Alternatives

Olivier Bonfond : Eric Toussaint’s latest publication, Capitulation entre adultes, Grèce 2015: une alternative était possible is a “must read” for everybody

30 June 2020 - by Olivier Bonfond

Eric Toussaint has accomplished a remarkable piece of work with this book. It is short, well written, easy to read, enlightening and convincing. Some elements of the book must be known by all. The book’s starting point; Yanis Varoufakis’ Adults in the Room In 2017 Yanis Varoufakis, then (...)
Launching a new powerful international social and political movement

9 June 2020 - by Eric Toussaint, Alexis Cukier

We publish this interview of Eric Toussaint conducted by Alexis Cukier in May 2020 for the Greek alternative media K-Lab. In this interview, Eric Toussaint sketches out the outline of a new international social and political movement to be built. Eric Toussaint: In any case, as I see it, (...)
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 come. Yet this time might be a turning point. The (...)
Covid-19: stage assessment on the multidimensional crisis and alternative approaches

19 April 2020 - by Eric Toussaint

The health crisis is far from being over. The capitalist system and neoliberal policies have played a fundamental part all through. It is useful to do an assessment of these first months. The present crisis is also an opportunity to realize the necessity of changing the society radically in its (...)
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 that affect, more particularly, countries dominated (...)
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 Maroc

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 has announced that those who have lost their jobs (...)
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 entitled “The impact on the South of European (...)
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 the CADTM of Latin America and the Caribbean (...)
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 think it is more than ever important to push the (...)
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 Okic, 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 undermined by 40 years of neo-liberal policies, (...)
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 women who will bear the brunt. Great anger is brewing (...)
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 on public external debt service could free up to (...)
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 was inevitable eventually, but covid-19 has made it (...)
March 8 – The World March of Women mobilizes and launches the 5^th 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 with it we will take up demonstrations of our (...)
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 in Belém, Brazil in January 2009. Indeed, since (...)
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 8^th 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 perceived as financial or economic matters, we know (...)
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; slowdown in India and in China; deep crisis in the car (...)
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 hope leads to despair and hope unmingled with fear (...)
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 powers to enrich themselves at the expense of other (...)
“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 United Nations (UN) Inter-governmental Working Group (...)
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 Special Economic Zones (SEZs), as sources of economic (...)
ReCommonsEurope: Manifesto for a New Popular Internationalism in Europe

26 May 2019 - by Eric Toussaint, Esther Vivas , Catherine Samary, Costas Lapavitsas, Stathis Kouvelakis, Tijana Okic, 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 a dozen or so countries in Europe who wish to (...)
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 directive would have given the Commission veto (...)
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 Europe’ is on to a promising start. The text was (...)