Alternatives
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Are the BRICS and their New Development Bank offering alternatives to the World Bank, the IMF and the policies promoted by the traditional imperialist powers?
21 April 2024 - by Eric Toussaint
In recent years, the rightful rejection of the policies promoted by the traditional imperialist powers (North America, Western Europe and Japan), followed by the announcements made by the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), (...) -
Ist International Antifascist Conference
2 April 2024 - by CADTM International, PSOL, PT
May 17 to 19th, 2024. | Porto Alegre/RS, Brazil There is an intense dispute over the societal project currently in progress. Brazilian people have lived through the tragedy of the Bolsonaro government and have drawn their conclusions about this (...) -
World Protests: A Study of Key Protest Issues in the 21st Century
27 February 2024 - by Isabel Ortiz, Hernán Cortés, Mohamed Berrada, Sara Burke
The start of the 21st century has seen the world shaken by protests, from the Arab Spring to the Yellow Vests, from the Occupy movement to the social uprisings in Latin America. There are periods in history when large numbers of people have (...) -
The World Social Forum: The counterweight to the World Economic Forum
25 February 2024 - by Isabel Ortiz
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Feb 23 2024 (IPS) - This week the 2024 annual meeting of the [World Social Forum->https://wsf2024nepal.org (WSF) was held in Nepal. There were fifty thousand participants from over 90 countries, exchanging strategies to address (...) -
In Nepal, CADTM delegates took part in the opening march of the World Social Forum and successfully completed their initial workshops
21 February 2024 - by CADTM International, Maxime Perriot
The World Social Forum, which took place this year in Kathmandu (Nepal), began on Thursday 15 February 2024. The CADTM International network was represented by delegates from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Kenya, Côte d’Ivoire and the (...) -
Letter urging the States of the world to support South Africa’s application to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Israel for violation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in Gaza
15 January 2024 - by CADTM International, Collective
On 30 December, representatives of a group of organisations, including the Black Alliance for Peace, Progressive International, the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, the (...) -
For a ceasefire and an end to colonization and apartheid in Palestine
6 December 2023 - by Altersummit
First of all we affirm that all killing or murder of unarmed civilians is unacceptable! Any such action represents a war crime and lacks legitimacy. First of all we affirm that all killing or murder of unarmed civilians is unacceptable! Any (...) -
Marrakech counter-summit demands: debt, microcredit, climate justice, food sovereignty, social movements, migration...
4 November 2023 - by CADTM International, Collective
As one of the outcomes of the IMF-World Bank counter-summit held in Marrakesh, the workshops held from 13 to 14 October 2023 produced a number of proposals, which were complemented by a plenary session on 15 October 2023. INTERNATIONAL (...) -
We stand with the People of Palestine! We stand for Justice, Human Rights and Freedom!
3 November 2023 - by CADTM Belgique, Collective
As movements fighting against systems of injustice that view black, brown and indigenous peoples as disposable, to be sacrificed by racist and colonial systems of exploitation and domination, we see the struggle of the Palestinian people against (...) -
An Urgent Call for Debt, Climate and Economic Justice
9 October 2023 - by CADTM International, Collective
Communities all over the world are struggling and resisting the impacts of multiple crises. At a time of intensifying climate impacts and speculative increases of food and energy prices, governments, particularly in the Global South, are (...) -
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 : The 1983 Vienna Convention, the foundation of a new international economic order
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? (...)
- ICAN
- African Development Bank
- Agrarian Distress
- Agriculture and Food Sovereignty
- Antifascism
- Arbitration
- Audit
- Austerity/Structural Adjustment
- Bank of the South
- Banks
- Belt and Road
- Big Pharma
- BRICS
- Capitalism
- Colonial debt
- Colonialism
- Commercial agreements
- Commercialisation
- Corporate
- Corporate Debt
- Corruption / financial criminality
- Crisis
- Debt campaign
- Debt crisis
- Debt in History
- Debt in Northern countries
- Development
- dollarisation
- ECB
- Ecological debt
- Ecology/Climate
- Energy
- External debt
- Feminisms
- Films
- Financial crisis
- Free Trade/Trade Liberalisation
- G7 / G20
- Health
- Housing
- Human Rights
- Illegitimate debt
- ILO
- IMF
- Imperialism
- Inequality
- Inflation
- Initiative for the heavily indebted poor countries (HIPCs)
- Internal debt
- International Institutions
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