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The debt of integration: Montenegro’s Chinese loan and the traps of Europe
12 July 2021 - by Tijana Okić
The Balkans debt crisis continues to ravage the economies of the region, with Montenegro vainly turning to the EU for a bailout on multi-billion euro debts to Chinese contractors (Exim bank of China) on what is essentially part of the EU-imposed (...) -
On the Authoritarian Turn of Global Capital and its Contradictions in the USA
25 June 2021 - by Fouâd Oveisy
There’s a tendency within certain factions of the US left to regard the case of former US president Donald Trump as an ‘anomaly’. In dealing with other personifications of capital, the contradictions of Marx’s critique of political economy seem to (...) -
Sunny side of the Alps clouding up: Slovenia in the grips of a right-wing tornado
7 April 2021 - by Ana Podvršič, Jaša Veselinovič
After less than a year since the start of the epidemic, Slovenia barely resembles a country that, for a long time, has been seen as a social-democratic outliner in the region. The outbreak of the epidemic coincided with a major political change (...) -
India: Proposals against new attempts to privatise state-owned banks
11 March 2021 - by Eric Toussaint, Sushovan Dhar
Public sector banks account for more than two-thirds of the banking market in India. Currently, they are subjected to a systematic smear campaign launched by the reactionary Narendra Modi government, big media including the international press (...) -
Neoliberal Authoritarianism in Egypt
11 February 2021 - by Yanis Iqbal
The whiplash of authoritarianism is being ruthlessly used in Egypt. On January 6, 2021, Ahmed Khalifa, social news editor of Egypt 360 after publishing a series of reports on workers’ legitimate protests. He was falsely charged with joining a (...) -
South Africa: Vaccine Apartheid or Equality?
30 January 2021 - by Rehad Desai, South African Federation of Trade Unions
We are in the middle of a global shortage of supplies of COVID-19 vaccines. We are reliving the saga that happened early in the pandemic around access to personal protective equipment (PPE), where each country fought for its own patch. Getting (...) -
The lessons of the Indian farmers’ struggle
28 January 2021 - by Sushovan Dhar
The Farmers struggle and its partial advance has shown us the way. Strong movements from below can have the potential to take on the Hinduvta juggernaut much more than stitching electoral alliances. What will be the fate of this movement six (...) -
The pandemic has exposed the nakedness of European neoliberalism
27 July 2020 - by Eric Toussaint, Miguel Urbán Crespo
Miguel Urban is a member of the European Parliament elected from the Spanish state and a member of Anticapitalistas. He was interviewed by Eric Toussaint. What is the objective of the Covid Tax initiative at the European level and at the level (...) -
The struggle against authoritarian liberalism is more urgent than ever. Epidemic and the far right on the European periphery
13 July 2020 - by Ana Podvršič, Jaša Veselinovič
Preliminary note: The article was written at the end of May 2020. Since then, the protests further intensified and the social initiatives, mentioned at the end of this article, succeeded in equipping the protests with better articulated and more (...) -
The debt dilemma
11 May 2020 - by Michael Roberts
I have mentioned many times on this blog that rising global debt reduces the ability of capitalist economies to avoid slumps and find quick way to recover (and see ‘Debt Matters’ in my book, The Long Depression and also in World in Crisis). As (...) -
Now more than ever, supporting abolition of the debt is a priority!
5 May 2020 - by Brigitte Marti
The covid 19 pandemic has demonstrated that the neoliberal system that leads the world is detrimental to health care systems, public services, and bad for people, especially for the poor and third world populations. We should remind the (...) -
Class Struggle, Environment and the Corona Virus Pandemic
22 April 2020 - by Kunal Chattopadhyay
The Corona virus threat has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation. How not to respond to it from the left is easily seen, by apparently leftist posts circulating in social media (Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter), which suddenly (...) -
SAAPE Call for Rapid Response from the South Asian Governments to Fight the COVID19 Crisis and to build unitedly long-term public health care for South Asians
12 April 2020 - by Collective
SAAPE is concerned about the great danger that COVID-19 pandemic poses in South Asia. The pandemic has already made the lives of the people miserable and woeful. The world is entering in a new phase of history. The pandemic has exposed the ugly (...) -
COVID-19 pandemic: Statement by the Southern African People’s Solidarity Network (SAPSN)
5 April 2020 - by Collective
The COVID-19 pandemic poses a great danger to the SADC region. If the spread of the virus is not urgently arrested and is allowed to spread to high-density areas, slums, refugee camps and other centres of impoverishment, Southern Africa will (...) -
Mozambique : Credit Suisse is liable for the $2 bn secret debt
17 March 2020 - by Joseph Hanlon
Strenuous efforts by donors and lenders over four decades turned Mozambique from a socialist success story into a neoliberal capitalist one. The private sector dominates; a domestic elite dependent on foreign companies has been created. But a (...) -
Crisis on the Greece-Turkish Border : let’s have done with Fortress Europe
7 March 2020 - by CADTM
Press release of the CADTM International network Once again, European policies have proved to be murderous. For several days now tensions have increased at various cross-border points between Greece and Turkey. Attempts by migrants to cross (...) -
March 8 – The World March of Women mobilizes and launches the 5th International Action 2020
3 March 2020 - by World March of Women
We have few days left until March 8, when the World March of Women will be in the streets on the International Day of Women’s Struggle and will launch our 5th International Action. We resist to live, we march to transform! This is our slogan and (...) -
Who really ‘state-captured’ South Africa? Revealing silences in poverty, inequality and structurally-corrupt capitalism
2 March 2020 - by Patrick Bond
The ‘state capture’ of South Africa’s parastatal agencies and government departments typically has been seen in a binary mode, with a narrative critical of two competing factions (‘Zuptas’ and ‘WMC’) within the African National Congress. A review of (...) -
Bretton Woods Institutions’ neoliberal over-reach leaves global governance in the gutter
18 October 2019 - by Patrick Bond
This week, the annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund will again be held in Washington, DC, with back-slapping now that the Bretton Woods twins have reached age 75 (they were founded at a New Hampshire hotel in 1944). (...) -
Ecuador: Brutal economic decisions (“paquetazo”)
11 October 2019 - by Diego Borja Cornejo
With a stubborn position that borders on political suicide, the government of Lenin Moreno, during the seventh day of massive and combative Popular Unemployment, has preferred to repress thousands of indigenous, students, settlers and workers (...) -
Something’s got to give
14 June 2019 - by Amandla Editorial
The election of a new government should be a time of celebration. 25 years since the end of Apartheid should be the time of immense celebration. Yet, 25 years since the “dawn of democracy” and South Africans are engulfed by extreme forms of anger, (...) -
Explaining gender violence in the neoliberal era
27 May 2019 - by Tithi Bhattacharya
Let us begin with an image: a naked white man pursuing a low-wage Black female asylum seeker down the corridors of an expensive Manhattan hotel in order to force her to have sex with him. The man, of course, is the then-director of the (...) -
Tourism: the false fix – concentration of profits and social debt
5 March 2019 - by Marta Ill Raga
This ODG research starts to look at the relationship of debt and financialisation with tourism, and how they act though this industry, that is deeply affecting life in cities (and other places) around the world. This report aims to review the (...) -
Globalization from Christopher Columbus and Vasco da Gama until today
6 January 2019 - by Eric Toussaint
The beginning of Globalization goes back to the outcomes of the first voyage of Christopher Columbus that brought him, on October 1492, to the shore of an island in the Caribbean Sea. It was the starting point of a brutal and bloody intervention (...) -
The Domestic Consequences of China’s ‘One Belt One Road Initiative’
2 January 2019 - by Qian Benli
Currently, the prospects of China’s ‘One Belt One Road Initiative’ (hereinafter referred to as OBOR) are dim. An article published in the Financial Times in July this year pointed out that 234 out of 1,674 Chinese-invested infrastructure projects (...)
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