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Press Release – For Immediate Release
Global Front Against Neo-fascism and Imperialism: 565 Figures and 900 Activists from 100 Countries Form a Common Front
25 February 2026 - by CADTM International, Collective
PORTO ALEGRE / INTERNATIONAL – February 25, 2026 – The mobilization against the reactionary international has reached a historic milestone. One month after a resounding initial appeal launched by the CADTM, a second wave of 335 figures has (…) -
March 26–29
First International Anti-Fascist Conference for the Sovereignty of Peoples in Porto Alegre: Resistance is now. It’s for the future! (Video)
17 February 2026 - by CADTM International
The horror of the past is back. With different faces, new names, but the same goals: to subjugate peoples, segregate populations, invade and dominate nations, lie and devastate. Neo-fascism advances under false banners of freedom. It advances in (…) -
International Call to Strengthen Antifascist and Anti-Imperialist Action
20 January 2026 - by Eric Toussaint, CADTM International, Collective, Walden Bello, Sushovan Dhar, Jeremy Corbyn, Yanis Varoufakis, Rafael Bernabe, Zoe Konstantopoulou, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Gilbert Achcar, Tithi Bhattacharya, Nancy Fraser, Michael Roberts, Vijay Prashad, Achin Vanaik, Zarah Sultana, Manon Aubry, Annie Ernaux, Ada Colau, Bhaskar Sunkara
The extreme right and neo-fascist forces are advancing on every continent. While the threat manifests itself in different ways depending on the country or region, its common elements are readily identifiable: the goal of annihilating labor rights (…) -
CADTM strongly condemns the US aggression against Venezuela
3 January 2026 - by CADTM International
The CADTM International strongly condemns the United States’ aggression against Venezuela and will actively participate in demonstrations of solidarity with the Venezuelan people and for Venezuela’s sovereignty. CADTM International January (…) -
CADTM Timeline
27 November 2025 - by CADTM International
This timeline is part of CADTM’s latest publication: ABC of CADTM and illegitimate debts, which you can find and order here. It traces the key moments in the history of CADTM and the struggle for the cancellation of illegitimate debts. -
Who are the CADTM ? What is Illegitimate debt ? An ABC
28 October 2025 - by Eric Toussaint, Maxime Perriot
Founded in 1990, the Committee for the Abo- lition of Illegitimate Debt (Comité pour l’Abolition des dettes illégitimes, previously called Comité pour l’Annulation de la Dette du Tiers-Monde [Committee for the Cancellation of Third-World Debt], (…) -
International council of CADTM Network | 2025
CADTM Asia—Activities Report 2025
23 October 2025 - by CADTM South Asia
The year 2025 was a pivotal one for CADTM Asia, marked by deepening debt crises across the region, intensifying IMF-led conditionalities, and widening resistance from social movements. Throughout the year, CADTM Asia played a central role in (…) -
The CADTM at the Summer University of Social Movements and Solidarities (UEMSS) – August 2025
30 September 2025 - by Jeanne Schuster
The CADTM actively participated in the 2025 edition of the Summer University of Social Movements and Solidarities (UEMSS), a major international gathering of activist convergences held in Bordeaux from August 23 to 26. This event brought together (…) -
Debt Bomb. The autumn meetings are back!
11 August 2025 - by CADTM
The CADTM Autumn Meetings will take place from 10 to 12 October in Liège, Belgium. Three days to meet, debate, eat, sleep, and fight together. Many of you have already registered, and we can’t wait to be there! In the meantime, here’s a first (…) -
Philippines: Successful symposium on ‘Debt Chains and Displaced Lives: Confronting IMF-World Bank Legacies in the Global South’ on 10 June 2025 in Iligan
18 June 2025 - by CADTM International
The symposium was held at St Peter’s College in Iligan City, in the north of Mindanao Island in the Philippines. Around 100 people attended. The symposium addressed the historical role of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in (…) -
Ecosocialism : an alternative to break with capitalist civilizational crises
12 June 2025 - by Jawad Moustakbal
CADTM is pleased to share the presentation by Jawad Moustakbal, a member of CADTM’s Shared International Secretariat, delivered at the 13th session of the 13th Asian Regional School, which took place at the International Institute for Research (…) -
Glimpses of the CADTM South Asia meeting in Colombo, Sri Lanka, from 29 January to 2 February 2025
12 February 2025 - by Fernanda Gadea, CADTM South Asia
CADTM South Asia held its annual meeting in Colombo, Sri Lanka, from 30 January to 1 February 2025. The discussions were very intense and covered a wide range of topics: Sri Lanka’s current situation vis-à-vis its creditors, the new Sri Lankan (…) -
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, (…) -
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 (…) -
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 : Social Movements and the Politics of Debt
From the “Committee for the Cancellation of Third World Debt” to the “Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt”
16 August 2024 - by CADTM, Christoph Sorg
Excerpts from Social Movements and the Politics of Debt: Transnational Resistance against Debt on Three Continents. Having made Christoph Sorgh’s entire doctoral thesis [1] available to the public, the CADTM is glad to provide excerpts from it (…) -
Final Statement of the 2024 Summer University organised by ATTAC Maroc in Agadir on July 19, 20 and 21, 2024
24 July 2024 - by ATTAC/CADTM Morocco
On July 19, 20 and 21, 2024 in Agadir, ATTAC/CADTM Maroc organized the 18th session of its Summer University, under the banner “Solidarity with the Palestinian people against the imperialist Zionist genocidal war, and in support of the social (…) -
The Platform of ATTAC CADTM Morocco
10 May 2024 - by ATTAC/CADTM Morocco
Preamble The most significant manifestations of capitalist globalization involve banking crises, public and private debts, the consolidation of the debt system, alongside a myriad of other challenges such as economic, food, environmental, and (…) -
Marrakesh Statement : 79 years of neocolonial exploitation and destruction by the WB and the IMF, this is enough!
17 October 2023 - by CADTM International, Collective
We, social and climate movements, trade unions, women’s, small farmers’ and indigenous peoples’ organizations, non-governmental organizations and citizens of the world, participating in the counter-summit of social movements against the annual (…) -
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 Leftwww.left.eu 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 (…) -
[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, (…) -
Call for a global counter-summit of social movements to the IMF-WB Annual Meetings to be held in Marrakech from 9 to 15 October 2023
23 January 2023 - by CADTM International
In order to promote unity of action, the CADTM proposes that a common call to this counter-summit be drafted. It is addressed to all movements wishing to join forces in defence of humanity To visit the counter-summit website, with all the (…) -
Final declaration of the seventh national congress of ATTAC CADTM Morocco
22 December 2022 - by ATTAC/CADTM Morocco
ATTAC CADTM Morocco organized its seventh national congress in Rabat on December 16, 17 and 18, 2022 under the slogan: “Let’s continue our contribution to build resistances for freedom and for social and environmental justice”. In Morocco, (…) -
Political situation in Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, microcredit, IMF
Success of the 9th CADTM South Asia seminar in Colombo (Sri Lanka)
21 December 2022 - by Maxime Perriot, CADTM South Asia
The 9th CADTM South Asia Seminar, organised in collaboration with the Law & Society Trust (LST, Sri Lanka) and the Movement for Land and Agricultural Reform (MONLAR, Sri Lanka), a member of La Via Campesina, was held in Colombo on Friday, (…) -
International situation and Illegitimate debt
12 December 2022 - by Eric Toussaint
We are publishing a summary of the presentation made by Eric Toussaint at the 9th CADTM South Asia workshop held in Colombo on 2 and 3 December 2022. Very strong economic slowdown without reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other (…)
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