Social movements

Alliance statement: Solidarity with the popular uprising in Sudan

14 January 2019 - by Alliance of Middle Eastern Socialists

We the Alliance of Middle East Socialists support the ongoing uprising which erupted across Sudan starting December 19th, 2018. The protests were set off by the lifting of subsidies on bread, wheat, and electricity as well as spiking inflation. The United Nations Development Program has (...)
Adam Smith and the Yellow Vest Movement

23 December 2018 - by Eric Toussaint

It is sad to see how completely misrepresented Adam Smith (1723-1790) is when pundits call upon him to vindicate neoliberalism and the status quo. It seems many have not really bothered to read his works. Some passages in Adam Smith’s major work, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the (...)
Macron’s Announcements: Smoking to preserve tax injustice and gifts to the rich

13 December 2018 - by Attac France

While the whole country has a strong desire for more social and fiscal justice, Emmanuel Macron has finally spoken out, after three weeks of silence, but refuses to change course. Behind some “social” measures that hide a weakening of social protection and the refusal of a general increase in (...)
Against the repression of social movements in Greece – an international call

11 December 2018 - by Collective

One of the myths spread by the Greek government and its supporters abroad is that, unlike its predecessors, it does not resort to repression in the face of opposition and resistance to its policies. It is true that the Syriza government has never had to deal with mass mobilizations comparable (...)
Gilets jaunes (yellow vests): learning from history and acting now

11 December 2018 - by Eric Toussaint

Some consider that if you are involved in a movement against a tax (supposed, in theory at least, to redistribute wealth) rather than for higher wages, say (in the broad sense, including social security), you are part of a right-wing movement. This is not so: many revolutionary movements (...)
We denounce the ideological persecution and the attempt to intimidate us

16 November 2018 - by ATTAC/CADTM Argentina

From ATTAC Argentina, we tell them “you will not be able to INTIMIDATE us”. ATTAC is an organization known worldwide for its activism against tax havens and money laundering. It is absurd and disgusting that a government filled with crooks, who have accounts abroad, tries to stain an organization (...)
Stop the EU’s Services Notification Procedure - municipalities need democratic space to protect the interests of citizens!

15 November 2018 - by Collective

A coalition of more than 75 civil society groups, unions, mayors and progressive parties running major European cities has come out to oppose a controversial proposed EU directive that has been pushed by business lobbies and would create major new obstacles for progressive municipal policies (...)
We denounce the government’s cyber-espionage of Argentinian social movements. Spying is illegal!

12 November 2018 - by ATTAC/CADTM Argentina

From ATTAC Argentina, we denounce the “cyber-espionage” put in place by the Argentinian government against the social organizations which are members of the Confluence Fuera G20 / IMF (G20 and IMF – Out), as reported in several newspapers. We repudiate this action by the government, the Ministry (...)
#NotHim, not now, not ever Statement on the election of Jair Bolsonaro

31 October 2018 - by Attac Europe

To all those movements, activists and marginalised communities in Brazil who have woken up this morning to the nightmare of a Bolsonaro presidency, we send our solidarity and support. No kind of electoral mandate makes it acceptable or democratic to rise to power through the aggressive (...)
“What lasted for 3000 years has been destroyed in 30”: the struggle for food sovereignty in Tunisia

29 October 2018 - by Max Ajl

Today (16 October 2018) is the International Day of Action for Peoples’ Food Sovereignty, organised by La Via Campesina. In this article, Max Ajl reports from Tunisia on the struggles for food sovereignty there, and on what it means for the Global South. Gabès, the Tunisian South’s garden-city, (...)
Declaration of the Global Campaign for the closing of the 4^th session of the open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights

22 October 2018 - by Stop corporate impunity

Mr. President, The Global Campaign to reclaim peoples’ sovereignty, dismantle corporate power and stop impunity (Global Campaign), an international network of more than 250 members representing social movements and affected communities and organizations by the activities of the transnational (...)
Italy: RiMaflow, an exemplary workers’ struggle of the 21^st century

22 October 2018 - by Nadia De Mond

Repression fell on the RiMaflow factory, place of an emblematic fight. The president of the cooperative, Massimo Lettieri, was arrested and is still in detention, while the cooperative fights to survive. A call for solidarity has been launched. RiMaflow is located in the declining industrial (...)
Tunisia: the long march of the feminists for full equality in the law

5 October 2018 - by Joseph Daher , Ahlem Belhadj

In Tunisia, major mobilizations led by feminist organizations have taken place in recent weeks to demand full equality in the law, particularly with regard to the Tunisian Personal Status Code (CSP). The CSP consists of a series of legal provisions governing marital relations between men and (...)
Mexico: creation of a CADTM launching committee

4 October 2018 - by CADTM

A meeting was held in Mexico City, in the lecturers’ hall at the Faculty of Economics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) on 1st October 2018 to launch the creation of a Mexican chapter of the CADTM. The UNAM counts four hundred and fifty three thousand students, teaching (...)
Proposed Solutions by the Dialogue Reference Group on Ballooning Kenyan Debts are False and Flawed

25 September 2018 - by David Calleb Otieno

The Kenyan Peasants League (KPL), a member of La Via Campesina and part of the Kenyan Social Movements for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debts has been following closely the just concluded Dialogue Reference Group meeting that brought together a section of religious leaders and Kenyan civil (...)
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 (...)