Social movements

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 (...)
“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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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, (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
« 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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)