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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 (...)
No Climate Justice without Debt Justice

25 October 2021 - by Collectif

The climate emergency is fuelling the accumulation of debt in countries in the global south. Countries suffering from the worst impacts of climate change have contributed very little to it, yet they are facing more expensive borrowing costs (...)
“Blah, Blah, Blah”: Youth Climate Activists Slam Political Inaction at U.N. Summit Ahead of COP26

5 October 2021 - by Democracy Now!

Thousands of youth climate activists marched through the streets of Milan last week demanding world leaders meet their pledges to the Paris Climate Agreement and keep global temperatures from rising by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius. The protest (...)
On September 24, we will strike to demand for intersectional climate justice! #Uproot The System

15 September 2021 - by Fridays for future

We’re in the midst of a climate crisis, mass species extinction, a world health pandemic, socio-economic inequality crises, and more. The current system actively strives towards highlighting the voices of the most privileged through a racist and (...)
The “Hot Spring” Showed That Greeks Were Willing to Fight

9 September 2021 - by Stathis Kouvelakis

Ten years ago, Greece was gripped by square occupations expressing mass opposition to EU austerity policies. The movement’s strength was its ability to rally Greeks from outside the organized left — yet it was ultimately defeated by its lack of a (...)
South Africa: Towards a General Strike

19 July 2021 - by Amandla, Zwelinzima Vavi

“If we strike one by one, we will be defeated. […] And the discussion must be, ‘fix the economy, fix the economy, this growth path is going to reproduce this poverty, unemployment, and inequalities, fix that’.” Amandla! interviewed Zwelinzima Vavi, (...)
Chris Hedges: Julian Assange and the Collapse of the Rule of Law

22 June 2021 - by Chris Hedges

[Chris Hedges->https://scheerpost.com/category/chris-hedges gave this talk at a recent rally in New York City in support of Julian Assange. John and Gabriel Shipton, Julian’s father and brother, also spoke at the event, which was held at The (...)
How Many Strikes Are There in the U.S.?

18 June 2021 - by Johnnie Kallas, Eli Friedman, Dana Trentalange

How many strikes are there in the United States? It’s a question with obvious importance to labor activists, yet there is no readily accessible answer. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) releases an annual work stoppage summary in February (...)
Full solidarity with the fight of our comrade Omar Radi who is on hunger strike for almost 2 weeks

22 April 2021 - by ATTAC/CADTM Morocco

Omar Radi, investigative journalist and human rights activist, has been on hunger strike since April 9 against his continued detention and to demand his immediate release. His state of health is becoming very critical. This is also the case (...)
Latin America has once again entered a period of strong social and political turbulence

13 April 2021 - by Franck Gaudichaud

Franck Gaudichaud recently wrote and coordinated two collective works drawing a critical assessment of “progressive” political attempts to challenge neoliberal hegemony in Latin America. In this interview, he considers the social and political (...)
Greece: Broad response to the neoliberal authoritarianism of the right-wing government

6 April 2021 - by Panos Petrou

In Greece, the year 2021 began with an offensive by the government led by prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. A new law aims to accelerate neoliberal reform in higher education and establish a permanent police presence on the campuses. The right (...)
Peasant Struggles in India, a Feminist Perspective

2 April 2021 - by Archana Prasad

Archana Prasad spoke with Capire about women’s work and lives in India and the struggles against corporate power and right-wing policies Archana Prasad is a professor at the Centre for Informal Sector & Labour Studies at the Jawaharlal (...)
A Letter to Omar

31 March 2021 - by Jawad Moustakbal

Omar Radi and Jawad Moustakbal are both members of Attac Morocco, a Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung partner organization. Together, they took part in the RLS-sponsored conference “Connecting Resistances:Emancipatory Activism in West Asia, North Africa (...)
Paris Commune 150: the economics

18 March 2021 - by Michael Roberts

Today is the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Paris Commune. The Commune (Council) was formed as result of what should be considered the first uprising and revolution led by the working class in history. This new class was the product (...)
The Paris Commune of 1871, banks and debt

18 March 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, Collectif, 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 (...)