1 December 2020 by Eric Toussaint , CADTM International , Jean Nanga , Christine Vanden Daelen , Sushovan Dhar , Maria Elena Saludas , Omar Aziki , Rémi Vilain
This report was presented by Éric Toussaint at the biannual meetings of CADTM Belgium on Tuesday 17 November 2020. The text was completed in the annexes by an addendum on the action of the coordination of feminist struggles written by Christine Vandendaelen and two more on the press releases and the number of visits to the CADTM website prepared by Rémi Vilain. The remarks made by Jean Nanga of CADTM Congo Brazzaville, Omar Aziki of ATTAC-CADTM Morocco, Maria Elena Saludas ATTAC-CADTM Argentina and Sushovan Dhar CADTM India were taken into account.
These varied and very recent movements are to be seen in a much larger context:
Africa
In Europe:
Asia:
Latin America:
And of course, not forgetting the powerful “Black Lives Matter” movement in spring and early summer of 2020 that denounced racism, police repression and the colonial past; it gripped the USA and spread to several European and Latin American countries.
The desire for change is greater, deeper, more profound, and more massive and promising than in the years from 1980 to 2000 (one could even say the period from 1990 to the great world crisis of 2008) but it is not embodied in organized forms allowing the accumulation of experience. It is for this reason that the very numerous popular mobilizations of the last twenty years, or more particularly the last ten years, have not led to successful political experiences.
Nor do these numerous experiences of struggle lead to processes of building organs of (counter) popular power. There are many massive initiatives of self-convened, self-organized mobilisations, but they do not evolve towards processes of construction of representative and sustainable organs of the sectors in struggle (no evolution towards ’soviets’, councils,... popular constituencies,...) even if there are signs of positive developments in this direction (in part of the yellow vests movement, in a phase of the movement in Chile in 2019,...), but also in several countries of the North African and Middle East/Arab region where, during the “Hiraks”, grassroots coordination was set up.
Public debt crisis that touches primarily the weak links in the chain of debt.
See the series of articles by Milan Rivié and Eric Toussaint :
The crisis has so far not taken on catastrophic proportions because the central banks of the major economies (the Fed
FED
Federal Reserve
Officially, Federal Reserve System, is the United States’ central bank created in 1913 by the ’Federal Reserve Act’, also called the ’Owen-Glass Act’, after a series of banking crises, particularly the ’Bank Panic’ of 1907.
FED – decentralized central bank : http://www.federalreserve.gov/
in the United States, the ECB
ECB
European Central Bank
The European Central Bank is a European institution based in Frankfurt, founded in 1998, to which the countries of the Eurozone have transferred their monetary powers. Its official role is to ensure price stability by combating inflation within that Zone. Its three decision-making organs (the Executive Board, the Governing Council and the General Council) are composed of governors of the central banks of the member states and/or recognized specialists. According to its statutes, it is politically ‘independent’ but it is directly influenced by the world of finance.
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/ecb/html/index.en.html
in the Eurozone, the Bank of England in the UK, the Bank of Japan, the Bank of China, etc.) are injecting thousands of billions of dollars, euros, etc. into the financial system.
Private debt crisis affecting hundreds of millions of people from the working classes (microcredits, consumer credits, student debts, mortgages...).
Appeals or Press Releases on responses to the coronavirus crisis between March and July 2020
Progress report relating to the Coordination of feminist struggles - presented at the biannual meetings of the CADTM Belgium on 17 November 2020
By Christine Vandendaelen
The Coordination of Feminist Struggles of CADTM continues its activities through a mailing list and fairly regular online-meetings that connect between 5 and 10 women (mostly from CADTM Africa). Latest achievement: the pan-African campaign ’Debt, buzz off, Microcredit, get lost!’ for the October 2019 International Action Week against debt and the IFIs. It is in this context that CADTM Senegal organized a day of awareness raising on the harmful effects of microcredit among women from working class backgrounds with interventions by video-conference of members of the Coordination (Emilie from CADD Benin, Samira from ATTAC CADTM Morocco). In Mali, the women members of CAD Mali organized a press conference on the practices and excesses of microfinance institutions. An article and a video retracing the themes of this mobilization were published.
While the Coordination members were already involved in the organization of the Dakar Seminar (Bambi/CADTM Senegal had already set up a coordination committee of fifteen, which promised a strong dynamic and an interesting impact led by women involved in the struggle against microcredit), the health crisis led to the decision to postpone the seminar until 2021. Exact date as yet undecided.
Perspectives for the Coordination:
Prepare the participation in the Global Network Assembly (GNA) to be held in 2021.
If possible face-to-face, where the participants may:
If the GNA is held by teleconference, preparatory work will be achieved by online-meetings on the same themes, taking into consideration all the difficulties arising from the often limited availability and not always stable internet connections of the women members of the coordination.
Faced with the reiterated observation that there were not enough public interventions by the women of the network, whether staff members in Belgium or in the wider sense during international events that we were able to attend (summer schools, webinars, and outside the CADTM), that it is not always the first/most concerned who speak and write, we wanted these online-meetings to be the place for a collective reinforcement of the women of the CADTM. How? By making these meetings become a space and time to pool our knowledge, keep each other informed about what each of us is doing, organize moments / spaces for training and exchange of information (important bases on developments in our countries or themes with the possibility to create closer contacts for example)
Proposition: organization of a broad discussion which would bring together a maximum of feminists known to be linked to the CADTM in Belgium and Africa (or elsewhere but speaking French). In preparation: setting up a list with the names and themes that each of us works on and completing it following the meeting.
See how to participate in the progress of work in the different countries around the resistance against microcredit (sharing of information, initiatives, research...).
Recapitulation:
Twenty-three press releases compared to 10 over the same period of the previous year (15/11/18 to 14/11/19)
Monthly visits:
Remarks:
Annual visits:
2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
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201 435 | 513 074 | 613 538 | 683 077 | 777 508 | 749 757 | 734 827 |
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 (arrêt au 15/11) |
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1 457 879 | 1 778 433 | 1 679 132 | 1 972 704 | 2 523 958 | 2 401 552 |
Daily visits:
Remarks:
Number of visits by language since the beginning:
Since the biginning
Currently
Translation by Mike Krolikowski and Christine Pagnoulle
is a historian and political scientist who completed his Ph.D. at the universities of Paris VIII and Liège, is the spokesperson of the CADTM International, and sits on the Scientific Council of ATTAC France.
He is the author of Greece 2015: there was an alternative. London: Resistance Books / IIRE / CADTM, 2020 , Debt System (Haymarket books, Chicago, 2019), Bankocracy (2015); The Life and Crimes of an Exemplary Man (2014); Glance in the Rear View Mirror. Neoliberal Ideology From its Origins to the Present, Haymarket books, Chicago, 2012, etc.
See his bibliography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric_Toussaint
He co-authored World debt figures 2015 with Pierre Gottiniaux, Daniel Munevar and Antonio Sanabria (2015); and with Damien Millet Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank: Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers, Monthly Review Books, New York, 2010. He was the scientific coordinator of the Greek Truth Commission on Public Debt from April 2015 to November 2015.
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is a member of the national secretariat of ATTAC CADTM Morocco and of the shared international secretariat of CADTM.
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