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    Western Hemisphere: A history of the United States written by war

    Originally published: CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt) on March 4, 2026 (more by CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt))  |

    The official history of the United States is often presented as the exemplary story of a nation forged by the struggle for freedom and the gradual expansion of democratic rights.

  • Jean Louis Mazieres, Pierre Soulages. 1919 162x 240 1972. Montpellier Musée Fabre, CC, Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/mazanto/43198476475

    The urgent need to repudiate debt

    Originally published: CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt) on April 6, 2023 by Anaïs Carton (more by CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt))  |

    It is now time to react concerning the issue of debt cancellations and repudiations.

  • Radio Silence Concerning United States President Franklin Roosevelt’s Repudiation of Debts

    Radio silence concerning United States President Franklin Roosevelt’s repudiation of debts

    Originally published: CADTM - Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt on January 28, 2023 (more by CADTM - Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt)  |

    During your education, did you learn that during the 1930s the government of the USA unceremoniously repudiated a central provision of debt contracts that represented phenomenal sums?

  • Venezuela: In Transition towards Socialism?

    Éric Toussaint

    Nationalization and Workers’ Control: Achievements and Limitations The economic, social and political situation in Venezuela has changed a lot since the failure of the constitutional reform in December 2007, which acted as a warning to the Chávez government.1  This failure had the effect however of reviving the debate on the need to have a socialist […]

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  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

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  • Honor the Vietnamese, Not Those Who Killed Them
    Michael D. Yates A Vietnamese stamp depicting two Vietnamese resistance fighters shooting down a US Army helicopter.

    Only the courage of those who opposed the war, including the soldiers who did so at great risk, should be respected.

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