Social movements
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Let’s Make Our Counter-Summit In Marrakech : A Successful Meeting Of Global Social And Climate Grassroot Movements. A Concretization Of All Forms Of International Solidarity With The Disaster-Stricken Morocco.
18 September 2023 - by Collective, ATTAC/CADTM Morocco
Coordination nationale du contre-sommet aux réunions de la Banque mondiale et du Fonds monétaire international à Marrakech en octobre 2023 National coordination of the counter-summit to IMF & WB meetings in Marrakech in October 2023 PRESS (...) -
Éric Toussaint: “There are not enough leaders ready to stand up to debt creditors.”
1 September 2023 - by Eric Toussaint, Jorge Muracciole
The spokesperson for the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt warns that in 2023-2024, “all records of fiscal adjustment in the Global South will be broken”. He also affirms that “the IMF is much stronger than it was two decades ago.” (...) -
European Commission proposal on new GMOs favours biopiracy over rights of farmers and citizens
6 July 2023 - by La Via Campesina
On July 5, the European Commission presented its proposal to create a new regulatory framework for certain GMOs. This proposal gives centre stage to biopiracy and the privatization of all seeds by patent-holding companies, to the detriment of (...) -
A World To Win
30 June 2023 - by Jawad Moustakbal, Jeremy Corbyn, Aline Piva , Walter Baier, Gabriel Mocho Rodríguez, Francesca Emanuele
Jawad Moustakbal of CADTM-ATTAC Morocco spoke alongside Jeremy Corbyn, Aline Piva (Progressive International), Walter Baier (President, Party of the European Left), Gabriel Mocho Rodríguez (International Transport Workers’ Federation), Francesca (...) -
World Bank/IMF meetings: Counter-summit of social movements Marrakech, 12-15 October 2023
28 June 2023 - by CADTM International, Collective, Attac France, ATTAC/CADTM Morocco, Debt for climate
This call to action is available on the counter-summit website, [here->https://www.countersummitimfwbmarrakech.org/en/2023/06/27/world-bank-imf-meetings-counter-summit-of-social-movements-marrakech-12-15-oc. For the second time since they were (...) -
Macron and Putin fight the same battle… against environmentalists!
27 June 2023 - by Yorgos Mitralias
The coincidence is terribly eloquent: On the same day, Wednesday June 21, 2023, almost at the same time, Macron and Putin declared war on all those who take the protection of nature, humanity and our planet seriously! Macron and his government (...) -
Solidarity with our comrade Jawad Mustaqbal
25 June 2023 - by ATTAC/CADTM Morocco
ATTAC CADTM Maroc Rabat 24 june 2023 Jawad Mustaqbal’s phone has been hacked, and he received threatening calls from unknown individuals who intend to tarnish his reputation, threaten his family, and attempt to extort him financially. They (...) -
Why Benin should not Join UPOV
21 June 2023 - by Collective, ATTAC/CADTM Morocco, CADTM Afrique
Social movements call on Benin to reconsider membership in UPOV, urging protection of local seed systems and food sovereignty [Cotonou, Benin] – On June 1, 2023, a coalition of diverse organizations, including farmers’ organizations, women’s (...) -
The Fitch rating agency downgraded France’s rating.
France Shown Yellow Card
13 May 2023 - by Yvette Krolikowski
On Friday 28 April 2023, the Fitch financial rating agency downgraded France’s rating from AA to AA- with ’stable outlook’. The agency said, “Political deadlock and (sometimes violent) social movements pose a risk to Macron’s reform agenda and could (...) -
France: What happens when Macron has already been defeated but the great popular movement has not yet won?
9 May 2023 - by Yorgos Mitralias
After almost four months (!) of enormous mobilizations by the workers’ and popular movement, unprecedented in post-war France (!), the conclusion of the French unions’ struggle against the pension (anti-)reform might appear to be obvious: the (...) -
The pension crisis (France): Faced with social anger, Macron replaces legitimacy with police batons
29 March 2023 - by Léon Crémieux
With the coup de force of article 49.3 on 16 March, Macron and his government have provoked a new impetus of popular mobilization in all its forms: renewable strikes, blockades, demonstrations and even the movement of university and high school (...) -
May 1968 - March 2023!
27 March 2023 - by Yorgos Mitralias
At a time when those who declare, even among the French elites (!), that we are witnessing the emergence of a “new May 68” are multiplying, while noting that in the country now reigns .... “an insurrectional atmosphere”, one can now reasonably ask: (...) -
Youth mobilize against Macron’s scorn
27 March 2023 - by Maxime Perriot
One week after the French government used article 49,3 of the Constitution to impose its reform of the retirement age thus short-circuiting the parliament, popular mobilization has intensified and seen an important increase in the number of (...) -
Macron’s up against the wall, let’s not let the 49.3 save him
20 March 2023 - by Léon Crémieux
Macron and his government have just attempted to force their way through on 16 March, by trying to impose their law on pensions without any vote in the National Assembly by using Article 49.3 of the Constitution, a real “hold-up”, allowing them to (...) -
The Paris Commune of 1871, banks and debt
20 March 2023 - 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, (...) -
It is time to do justice to former slaves
22 février 2023 - par Hilary Beckles
Stand Up to Racism Dorset - meeting Join the call for justice for slavery - reparations now ! Time’s Up, Richard Drax Wednesday 1 March, 7.30pm The Dorford Centre, Bridport Road, Dorchester DT1 1RR Speakers : David Denny, Caribbean Movement for (...) -
Pensions: The trial of strength to make Macron give way
8 February 2023 - by Léon Crémieux
After the big demonstrations of 19 January, which were already comparable to the great demonstrations of 1995 and 2010 (during the mobilizations against attacks by previous governments on the pension system), the demonstrations of 31 January (...) -
France: towards a social explosion of historic proportions!
3 February 2023 - by Yorgos Mitralias
The international media may say hardly a word, but that does not mean that these days France is not being shaken by the biggest social eruption of the last several decades! In particular, on Tuesday January 31st the demonstrations against (...) -
Call for a global counter-summit of social movements to the IMF-WB Annual Meetings to be held in Marrakech from 9 to 15 October 2023
23 January 2023 - by CADTM International
In order to promote unity of action, the CADTM proposes that a common call to this counter-summit be drafted. It is addressed to all movements wishing to join forces in defence of humanity To visit the counter-summit website, with all the (...) -
19 January 2023 : Big succes for social mobilization in France against the neoliberal government
20 January 2023 - by CADTM International
The international CADTM expresses its warm support to the people who are mobilising in France against elitist government attacks on the pension system. We are glad to see the huge success of the mobilisation of the national day of action on 19 (...) -
Morocco: The protest march on December 4, 2022, and its background
12 December 2022 - by Eric Toussaint, Jawad Moustakbal
On Sunday, December 4, 2022, a national march was organised in the city of Rabat. It brought together some 3,000 people under the slogan “All together against the high cost of living, oppression, and repression”; it was organised by the national (...) -
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 (...)
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