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Stop the Harm! Cancel the Debt! Reparations and Just Transition Now!
13 October 2025 - by Collective
Join the actions! Global Week of Action | 13-18 Oct Day of Globally Coordinated Mobilizations | 16 Oct Advancing the Fight for Debt, Economic and Climate Justice As the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank hold their annual (…) -
30 June 1960 Independence of the ‘Belgian’ Congo. Belgium’s colonial crimes in the Congo. A duty to remember
30 June 2025 - by Eric Toussaint
Thanks to the Black Lives Matter mobilizations against racism in general, and racism against black people in particular, becoming an international phenomenon more and more people are seeking to know the truth about the dark past of the colonial (…) -
Rich and powerful versus poor and weak
Trump is globalizing the class struggle!
9 May 2025 - by Yorgos Mitralias
The first 100 days of Trump’s second presidency have been enough for Trumpism to upset not only the certainties of the international order established by those from above, but also the dispositions and perception of that international order by (…) -
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 (…) -
Marrakech counter-summit demands: debt, microcredit, climate justice, food sovereignty, social movements, migration...
4 November 2023 - by CADTM International, Collective
As one of the outcomes of the IMF-World Bank counter-summit held in Marrakesh, the workshops held from 13 to 14 October 2023 produced a number of proposals, which were complemented by a plenary session on 15 October 2023. INTERNATIONAL (…) -
How debt may help explain the political economy of European migration policies
31 August 2023 - by Felipe Milin, Irene Valde
Introduction The year 2023 brings once again a catastrophic toll in terms of the victims of European migration policies. On 22 June 2023, a decrepit trawler from Libya sank off the Peloponnese, leaving hundreds of victims. On 13 July 2023, (…) -
Real Peace in Ukraine Means Ending Russian Invasion and US-EU Neocolonial Debt
1 July 2023 - by Blanca Missé
CADTM is very happy to republish the article Real Peace in Ukraine Means Ending Russian Invasion and US-EU Neocolonial Debt, which first appeared in Truthout. The article is predicated on an earlier discussion, Resisting the Shock Doctrine: (…) -
International Appeal for the Trial Relating to the Assassination of Thomas Sankara and his Fellow Victims be Filmed
19 October 2021 - by Réseau Justice pour Sankara
Keep the memory of the trial for posterity After a long wait of 34 years, by National, African and International opinion, the trial relating to the assassination of Thomas Sankara and his fellow victims has finally opened on 11 October 2021 (…) -
The Thomas Sankara and his fellow victims affair. Finally a beginning of justice being done! But the inquiry must launch into the international aspects!
11 October 2021 - by Réseau Justice pour Sankara
Press release After over thirty years of struggle and patience, the trial of the assassins of Thomas Sankara and his fellow victims will open on 11 October in Ouagadougou. For The International Justice Network for Thomas Sankara and his (…) -
United States withdraws from Afghanistan? Not really
17 May 2021 - by Noam Chomsky, Vijay Prashad
The US invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 was criminal. It was criminal because of the immense force used to demolish Afghanistan’s physical infrastructure and to break open its social bonds. On October 11, 2001, journalist Anatol Lieven (…) -
El Salvador: Groundbreaking Insights into U.S. Cover-Up of El Mozote Massacre
29 April 2021 - by El Faro
A United States military advisor, Sergeant Major Allen Bruce Hazelwood, was on location, and on duty, in December of 1981 as Salvadoran soldiers carried out the El Mozote massacre, slaughtering almost a thousand civilians. This groundbreaking (…) -
Western Imperialism and the Role of Sub-imperialism in the Global South
13 January 2021 - by Patrick Bond, Ana Garcia, Miguel Borba
AT FIRST BLUSH, JOE BIDEN’S ELECTION as U.S. president brings respite from a world threatened by Donald Trump’s climate-denialist, dictator-coddling, xenophobic, racist, misogynist, rules-breaking regime. On second thought, 2021 will also (…) -
Energy transitions and colonialism
2 November 2020 - by Hamza Hamouchene
Any talk about green transition and sustainability must not become a shiny façade for neocolonial schemes of plunder and domination—a view from North Africa. The year 2020 has seen an unprecedented oil price crash, causing a shock to the (…) -
Putting an end to the EU’s neo-colonial policies in the field of trade and investment: Economic pressures from above, social reaction from below
22 September 2020 - by Patrick Bond
Summary: The European Union and Africa have had exceptionally conflictual relations even after slavery and colonialism ended. Still today, African-European civil society relationships from below are often arrayed against a nexus of state and (…) -
In the face of the past crimes of the European colonial powers and European neo-colonialism, reparations are needed
29 July 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”. Thanks to the Black Lives Matter mobilizations that have been taking place in (…) -
Agro-imperialism in the time of Covid-19
16 July 2020 - by GRAIN
Nestlé, the world’s largest food company, is known for scandal. It earned the nickname “babykiller” in the 1970s for causing infant illness and death in low-income communities by promoting bottle feeding of its infant formula and discouraging (…) -
Black bodies, death and Reparations
8 June 2020 - by Mireille Fanon-Mendès France
Intervention during the webinar organized by the IBW21 –International Black World21- and NAARC -National Afro American Reparation Commission-, early May 2020 For several days, given the number of black bodies affected by this pandemic, it is (…) -
A project against militarist Europe
2 June 2020 - by Nathan Legrand, ReCommons Europe
The role of militarism, arms trade and wars in Europe`s foreign policy This document is a longer version of the fourth of the five texts that form part of the publication entitled “The impact on the South of European financial policies and (…) -
Puerto Rico rises...
24 July 2019 - by CADTM AYNA
CADTM Latin America and the Caribbean (CADTM - ABYA YALA - Our America) stands in solidarity and marches along with the brave Puerto Rican people and, among them, the comrades with whom we participated in the Latin American and Caribbean Week (…) -
Chinese geopolitics: continuities, inflections, uncertainties
30 October 2018 - by Pierre Rousset
For Beijing, the era in which the European powers shaped the world was only a parenthesis before the story returns to its “normal”, Sinocentric course. China has become the second world power. Chinese geopolitics, however, has entered a phase of (…) -
China to take over Zambian international Airport for debt repayment default; neocolonialism?
11 September 2018 - by Richard Krah
Signing a contract with China is like, ascribing to the boiling frog effect; a fable describing a frog being boiled alive slowly. If you drop a frog suddenly into boiling water, it will jump out, but if you put that same frog in a vessel of water (…) -
China vs the US: The new imperial scramble for Africa and global rivalries
4 June 2018 - by Lee Wengraf
Lee Wengraf writes that the rush for profits, economic volatility and militarization across Africa promises only instability, rising exploitation and violence. Since the start of the new millennium, sub-Saharan African economies have (…) -
Imperialism and Dependency: Similarities and Differences with the Marini era
8 May 2018 - by Claudio Katz, Richard Fidler
The main theorist of dependency anticipated trends of neoliberal globalization. He analyzed productive globalization, the centrality of exploitation and the relative weight of surplus value transfers. But the employment crisis exceeds what was (…) -
Tunisia: protesting austerity, demanding sovereignty
26 February 2018 - by Hamza Hamouchene
The recent protests show that Tunisia is still a cauldron of popular resistance against neoliberal and neo-colonial attacks on the country’s sovereignty. Around 800 people were arrested, dozens were injured and at least one person was killed (…) -
The revival of the Commonwealth: an opportunity for further exploitation or a time to correct past wrongs?
22 December 2017 - by Mary Serumaga
The Origins of the Commonwealth ‘Commonwealth’ is a word being heard with increasing frequency in the post-Brexit era. It had always been used to refer to the British Empire – first to Australia in the 1890s and later to other territories. (…)
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