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Ten years ago, on 17 December 2010, a young street vendor in the town of Sidi Bouzid in central Tunisia sparked a political firestorm that soon engulfed the whole country, before spreading across the entire Arabic-speaking region, in what has been known since 2011 as the ‘Arab Spring'.
The initial months of that ‘spring' were euphoric, while a wave of massive protests engulfed the region, culminating in six major uprisings in total, as Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Libya, and Syria followed Tunisia's (...)

- English / Social movements, North Africa and the Middle East

On 13 December as part of the “Subversive Festival” in Zagreb, two European zoom-panels were organised presenting the two texts translated into Croatian produced by the network Recommons Europe (see https://www.cadtm.org/ReCommonsEurope-Manifesto-for-a-New-Popular-Internationalism-in-Europe and https://www.cadtm.org/Impact-of-European-policies-on-the-Global-South-and-possible-alternatives). After having presented those texts in the newspaper Novosti (...)

- English / Alternatives, Europe, North

Le 13 décembre 2020, dans le cadre du « Festival subversif » de Zagreb, deux zoom-panels européens étaient organisés à propos du Manifeste en deux textes du réseau ReCommons Europe récemment traduits en croate (cf. https://www.cadtm.org, ReCommonsEurope, Manifeste pour un nouvel internationalisme des peuples en Europe ; et L'impact sur le Sud des politiques européennes). Le journaliste Srecko Pulig, après avoir présenté ces textes dans le journal Novosti (cf….) a interviewé Catherine Samary (cf. (...)

- Français / Europe, Alternatives, Nord

L'Équateur offre l'exemple d'un gouvernement qui adopte la décision souveraine d'enquêter sur le processus d'endettement afin d'identifier les dettes illégitimes pour ensuite en suspendre le remboursement. La suspension du paiement d'une grande partie de la dette commerciale, suivie de son rachat à moindre coût, montre que le gouvernement ne s'est pas cantonné aux discours de dénonciation. Il a procédé de fait à une restructuration unilatérale d'une partie de sa dette extérieure et a remporté une victoire (...)

- Français / Banque mondiale, Équateur, FMI, Sud, BM-FMI-Equateur_FR

Agora, está clara a importância do trabalho ligado à Vida. Cuidado, Culinária, zelo pela Casa. Afetos. O que o feminismo argumenta. O que o capital despreza e não quer remunerar. Oxalá saiamos da crise subvertendo a lógica da mercadoria
Nós, feministas, repetimos há muitos anos que este sistema não garante nosso futuro, nem nossa vida presente. Este sistema está nos matando de muitas maneiras.
Com a agricultura industrializada, por exemplo, ao produzir alimentos que prejudicam nossa saúde (em 2019, (...)

- Português / Crise, Feminismos

Assista à entrevista de Maria Lucia Fattorelli, coordenadora nacional da Auditoria Cidadã da Dívida, para o Latitud Brasil, da rede Telesur, apresentado pelo jornalista Beto Almeida.
A conversa tratou da importância da auditoria e dos nocivos mecanismos que geram dívida pública e amarram a economia do Brasil, gerando cada vez mais desigualdade.

- Português / Brasil, Auditoria, Divida

Summary
IMF backs regressive VAT despite progressive tax rhetoric in pandemic response
Broader tax trends steadily shift burdens to women and those least able to pay
In September, the IMF hosted the first of a series of webinars celebrating the rise of value added taxes (VAT) and the Fund's “world-wide leading role” in spreading the use of VAT, as noted in opening remarks by Vitor Gaspar, director of the IMF's fiscal affairs department (FAD). Reflecting long-standing civil society concerns (...)

- English / IMF, Finance against people

The pandemic has exposed the disgraceful failures of market reforms in the British higher education sector. But the resistance of students continues.
n years ago, tens of thousands of students flooded the streets of London protesting against fees, cuts and demanding free public education in the biggest student demonstration in British history. They took over the Conservative Party headquarters, hanging red and black flags from the rooftop and surrounding the building with barricades. The (...)

- English / Social movements, United Kingdom, Private debt

Primeiro de janeiro do ano de 2021.
Aos povos do mundo:
Às pessoas que lutam nos cinco continentes:
Irmãs e irmãos, companheir@s:
Durante esses meses anteriores, temos estabelecido contato entre nós por diversos meios. Somos mulheres, lésbicas, gays, bissexuais, transgêneros, travestis, transsexuais, intersexuais, queer e muito mais, homens, grupos coletivos, associações, organizações, movimentos sociais, povos originários, associações de bairros, comunidades e um longo etc etc que nos dá (...)

- Português / Movimentos sociais, Altermundialismo

1er janvier 2021
Aux peuples du monde : Aux personnes qui luttent sur les cinq continents : Frères, sœurs, froeurs, compañer@s :
Durant ces derniers mois, nous avons pris contact entre nous de différentes manières. Nous sommes des femmes, des lesbiennes, des gays, des bisexuels, des transgenres, des travestis, des transsexuels, des personnes intersexes, des queers et d'autres encore, hommes, groupes, collectifs, associations, organisations, mouvements sociaux, peuples originaires, associations (...)

- Français / Mouvements sociaux, Mexique

The World Bank Group should investigate alleged coerced land sales and other rights abuses linked to predatory lending and over-indebtedness in the micro-loan sector, Human Rights Watch said today. These longstanding problems have worsened during the economic crisis resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic.
An external report in March 2020, the Microfinance Index of Market Outreach and Saturation (MIMOSA), based on data provided by the World Bank Group's International Finance Corporation (IFC), (...)

- English / Cambodia, Finance against people, Microcredit

"L'Effet Bahamas révèle le drame d'une disparition à l'œuvre, celle d'une caisse mutualiste, l'Assurance chômage. Lourdement endettée, elle semble pousser ses derniers soubresauts, victime d'un trop grand nombre de chômeurs. Pourtant, elle n'a jamais été autant nécessaire à la population frappée par une précarité grandissante. Et si la disparition de la caisse sociale était une destruction programmée ? À travers une enquête improbable que je mène sur l'histoire et le fonctionnement de la caisse, l'Effet Bahamas (...)

- Français / France, Paradis fiscaux, Finance contre les peuples, Dette sociale

Les zoonoses ne sont pas une nouveauté. La peste qui a fait des ravages dans l'antiquité et au moyen-âge était une zoonose. Ce qui est nouveau, c'est qu'un nombre croissant de maladies infectieuses sont zoonotiques. En trente ans, leur part est passée de 50 % environ à 70 %. Trois quarts des nouveaux agents pathogènes présents chez l'humain proviennent d'espèces animales. Le SIDA, le Zika, le Chikungunya, Ebola, le H1N1, le syndrome respiratoire du Moyen-Orient, le H5N1, le SARS, la maladie de (...)

- Français / Dette écologique, Santé, Capitalisme

Dans son dernier rapport chargé d'examiner les effets de la dette extérieure sur les droits humains, l'expert indépendant de l'ONU M. Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky met en lumière des phénomènes particuliers dont, notamment, le recours croissant à l'endettement pour financer l'émigration et les violations des droits humains qu'engendrent les tentatives de son remboursement. Outre le fait que l'endettement privé est lié à la migration, il convient également de rappeler que la migration est elle-même liée à (...)

- Français / Droit international, Migrations, Sud

COVID-19 has been a blessing to the ruling classes in Algeria. However, the popular Hirak movement has not said its last word yet.
In 2020, the Algerian uprising embarked on its second year and despite the immense difficulties and challenges encountered in the first year, the movement has not disappeared. We are in a situation of relative equilibrium in the balance of forces on the ground. The Hirak (movement) could not topple the regime, and the latter could not exhaust the movement. Due (...)

- English / Social movements, Algeria

The unprecedented unity among peasant organisations is not a sudden development. It has been built over several struggles, which have expanded the base of the peasant and snowballed into the massive protests against the new farm laws.
The talks between farmers' organisations and the Union government over the controversial pieces of legislation governing agricultural marketing have reached a stalemate. The government is willing to consider a written assurance to continue with the Minimum (...)

- English / India, South, Agrarian Distress

Nous publions ci-dessous la deuxième partie de l'étude de Jean Nanga sur . Pour la partie 1, voir Kwame Nkrumah et la lutte de classe : « African personality », consciencisme et panafricanisme dans le capitalisme – Partie I
Introduction aux trois parties : 1960 est l'année du passage du Ghana au statut de république, Kwame Nkrumah en devenant le président. Soixante ans plus tard, il demeure en Afrique une référence majeure. Cependant, il y a cinq décennies déjà, le philosophe Paulin Hountondji avait (...)

- Français / Sud, Ghana, Nkrumah_FR

Hoje, a grande maioria na Europa e no mundo acredita que uma dívida deve ser sempre paga. Por trás desta ideia está um argumento moral simples e aparentemente imparável: se você tomou dinheiro emprestado, é normal pagá-lo, caso contrário é desonestidade ou roubo. Entretanto, é mal conhecer o direito internacional afirmar que uma dívida pública deve ser sempre honrada. Por um lado, porque uma dívida é um contrato entre duas partes e, como qualquer contrato, certas condições devem ser cumpridas para que (...)

- Português / Alternativas, Direito Internacional, Dívida ilegítima, 11QR_pt, Dívida odiosa

January 1st, 2021
TO THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD:
TO PEOPLE FIGHTING IN EUROPE:
BROTHERS, SISTERS AND COMRADES:
In these previous months, we have established contact between ourselves by various means. We are women, lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender, transvestites, transsexuals, intersex, queer and more, men, groups, collectives, associations, organizations, social movements, indigenous peoples, neighbourhood associations, communities and a long et cetera that gives us identity.
We (...)

- English

On three days last week – December 23-25 – South Africa's east coast province of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) lost three of its clearest voices for social justice and environmental sanity: rural women's leader Sizani Ngubane (74), trade unionist Patrick Mkhize (60) and progressive activist Faith ka-Manzi (52).
On three days last week – December 23-25 – South Africa's east coast province of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) lost three of its clearest voices for social justice and environmental sanity: rural women's (...)

- English / Ecological debt, Ecology, Southern Africa