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The Rating Racket
23 June 2026 - by Dr Lebohang Liepollo Pheko
On 12 June 2026, Fitch upgraded Eskom from B to B+. The utility celebrated. The Treasury welcomed it. But B+ remains speculative—non-investment grade, carrying substantial credit risk. Eskom, which powers Africa’s most industrialised economy, (…) -
Industrial Policy Without Transformation
22 June 2026 - by Sushovan Dhar
If someone had said twenty years ago that the World Bank would publish a report praising industrial policy, worrying aloud about artificial intelligence destroying jobs, and conceding that strong growth has failed to deliver balanced development, (…) -
In the time of predators The stakes of Trump’s imperialist intervention in Venezuela
11 March 2026 - by Franck Gaudichaud, Antoine Larrache, Héctor Rivera
The attack against Venezuela in early January and the abduction of Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores are part of the new U.S. strategy within the broader reorganization of the world and of inter-imperialist power relations. This aggressive strategy (…) -
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Capital Consolidates, Labour Adjusts: Reading the Union Budget
18 February 2026 - by Shweta Damle
The 13th budget of the BJP government and the ninth presented by the current finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, mark not merely another fiscal exercise but the consolidation of a capital-led growth model anchored in infrastructure expansion, (…) -
Consolidation Without Redistribution: The Budget and the Remaking of the Indian State
8 February 2026 - by Sushovan Dhar
“India’s fiscal credibility today rests on a deliberate shift toward capital formation.” – Economic Survey 2025–26 The Economic Survey 2025–26 defines India’s fiscal credibility in narrow but confident terms. It emphasises a deliberate (…) -
In memory of Patrice Lumumba, assassinated on 17 January 1961
17 January 2026 - by Eric Toussaint
On 17 January 2026, we commemorate the 65th anniversary of the assassination of Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961). After a resounding victory in the first real elections in which the Congolese participated, Patrice Lumumba became Prime Minister of (…) -
From Guarantee to Allocation: Rural Workers and the Indian State
11 January 2026 - by Sankha Subhra Biswas
The enactment of the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act (VB-G RAM G), 2025 represents the legal culmination of a process that has been unfolding in India for over a decade: the gradual displacement of (…) -
Safi tragedy: A new death for the working class and the poorest in “Morocco of Football world cup”
15 December 2025 - by ATTAC/CADTM Morocco
ATTAC/CADTM Morocco organization extends its deepest condolences and sympathies to the people of Safi, and to the families of the victims who lost their lives in the tragic incident witnessed on the evening of Sunday, December 14, 2025. The (…) -
Frankenstein at the Border: Pakistan, the Taliban, and the Wounds of a Region
26 November 2025 - by Farooq Sulehria, Alternative Viewpoint
As border clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan erupt once more, the fault lines of South Asia’s post–9/11 order have been starkly exposed. What initially resembled a relationship of patronage — Islamabad’s enduring quest for “strategic depth” (…) -
Between ecological debt and the capitalist-colonialist transition: we need to work towards an alternative transition that is fair and sovereign
25 November 2025 - by Jawad Moustakbal
In a world dominated by a patriarchal, colonialist and racist capitalist system that is now threatening the lives of both humans and non-human nature, the concept of ecological debt takes on particular interest: pedagogically, to remind us of our (…) -
International council of CADTM Network | 2025
CADTM Asia—Activities Report 2025
23 October 2025 - by CADTM South Asia
The year 2025 was a pivotal one for CADTM Asia, marked by deepening debt crises across the region, intensifying IMF-led conditionalities, and widening resistance from social movements. Throughout the year, CADTM Asia played a central role in (…) -
BRICS 2025 Q&A Series (Part 3)
The BRICS are the new defenders of free trade, the WTO, the IMF and the World Bank
17 September 2025 - by Eric Toussaint
BRICS+ is a diverse coalition consisting of 10 countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, joined in 2024 by Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia, Indonesia and Iran). Notably some of these nations are direct allies of the (…) -
BRICS 2025 Questions and Answers Series (Part 2)
The passivity or complicity of BRICS+ with imperialist wars
11 September 2025 - by Eric Toussaint
In the first part of this series entitled “Why the BRICS are not denouncing the ongoing genocide in Gaza”, Éric Toussaint demonstrated that instead of severing trade relations with Israel, the BRICS+ are actually maintaining and strengthening (…) -
Lower-income country debt payments by creditor grouping
13 August 2025 - by Debt Justice
Lower-income country external debt payments to private lenders are three times higher than to Chinese lenders. Various reporting on the debt crisis in the global south casts China as the largest lender. This is not true. While China is a (…) -
Invitation to sign the International Council of the WSF’s call for Palestine
13 August 2025 - by CADTM Belgique
Dear comrades, At its session in Cotonou on July 30, the International Council of the World Social Forum issued a strong and solemn statement in support of the Palestinian people, denouncing the ongoing genocide and calling for the (…) -
Real and fake antidotes to Trump’s latest tariffs, seen from South Africa
10 July 2025 - by Patrick Bond
U.S. President Donald Trump apparently aims to reassert his power to cause a full-blown economic catastrophe, perhaps reminiscent of 1930s-scale Make America Great Depression Again. The self-harm to his own MAGA lower-middle-class social base – (…) -
At the Rio Summit, signs of BRICS in retreat – just when we need serious anti-imperial muscle
5 July 2025 - by Patrick Bond
On Sunday-Monday, July 6-7, leaders from the BRICS countries will meet in Rio de Janeiro for their annual summit. Because Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will also host the UN annual climate summit in November in Belem, the BRICS (…) -
30 June 1960 Independence of the ‘Belgian’ Congo. Belgium’s colonial crimes in the Congo. A duty to remember
30 June 2025 - by Eric Toussaint
Thanks to the Black Lives Matter mobilizations against racism in general, and racism against black people in particular, becoming an international phenomenon more and more people are seeking to know the truth about the dark past of the colonial (…) -
Sustainable development and unsustainable debt
30 June 2025 - by Michael Roberts
Today, world leaders gather in Seville, Spain for a UN aid summit for developing countries. This is the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development. At least 50 world leaders including French President Macron, EU chief von der (…) -
Philippines: Exploitation of the Working Classes through Abusive Microcredit
18 June 2025 - by Eric Toussaint
Across the globe, a considerable portion of the working classes is compelled to borrow at exorbitant rates to cover basic expenses related to daily life and work. This phenomenon has worsened in recent years as neoliberal policies have led to a (…) -
Say no to war! Forge class unity from below!
8 May 2025 - by Alternative Viewpoint
The Indian government has stated that in the early hours of May 7th, the Indian armed forces commenced ‘Operation Sindoor’, characterised as a “focused, measured, and non-escalatory” strike aimed at targeting “terrorist infrastructure” in (…) -
Sub-Saharan Africa and Sri Lanka: Examples for understanding the debt crisis in the South [Part 4]
6 May 2025 - by Maxime Perriot
Having described the new debt crisis in the first three parts of this series, we now turn to illustrating it with examples from sub-Saharan Africa and Sri Lanka in South Asia. The perfect example: Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa is (…) -
Analytical mission Report: Mission to Haiti
16 April 2025 - by Mireille Fanon-Mendès France
This analytical report is dedicated to the Haitian people whose voice the world refuses to hear, to all those from Haiti or in exile elsewhere who long for the sun of their island, to those who fight and resist the gangs, institutional violence, (…) -
US tariffs will intensify debt crisis in lower-income countries
10 April 2025 - by Tim Jones
Countries with high debt payments all hit with tariffs No benefit from falling price of dollar Borrowing costs increasing Largest impact will be global downturn hitting export revenues ***Updated data on 7 April*** The US’s planned (…) -
How do creditors respond to defaults? [Part 3]
9 April 2025 - by Maxime Perriot
To avoid the risk of a cascade of defaults that followed the debt crisis from 2020-2022 (see part 2), what was the reaction of governments and international institutions such as the IMF? Faced with the crisis, governments (notably China) and (…)
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