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CALL FOR AN AUDIT COMMISSION ON GREEK PUBLIC DEBT

Economists, activists, academics and parliamentarians from across the world have supported a call to audit Greece’s public debts. The call demands the establishment of a public commission to examine the legality and legitimacy of debts with a (...)
Call for a European Conference against Austerity, Cuts and Privatisation and in Defence of the Welfare State

28 February 2011 - by Coalition of Resistance

A new movement has risen in Europe. In Greece in May a series of general strikes shook the government. In France last autumn, millions went on strike and took to the streets to oppose the increase in pension age. There have been general (...)
From the Global North to the Global South: debt in its many states (second part)

The debt in the North: some alternative paths

19 February 2011 - by Eric Toussaint

The first part is entitled: “The debt in developing countries: a dangerous unconcern” (http://www.cadtm.org/The-debt-in-developing-countries-a). This text is a largely revised and extended version of the introductory lecture delivered for the (...)
Debt, a boon for creditors, a tragedy for the people !

31 January 2011 - by CADTM

Debt, a boon for creditors, a tragedy for the people ! The public debt argument is frequently used by European governments to impose austerity plans. This debt is more than just a pretext to make paying more acceptable to the population. It (...)
It is not logical to repay debts that are illegitimate

The People of Europe should audit their creditors

21 January 2011 - by Eric Toussaint

Debt default and the denial of debt repayment have been linked to a national disaster. These “revelation images” are aimed to make people accept the policies that are being applied. Interview with Eric Toussaint by Nikitas Kouridakis (Greek (...)
A Global Justice Perspective on the Irish EU-IMF Loans: Lessons from the Wider World

23 December 2010 - by Debt and Development Coalition Ireland

This document outlines lessons from the global debt justice movement, provides a background to the Irish EU‐IMF loans (up to the 28th November 2010), and offers some recommendations based on these lessons from DDCI. It also flags up (...)
Private debt, public pain: lessons for Ireland

23 December 2010 - by Nick Dearden

Barely twenty four hours after Ireland’s parliament voted through the multibillion euro EU and IMF “rescue” package, Ireland’s credit rating had been slashed, after the rating agency Moody’s expressed concern that Ireland’s severe downturn would (...)
The debt crisis hits harder in Europe than in the emergent countries of the South

27 October 2010 - by Eric Toussaint

Version edited by Eric Toussaint of an article by Ram Etwareea that was published in the Swiss daily paper Le Temps on Thursday 21 October 2010. The present text is the sole responsibility of the interviewee. The published version can be found (...)
Minutes of the meeting held on 29 September 2010 “For a European coordination of struggle against the debt and austerity plans !”

12 October 2010 - by CADTM

Minutes of the meeting held on 29 September 2010 “For a European coordination of struggle against the debt and austerity plans !”. Read the call for the meeting Recipients: all social movements and political parties in Europe that are (...)
Presentation for the Joint Social Conference

Public budgets, taxation, debt

27 September 2010 - by Pascal Franchet

Workshop: public budgets, taxation, debt Since the early 1980s, fiscal policies have favoured a neo-liberal orientation of the economy, directly inspired by the Chicago School. The various tax reforms have generated very significant declines (...)
For a European coordination of struggle against the debt and austerity plans !

18 August 2010 - by CADTM

For a European coordination of struggle against the debt and austerity plans ! Adressees: All social movements and political parties in Europe that are convinced that a popular respond must be developed against the offensive launched by the (...)
Hungary defies the IMF

16 August 2010 - by Jérôme Duval

Hungary, which will assume the EU presidency for 6 months beginning 1 January 2011, has suffered heavily from the financial crisis which is not yet over. Although only marginally off the Maastricht rule regarding annual budget deficits (3.8% in (...)
Call for a European mobilisation against credit dictatorship

6 August 2010 - by CADTM

Protests have been taking place regularly for months in Greece to express opposition to the austerity plan the Greek government, European leaders, and the International Monetary Fund decided to impose on the Greek (...)
Hit by the crisis, Spain moves into recession

2 July 2010 - by Jérôme Duval

Profoundly affected by the financial crisis, the Spanish economy has moved into recession. Madrid has been compelled, or has deemed it necessary, to genuflect before the International Monetary Fund which has saddled it with a harsh austerity (...)
Women of Europe, rise up!

10 June 2010 - by CADTM

We, the women gathered at the CADTM seminar “From the North to the South of our Planet: Keys for Understanding Public Debt” held on 22, 23 and 24 May 2010 in Belgium, protest against the austerity measures imposed on Greeks by their government, (...)
Let’s put an end to public debt blackmail!

3 April 2010 - by Eric Toussaint, Damien Millet, Sophie Perchellet

There is a striking contrast in the most industrialized countries at the epicenter of the global crisis that broke out in 2007-2008: the governments and their friends running the major banks are congratulating themselves on having saved the (...)
The meaning of the Greek crisis

3 April 2010 - by Pascal Franchet

Many things have been said about the Greek crisis in recent weeks, most of them obnoxious and confusing. These histories result in an argument that is aimed for export to all developed countries. The media has extensively incorporated the (...)
Press Release

Greece: the CADTM condemns an austerity plan that entails major social regression

6 March 2010 - by CADTM

The Greek government has announced the implementation of an austerity plan which has the blessing of both the EU and the IMF. But in the view of CADTM, the measures it contains are wholly unacceptable. What the Greek government presents as a (...)