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Routes Towards Social Recovery in an Era of War, Ecocide and Ideological Chaos

9 March 2026 - by Patrick Bond

Introduction The war started on February 28 by the United States and Israel, against Iran, deserves the world’s attention, along with the plight of others suffering unjustly in combat not of their own making: hundreds of thousands of (…)
Africa as a Climate Solutions Leader? Anti-Politics, Power and the Political Economy of Summit-Driven Climate Narratives

18 February 2026 - by Martha Getachew Bekele

Working Paper 1. Introduction: Climate Leadership, Investment and the Politics of Framing Over the past several years, African climate diplomacy has been increasingly organised around a recurring triad of “leadership”, “opportunity” and (…)
Trump in Greenland: old-fashioned colonialism and acceleration of the climate catastrophe!

18 January 2026 - by Yorgos Mitralias

Almost everyone is currently talking, and rightly so, about Trump’s clearly stated intention to occupy and annex Greenland “by hook or by crook.” However, no one has even mentioned what would be by far the most important and serious consequence (…)
Who killed the poor people of Safi in the recent floods?

5 January 2026 - by Jawad Moustakbal

“Despotism overturns the scales of morality, turning virtues into vices and vices into virtues.”“Injustice destroys civilization, and the consequences of this destruction on the state are corruption and upheaval.” “Muqaddimah” by Ibn Khaldun (…)
Delhi’s Toxic Air Is a Political Choice: Working-Class Lungs as Collateral Damage

22 December 2025 - by Sankha Subhra Biswas

Every winter, the Delhi NCR region greets its citizens with a familiar grim situation. The sky dims, visibility plummets, and the very air seems to turn against its inhabitants. Schools close, hospitals become overwhelmed, and people are advised (…)
Indonesia hit by climate disaster and authoritarian power

15 December 2025 - by Pierre Rousset

Cyclone Senyar has caused deadly floods and landslides in several Indonesian provinces. The toll looks set to be very heavy, and the government’s (non-)risk prevention policy is once again under scrutiny. A week after the cyclone passed, it (…)
Cyclone Ditwah and Disaster Capitalism

15 December 2025 - by Sushovan Dhar

This audio recording features a public lecture delivered at the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies (BCIS) in Colombo on 10 December 2025, following Cyclone Ditwah. The main objective of the presentation was not to approach the event as (…)
COP 30: entrenching the crisis of climate politics

15 December 2025 - by Brian Ashley

As the dust settles after COP30 in Belém, the scale of the failure becomes impossible to ignore. The world is on a path toward catastrophic warming, ecological systems are collapsing, and millions across the Global South face annihilation, not in (…)
People of Sri Lanka demand renegotiation of the IMF deal, debt, and climate justice in the face of the national disaster

10 December 2025 - by Collective

Cyclone Ditwah has inflicted devastating impacts across Sri Lanka. As of December 6, 2025, the death toll exceeds 600, with several hundred still missing, thousands displaced, with massive property, infrastructure, and livelihood damages. (…)
The Great Flood

5 December 2025 - by Balasingham Skanthakumar

Cyclone Ditwah ripped through Sri Lanka between 27 and 29 November. The toll is devastating. Seven days later, the official count is 486 deaths and 341 missing. To which should be added five navy and one air-force officer killed in rescue (…)
Ecosocialism or Extinction: defending life, building free territories, and Ecosocialism of the peoples and for the peoples

28 November 2025 - by Collective

We gather at a moment of a profound offensive of capital against life, within the framework of the actions organized by our peoples in response to COP 30. This encounter has allowed us, once again, to reaffirm that both the rise of the extreme (…)
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 (…)
COP 30: it’s no joke

23 November 2025 - by Michael Roberts

The usual joke about the United Nations Climate Change Conferences (COPs) is that each one is a ‘cop-out’. Each time there is a failure to agree on ending fossil fuel production as the source of energy, even though it is now well established (…)
COP30 Belém: Second Latin American and Caribbean Ecosocialist Meeting

13 November 2025 - by Vanessa Dourado

We are publishing this article by Vanessa Dourado of ATTAC/CADTM Argentina regarding the second Latin American Ecosocialist Meeting, which has recently taken place in Belém. The content of this article, penned by Vanessa to announce the meeting, (…)
India : Working-Class Priorities as the Principle for Climate Action

11 November 2025 - by Soutrik Goswami

“Climate change is not a separate issue—it is the terrain where all social contradictions intersect... To genuinely confront the crisis, we must reclaim climate action as a political and class project. It must be rooted in redistribution, public (…)
The Middle East and Fossil Capitalism: Oil, Militarism and the Global Order

10 November 2025 - by Adam Hanieh

For more than a century, the Middle East has been central to the making of the contemporary world order. Today the region is the world’s largest exporter of oil, and its vast reserves have shaped the rise of fossil capitalism and the unfolding (…)
COP30 and the Brazilian dilemma

6 November 2025 - by Gabriella Lima

A few days before the start of COP 30 in Brazil, we are publishing an article written by Gabriella Lima of CADTM Switzerland and published on 12 October 2025 by the Geneva daily Le Courrier. Gabriella Lima is a doctoral student in contemporary (…)
For an Ecosocialist Degrowth

6 October 2025 - by Yorgos Mitralias

Why republish the text “For an ecosocialist degrowth,” which was already published in several languages more than three and a half years ago? First, because its initial publication went almost unnoticed, coinciding as it did with the Russian (…)
Norway: the fossil fuel capital of Europe

8 September 2025 - by Michael Roberts

Norway has a general election today. In a country of 5.6m people, some 4m are entitled to vote and there is usually a high turnout by international standards – over 75%. Indeed, early voting has become increasingly popular, with up to 60% (…)
For decades, the North has been accumulating an ecological debt towards the peoples of the South

8 July 2025 - by Eric Toussaint, Jorge Muracciole

Argentine journalist Jorge Muracciole interviews Éric Toussaint. From Belgium, the historian and economist raises alarms about the global ecological crisis, asserting that it has reached an extreme level. He emphasises the necessity of fighting (…)
Ecosocialism : an alternative to break with capitalist civilizational crises

12 June 2025 - by Jawad Moustakbal

CADTM is pleased to share the presentation by Jawad Moustakbal, a member of CADTM’s Shared International Secretariat, delivered at the 13th session of the 13th Asian Regional School, which took place at the International Institute for Research (…)
Peoples against Extractions

20 May 2025 - by Collective

Corporate appropriation and commodification of territories and nature is expanding in sectoral, geographical, and political terms. The extractive mega-projects linked to the exploitation of crucial minerals, the development of large renewable (…)
Peoples’ Summit towards COP30: Joining Voices for Climate Justice

5 May 2025 - by Collective, La Via Campesina

La Vía Campesina joins the People’s Summit as part of a growing process of mobilization and political convergence for systemic transformation. Together, we are already building a transformation rooted in grassroots struggles — a process that will (…)
Ecological debt : Who is reponsible ? The need for radical alternatives, far from false solutions of green capitalism

11 February 2025 - by Maxime Perriot

At the CADTM South Asia workshop in Colombo, held from Thursday 30 January to Saturday 1 February, Maxime Perriot developed the concept of ecological debt. Who is responsible? What are the false solutions promoted at the COPs, synonymous with (…)
Debt-for-nature swaps 2.0, a deceptive solution

9 February 2025 - by Pablo Laixhay, Maxime Perriot

Debt-for-nature swaps are back to the forefront of the international stage. Promoted as being an innovative solution to reduce the debt of countries of the South while financing the preservation of nature, those mechanisms have been put forward (…)