The “debt system” is gathering steam In Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, just as in the highly industrialized countries, after going through several fundamental changes over the past 40 years. Mainly since the outbreak of the Third World debt crisis in the early 1980s.
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Introduction
Throughout human history, private debt has been used by the dominant classes to subjugate, despoil, expropriate, and dispossess the toiling classes (among whom women have always been the hardest-hit victims): small farmers, artisans, fishers, and on up to the salaried workers of (...)
We here publish, in its entirety, Eric Tousaint’s study of the odious debt doctrine. Only extracts have previously been published.
Rarely do people, whether detractors or defenders of the doctrine elaborated by Alexander Sack, take the time to understand the international lawyer’s framework of (...)
To coordinate its international and continental work, the CADTM network holds its Global Assembly (NGA) regularly. After Bouznika in Morocco in 2013 The network’s determination, coupled with the energy deployed by RAID-ATTAC-CADTM Tunisia, both made the organization of this international (...)
Interview with Eric Toussaint, spokesperson and co-founder of the international network of the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM). Interview by Benjamin Lemoine. This sixth and final part discusses the events that took place in Greece between 2010 and the accession to (...)
Introduction by Stathis Kouvelakis
A thorough examination of the causes of the capitulation of Greece’s government in July 2015 and the signing of a third Memorandum of Understanding reveals one of the principal lines of division of the period – a division that is not simply a matter of (...)
Interview with Eric Toussaint, spokesperson and co-founder of the international network of the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM). Interview by Benjamin Lemoine.
This interview presents the genealogy of the anti-debt struggle, the campaigns for debt cancellation, the (...)
Interview with Eric Toussaint, spokesperson and co-founder of the international network of the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM). Interview by Benjamin Lemoine
This interview presents the genealogy of the anti-debt struggle, the campaigns for debt cancellation, the (...)
Interview with Eric Toussaint, spokesperson and co-founder of the international network of the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM). Interview by Benjamin Lemoine
The First Testing Grounds for the CADTM’s Methods to Counter Illegitimate Debt: the examples of Rwanda and the (...)
Interview with Eric Toussaint, spokesperson and co-founder of the international network of the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM). Interview by Benjamin Lemoine.
Titre : This interview presents the genealogy of the anti-debt struggle, the campaigns for debt cancellation, (...)
During a press conference held by the Truth Committee on the Greek Public Debt at the Greek Parliament on 25 September 2015, Éric Toussaint, the Committee’s scientific coordinator, provided a detailed answer to a question from a journalist who asked what would have happened if the Greek (...)
Zoe Konstantopoulou’s speech was given during the Fourth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament on 2nd September in New York.
Ladies and gentlemen, Speakers of the world’s Parliaments,
At this occasion of the 70th anniversary of the UN, Also marking 70 years from the end of World War II, (...)
Éric Toussaint critiques SYRIZA’s attitude since 2010 regarding the debt, explaining how the Greek government came to sign the disastrous agreement of 13 July 2015. One of the fundamental explanations is their failure to take the audit of Greece’s debt into consideration. And yet had they done so, (...)
One of the world’s leading economists has spoken out about Germany’s role in the Greek debt crisis, accusing the country of being on course to “destroy Europe and the European idea, all because of their shocking ignorance of history”.
Thomas Piketty, the French academic who leapt to fame with the (...)
The Troika’s bailout programme enforced government measures that directly impacted living conditions, thereby violating human rights legally protected at the domestic, European and international levels |1|.
According to the Greek Ombudsman, “the drastic adjustments imposed on the Greek economy (...)
The beautiful historic victory of the No shows again that the Greek citizens refuse to accept the creditors’ blackmail. As shown in the preliminary report by the Truth Committee on Public Debt created by the Hellenic parliament, there are several legal arguments that permit a State to (...)
After yet another summit on the Greek debt on 22 June, there are signs of an “extend and pretend” deal until winter. There is vague talk of a “debt relief” in the future, although it is unclear how much of the debt the Eurozone governments are willing to write off. Most importantly what are the (...)
Request for the opening of a debate in plenary session of the Greek Parliament in connection with the results of work of the Truth Committee on the Public Debt. This request was presented by 49 Syriza MPs in the 24 hours which followed the public session of the committee on 18 June 2015.
The (...)
In June 2015 Greece stands at a crossroad of choosing between furthering the failed macroeconomic adjustment programmes imposed by the creditors or making a real change to break the chains of debt. Five years since the economic adjustment programmes began, the country remains deeply cemented in (...)
Readers of the financial press may be forgiven for thinking that the negotiations between Greece and Europe have one feckless partner — the new government of Greece — and one responsible partner, a common front of major governments and creditor institutions, high-minded in their pursuit of (...)
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