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‘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 (...)
Europe: caught in a trap

27 July 2022 - by Michael Roberts

The major economies are moving closer to recession, if they are not already there; and yet inflation rates continue to rise (for now). The latest surveys of business activity, called Purchasing Managers Indexes (PMIs), show that both the Euro (...)
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 (...)
In memory of Raúl Quiroz

16 July 2022 - by Eric Toussaint, Griselda Pinero

This tribute was written by four hands. Griselda started the portrait of Raúl and Eric took over. Griselda I have been asked to write a portrait of Raúl, who has now taken his leave. For a final goodbye I put a red rose into his shirt (...)
Emerging-market finance, neoliberal ideology and durable malgovernance at the BRICS New Development Bank

The BRICS spall, fall and (try to) reconstitute

11 July 2022 - by Patrick Bond

ABSTRACT: World financial relations were shaken up in early 2022 with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and one window through which light was shed on evolving geopolitics was the shifting power relations within the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South (...)
Sri Lanka’s Crisis is Endgame for Rajapaksas

11 July 2022 - by Balasingham Skanthakumar

Sri Lanka’s citizens’ movement known as the Janatha Aragalaya (‘Peoples’ Struggle’), notched its most significant victory yet, when Gotabaya Rajapaksa announced through the Speaker of Parliament that he would quit on 13th July, mid-way through his (...)
About ’Rogue Capital’

8 July 2022 - by Jean Nanga

The CADTM publishes a commentary by Jean Nanga on the notion of rogue capital mentioned in the interesting study entitled “The financialisation of malaria in Africa: Burkina Faso” (April 2022), produced by Sasha Mentz-Lagrange and Stefanie (...)
Press release: Blaise Compaoré must be arrested if he returns to Burkina

7 July 2022 - by Réseau International « Justice pour Sankara justice pour l’Afrique »

https://www.thomassankara.net/communique-de-presse-blaise-compaore-etre-arrete-sil-rentre-burkina/?lang=en The information reached us during the night of 5 to 6 July. Blaise Compaoré is said to be about to visit Burkina Faso in order to engage (...)
After a decline in movements against illegitimate debt between 2016 and 2022, will there be a resurgence in 2023?

6 July 2022 - by Eric Toussaint

The decline in “debt” movements between 2016 and 2022 The period 2016-2022 has been marked by a retreat in anti-illegitimate debt movements on a global scale with a few important exceptions: Argentina since 2020, Puerto Rico in 2017-2019, Lebanon (...)
The global solution: private or public?

4 July 2022 - by Michael Roberts

Inflation, risk of global recession, growing inequality and rising debt for the global south, global warming, war – I could go on. These are the fault-lines exhibited in the world economy in 2022. What is to be done about it? It is revealing (...)
Privatisation of distribution

4 July 2022 - by Dick Forslund

An important step in the privatisation of electricity sales in South Africa is about to be taken. The process the government has embarked on is in effect a privatisation of sales, as in any privatisation of public property. Private investments (...)
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37 deaths at European borders: Spain-Morocco agreement on immigration is deadly!

27 June 2022 - by ATTAC/CADTM Morocco

The tragic events of June 24, 2022 between the Nador and Melilla borders in Morocco are a forceful reminder of the failure of security-oriented migration policies. The 37 dead and hundreds of wounded on the side of the migrants as well as on (...)
The G7 prepares a divide-and-conquer trap, as BRICS countries spall, fall and try to reconstitute

24 June 2022 - by Patrick Bond

On Friday June 24, a hasty one-day virtual summit of the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa will occur, hosted by Xi Jinping. The date is important because on Monday June 26, two of the three intrinsically pro-Western leaders from the bloc – (...)
A sovereign State can refuse the transfer of debts that were contracted in times of subjection

23 June 2022 - by Anaïs Carton

The CADTM has devoted a series of articles to the collective book Sovereign Debt Diplomacies. Rethinking Sovereign Debt from Colonial Empires to Hegemony, Edited by Pierre Pénet and Juan Flores Zendejas. We provide here a summary of Chapter 9 (...)
Kathmandu Declaration 2022

19 June 2022 - by SAAPE

WE, the members of the Sixth General Assembly of South Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradication (SAAPE) and Peoples’ SAARC, having met at Kathmandu, Nepal from 26-27 May 2022 on the occasion of the Sixth General Assembly of SAAPE. WE have taken (...)
The Rotten Roots of the IMF and the World Bank

16 June 2022 - by Jamie Martin, Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

A conversation with Jamie Martin about the imperial origins of the world’s economic governance, imagining an alternative to these institutions, and his new book, The Meddlers. The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have long been (...)
Eric Toussaint: “The IMF agreement with Argentina is perversely sophisticated”

15 June 2022 - by Eric Toussaint, Martín Mosquera

This interview was done by Martín Mosquera for the Latin-American magazine Jacobinlat. Martín Mosquera (Jacobinlat): Concerning Argentina’s agreement with the IMF, there are two ideas presented by the national government that need to be examined: (...)
Sri Lankan Uprising: Struggles against neoliberal austerity

10 June 2022 - by Nagesh Rao, Nimanthi Rajasingham

Sri Lanka is in the throes of political upheaval as a spiraling economic crisis has sparked widespread mass protests and strikes against the government. On May 9th, then prime minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned and was forced to take refuge in (...)
The financialisation of malaria in Africa: Burkina Faso

9 June 2022 - by African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB)

The financialisation of malaria in Africa: Burkina Faso, rogue capital & GM /gene drive mosquitoes This paper seeks to understand the financialisation of malaria as a vehicle for rogue capital in a context of a weakened state (through (...)
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 (...)

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