproduction as a framework Social reproduction is a key concept of Marxist political economy that shows how the “production of goods and services and the production of life are part of one integrated process.” According to Marx, human (...) -
For a united front against the payment of public and private illegitimate debts
4 November 2020 - by CADTM International
Since the beginning of the year 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has tragically worsened the living conditions of the majority of the world’s population. Never really recovering from the subprime crisis in 2007-2008, the economic system is (...) -
#Nov25: Peasants in the Struggle for our Rights, against the Virus of Capital and Patriarchy!
29 October 2020 - by La Via Campesina
Call to Action – November 25th – International Day for the Elimination of all Forms of Violence against Women. Harare – October 28th, 2020: Today, November 25th – La Via Campesina calls to affirm Food Sovereignty as a concrete measure of the (...) -
Nigerian Women vs SARS: A Coalition Against Police Brutality
27 October 2020 - by Naomi Ndifon
Writer Naomi Ndifon shares why it is critical we center Nigerian women’s leadership and activism in the #ENDSARS movement. Let it be known that the Feminist Coven did that Whenever revolutions are documented, women are erased. History is (...) -
Oil, protest and mass solidarity in Mauritius
20 October 2020 - by Ramola Ramtohul
How an environmental catastrophe catalyzmajor anti-government mobilizations in Mauritius. auritius has a reputation for stability and the quality of its democratic politics. Massive protest action is relatively uncommon in the country. But the (...) -
Open Letter to All Governments, International Institutions and Lenders
14 October 2020 - by CADTM International, Collective
COVID19 has turned our world upside down. The Covid19 pandemic has severely impacted on the health, safety and survival of hundreds of millions of people. Communities worldwide are being pushed deeper into poverty, precarious existence and (...) -
CADTM rejoices the united anti-fascist mobilization in Athens on 7 October 2020 and the judgement against the neo-nazi Golden Dawn party
7 October 2020 - by CADTM International
The CADTM congratulates demonstrators for the success of the united antifascist mobilisation in Athens this Wednesday 7 October, as well the Athens penal court for its decision to label the neo-nazi Golden Dawn party as a ‘criminal (...) -
The case for debt abolition: “We cannot afford not to rebel”
21 September 2020 - by Astra Taylor
By turning individual indebtedness into a source of collective leverage, debtors’ unions can exercise material power and coordinate campaigns of resistance. In 2008, around the same time Lehman Brothers collapsed and the mortgage market began (...) -
Trade unions need new strategies
16 September 2020 - by Asbjørn Wahl
With employers on a decades-long offensive against labour, the balance of power which once secured social dialogue has been transformed. Trade unions are on the defensive all over the world, under immense pressure from strong economic and (...) -
Solidarity to Refugees of Moria
11 September 2020 - by Collective
From the beginning of the pandemic, Moria, a camp with a capacity of about 2,700 people, stored almost 20,000 souls. In conditions of traffic ban, without protection measures and with complete indifference to basic health protection. (...) -
Amazon at heart
1 September 2020 - by Christophe Aguiton
The first World Assembly for the Amazon, held on 18 and 19 July, was a remarkable success. Because of the importance of the Amazon for the future of the planet (climate, biodiversity...) and the symbolic power of the struggles and alternatives (...) -
We are not fools! Solidarity with Omar Radi! Freedom!
7 August 2020 - by Myriam Bourgy, ATTAC/CADTM Maroc, Pauline Imbach
Omar Radi investigative journalist and human rights activist has been the subject of a violent campaign of intimidation by the Moroccan authorities. Accused of undermining state security and espionage, since June 25, he has been summoned 9 times (...) -
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 (...)
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