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  • ifnotnow

    When Einstein called “fascists” those who rule Israel for the last 44 years…

    Originally published: CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitamet Debt) on October 31, 2023 by Yorgos Mitralias (more by CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitamet Debt)) (Posted Mar 06, 2024)

    What would you say if the notorious racist and anti-semite prime minister of Hungary Victor Orban accused Einstein of … anti-semitism? And Hanna Arendt as well? Together with the most iconic author of Holocaust literature Primo Levi?

  • ‘The Canary in the Coal Mine’: Sri Lanka’s Crisis is a Chronicle Foretold

    ‘The Canary in the Coal Mine’: Sri Lanka’s crisis is a chronicle foretold

    Originally published: CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitamet Debt) on August 7, 2022 by Eric Toussaint , B. Skanthakumar (more by CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitamet Debt)) (Posted Aug 08, 2022)

    Sri Lanka’s acute economic crisis and sovereign debt default, along with its people’s uprising in 2022, has drawn attention across the world. It is described as the ‘canary in the coal mine’, that is, a harbinger of the likely future for other global south countries. Eric Toussaint, spokesperson for the Committee for the Abolition of […]

  • Latin America: 200 years of the infernal cycle of debt

    Latin America: 200 years of the infernal cycle of debt

    Originally published: CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitamet Debt) on November 23, 2017 by Marie Charrel (more by CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitamet Debt))

    Venezuela is an emblematic case of the infernal cycle that Latin America has been struggling with over the last two centuries. It all began in 1810, when Simon Bolivar, a figurehead of the Spanish colonies in their fight for freedom, began borrowing from London in very unfavourable conditions to finance the wars of independence.

Monthly Review Essays

  • 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.

Lost & Found

  • 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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