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First university of CADTM Africa

25 March 2014 - by CADTM Afrique

CADTM Africa organized its first university at Hammamet, Tunisia on 22-23 March 2014. After hosting the World Social Forum in 2013, Tunisia welcomed the university of CADTM Africa. Citizens came from all over Africa - Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, (…)
Exhibition “Living in a Debtocracy”

21 March 2014 - by PACD

The goal of the exhibition is to reach a wide group of people with information about the process of indebtedness of the Spanish State, and its impacts on the population. Through illustrations, plain but serious explanations, charts and date, (…)
Why pay off our public debt?

20 March 2014 - by Eric Toussaint

“Here in Europe, the European Central Bank is not allowed to lend money to member States, so the monopoly for lending money to the public powers in the Euro zone is left in the hands of the private bankers who take full advantage of this in order (…)
Press release

The CADTM calls on the members of the European Parliament to vote against the new EU loan to Tunisia and demands the immediate suspension of Tunisia’s debt repayments

26 February 2014 - by CADTM International

On 13 February 2014, the European Parliamentary commission on international commerce gave its go-ahead for the European Union to accord a heavily-conditioned loan of €300 million to Tunisia. The draft project adopted by the commission would hold (…)
Cancelling debt or taxing capital: why should we choose?

2 November 2013 - by Eric Toussaint, Thomas Coutrot, Patrick Saurin

On the occasion of the publication of two major works, Le Capital au XXIe siècle and the French translation of Debt The First 5000 Years, Mediapart organized a meeting between the authors, namely Thomas Piketty and David Graeber. It is available (…)
Schuldkwijtschelding : Brazilië, Algerije en Noorwegen deden het al. Waarom België niet?

29 juli 2013 - door Olivier Bonfond

Een tijd geleden, eind mei 2013, hebben Algerije en Brazilië beslist om de schulden te annuleren die verschillende Afrikaanse landen nog aan hen moesten terugbetalen. De Algerijnse regering deed dit voor een bedrag van 902 miljoen US dollar, een (…)
How the IMF and global finance are trying to block a democratic examination of Tunisia’s debt

17 July 2013 - by Chafik Ben Rouine

One year ago today, a bill to audit the Tunisian public debt was submitted to the Assembly. The debt audit was one of the first economic and social demands to have emerged during the first phase of the revolution in Tunisia. Servicing debt in (…)
Press release

Towards the Week of Global Action against Debt and IFIs

11 July 2013 - by PACD

From May 31st to June 2nd the III State Meeting of the Spanish Citizen Debt Audit Platform (PACD)– We don’t owe! We won’t pay! took place. Activists from all over the Spanish State (as well as some from Portugal and Belgium)participated in this (…)
What the Spanish Citizen Debt Audit Platform (PACD) means by “Citizen Debt Audit” and “Illegitimate Debt”

21 June 2013 - by PACD

This past March 12th the left-wing parliamentarian group Izquierda Plural (IU, ICV-EUIA & CHA) presented in the Congress of Deputies a non-legislative motion for “the creation of a Public Debt Audit”, as well as “a commission to determine the (…)
Oil companies force Ecuador to take another step forward in Audits

23 March 2013 - by Stéphanie Jacquemont, Mike Krolikowski

President Raphael Correa of Ecuador has decided that the arrogance of Chevron and Occidental Petroleum has gone far enough. These two North American oil companies are pursuing the Ecuadorian government by all the means possible in order to (…)
ICAN Meeting in Thessaloniki

Life and Debt in Thessaloniki

19 February 2013 - by Nick Dearden

We met three people today who summed up the depth of the crisis being experienced by Greek people, but also the courageous attempts to build a new, more democratic society. I had to pinch myself to remember I was in Europe, the stories are so (…)
ICAN Meeting in Thessaloniki

Ski slopes of debt in Spain

19 February 2013 - by Nick Dearden

Last week a former businessman told me with great conviction that the Spanish people had ‘lived beyond their means’. Tonight’s meeting showed just who has lived beyond their means. Iolanda Fresnillo from the Spanish Debt Platform told us some (…)
ICAN Meeting in Thessaloniki

It couldn’t happen in Ecuador

19 February 2013 - by Nick Dearden

Groups like Jubilee which have worked on ‘Third World Debt’ have campaigned against illegitimate debt for many years. Debt resulting from the sales of weapons to some of the late twentieth century’s most horrific regimes; from vanity projects (…)
ICAN Meeting in Thessaloniki

Bailing out the Oligarchs

19 February 2013 - by Nick Dearden

We are on a fact-finding mission to Greece with people from Spain, Italy, Belgium, Cyprus, Macedonia, Ireland, Portugal and Germany. We want to examine the depth of the debt crisis on the people of Greece and to learn more about the means people (…)
Action week: Bail out people not the banks!

24 November 2012 - by CADTM

Everywhere in Europe, debt repayment is used by governments as a pretext to impose the biggest social regression since World War II. Everywhere citizens’ rights and hard-won social benefits are jeopardized. CADTM suggests alternatives to this (…)
The CADTM is pleased at the prospect of collaboration between Tunisia and Ecuador to audit Tunisia’s debt

23 October 2012 - by CADTM International

The CADTM is pleased at the prospect of collaboration between Tunisia and Ecuador to audit Tunisia’s debt. At the request of the President of Tunisia, Ecuador’s President, Rafael Correa, has just announced that he will be sending a team of (…)
“A week of fighting for freedom from debt”

The Global Week of Action against Debt and IFIs; a global mobilization that is gaining strength in Spain. From October 8th to 15th, the Global Week of Action against Debt will be celebrated worldwide. The Citizen Debt Audit Platform (PACD) has (…)
The Popular Campaign to Drop Egypt’s Debt Call to European national MPs and MEPs: To demand from the Egyptian government an audit of Egypt’s debts to EU countries through an independent committee

Preamble The end of the Mubarak dictatorship left Egypt with a heavy legacy of failed economic policies and a misshaped sovereign debt management with projects not necessarily benefiting the vast majority of the Egyptian population. Today, Egypt (…)
In solidarity with the Greek people, against illegitimate debts and austerity measures, let us mobilize!

For joint actions for large Euro-Mediterranean’s mobilizations in autumn 2012!

The response to the financial and economic crisis is the same everywhere: cuts in expenditure and austerity measures under the pretext of reducing deficits and the repayment of a public debt which is the direct outcome of 20 years of neoliberal (…)
Resisting with the Greeks

30 May 2012 - by CADTM Europe

In the recent elections on May 6, Greek voters sanctioned the coalition forces which had applied austerity plans and surrendered to the dictates of the Troika (the IMF, the ECB and the European Commission). New Democracy and the PASOK (…)
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Coordinated efforts in Europe and North Africa to fight against Debt and Austerity

16 April 2012 - by Auditoria 15 M

The International Citizen Debt Audit Network – ICAN, has been born under the slogan “We don’t owe! We won’t pay!”
ACT NOW: Support Debt Justice for Zimbabwe

14 April 2012 - by Jubilee Debt Campaign

With fresh elections due next year, debt campaigners in Zimbabwe want lessons learned about the country’s $7 billion debt. Take action now to support their call. Zimbabwe stopped paying most of its debts in the year 2000. Since then, (…)
Promising developments for a citizens’ debt audit in France

16 March 2012 - by Damien Millet

Third world countries have been facing a debt crisis and its consequences since the 1980s. The IMF and its creditors have imposed structural adjustment programmes on them, maintaining these economies in a state of subjection and causing social (…)
France : The citizens’ debt audit - Newsletter N°2

26 February 2012 - by CAC France

The campaign for a citizens’ audit of the public debt is making headway. Following the success of the call for general mobilization, which attracted nearly 60,000 signatures, about a hundred collectives have been set up in towns and villages (…)
Greek Debt Audit Campaign Announcement

The International Treaty and Memorandum which accompany the ‘haircut’ of Greek public debt pushes the populace further into impoverishment. They will enshrine a dramatic drop in both living standards and working conditions, and implicitly enslave (…)