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Africa as a Climate Solutions Leader? Anti-Politics, Power and the Political Economy of Summit-Driven Climate Narratives
18 February 2026 - by Martha Getachew Bekele
Working Paper 1. Introduction: Climate Leadership, Investment and the Politics of Framing Over the past several years, African climate diplomacy has been increasingly organised around a recurring triad of “leadership”, “opportunity” and (…) -
Program of the International Anti-Fascist and Anti-Imperialist Conference in Porto Alegre – Brazil (March 26–29, 2026)
10 February 2026 - by CADTM, Collective
We are publishing the program of the international anti-fascist and anti-imperialist conference to be held in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The Conference will be preceded by a forum for parliamentarians and local authorities, which will take place in (…) -
Over a hundred Brazilian organizations support the anti-fascist and anti-imperialist conference
10 February 2026 - by Collective
Preparations for the anti-fascist and anti-imperialist conference, to be held in Porto Alegre from March 26 to 29, 2026, are well underway. Around a hundred political organizations, trade unions and dozens of other movements from Brazil are (…) -
Solidarity with the people of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
The undersigned organisations, members of the International Council of the World Social Forum, strongly condemn the military aggression perpetrated on 3 January 2026 by the Government of the United States of America against the people of the (…) -
Trump in Greenland: old-fashioned colonialism and acceleration of the climate catastrophe!
18 January 2026 - by Yorgos Mitralias
Almost everyone is currently talking, and rightly so, about Trump’s clearly stated intention to occupy and annex Greenland “by hook or by crook.” However, no one has even mentioned what would be by far the most important and serious consequence (…) -
In memory of Patrice Lumumba, assassinated on 17 January 1961
17 January 2026 - by Eric Toussaint
On 17 January 2026, we commemorate the 65th anniversary of the assassination of Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961). After a resounding victory in the first real elections in which the Congolese participated, Patrice Lumumba became Prime Minister of (…) -
Solidariedade com a Venezuela
3 de Janeiro de 2026 - por CADTM AYNA
DECLARAÇÃO do CADTM-AYNA Na madrugada deste sábado, 3/1/2026, o imperialismo norte-americano bombardeia a Venezuela. Após uma ofensiva criminosa, com o cerco naval e o pretexto insustentável de combater o narcotráfico, os Estados Unidos (…) -
Solidarity with Venezuela
3 January 2026 - by CADTM AYNA
STATEMENT BY CADTM AYNA Early this morning, Saturday 3 January 2026, US imperialism bombed Venezuela. Following a criminal offensive, with a naval siege and the untenable pretext of combating drug trafficking, the United States attacked (…) -
Invitation to sign the International Council of the WSF’s call for Palestine
13 August 2025 - by CADTM Belgique
Dear comrades, At its session in Cotonou on July 30, the International Council of the World Social Forum issued a strong and solemn statement in support of the Palestinian people, denouncing the ongoing genocide and calling for the (…) -
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 (…) -
Elective affinities of executioners
The Rafah Ghetto like the Warsaw Ghetto
14 July 2025 - by Yorgos Mitralias
“And now we ask: How can you eat, sleep, live? How guilty will you feel in your hearts if you do not move heaven and earth to come to our aid by the only means available to our people and as soon as possible? (...) For the love of God, do (…) -
Analytical mission Report: Mission to Haiti
16 April 2025 - by Mireille Fanon-Mendès France
This analytical report is dedicated to the Haitian people whose voice the world refuses to hear, to all those from Haiti or in exile elsewhere who long for the sun of their island, to those who fight and resist the gangs, institutional violence, (…) -
Press Release – CETIM
(Neo)colonial Offensive in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Solidarity with the people of Congo!
7 March 2025 - by CETIM
In line with its long-standing struggle against (neo)colonialism and for the liberation of peoples throughout the world from the shackles of oppression, CETIM expresses its solidarity with the Congolese people, who are facing an offensive by (…) -
Ecological debt : Who is reponsible ? The need for radical alternatives, far from false solutions of green capitalism
11 February 2025 - by Maxime Perriot
At the CADTM South Asia workshop in Colombo, held from Thursday 30 January to Saturday 1 February, Maxime Perriot developed the concept of ecological debt. Who is responsible? What are the false solutions promoted at the COPs, synonymous with (…) -
Debt-for-nature swaps 2.0, a deceptive solution
9 February 2025 - by Pablo Laixhay, Maxime Perriot
Debt-for-nature swaps are back to the forefront of the international stage. Promoted as being an innovative solution to reduce the debt of countries of the South while financing the preservation of nature, those mechanisms have been put forward (…) -
The Kenyan Uprising
17 October 2024 - by Zachary J. Patterson
More than two months after its government’s controversial Finance Bill 2024 sparked widespread unrest, the flame of resistance remains bright across Kenya. The youth-led struggle—largely forged on social media platforms like X (formerly Twitter), (…) -
Unprecedented since 2019: over 200 people joined the CADTM Autumn Meetings
8 October 2024 - by CADTM Belgique, Maxime Perriot
From October 4–6, 2024, CADTM Europe organized its autumn meetings. Over 200 people took part. They included activists from India, Mali, Spain, Côte d’Ivoire, Morocco, Mexico, Brazil, Netherlands, France, Burkina Fasso, Togo and the Democratic (…) -
Mexico
The CADTM welcomes the sovereign stance of the new Government of Mexico of not inviting King Felipe VI of Spain to attend the inauguration ceremony
29 September 2024 - by CADTM International
At the ceremony of the transfer of power from the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to the new President, Dr. Claudia Sheimbaum Pardo, next Tuesday, October 1, there will be a notable absence, that of King Felipe VI de Borbón of (…) -
When Israel’s accomplices accustom us to a monstrous, heartless and inhuman world!
26 September 2024 - by Yorgos Mitralias, Gideon Levy
Worse than Israel’s crimes is the fact that the entire so-called “civilized” world follows and comments on them as if they were just a video game. When, of course, it’s not celebrating them by arming the criminal. Or approving them by letting (…) -
“No Fist Is Big Enough to Hide the Sky”: 100 Years of Amilcar Cabral
12 September 2024 - by Balasingham Skanthakumar
Anti-Colonialist and anti-imperialist, party organizer and guerilla warfare strategist, diplomat and publicist, revolutionary theorist and internationalist, Amílcar Cabral was among the most original Marxists of the 20th century. (…) -
Argentina
Towards the 6th International Ecosocialist Meeting
2 May 2024 - by Maria Elena Saludas
On 9, 10 and 11 May 2024, the 6th International Ecosocialist Meeting and the 1st Latin American and Caribbean Ecosocialist Meeting will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.. What is ecosocialism and what does it advocate? Our aim is to put (…) -
CFA franc: conditions are ripe for replacement of the west African currency rooted in colonialism
17 April 2024 - by Kai Koddenbrock
At no point in history has the CFA franc – the name of a colonial currency used in west and central African countries belonging to the franc zone – been closer to its demise. Senegal has overwhelmingly voted for leftwing Pastef candidate (…) -
NEW REPORT: The colonial roots of global south debt
22 February 2024 - by Tess Woolfenden
This report exposes how current global south debt is both a colonial legacy, and a neo-colonial tool used by global north governments, institutions and corporations to plunder the wealth of, and extend their control over, global south countries (…) -
Were the Biblical Prophets Anti-Semitic?
6 January 2024 - by Michael Hudson
If the prophets of ancient Israel such as Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Malachi and Amos were alive today, Benjamin Netanyahu would accuse them of anti-Semitism for daring to describe his government as a travesty of what the Mosaic covenant was all (…) -
Legendary Warsaw ghetto and anti-apartheid fighters support the Palestinian resistance!
20 December 2023 - by Yorgos Mitralias
As soon as the new bloodbath in the Middle East began, the label of anti-Semite that Israel’s supporters so readily attributed to all those who dared to criticise its policies was replaced by... criminalisation, censorship and all kinds of (…)
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