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Towards the inevitable clash to the death between Trump and Mamdani!
12 November 2025 - by Yorgos Mitralias
Young, intelligent, talented, energetic, handsome, charismatic, a very good speaker, a hard worker, a skilled communicator, and so on. The media in our countries are not wrong when they attribute all these virtues to Zohran Mamdani. Zohran is all (…) -
Europe: For a different economic policy in response to the far right and Trump’s offensive
5 November 2025 - by Eric Toussaint, Antoine Larrache
Antoine Larrache: Could you provide an overview of the European Union’s economic situation in comparison to the global market? Éric Toussaint: The countries of the European Union, including the United Kingdom, are currently facing significant (…) -
For an Ecosocialist Degrowth
6 October 2025 - by Yorgos Mitralias
Why republish the text “For an ecosocialist degrowth,” which was already published in several languages more than three and a half years ago? First, because its initial publication went almost unnoticed, coinciding as it did with the Russian (…) -
Successful launch of the international anti-fascist conference to be held in Porto Alegre from 26 to 29 March 2026
25 September 2025 - by Collective
At the conference held on the evening of 23 September 2025 in Porto Alegre, capital of the state of Rio Grande Do Sul, there were 80 people in attendance. On the podium were Raul Pont, former mayor of Porto Alegre (1993-1997) and leader of the (…) -
BRICS 2025 Questions and Answers Series (Part 1)
Why are the BRICS countries not condemning the ongoing genocide in Gaza?
7 August 2025 - by Eric Toussaint
The BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), which have admitted five more states (Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia, Indonesia and Iran), met in Rio de Janeiro on 6 and 7 July 2025. Saudi Arabia was present but (…) -
Argentina: Examples and alternatives for understanding the debt crisis in the South [Part 5]
7 May 2025 - by Maxime Perriot
When it comes to the IMF’s influence on the countries of the Global South, Argentina is a must. During Juan Domingo Perón’s presidency, Argentina initially declined to join the IMF and World Bank, but eventually did so in 1956 during the (…) -
‘The left should support a just peace for Ukraine, not a Trump-Putin deal to appease the aggressor’: An interview with Ukrainian socialist Denys Pilash
17 March 2025 - by Federico Fuentes, Denys Pilash
Denys Pilash is a political scientist, member of the Ukrainian democratic socialist organisation Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement) and editor of the left-wing journal Сommons. In this broad-ranging interview with Federico Fuentes for LINKS (…) -
Series : Understanding what happened in Greece in 2015 when hope came from Athens
A questionable account by Varoufakis of the origins of the Greek crisis [Part 3]
10 March 2025 - by Eric Toussaint
In the previous article entitled ‘Greece 2015: Varoufakis’ proposals were doomed to fail’, I critically analysed the proposals made by Varoufakis before joining Tsipras’ government in January 2015, showing that they led to failure. This article (…) -
Workshop on Democratizing Investment
8 March 2025 - by Sushovan Dhar, Lavinia Steinfort, Christoph Sorg, Melanie Brusseler, J W Mason, Mike McCarthy , Eric Meier
INDEP online Workshop on Democratizing Investment February 21, 2025 First session: Socializing investment (3.30-4.45pm CET) Christoph Sorg (Humboldt University/INDEP): Introduction: Finance as a form of planning and the legacy of struggles (…) -
Series Understanding what happened in Greece in 2015 when hope came from Athens
Greece 2015: Varoufakis’ proposals were doomed to fail [Part 2]
24 February 2025 - by Eric Toussaint
In his book Adults in the Room, Yanis Varoufakis gives his version of the events that led to the shameful capitulation of the government of Alexis Tsipras in July 2015. Essentially it analyses the period 2009–2015, though it makes incursions into (…) -
The policies of Sri Lanka’s new government: a historic opportunity lost
14 February 2025 - by Eric Toussaint
Éric Toussaint reviews the situation in Sri Lanka since 2022. From the popular revolts to the new centre-Left government elected in late 2024 and the negotiations with the creditors, this overview provides a better understanding of a country (…) -
Inaugural Joint Statement | The Hague Group, January 31, 2025
7 February 2025 - by The Hague Group
We, the Representatives from the Governments of Belize, Plurinational State of Bolivia, Republic of Colombia, Republic of Cuba, Republic of Honduras, Malaysia, Republic of Namibia, Republic of Senegal and Republic of South Africa in The Hague, (…) -
The Case Against Odious Debt. Dr. Eric Toussaint on Face To Face
6 February 2025 - by Eric Toussaint, Niresh Eliatamby
We are publishing a 48-minute interview with Eric Toussaint broadcast on 5 February 2025 by the ‘News 1st’ television channel. The international spokesman for the CADTM is interviewed by journalist Niresh Eliatamby, who interviews politicians (…) -
Colombo Declaration 2025 : Against IMF-led agreement, debt and austerity
6 February 2025 - by CADTM South Asia
We, the participants of the 11th CADTM South Asia meeting, hailing from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, as well as Morocco, the Philippines, Brazil, Belgium and Spain, convened in Colombo, Sri Lanka, from January 31 to February 1, 2025, (…) -
Al Jazeera, the TV channel that saves the honor of modern journalism!
24 January 2025 - by Yorgos Mitralias
It has been said and written many times that the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza is “the first live broadcast war” in history. And that, as a result of this historic first, no one can now claim ignorance of what is happening in Palestine. Few, (…) -
An ABC of the CADTM and a historical perspective on illegitimate debts
22 January 2025 - by Eric Toussaint, Maxime Perriot
Founded in 1990, the Committee for the Cancellation of Illegitimate Debt (Comité pour l’Abolition des dettes illégitimes, earlier Comité pour l’Annulation de la Dette du Tiers-Monde [Committee for the Cancellation of Third-World Debt], the origin (…) -
Taxation of the rich, reparations and debt cancellation: the urgency calls for radicalism
21 January 2025 - by Eric Toussaint, Maxime Perriot
In the South as in the North, inequalities are yawning wide, and while the responsibility of the States and major corporations of the North in the exploitation of the South is very real, the simple North-South opposition is far too simplistic. In (…) -
CADTM and the experience of the Greek Truth Committee on Public Debt
9 January 2025 - by Christoph Sorg
2025 marks the 10th anniversary of the capitulation of a government that had promised to put an end to the ordeal of the Greek people by obtaining, among other things, the cancellation of most of the Greek debt. Throughout the year, the CADTM (…) -
Series : Debt cancellations : a historical perspective (part 4)
Democracy and Debt: Has the Link been Broken?
8 January 2025 - by Michael Hudson
The year 2025 is considered by Christians to be a jubilee year under the banner of debt cancellation. To mark the occasion, the CADTM is republishing a series of articles on debt cancellation, the struggles for debt cancellation and the role of (…) -
Series : Debt cancellations : a historical perspective (part 3)
Personal endebtment and debt forgivness in the Roman empire
30 December 2024 - by Jean Andreau
The year 2025 is considered by Christians to be a jubilee year under the banner of debt cancellation. To mark the occasion, the CADTM is republishing a series of articles on debt cancellation, the struggles for debt cancellation and the role of (…) -
Debt cancellation: a historical perspective (part 2)
Debt cancellation in the land of Canaan in the first millennium BC
27 December 2024 - by Isabelle Ponet
The year 2025 is considered by Christians to be a jubilee year under the banner of debt cancellation. To mark the occasion, the CADTM is republishing a series of articles on debt cancellation, the struggles for debt cancellation and the role of (…) -
The Long Tradition of Debt Cancellation in Mesopotamia and Egypt from 3000 to 1000 BC
24 December 2024 - by Eric Toussaint
The year 2025 is considered by Christians to be a jubilee year under the banner of debt cancellation. To mark the occasion, the CADTM is republishing a series of articles on debt cancellation, the struggles for debt cancellation and the role of (…) -
Series: 1944-2024, 80 years of interference from the World Bank and the IMF, that’s enough !
The World Bank/IMF have clearly failed. An alternative policy is needed
27 November 2024 - by Eric Toussaint
The World Bank and the IMF are 80 years old. 80 years of financial neo-colonialism and the imposition of austerity policies in the name of debt repayment. 80 years is enough! The Bretton Woods institutions must be abolished and replaced by (…) -
Questions & answers on China as a major creditor power
21 November 2024 - by Eric Toussaint
China has been demonized by several commentators: it is said to be the main creditor of many countries of the South and to get the most of them through ruthless exploitation whereas the World Bank, the IMF, the Paris Club, that bring together (…) -
Series: 1944-2024, 80 years of interference from the World Bank and the IMF, that’s enough !
Time to Put an End to World Bank Impunity
30 October 2024 - by Eric Toussaint
The World Bank and the IMF are 80 years old. 80 years of financial neo-colonialism and the imposition of austerity policies in the name of debt repayment. 80 years is enough! The Bretton Woods institutions must be abolished and replaced by (…)
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