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Global Manifesto for Public Services
28 October 2021 - by Collectif
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, Collectif, World March of Women, TNI, ATTAC
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, Collectif, 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 (...) -
Press release by CADTM international
More than 350 personalities from all over the world support the Manifesto “End the Private Patent System”
8 June 2021 - by CADTM International
As a new round of negotiations begins at the World Trade Organization (WTO), more than 350 personalities from around the world lend their support to the Manifesto End the Private Patent System! For a pharmaceutical industry under popular control (...) -
End the system of private patents!
8 June 2021 - by CADTM International, Collectif, World March of Women, TNI, Womin
Thanks to a huge scientific effort based on international collaboration and historic amounts of public money, humanity has been able to develop several effective vaccines against COVID-19 in less than a year. However, this great achievement (...) -
To confront the pandemic and the global capitalist crisis, the alter-globalisation movement must be relaunched
18 May 2021 - by CADTM International
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Global Austerity Alert: Looming Budget Cuts in 2021-25 and Alternatives
5 May 2021 - by Isabel Ortiz, Matthew Cummins
Rather than exploring financing options to provide direly-needed support for socio-economic recovery, many governments—advised by the IMF, the G20 and others—are opting for austerity. Last week Ministers of Finance met virtually at the Spring (...) -
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st century: an ABC
Thomas Piketty: a progressive global tax on capital
26 April 2021 - by CADTM
About Piketty’s central idea to create a global progressive tax on capital Piketty declares that “appropriate updating of the last century’s social-democratic and fiscal-liberal program is essential.” He believes that we must defend and improve (...) -
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 (...)
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