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Madrid Manifesto against Illegitimate Debt and Vulture Funds
26 April 2023 - by CADTM
From Friday, April 21, to Sunday, April 23, 2023, the days against illegitimate debt and vulture funds were held in Madrid. These were organised by ATTAC Spain, CADTM International, the Platform against Vulture Funds, the Citizen Audit of the (...) -
The urgent need to repudiate debt
6 April 2023 - by Eric Toussaint, Anaïs Carton
According to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, at the end of 2022, approximately 60% of low-income developing countries were already in debt distress or were at high risk of being so. Debt payment suspensions have multiplied in (...) -
Full version & Execcutive summary
Africa : the debt trap and how to get out of it
27 March 2023 - by CADTM
Study carried out by the CADTM, the Left Group in the European Parliament - The Left Executive summary and full version in pdf below. Africa was not long spared by the Covid-19 pandemic that submerged the world. The new virus first appeared (...) -
[Video] Le CADTM joins the international campaign Debt for Climate and calls for the cancellation of the illegitimate debts
28 February 2023 - by CADTM Belgique, Scientist Rebellion Belgium, Extinction Rebellion Belgium
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the cancellation of Germany’s debt, CADTM, Scientist Rebellion Belgium and Extinction Rebellion Belgium joins the international Debt for Climate campaign and calls for the cancellation of the (...) -
[Video] Global Crises, Global Resistance - building alternatives with the Global South
23 February 2023 - by Miguel Urbán Crespo, Broulaye Bagayoko, Dorothy Guerrero, Tarcísio Motta, Rityusha Mani Tiwary, Wim Moyaert
International conference, co-organised by the Transnational Institute, the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debts (CADTM) and the Left Group in the European Parliament (The Left), bringing together voices from four continents, to (...) -
[Video] Debt, wars, climate and food crisis in the Global South
16 February 2023 - by Morgan Ody, Miguel Urbán Crespo, Broulaye Bagayoko, Dorothy Guerrero, Tarcísio Motta, Rityusha Mani Tiwary
We share the full video of this conference organised by The Left at the European Parliament, with the participation of Broulaye Bagayoko, CADTM Afrique secretary. Dorothy Guerrero, Asia Europe People’s Forum-Global Justice now Broulaye Bagayoko, (...) -
Our Future is Public: Santiago Declaration for Public Services
26 January 2023 - by Collective
From 29th November to 2nd December over a thousand representatives from over one hundred countries, from grassroots movements, advocacy, human rights, and development organisations, feminist movements, trade unions, and other civil society (...) -
Colombo Declaration
4 December 2022 - by CADTM
We, the participants of the 9th CADTM South Asia meeting from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, as well as from Morocco, Belgium, Spain and France, assembled in Colombo, Sri Lanka, from December 2–4, 2022, reaffirm our fight against (...) -
25 November - International day for elimination of violence againt women
Violence against women*: a systemic issue
30 November 2022 - by CADTM International
(* The term ‘woman’ applies to any person who defines herself as female) On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women the CADTM International network highlights the urgent need for a systemic approach to this global (...) -
Global Week of Action for Justice and Debt Cancellation
10 October 2022 - by Collective
We stand in solidarity with the millions of people in countless countries who have taken to the streets over recent months to demand an end to debt domination and the destructive policies of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank (...) -
The CADTM participates in the European Summer University 2022, in Mönchengladbach, from 17 to 21 August
17 August 2022 - by CADTM
Summer universities are intended as forums that bring together all sorts of progressive social movements. They help us understand crises, develop alternatives and organize actions. This edition takes place in a highly significant location for (...) -
The IRA and the four horsemen of the climate apocalypse
9 August 2022 - by Michael Roberts
The announcement that US President’s Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has got the backing of pro-business, coal-mining owner Democratic Senator Manchin has been greeted with a wave of optimism that the US target of cutting carbon emissions in (...) -
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 (...) -
Five theses developed in the book “The Debt System”
3 June 2022 - by Eric Toussaint, Martín Mosquera
Interview conducted by Martín Mosquera for the Latin-American magazine Jacobinlat]. Martín Mosquera (Jacobinlat) :Could you summarize some essential points from your book The Debt System: A History of Sovereign Debts and Their Repudiation? (...) -
Global Manifesto for Public Services
28 October 2021 - by Collective
A group of over 80 organisations from around the world, including members of the CADTM, is launching a manifesto calling for the strengthening of public services, such as education, energy, water and sanitation, food, health and care services, (...) -
[Video] Your debt or your life: a feminist approach to the multidimensional crisis
16 September 2021 - by Silvia Federici, Camille Bruneau, Verónica Gago
CADTM Summer University 2021: Global Crisis, Debt Cancellation for Social Justice! Tuesday 14 September 2021 With Silvia Federici and Verónica Gago Silvia Federici, an Italian-American scholar, teacher, and activist from the radical (...) -
Einstein and Landau: Scientific geniuses as well as ... anti-capitalists and anti-Stalinists!
31 August 2021 - by Yorgos Mitralias
Almost everyone knows the name of Einstein, but that of Lev Landau is familiar only to a few followers of the exact sciences. And yet, both of them share several common features: They occupy first-rank positions in the short list of the greatest (...) -
What can be done now to ameliorate poverty, unemployment and inequality?
2 August 2021 - by Jeff Rudin, Jonathan Cannard, Bruce Baigrie, Maxine Bezuidenhout, Jaco Oelofson, Keamogetswe Seipato
“What are the status quo limits to what can be done about poverty, unemployment and inequality?” This sentence, buried deep in a recent Daily Maverick article by one of us, evoked a sizable response, some sympathetic, others hostile. The already (...) -
CADTM University 2021: Global Crisis, Debt Cancellation for Social Justice!
16 July 2021 - by CADTM
In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic and its aggravating effect on the multidimensional crisis congenital to capitalism, the same destructive policies are still being imposed: the rich continue to capture ever greater parts of the World’s (...) -
American Democracy Will Remain a Mirage Without a Dramatic Overhaul of the Political and Economic System
28 June 2021 - by C.J. Polychroniou
It is no longer an unknown fact or a view propounded by a handful of radical historians and political scientists: the American political system has such severe structural flaws that it is potentially antithetical to democracy and surely (...) -
Immunity is liberty
17 June 2021 - by Amitabha Sarkar
We publish this important article by Amitabha Sarkar from India, scholar of international development of health politics, member of the People’s Health Movement (PHM India) and associated with the Transnational Institute (TNI). His article (...) -
To Address Increasing Inequality and Global Poverty, We Must Cancel Debt
16 June 2021 - by Eric Toussaint, C.J. Polychroniou
Massive debt levels are a feature of contemporary capitalism that cannot be eradicated without radical change, says political scientist Éric Toussaint “The indebtedness of the working classes is directly connected to the widening poverty gap and (...) -
List of signatory organisations: End the private patent system! For a pharmaceutical industry under popular control and a free, universal and public vaccination system.
8 June 2021 - by CADTM International, Collective, Attac France, World March of Women, TNI
At the initiative of CADTM International, two hundred and fifty social organisations, trade unions, NGOs and other movements active in the five continents have signed an international appeal (...) -
List of the first 360 signatures of people who support the End the Private Patent System Manifesto! #FREECOVIDPATENTS
8 June 2021 - by Eric Toussaint, CADTM International, Collective, Naomi Klein, Cinzia Arruzza , Tithi Bhattacharya, Nancy Fraser, Noam Chomsky, Vijay Prashad, Arundhati Roy, Achin Vanaik
Among the personalities supporting the End the Private Patent System Manifesto! For a pharmaceutical industry under popular control and a free, universal and public vaccination system which was launched by the global network of CADTM, includes (...)
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