Social movements
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25 November - International day for elimination of violence againt women
Violence against women*: a systemic issue
30 November 2022 - by CADTM International
(* The term ‘woman’ applies to any person who defines herself as female) On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women the CADTM International network highlights the urgent need for a systemic approach to this global (...) -
The debt and climate crises : Why climate justice must include debt justice
21 October 2022 - by Tess Woolfenden, Dr Sindra Sharma Khushal
The CADTM supports the following text, which shows the link between debt and climate crises and contributes some relevant ideas on this issue. However, we do not believe that radical changes such as debt cancellations will come from major (...) -
Call for solidarity with the journalist-activist Ghassen Ben Khelifa
9 September 2022 - by CADTM International, North African Food Sovereignty Network (NAFSN - Siyada) , North African School of Popular Education
On Tuesday 6 September 2022, at 11am, in Tunis, a dozen members of the special security forces in civilian clothes searched the home of journalist and political activist Ghassen Ben Khelifa, coordinator of the website Inhiyez, and President of (...) -
SL Govt - Stop Labeling Student Protesters and Activists as Terrorists!
28 August 2022 - by Collective
We are a group of feminists writing to call urgent attention to the extra-constitutional attempts of the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) to suppress dissent. Lacking a popular mandate, hunting down student protesters and activists, including a (...) -
Success for the Summer University of ATTAC CADTM Morocco
7 August 2022 - by ATTAC/CADTM Morocco
ATTAC CADTM Morocco organized its summer university in Tangiers on 29, 30 and 31 July 2022, with for its theme ‘a development model that guarantees popular sovereignty must break with capitalism.’ Opening public lecture It was organized on the (...) -
‘Weeks when decades happen’
28 July 2022 - by Balasingham Skanthakumar
“There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen”, as Lenin never actually said. The estrangement between the regime-state in Sri Lanka and its core constituencies, while widening over the course of the pandemic (...) -
The task of solidarity implies a struggle for the complete cancellation of the Third World debt
22 July 2022 - by Ernest Mandel
We publish an interview with Ernest Mandel (1923-1995), a Marxist activist, known particularly for his economic and political analyses. Ernest Mandel supported the formation of CADTM from the beginning and spoke in the first large international (...) -
Mexico: Oaxaca Declaration against illegitimate debt (April 2022)
6 June 2022 - by National Promorora for the Suspension of Public Debt Repayment
Starting April 26, 2022, various activities were carried out in different parts of Mexico by the COMMITTEE FOR THE ABOLITION OF ILLEGITIMATE DEBT, in coordination with the NATIONAL PROMOTORA FOR THE SUSPENSION OF PUBLIC DEBT REPAYMENT, and the (...) -
People around the world demand IMF to cancel Ukraine’s unjust debt
3 March 2022 - by VIktoriia Pihul
The CADTM publishes this petition which emanates from citizens of Ukraine and which rightly asks for the cancellation of the Ukrainian debt. Correctly the initiators of this petition state that the “Chaotic borrowing and antisocial debt (...) -
The new, young and radical feminist movement, at the forefront of popular resistance in Greece!
15 December 2021 - by Sonia Mitralias
What has happened in Greece over the last two years is worthy of attention: never before in the history of the country has the issue of women’s rights had so much attention in the press, been the subject of such passionate public debate and (...) -
Indian farmers script a victory
8 December 2021 - by Sushovan Dhar
Millions of Indians were greeted by pleasant news on 19 November as Narendra Modi, the Indian Prime Minister, announced his government’s intention to repeal the three contentious Farm Bills which were intended to ‘fix’ the country’s ailing (...) -
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 Collectif
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 (...)
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