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From Lebanon to Sri Lanka through Latin America and Egypt: Public debt today and in the history of capitalism

26 February 2023 - by Eric Toussaint, Anis Germany

The present interview with Éric Toussaint aims at constructing a common position about debts and their payment. It also helps to understand the part played by debt and its mechanisms in the extraction of resources of the South by the North at an (...)
The International Aid the Lebanese People Urgently Need Must Not Be Used to Enforce Neoliberal Measures

11 August 2020 - by CADTM International

As activists in the international CADTM network we were deeply moved when hearing of the disastrous explosions that hit Beirut on Tuesday 4 August. In this press release we want to convey our solidarity to the Lebanese people who, for too many (...)
The CADTM supports the struggle of the Lebanese people to break away from social injustice and shake off the burden of illegitimate debt

10 March 2020 - by CADTM

As the Lebanese government suspends any payment of its external debt from 9 March 2020, the CADTM reasserts its support to the Lebanese people in a struggle that started in October 2019. Popular meetings and marches have been continuously (...)
Lebanon is a severe case of subordinate financialization that must avoid the IMF

9 March 2020 - by Costas Lapavitsas, Jude Kadri

Costas Lapavitsas is an economist from Greece. He presently teaches Economics at the University of London and was elected as a member of the Greek Parliament for SYRIZA in January 2015. He left to form Popular Unity in August 2015, when SYRIZA (...)
The Diaspora, Debt, and Dollarization: Unraveling Lebanon’s Resilience to a Sovereign Debt Crisis

30 November 2015 - by Julia Tierney

There are no official statistics on the numbers of Lebanese who have emigrated and are working abroad, nor on the immense sums of money they transfer to their home country. According to World Bank estimates, remittances comprised between (...)
Why should Pakistan trust us?

28 July 2010 - by Nick Dearden

The Afghan ‘war leaks’ have revealed in stark detail the mistrust and tension that lies at the heart of the West’s relationship with Afghanistan and Pakistan. But this mistrust is not merely the product of a nine-year war, but of decades of (...)
Against Sectarian Violence and Its Neoliberal Roots: A Call for a Citzen’s Lebanon

13 May 2008 - by Attac Lebanon

Attac Lebanon’s analysis of the current dramatic escalation of violence in the streets of Beirut The violence in the streets of Beirut is the climax of verbal sniping and attacks that has been accumulated for the past 2 years even faster than (...)
Press release

Lebanon: the Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt (CADTM) opposes the false solutions proposed by the Paris Conference

On Thursday January 25 a third meeting of the world’s richest countries took place with great pomp in Paris in order to find funds for Lebanon. By giving hundreds of billion dollars, France and the United States claim to help this country that is (...)
Critics Decry ’Destroy and Lend’ Policy in Lebanon

4 September 2006 - by Emad Mekay

Lebanon is firmly en route to becoming the third nation in the Middle East after Iraq and the Palestinian territories to experience a devastating Washington-backed war and a massive influx of new illegitimate debt to cover reconstruction (...)
Lebanon en route to an illegitimate debt

29 August 2006 - by Eric Toussaint, Damien Millet

Lebanon has just lived through a month of murderous conflict. More than 1,100 people have been killed during Israeli army raids and its blind strikes. A third of them are children under 12. Approximately a million people have fled. The human (...)