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A success for CADTM: the world assembly of the network, held in Dakar from 13-16 November, 2021
16 November 2021 - by CADTM International
The Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM) network held its conventional World Assembly from 13-16 November 2021, at Dakar, Senegal. This was the third World Assembly after the first in Morocco (May 2013) and the second in (...) -
No Climate Justice without Debt Justice
25 October 2021 - by Collective
The climate emergency is fuelling the accumulation of debt in countries in the global south. Countries suffering from the worst impacts of climate change have contributed very little to it, yet they are facing more expensive borrowing costs (...) -
“Blah, Blah, Blah”: Youth Climate Activists Slam Political Inaction at U.N. Summit Ahead of COP26
5 October 2021 - by Democracy Now!
Thousands of youth climate activists marched through the streets of Milan last week demanding world leaders meet their pledges to the Paris Climate Agreement and keep global temperatures from rising by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius. The protest (...) -
On September 24, we will strike to demand for intersectional climate justice! #Uproot The System
15 September 2021 - by Fridays for future
We’re in the midst of a climate crisis, mass species extinction, a world health pandemic, socio-economic inequality crises, and more. The current system actively strives towards highlighting the voices of the most privileged through a racist and (...) -
The “Hot Spring” Showed That Greeks Were Willing to Fight
9 September 2021 - by Stathis Kouvelakis
Ten years ago, Greece was gripped by square occupations expressing mass opposition to EU austerity policies. The movement’s strength was its ability to rally Greeks from outside the organized left — yet it was ultimately defeated by its lack of a (...) -
South Africa: Towards a General Strike
19 July 2021 - by Amandla, Zwelinzima Vavi
“If we strike one by one, we will be defeated. […] And the discussion must be, ‘fix the economy, fix the economy, this growth path is going to reproduce this poverty, unemployment, and inequalities, fix that’.” Amandla! interviewed Zwelinzima Vavi, (...) -
Chris Hedges: Julian Assange and the Collapse of the Rule of Law
22 June 2021 - by Chris Hedges
[Chris Hedges->https://scheerpost.com/category/chris-hedges gave this talk at a recent rally in New York City in support of Julian Assange. John and Gabriel Shipton, Julian’s father and brother, also spoke at the event, which was held at The (...) -
How Many Strikes Are There in the U.S.?
18 June 2021 - by Johnnie Kallas, Eli Friedman, Dana Trentalange
How many strikes are there in the United States? It’s a question with obvious importance to labor activists, yet there is no readily accessible answer. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) releases an annual work stoppage summary in February (...) -
Full solidarity with the fight of our comrade Omar Radi who is on hunger strike for almost 2 weeks
22 April 2021 - by ATTAC/CADTM Morocco
Omar Radi, investigative journalist and human rights activist, has been on hunger strike since April 9 against his continued detention and to demand his immediate release. His state of health is becoming very critical. This is also the case (...) -
Latin America has once again entered a period of strong social and political turbulence
13 April 2021 - by Franck Gaudichaud
Franck Gaudichaud recently wrote and coordinated two collective works drawing a critical assessment of “progressive” political attempts to challenge neoliberal hegemony in Latin America. In this interview, he considers the social and political (...) -
Greece: Broad response to the neoliberal authoritarianism of the right-wing government
6 April 2021 - by Panos Petrou
In Greece, the year 2021 began with an offensive by the government led by prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. A new law aims to accelerate neoliberal reform in higher education and establish a permanent police presence on the campuses. The right (...) -
Peasant Struggles in India, a Feminist Perspective
2 April 2021 - by Archana Prasad
Archana Prasad spoke with Capire about women’s work and lives in India and the struggles against corporate power and right-wing policies Archana Prasad is a professor at the Centre for Informal Sector & Labour Studies at the Jawaharlal (...) -
A Letter to Omar
31 March 2021 - by Jawad Moustakbal
Omar Radi and Jawad Moustakbal are both members of Attac Morocco, a Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung partner organization. Together, they took part in the RLS-sponsored conference “Connecting Resistances:Emancipatory Activism in West Asia, North Africa (...) -
Paris Commune 150: the economics
18 March 2021 - by Michael Roberts
Today is the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Paris Commune. The Commune (Council) was formed as result of what should be considered the first uprising and revolution led by the working class in history. This new class was the product (...) -
The Paris Commune of 1871, banks and debt
18 March 2021 - by Eric Toussaint
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the extraordinary experience of the Paris Commune, it is fundamental to draw a number of lessons from it. The measures a government takes regarding its Central Bank, the debts of working class people, (...) -
International appeal for the immediate release of all political prisoners in Russia
17 February 2021 - by CADTM, Eric Toussaint, Collective, Tariq Ali, Dianne Feeley , Miguel Urbán Crespo, Gilbert Achcar, Fatima Zahra El Beghiti, Myriam Bregman, Noam Chomsky, Fernanda Melchionna, Suzi Weissman
This urgent appeal was written in collaboration with activists and intellectuals living in Russia. At the end of January 2021, a wave of mass protests swept through all of Russia’s major cities. The occasion for these protests was the arrest of (...) -
Homeownership, poverty, and legislative pitfalls in Romania
2 February 2021 - by Ioana Florea, Enikő Vincze
There is a myth about the Romanians being “natural” homeowners. It was propagated by the dominant right-wing anti-communist ideology after 1990, in an effort to legitimise the private property market as the only housing solution and to (...) -
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 (...) -
“Too late to be pessimistic! Ecosocialism or collapse”
27 January 2021 - by Daniel Tanuro, Mats Lucia Bayer
We interview Daniel Tanuro, author of the book “Trop tard pour être pessimistes! Écosocialisme ou effondrement”, published this year by Éditions Textuel. As an ecosocialist activist and member of the Anticapitalist Left, Daniel Tanuro is one of the (...) -
UK: In the shadow of student rent strikes
11 January 2021 - by Robert Firth
Outside the media fanfare surrounding the recent wave of university-based militancy, one community’s fight against developers goes on. Robert Firth reports On Manchester’s Oxford Road, in the city’s university district, there is a building that (...) -
The First Decade of the Arab Revolutionary Process
11 January 2021 - by Gilbert Achcar
Ten years ago, on 17 December 2010, a young street vendor in the town of Sidi Bouzid in central Tunisia sparked a political firestorm that soon engulfed the whole country, before spreading across the entire Arabic-speaking region, in what has (...) -
Lessons from a decade of student activism in the UK
6 January 2021 - by Hector Rios-Jara
The pandemic has exposed the disgraceful failures of market reforms in the British higher education sector. But the resistance of students continues. n years ago, tens of thousands of students flooded the streets of London protesting against (...) -
Algeria: Preparing for the long struggle ahead
4 January 2021 - by Hamza Hamouchene, Selma Oumari
COVID-19 has been a blessing to the ruling classes in Algeria. However, the popular Hirak movement has not said its last word yet. In 2020, the Algerian uprising embarked on its second year and despite the immense difficulties and challenges (...) -
Part One: a Declaration... for Life
3 January 2021 - by Collective
January 1st, 2021 TO THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD: TO PEOPLE FIGHTING IN EUROPE: BROTHERS, SISTERS AND COMRADES: In these previous months, we have established contact between ourselves by various means. We are women, lesbians, gays, (...) -
ATTAC CADTM Morocco: 20 years of struggle for another possible Morocco – one of social and environmental justice, of dignity and freedom
23 December 2020 - by Omar Aziki
In which background was ATTAC CADTM Morocco born? Global situation The 1990s were marked by a rise in struggles against the neoliberal globalisation which was unrelenting after the fall of the Berlin Wall. A series of global networks were (...)
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