Alternatives

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 (...)
Call of the indigenous peoples, afro-descendants and peoples’ organizations of Latin America

3 April 2020 - by CADTM, Collective

We publish in English a Latin American and Caribbean appeal launched on 1 April 2020 by a large number of popular movements and political organizations. It calls for a radical response to the crisis linked to COVID-19. This call is supported by (...)
List of signatories of the Manifesto for a new popular internationalism in Europe

2 April 2020 - by ReCommons Europe

Today, 2nd of April 2020, we publish again the list of the 160 first signatories of the Manifesto for a new popular internationalism in Europe, which was publicly presented in March 2019. In the current context of the Covid-19 epidemic, we (...)
In the times of the coronavirus, a look back to the Manifesto for a new popular internationalism in Europe

2 April 2020 - by Eric Toussaint, Esther Vivas , Catherine Samary, Costas Lapavitsas, Stathis Kouvelakis, Tijana Okic, Nathan Legrand, Alexis Cukier, Jeanne Chevalier, Yayo Herrero

The coronavirus pandemic is a serious public health problem and the human suffering caused by the spread of this virus will be enormous. If it massively affects countries of the Global South with very fragile public health systems that have been (...)
This Changes Everything

31 March 2020 - by Amandla Editorial

For many, the lockdown of 21 days will be a severe test. For some it will in effect be impossible. Imagine being under lock-down for 21 days in a one bedroom shack with six or seven others. Tensions and violence are bound to rise, and it is (...)
A debt moratorium for Low Income Economies

27 March 2020 - by Eurodad, Daniel Munevar

Eurodad cost assessment of a debt moratorium to tackle the COVID-19 crisis This briefing provides an assessment of the costs and implications of an immediate debt moratorium for 69 countries classified as Lower Income Economies. A moratorium (...)
A Debt Jubilee is the Only Way to Avoid a Depression

24 March 2020 - by Michael Hudson

Even before the novel coronavirus appeared, many American families were falling behind on student loans, auto loans, credit cards and other payments. America’s debt overhead was pricing its labor and industry out of world markets. A debt crisis (...)
March 8 – The World March of Women mobilizes and launches the 5^th International Action 2020

3 March 2020 - by World March of Women

We have few days left until March 8, when the World March of Women will be in the streets on the International Day of Women’s Struggle and will launch our 5th International Action. We resist to live, we march to transform! This is our slogan and (...)
Political Charter of CADTM International

28 February 2020 - by CADTM

We publish a new version of the CADTM policy charter as provisionally amended at the meeting of the CADTM International Council held in Liège on 11 and 12 September 2019. This amended version provisionally replaces the political charter adopted (...)
What is the Citizen Debt Audit ?

28 February 2020 - by Jawad Moustakbal

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Message from Juan Pablo Bohoslavski, the UN expert on Debt and Human Rights, to the 8^th CADTM South Asia meeting in Colombo

19 February 2020 - by Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky

Dear colleagues and friends, I am pleased to have the opportunity to share this message on the occasion of 8th South Asian CADTM Regional Meeting. The topics discussed during this meeting are indeed important ones and while sometimes simply (...)
International situation and Radical Alternatives

18 February 2020 - by Eric Toussaint

On 18 February 2020, in Colombo, 8th CADTM South Asian workshop We are facing a multidimensional crisis of the global capitalist system Economic crisis : Stagnation or recession in Europe; recession in Japan; slowdown in the US economy; (...)
Toward a New Universal Declaration of Human Rights

27 January 2020 - by Boaventura de Sousa Santos

Baruch de Spinoza, the great 17th century philosopher, wrote that the two basic human emotions (or “affections”, as he called them) are fear and hope, and he suggested that a balance needs to be struck between the two, because fear unmingled with (...)
The Debt System - book review

17 December 2019 - by Phil Armstrong

The Debt System argues that international debt is a system of exploitation of poorer countries, which should be regarded as illegitimate, finds Phil Armstrong This book tells a story of exploitation and the use of indebtedness by western (...)