Alternatives
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Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century: an ABC
Thomas Piketty, the CADTM and Public Debt
20 April 2021 - by CADTM
Piketty and public debt Piketty devotes a dozen very interesting pages to the question of public debt over the last two centuries, focusing his analysis mainly on France and the United Kingdom. He rightly states that in discussing public debt, (...) -
Latin America has once again entered a period of strong social and political turbulence
13 April 2021 - by Franck Gaudichaud
Franck Gaudichaud recently wrote and coordinated two collective works drawing a critical assessment of “progressive” political attempts to challenge neoliberal hegemony in Latin America. In this interview, he considers the social and political (...) -
Learning from Hilferding’s Finance Capital: Money, banking and crisis tendencies
25 March 2021 - by Patrick Bond
Introduction A century ago, as the Weimar Republic was set up in Germany, the leading Marxist strategist aiming to socialise the economy was Rudolf Hilferding (1877-1941). Although he was an Austrian, and was educated in Vienna as a (...) -
An eco-feminist reading of debt to think differently about auditing
4 March 2021 - by Camille Bruneau
The citizen audit of public debt is an essential tool to regain control of public finances, first, by making data on the debt process and budget allocation accessible and clear in order to determine their legitimacy, second, by drawing economic (...) -
What are the challenges of World Social Forum 2021 in relation to the global situation?
18 January 2021 - by Gustave Massiah
Introduction of the January 7, 2021 session organized by CRID and ATTAC for the preparation of the January 2021 WSF. The challenges of the World Social Forum 2021 are high. In a deep contradictory world situation, it must make it possible to: (...) -
The strategic debates of the European left - from Recommons Europe to the pandemic
8 January 2021 - by Catherine Samary, Srećko Pulig
On 13 December as part of the “Subversive Festival” in Zagreb, two European zoom-panels were organised presenting the two texts translated into Croatian produced by the network Recommons Europe (see (...) -
Books in the year of the COVID
21 December 2020 - by Michael Roberts
Every year, I do a post on books that I have reviewed during the last 12 months. What’s a bit surprising in this year of the COVID is that I did not review any books specifically on the pandemic. Even the excellent book by John Bellamy Foster, (...) -
Presentation of the second ReCommons Europe manifesto – A key encounter in the search for alternatives
2 December 2020 - by Mats Lucia Bayer, ReCommons Europe
The ReCommons Europe meeting-days took place in Brussels on 22 and 23 September 2020 under the title Let Us Act Now: Internationalist Alternatives to EU Policies in the Age of SARS-CoV-2. In the course of those meeting-days we introduced the (...) -
Report on the International Situation and the activities of CADTM International since May 2020
1 December 2020 - by Eric Toussaint, CADTM International, Jean Nanga, Christine Vanden Daelen, Sushovan Dhar, Maria Elena Saludas, Omar Aziki, Rémi Vilain
This report was presented by Éric Toussaint at the biannual meetings of CADTM Belgium on Tuesday 17 November 2020. The text was completed in the annexes by an addendum on the action of the coordination of feminist struggles written by Christine (...) -
A country is entitled to refuse to repay a debt
26 November 2020 - by Eric Toussaint, Revista Mugica
The following interview, given by Éric Toussaint to the Argentine review Mugica, has been adapted to make it accessible to readers who are not necessarily aware of the details of what is going on in Argentina. The arguments used in the article (...) -
CADTM - 30 years of struggle against debt
16 November 2020 - by CADTM, Chris Den Hond
CADTM - Committee for the Cancellation of Illegitimate Debt = 30 years of struggle against debt Badly impacted by COVID-19, our meeting days largely took place online, with activists contributing from countries such as DRCongo, Morocco, Sri (...) -
On the CADTM’s strategy
4 November 2020 - by Eric Toussaint
First, a few key words to present the CADTM and its strategy: Radicality Convergence Unity Plurality Internationalism – Antiracism Transversality: for the CADTM, debt is a transversal theme, as are feminism and eco-socialism Continuity-tenacity (...) -
Global Economic Solutions Now!
1 October 2020 - by CADTM International, Collective
The CADTM International network agrees to sign even though we are against calling upon the IMF, which amounts to giving it more power by increasing Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), and against creditor-led debt restructurings, because history has (...) -
Fighting the actors of financialization and prohibiting profit on illegitimate private and public debt
22 September 2020 - by CADTM, Collective, Virginie de Romanet, Renaud Vivien, PAH , Antonio Gambini , ACiDe, Vicente Losada, Eva Betavatzi, Gilles Grégoire, Spanish Platform against vulture funds , Mats Lucia Bayer, Walter Actis, Ángel del Castillo, Mari Ángeles Bueno, Roberto Moreno, Miguel Vázquez, Pedro Martin Heras
In January 2020, the “Package of common demands on debt and the need for citizens’ control of finance at the european level”, coordinated by CADTM, was published. This document was written collectively by activists of nearly fifteen collectives and (...) -
Let us act now - European meet
17 September 2020 - by ReCommons Europe
Let us act now - Internationalist Alternatives to EU Policies (in times of coronavirus), is a European meet organised by the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM) that will take place on September 22 and 23 in Brussels, with (...) -
ReCommons Europe
Impact of European policies on the Global South and possible alternatives
8 September 2020 - by ReCommons Europe
The year 2020 was marked by two events that revealed, once again, the limits of the capitalist system. First, the CoViD-19 pandemic caused by the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, responsible for the deaths of several hundred thousand people and (...) -
Some historical illustrations of decisive actions relative to banks
16 August 2020 - by Eric Toussaint
What a government does or fails to do relative to banks has far-reaching consequences on the course of a country’s history. The Paris Commune made the mistake of not taking control over the Bank of France The seat of the Bank of France, its (...) -
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 (...) -
Against the bankocracy: how a socialized banking system could function?
30 June 2020 - by Eric Toussaint, Philippe Poutou
Conversation between Philippe Poutou (NPA) and Eric Toussaint (CADTM) Éric Toussaint : Karl Marx wrote a famous text in which he stated: “If you want to know what the dictatorship of the proletariat looks like? It is the Paris Commune”, (...) -
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 (...) -
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 (...) -
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 (...) -
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 (...) -
Call
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 (...) -
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 (...)
- ICAN
- Agrarian Distress
- Agriculture and Food Sovereignty
- Antifascism
- Arbitration
- Audit
- Austerity/Structural Adjustment
- Bank of the South
- Banks
- BRICS
- CADTM
- Capitalism
- Colonialism
- Commercial agreements
- Corporate Debt
- Corruption / financial criminality
- Crisis
- Debt campaign
- Debt crisis
- Debt in History
- Debt in Northern countries
- Development
- ECB
- Ecological debt
- Ecology
- External debt
- Feminisms
- Films
- Financial crisis
- G8 / G20
- Housing
- Illegitimate debt
- ILO
- IMF
- Initiative for the heavily indebted poor countries (HIPCs)
- International Institutions
- International law
- Microcredit
- Migrations
- Multinational corporation
- Natural Resources
- Neocolonialism
- Neoliberalism
- Odious debt
- OMC
- Paris Club (The)
- Poverty
- Private debt
- Privatizations
- SMA
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