CADTM

A petition to all creditors, including the IMF and World Bank Over recent weeks, several countries in the Caribbean have been devastated by hurricanes. Some of those countries were already heavily indebted, often in part because of loans taken out to help with rebuilding efforts following previous disasters. Please ask lenders to suspend debt payments immediately. “We have lost all that money can buy and replace.” – said Prime Minister of Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit Debt relief for (...) - English / Third World Debt, South, Caribbean

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 to make the existing political conflict visible and transform it. The repressive response of the Spanish State in order to prevent it, with judicial and police actions against democratically elected Catalan institutions, is a serious setback in terms (...) - English / Social movements, Spain

Este texto, que era uma verdadeira provocação da parte das potências ocidentais, levou a delegação soviética a contactar poucas horas depois a delegação alemã, que era mantida um pouco à margem da conferência pelas autoridades de Paris e Londres. Estas capitais pretendiam convencer os russos soviéticos a aceitar as condições mencionadas anteriormente ou, no mínimo, uma parte delas, para de seguida negociar com os alemães uma situação favorável. A questão russa era claramente prioritária. Joffé, um dos (...) - Português / Divida, Norte, Rússia

Dans un contexte où les logiques de réduction des dépenses engendrent de nombreux reculs d'acquis sociaux, la jeunesse n'est pas épargnée. Les étudiants, comme d'autres jeunes, font aujourd'hui face, de manière sans cesse croissante, à des conditions sociales et économiques difficiles, et ceci à cause de nombreux facteurs. Parcourons ensemble quelques-uns d'entre eux. Le 16 décembre 1966, la Belgique signait le Pacte international relatif aux droits économiques, sociaux et culturels, dit « Pacte de New (...) - Français / Mouvements sociaux, Belgique, Dette privée

Before the Genoa conference, Soviet Russia had managed to sign bilateral treaties with Poland, the Baltic Republics, Turkey and Persia. More importantly, it had managed to sign a trade agreement with the UK. Signed in 1921, this agreement had sanctioned the Soviet laws of nationalization before UK courts and this meant that companies that traded with Russia no longer ran the risk of getting into trouble. |1| During the Genoa conference Russia also succeeded in signing a treaty with Germany (...) - English / Russia, Debt in the History, North

Finalement, les pays dits « en voie de développement » (PED) d'aujourd'hui remplacent les colonies d'hier : les grandes entreprises multinationales occidentales se placent dans les anciennes colonies, y investissent et en extorquent les ressources pour accumuler de faramineux profits qui s'évadent dans des paradis fiscaux appropriés. Tout cela se déroule sous le regard bienveillant des élites locales corrompues, avec l'appui des gouvernements du Nord et des Institutions financières internationales (...) - Français / Ressources naturelles, Néo-colonialisme

After an armed struggle for succession that lasted from 1831 to 1834, Queen Maria of Portugal repudiated a loan issued in 1833 by the self-proclaimed king, Dom Miguel. She justified the repudiation by saying that bankers should not have lent money to a usurper. The loan had been issued in Paris in 1833 through the bankers Outrequin and Jauche for a sum of 40 million francs to be repaid over 32 years at 5 % interest. The bankers had not hesitated to take risks, organizing the launch of the (...) - English / Portugal, Debt in the History, North

Ce communiqué ne constitue pas un soutien à Kémi Seba, dont les valeurs et la pratique politique sont en désaccord direct avec la charte politique du CADTM, mais un soutien à la lutte contre le FCFA. Le gouvernement du Sénégal n'a pas trouvé mieux que d'expulser Kémi SEBA pour avoir brûlé, à titre symbolique, un billet de 5000 Francs CFA (FCFA). Avec cette mesure, l'État du Sénégal croit que le mouvement social demandant la sortie de nos pays de la zone CFA va s'estomper ou prendre du plomb dans l'aile. (...) - Communiqués / Sénégal, France, Néo-colonialisme, Sud

Yanis Varoufakis traces his collaboration with Alexis Tsípras and his alter ego, Nikos Pappas, back to 2011. That collaboration gradually broadened, starting with 2013, to include Yanis Dragasakis (who became vice-Prime Minister in 2015). There is a constant in the relations between Varoufakis and Tsípras: Yanis Varoufakis constantly argues for changes in the political programme that Syriza had adopted. Varoufakis tells us that Tsípras-Pappas-Dragasakis themselves clearly wanted to move toward (...) - English / Greece, Debt in Northern countries, North

To understand the current tensions with North Korea, you need to be familiar with the history of the two Koreas after the Second World War and the Korean War and the roles played by Japan and the United States in the area, and to analyze the reasons behind the economic success of South Korea. We include here a paper by Eric Toussaint on the so-called South Korean miracle, from his book The World Bank: A Never Ending Coup, published in 2007. The supposed South Korean success story has been (...) - English / South Korea, World Bank

To understand the current tensions with North Korea, you need to be familiar with the history of the two Koreas after the Second World War and the Korean War and the roles played by Japan and the United States in the area, and to analyze the reasons behind the economic success of South Korea. We include here a paper by Eric Toussaint on the so-called South Korean miracle, from his book The World Bank: A Never Ending Coup, published in 2007. The supposed South Korean success story has been (...) - English / South Korea, World Bank

Para compreendermos melhor as enormes tensões actuais com a Coreia do Norte, é indispensável conhecer a história das duas Coreias desde a Segunda Guerra Mundial, a Guerra da Coreia, o papel do Japão e dos EUA na região e as razões do sucesso económico da Coreia do Sul. Reproduzimos aqui o estudo que Eric Toussaint consagrou ao chamado milagre sul-coreano. Esta passagem foi extraída do seu livro Banque mondiale: le coup d'État permanent, publicado em 2006. O alegado sucesso da Coreia do Sul foi (...) - Português / Banco mundial, Coreia do Sul, Sul

Para compreendermos melhor as enormes tensões actuais com a Coreia do Norte, é indispensável conhecer a história das duas Coreias desde a Segunda Guerra Mundial, a Guerra da Coreia, o papel do Japão e dos EUA na região e as razões do sucesso económico da Coreia do Sul. Reproduzimos aqui o estudo que Eric Toussaint consagrou ao chamado milagre sul-coreano. Esta passagem foi extraída do seu livro Banque mondiale: le coup d'État permanent, publicado em 2006. O alegado sucesso da Coreia do Sul foi (...) - Português / Banco mundial, Coreia do Sul, Sul

Le monde rural ne cesse de s'enfoncer dans la crise. D'après la Mutualité sociale agricole (MSA), un tiers des agriculteurs vit avec moins de 350 euros par mois. Cette pauvreté monétaire pourrait encore s'amplifier cette année. Pour faire face à ces difficultés, les agriculteurs surendettés sont souvent bien seuls. Ils peinent à tenir tête aux banques et à leurs nombreux créanciers, dont certains profitent de la situation pour prospérer. L'association Solidarité paysans accompagne ces agriculteurs au bout (...) - Français / France, Agriculture et souveraineté alimentaire, Dette privée

Avortement, les femmes décident ! C'est le mot d'ordre phare d'une campagne européenne pour le droit à l'avortement libre, sur et gratuit, lancé par des féministes belges, françaises et polonaises. Cette campagne appelle à des mobilisations partout en Europe vers le 28 Septembre. Pourquoi ce nouveau combat ? Cette initiative européenne a la volonté de prendre le relais des mobilisations des féministes espagnoles en 2014 et des polonaises en 2016 pour garantir le droit à l'avortement. Elle s'inscrit, ne (...) - Français / Femmes

SUMMARY * WILPF submitted statement to HRC criticising IMF Ukraine programme * Statement argued programme's harsh conditionalities hurt women * Called for human rights based approach to macro policy making In May the Geneva-based Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) submitted a written statement to the UN Human Rights Council addressing the impacts of IMF macro-economic reform programmes on women's rights in Ukraine. The statement outlined various ways in which the (...) - English / Women, IMF, Ukraine

Depuis 1980, la Belgique a perdu 63 % de ses fermes, principalement des petites fermes de moins de 5 ha. Ces chiffres reflètent une lourde tendance à la disparition des petits agriculteurs-trices et à une concentration foncière grandissante aux mains de grandes exploitations agro-industrielles. Le résultat d'une situation où politiques publiques et endettement ont été utilisés comme armes politiques pour orienter tout le système agricole. Le malaise qui pèse sur le monde paysan a rarement été aussi (...) - Français / Alternatives, Agriculture et souveraineté alimentaire, Dette privée

Suite à une bataille de succession qui dura de 1831 à 1834, la reine Maria répudia un emprunt émis en 1833 par le roi autoproclamé Dom Miguel. La reine Maria justifia la répudiation en disant que les banquiers n'avaient pas à prêter à Dom Miguel qui était un usurpateur de la couronne. L'emprunt avait été émis à Paris en 1833 par l'intermédiaire des banquiers Outrequin et Jauche pour un montant de 40 millions de francs à rembourser en 32 ans à 5 % d'intérêt. Les banquiers n'avaient pas hésité à prendre des (...) - Français / Alternatives, Portugal, Dette dans l'Histoire

Após a luta pela sucessão, que durou de 1831 a 1834, a rainha dona Maria II repudiou o empréstimo emitido em 1833 pelo autoproclamado rei dom Miguel. Dona Maria II justificou o repúdio dizendo que os banqueiros não deviam ter emprestado a dom Miguel, por ele ter usurpado a coroa. O empréstimo tinha sido emitido em Paris em 1833, por intermédio dos banqueiros Outrequin e Jauche, no montante de 40 milhões de francos, a reembolsar em 32 anos, com 5 % de juros. Os banqueiros não tinham hesitado em (...) - Português / Divida, Portugal, Norte

In the final plenary conference, Lloyd George, the British Prime Minister, made a revealing reply: "There is a real sympathy for Russia's condition. If Russia is to get help, Russia must not outrage the sentiments — if they like, let them call them the prejudices — of the world. (…) what are these prejudices? I will just name one or two, because they were all trampled upon in the Memorandum of May 11th. The first prejudice we have in Western Europe is this, that if you sell goods to a man (...) - English / Russia, Debt in the History, North