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Our media, Puigdemont’s Catalonia and the violent undemocratic traditions of the Spanish state!

14 August 2024 - by Yorgos Mitralias

It’s true that we couldn’t expect better coverage of the new Puigdemont affair from our media. For decades now, the international media, of almost all political persuasions, has either ignored the often historic events taking place in Catalonia, (...)
Madrid Manifesto against Illegitimate Debt and Vulture Funds

26 April 2023 - by CADTM

From Friday, April 21, to Sunday, April 23, 2023, the days against illegitimate debt and vulture funds were held in Madrid. These were organised by ATTAC Spain, CADTM International, the Platform against Vulture Funds, the Citizen Audit of the (...)
Towards the Brown International of the European and global far right?

6 September 2022 - by Yorgos Mitralias

Not since the end of the last world war has the threat of a reinvigorated, aggressive and almost universally rising far right been felt as much as today. Why is this so? Because, contrary to what happened during the last 6-7 decades, this threat (...)
In memory of Raúl Quiroz

16 July 2022 - by Eric Toussaint, Griselda Pinero

This tribute was written by four hands. Griselda started the portrait of Raúl and Eric took over. Griselda I have been asked to write a portrait of Raúl, who has now taken his leave. For a final goodbye I put a red rose into his shirt (...)
The Earldom of Larios Uses Debt Blackmail to Build a Golf-Course on Agricultural Land

29 April 2021 - by Eric Toussaint

Here we have a concrete example, in 2021, that plunges us into the debt system and history as it has been created through the class struggle. As I am short of time, I shall tell the story succinctly. It takes place in Nerja, a small town of (...)
Tourism: the false fix – concentration of profits and social debt

5 March 2019 - by Marta Ill Raga

This ODG research starts to look at the relationship of debt and financialisation with tourism, and how they act though this industry, that is deeply affecting life in cities (and other places) around the world. This report aims to review the (...)
Rodrigo Rato condemned. The IMF bad streak continues.

17 October 2018 - by CADTM

In reaction to Rodrigo Rato’s recent condemnations for fraudulent practices as director of the Spanish banks Caja Madrid and then Bankia, the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM) considers that, in consideration of the (...)
“Castor Case” citizen lawsuit

7 March 2018 - by Collective

Here we published an article on the Castor Case in Spain and the citizen initiative to suit before National High Court the responsibles of this project. On Tuesday February 27th 2018, we publicly presented a CRIMINAL LAWSUIT before the (...)
Barcelona Rental Market Is Out of Control

9 February 2018 - by Don Quijones

Rents up 50% since 2013, wages go nowhere, a third of residents earn less than €1,000/month. For the first time in over a decade, I spent a few days last week flat hunting. It was not for my own benefit but rather to provide moral support to a (...)
Catalonia’s Paradox – October 1 shook Catalonia and the Spanish state. What happens now?

10 October 2017 - by Josep Maria Antentas

October 1 has passed, closing a period of the shared history between Catalonia and the Spanish state and beginning an uncertain future. It was a day when all the tension building over the five-year independence process came to a head. The (...)
For the right of peoples’ Self-Determination: support for Catalonia

2 October 2017 - by World March of Women

Catalan women and men have been building for years a democratic process to exercise their right to self-determination to which every people is entitled. In the last five or six years of this process social mobilizations have been massive, (...)
WeAreDefenders

Manifest The referendum for self-determination in Catalonia, scheduled for October 1st and requested by a majority of Catalan citizens, seeks to determine the relationship between Catalonia and the Spanish state. The referendum is a mechanism (...)
Spain: The Municipal Network against Illegitimate Debt held a second successful meeting in Cadiz

17 June 2017 - by Jérôme Duval, Fátima Martín

The Municipal Network Against Illegitimate Debt and Fiscal Cuts is expanding to the level of the autonomous regions [the Spanish State consists of 12 autonomous communities, among which Andalusia, Catalonia, the Basque country, the Madrid (...)
From Terrassa to Barcelona: cities and citizens reclaim public water and other essential services

31 May 2017 - by Satoko Kishimoto, Lavinia Steinfort

Barcelona, March 22, World Water Day – Confronted with the failings of water privatisation, cities and citizens of Terrassa and Barcelona, in Catalonia, have moved to return water services to public and democratic control, improving their quality (...)
Accusation manifest, People’s tribunal on the castor project

30 May 2017 - by ODG (Observatorio de la Deuda en la Globalización)

Faced with impunity, the citizens accuse. The Castor project -a geological gas storage offshore in the Mediterranean-, granted to ESCAL UGS (66.6% participated by Florentino Perez’s ACS) by the PSOE government, hibernated its activity in 2013 (...)
Oviedo Manifesto

More than 580 elected representatives, including councillors, MPs and MEPs have signed the Oviedo Manifesto, an association against illegitimate debts that was presented to the Spanish Parliament on Wednesday, October 19, 2016. More than 40 (...)
The USA’s repudiation of the debt demanded by Spain from Cuba in 1898: What about Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, etc.?

8 September 2016 - by Eric Toussaint

The USA declared war on Spain in the middle of 1898, and sent their navy and troops to “liberate” Cuba from the Spanish yoke. Spain was defeated and negotiations between the two countries began in Paris in order to reach a peace agreement, finally (...)
Audita Sanidad – Audit Healthcare

7 September 2016 - by Audita Sanidad

The citizen working group on a healthcare debt audit “Audit Healthcare], Health Centres, social movements, etc., we have incorporated into the [Citizen Group against Corruption->https://xnet-x.net/grupo-ciudadano-contra-la-c
In search of an alternative for Spain

25 July 2016 - by Daniel Munevar, Sergi Cutillas

Spain’s June 26 parliamentary election has failed to resolve the political stalemate created by the election of December 2015, with no individual party able to muster a parliamentary majority or form a governing coalition. Political uncertainty (...)
Éric Toussaint: ‘If governments do not want citizen debt audits, it is because they are hiding something’

7 June 2016 - by Eric Toussaint, Maialen Mariscal Ruben Plaza

According to Éric Toussaint, States should default on their payments in order to renegotiate and radically reduce their debts. San Sebastian (Basque Country – Spain) – Éric Toussaint staunchly campaigns for the cancellation of a State’s debt (...)
What Remains of All Our Outrage?

20 May 2016 - by Esther Vivas

It’s been five years since the massive occupation of May 15, 2011 that gave birth to the movement of los indignados, known as the 15M movement, followed by five years of faltering progress with many advances and set-backs along the way – five (...)
Daniel Munévar, economist and former adviser to Varoufakis, participates in the Conferences for a Plan B for Europe

In the European game of chess, Greece is a pawn that Germany thought to sacrifice

21 April 2016 - by Enric Llopis

The meetings with experts and representatives of the Troika (the European Commission, the ECB and the IMF) are like clashing against a wall of the deaf. This is because a number of reasonable and well-supported proposals may be presented but (...)
Workshops on citizen debt audits at the Madrid conference “For a Plan B for Europe”

31 March 2016 - by Jérémie Cravatte

On the second day of the Plan B conference in Madrid, the hundreds of participants spread themselves among the various proposed workshops. This report is about the two workshops on the debt issue, organized by PACD (Citizens’ Debt Audit Platform, (...)
Plan B doesn’t include a reform of the EU

17 March 2016 - by Eric Toussaint, Amanda Andrades

Éric Toussaint (Namur, Belgium, 1954), PhD in Political Science from the University of Liege and Paris VIII, has spent at least 26 years analyzing and denouncing how the IMF and the World Bank use debt “to discipline a country.” First, focusing on (...)
Plan B for Europe

15 January 2016 - by Plan B Europe

In July 2015, we witnessed a financial coup d’état carried out by the European Union and its institutions against the Greek Government, condemning the Greek population to continue suffering the austerity policies that had been rejected on two (...)