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Fighting Covid-19: Why and How to Suspend Debt Repayment Immediately
7 April 2020 - by Eric Toussaint
The territorial spread of the coronavirus pandemic has resulted in a global health crisis which has created a completely new situation. The human suffering caused by the spread of the virus is enormous. It adds to other public health tragedies (...) -
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Morocco: For the suspension of the payment of micro-finance loans for a period of 6 months, renewable with exemption of all interest
5 April 2020 - by ATTAC/CADTM Morocco
The country has taken the measures announced by the Economic Vigilance Committee to address the impact of the Corona virus pandemic. However, these measures have not yet included micro-finance victims. The professional group of Moroccan banks (...) -
Abolish illegitimate and odious claims by European countries from third parties and give absolute priority to human rights
3 April 2020 - by ReCommons Europe
Phase 2 of the ReCommonsEurope project: “The impact of European financial policies and development cooperation strategies on the South and possible alternatives”. This document is the first of the five texts that form part of the publication (...) -
Call of the indigenous peoples, afro-descendants and peoples’ organizations of Latin America
3 April 2020 - by CADTM, Collective
We publish in English a Latin American and Caribbean appeal launched on 1 April 2020 by a large number of popular movements and political organizations. It calls for a radical response to the crisis linked to COVID-19. This call is supported by (...) -
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 (...) -
In the times of the coronavirus, a look back to the Manifesto for a new popular internationalism in Europe
2 April 2020 - by Eric Toussaint, Esther Vivas , Catherine Samary, Costas Lapavitsas, Stathis Kouvelakis, Tijana Okić, Nathan Legrand, Alexis Cukier, Jeanne Chevalier, Yayo Herrero
The coronavirus pandemic is a serious public health problem and the human suffering caused by the spread of this virus will be enormous. If it massively affects countries of the Global South with very fragile public health systems that have been (...) -
This Changes Everything
31 March 2020 - by Amandla Editorial
For many, the lockdown of 21 days will be a severe test. For some it will in effect be impossible. Imagine being under lock-down for 21 days in a one bedroom shack with six or seven others. Tensions and violence are bound to rise, and it is (...) -
A debt moratorium for Low Income Economies
27 March 2020 - by Eurodad, Daniel Munevar
Eurodad cost assessment of a debt moratorium to tackle the COVID-19 crisis This briefing provides an assessment of the costs and implications of an immediate debt moratorium for 69 countries classified as Lower Income Economies. A moratorium (...) -
A Debt Jubilee is the Only Way to Avoid a Depression
24 March 2020 - by Michael Hudson
Even before the novel coronavirus appeared, many American families were falling behind on student loans, auto loans, credit cards and other payments. America’s debt overhead was pricing its labor and industry out of world markets. A debt crisis (...) -
March 8 – The World March of Women mobilizes and launches the 5th International Action 2020
3 March 2020 - by World March of Women
We have few days left until March 8, when the World March of Women will be in the streets on the International Day of Women’s Struggle and will launch our 5th International Action. We resist to live, we march to transform! This is our slogan and (...) -
Political Charter of CADTM International
28 February 2020 - by CADTM
We publish a new version of the CADTM policy charter as provisionally amended at the meeting of the CADTM International Council held in Liège on 11 and 12 September 2019. This amended version provisionally replaces the political charter adopted (...) -
What is the Citizen Debt Audit ?
28 February 2020 - by Jawad Moustakbal
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Message from Juan Pablo Bohoslavski, the UN expert on Debt and Human Rights, to the 8th CADTM South Asia meeting in Colombo
19 February 2020 - by Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky
Dear colleagues and friends, I am pleased to have the opportunity to share this message on the occasion of 8th South Asian CADTM Regional Meeting. The topics discussed during this meeting are indeed important ones and while sometimes simply (...) -
International situation and Radical Alternatives
18 February 2020 - by Eric Toussaint
On 18 February 2020, in Colombo, 8th CADTM South Asian workshop We are facing a multidimensional crisis of the global capitalist system Economic crisis : Stagnation or recession in Europe; recession in Japan; slowdown in the US economy; (...) -
Toward a New Universal Declaration of Human Rights
27 January 2020 - by Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Baruch de Spinoza, the great 17th century philosopher, wrote that the two basic human emotions (or “affections”, as he called them) are fear and hope, and he suggested that a balance needs to be struck between the two, because fear unmingled with (...) -
The Debt System - book review
17 December 2019 - by Phil Armstrong
The Debt System argues that international debt is a system of exploitation of poorer countries, which should be regarded as illegitimate, finds Phil Armstrong This book tells a story of exploitation and the use of indebtedness by western (...) -
“Historic process continues at the UN: This week states enter substantive negotiations of the text of a binding treaty on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights”
18 October 2019 - by Stop corporate impunity
Historic process continues at the UN: This week states enter substantive negotiations of the text of a binding treaty on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights 14 October 2019, Geneva: The (...) -
Series: Adverse International and Local Conditions for Sub-Saharan Africa (Part 1)
South African Special Economic Zones : History of Limited Successes
8 October 2019 - by Eric Toussaint, Patrick Bond, Ishmael Lesufi, Lisa Thompson
Given both short- and longer-term trends in the world and South African economies, there is a danger of government and society placing inordinate hopes in what are variously termed Export Processing Zones, Industrial Development Zones and (...) -
ReCommonsEurope: Manifesto for a New Popular Internationalism in Europe
26 May 2019 - by Eric Toussaint, Esther Vivas , Catherine Samary, Costas Lapavitsas, Stathis Kouvelakis, Tijana Okić, Nathan Legrand, Alexis Cukier, Jeanne Chevalier, Yayo Herrero
This text is the short version of the “Manifesto for a New Popular Internationalism in Europe”, which was published on 21 March 21 2019 in English, French and Spanish. This Manifesto has been drawn up by a group of activists and researchers from (...) -
Municipalities and citizens movement defeat anti-democratic EU directive
24 April 2019 - by CADTM, Collective, Corporate Europe Observatory, ACiDe
Trade unions and other social movements, city councilors, municipalities, regional councils and even some governments can now claim victory over a proposal tabled by the European Commission in January 2017. The proposed Notification Procedure (...) -
ReCommonsEurope Manifesto: a left-wing initiative in Europe
8 April 2019 - by Eric Toussaint
While the campaign for the European elections on 26 May 2019 draws very little interest, the initiative launched by ReCommonsEurope with its ‘In the times of the coronavirus, a look back to the Manifesto for a new popular internationalism in (...) -
Venezuela: Suspend Debt Repayments and Create an Emergency Humanitarian Fund
11 March 2019 - by Eric Toussaint
There is no doubt that Donald Trump’s policies, those of the Lima group and the European powers who seek to impose the usurper Juan Guaidó as President of Venezuela and do not hesitate to interfere in order to succeed, must be opposed. As usual, (...) -
STATE OF POWER 2019
Battling bankers: grassroots insights on financial power
14 February 2019 - by TNI
Three inspiring activists — from Spain, UK and Kenya — share their experiences of taking on bankers and the lessons and insights from their ongoing struggles. This essay is part of the Transnational Institute’s “State of Power 2019” report. (...) -
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. (...) -
Debt & Democracy in Newham: A Citizen audit of LOBO loans
4 December 2018 - by Research For Action
Executive Summary A dramatic withdrawal of central government funding in the last decade has exposed the crisis in local government. Austerity measures are forcing closures of youth centres and libraries, reducing bin collection and increasing (...)
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