BRICS

The Fortaleza Declaration (2014)

April 27, 2026 Arnie Saiki, Decolonize Accounting. Educate! BRICS, Economic crisis, Fortaleza Declaration, Neoliberalism

I’m reposting the Fortaleza Declaration in full because the declaration is harder to find on Google Search now. To get a sense of how important this 2014 moment was: It was the BRICS economies that largely remained solvent after what should have been the death of neoliberalism in 2008, and signaled the downturn of the OECD economic hegemony—the neocolonial consensus of the World Bank, IMF, and WTO. Unfortunately, it signaled the beginning of destabilization, regime change, coups, and a militarized containment policy that sought to perpetuate the colonial manifest that gave us World Wars one and two.

The Fourth Reich Is Financial: War Is Absolution

March 3, 2026 Arnie Saiki, Decolonize Accounting. Strategize! BRICS, Fourth Reich, Iran, Wars and Militarism

Let us, for a moment, reflect deeply upon the martyrdom of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, killed in an aerial strike by U.S. and Israeli forces. Following the ongoing Zionist dispossession and genocide of Palestinians, as well as the trafficking and sexual exploitation of children that has ensnared not just Trump and Netanyahu, but the wealthy elite across the sector of capitalism’s excess and abuse that has come to light following the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Billionaires and their sycophants, and its culture of elite political access and influence continue to operate not just with impunity but with absolution.

Jiangshi Trade: How The EU Co-Opts BRICS Without Joining It

February 8, 2026 Arnie Saiki, Decolonize Accounting. Educate! BRICS, Development, European Union (EU), Global Economy

In the multipolar daylight, Europe is neither vampire nor zombie. The better image is the jiangshi. In Chinese folklore, the jiangshi is an old corpse that cannot generate life from within and survives by consuming the qi, the life-force of the living. That is an appropriate depiction of a fictional EU-BRICS arrangement. The issue is not whether the EU will join BRICS, it will not and to be clear it has not stated that. The issue is whether the EU can enter BRICS-adjacent growth zones and redirect that life force through European legal and regulatory systems.

Strategic Convergences Between Africa, Asia And Latin America

December 7, 2025 Mohamed Lamine Kaba, Orinoco Tribune. Strategize! Africa, ALBA, Asia, Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), BRICS, Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), Imperialism, Latin America, Neo-Imperialism, Neocolonialism, US Hegemony

The current shift in the world order reveals a deep tension. While the West, weakened by its internal crises and geopolitical contradictions, is trying to preserve its declining leadership, Africa, Asia and Latin America are quietly rebuilding the lines of force of the Global South. Driven by shared memories of domination and renewed aspirations for sovereignty, these regions are now forging strategic convergences that are giving new meaning to tricontinental solidarity. In this context, their struggles against neocolonialism and neo-imperialism are taking on decisive importance in redefining the balance of power in the 21st century and opening up new prospects for their common future.

Trump Wages Economic War On US Allies; BRICS Builds Alternative System

September 18, 2025 Ben Norton and Michael Hudson, Geopolitical Economy. Resistance Report BRICS, China, Colonialism, Donald Trump, Europe, European Union (EU), History, Japan, Korea, NATO, Neoliberalism, Russia, Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), South Korea, Tariffs, US Imperialism

The US government has always had a very aggressive foreign policy. The United States has intervened in dozens of countries all around the world. But what is unique about Donald Trump is that many of his aggressive policies not only target US adversaries like China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba, but also longtime US allies. Trump has imposed high tariffs that have hurt the economies of key US allies such as Japan, South Korea, and Europe. In fact, the details of the agreement that Trump imposed on Japan are quite shocking. This was reported on by the Financial Times, which wrote that “Japan confronts the increased price of US friendship”. Although I would say it’s not so much “friendship”; rather it’s vassalage. Japan has been militarily occupied by the US for 80 years, and we’re now seeing the cost of this imperial relationship.

Elephant And Dragon Choose Dialogue

September 8, 2025 Atul Chandra, People's Dispatch. Educate! BRICS, China, Global South, India, Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Tariffs, World, Xi Jinping

At the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin on September 1, 2025, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping met and publicly framed the relationship as “partners, not rivals.” Their readouts stressed dialogue on differences and cooperation on development – language that marks the clearest thaw since the 2020 Ladakh crisis. Two moves gave the reset substance, not just optics. First, India and China re-activated the Special Representatives (SR) dialogue on the boundary question in New Delhi on August 19, 2025, and second, they agreed to restart direct flights and expand people-to-people and business links, after a five-year freeze. These are communications channels that reduce miscalculation and restore some weight to a battered relationship.

Eurasia’s Re-Alignment In The Face Of Late Stage Barbarism

September 8, 2025 Michael Hudson, Counter Punch. Educate! BRICS, China, Global Economy, India, Multipolar World, Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s meetings in China last week (September 2 and 3) took a remarkable step forward in defining how the world will be dividing into two great blocks as Global Majority countries seek to free their economies not only from Donald Trump’s tariff chaos, but from the U.S.-sponsored increasingly Hot War attempts to impose unipolar control on the entire world’s economy by isolating countries seeking to resist this control with trade and monetary chaos as well as direct military confrontation. The SCO meetings became a pragmatic forum to define the basic principles that are to replace other countries’ trade, monetary and military independence from U.S. with mutual trade and investment among themselves, increasingly isolated from reliance on U.S. markets for their exports, U.S. credit for their domestic economies, and U.S. dollars for trade and investment transactions among themselves.

When The Empire Chokes, The South Breathes

August 22, 2025 Prince Kapone, Orinoco Tribune. Strategize! Africa, Asia, BRICS, Capitalism, Global South, Globalization, Inequality, Middle East, Political economy, South America, US Imperialism

The story they sell is that “order” was built by reasoned men in sensible suits. The story we live is different. Multipolarity did not grow out of seminars or summits; it is the aftershock of five centuries of plunder, the recoil from wars and sanctions, and the refusal of the colonized to keep paying for someone else’s civilization. Its genealogy runs from the Bandung Communiqué (1955)—the first great gathering where the majority of humanity spoke in its own name—through the long detour of debt, structural adjustment, and counter-insurgency masquerading as “development.” Bandung’s promise was simple and subversive: sovereignty, peaceful coexistence, cooperation, and a say in the world economy for those who actually make the world economy run.

The Monsters Of The Global Crisis Interregnum

August 18, 2025 Carmen Navas Reyes, People's Dispatch. Strategize! BRICS, Capitalism, climate crisis, Hunger, Imperialism, Inequality, Neocolonialism, Poverty

The famous quote by Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci seems to have been written for the moment humanity is currently experiencing: “The old is dying, and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum, monsters arise.” The world is going through a civilizational crisis in which the neoliberal capitalist order, although mortally wounded, continues to impose its predatory logic, that of the use of force and the resurgence of fascism, while emancipatory alternatives fail to consolidate. In this vacuum, monsters proliferate: wars and attempts at recolonization, climate crisis, structural hunger, collapse of multilateralism and international law placed at the service of the world’s powers that be.

Trump’s Tariffs Backfire: India Moves Closer To China

August 17, 2025 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. Resistance Report BRICS, China, Donald Trump, India, Narendra Modi, Russia, Tariffs, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping

US President Donald Trump is a very contradictory leader. He constantly implements policies that go against his stated goals. The perfect example of this is how Trump has treated BRICS, the Global South-led organization that now represents the majority of the planet. Trump sees BRICS as a major threat to US hegemony, and, in particular, the dominance of the US dollar as the global reserve currency. The US president has openly threatened members of BRICS to try to stop them from seeking alternatives to the dollar. In a press conference at the White House on July 8, Trump complained (emphasis added): BRICS was set up to hurt us. BRICS was set up to degenerate our dollar, and take our dollar as the standard, take it off as the standard.

How The World Can Free Itself From US Financial Colonialism

August 6, 2025 Ben Norton and Michael Hudson, Geopolitical Economy. Resistance Report BRICS, Colonialism, Debt, Global Economy, US Hegemony

We are all living in a time of great change. There are massive geopolitical shifts happening in the world today, and we see the rise of new organizations like BRICs, which now represents more than 50% of the global population. The 20 countries of the extended BRICS+ now also make up more than 40% of world GDP, when measured at purchasing power parity (PPP). These new Global South-led organizations like BRICS represent the Global Majority. But there’s still a problem, which is that the most powerful international organizations today are largely dominated by the United States and the Western powers. This includes institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or the World Bank. These are organizations where the U.S. is the only country on Earth that has veto power.

How The Global Majority Can Free Itself From US Financial Colonialism

July 19, 2025 Michael Hudson, Geopolitical Economy. Educate! Anti-Imperialism, BRICS, China, Global Economy, Multipolar World, Neocolonialism

Industrial capitalism was revolutionary in its fight to free Europe’s economies and parliaments from the hereditary privileges and vested interests that survived from feudalism. To make their manufactures competitive in world markets, industrialists needed to end the land rent paid to Europe’s landed aristocracies, the economic rents extracted by trade monopolies, and interest paid to bankers who played no role in financing industry. These rentier incomes add to the economy’s price structure, raising the living wage and other business expenses, thus eating into profits.

United States Government Is Very Afraid Of BRICS And Dedollarization

July 15, 2025 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. Resistance Report BRICS, Dedollarization, Tariffs, Trump Administration

Western corporate media coverage of the Global South-led organization BRICS is frequently dismissive and condescending. Bloomberg published an article claiming that BRICS is “little more than a meaningless acronym”. It appears that a lot of this criticism, nevertheless, is actually a coping mechanism, because evidence is piling up showing that the US government is very afraid of the rapid growth of BRICS. Donald Trump, in particular, is terrified of the possibility of BRICS challenging the global dominance of the US dollar. BRICS held a successful summit in Brazil in July, featuring for the first time the participation of 10 members and 10 partner countries. Trump responded with furious denunciation, threatening to hit all BRICS countries with 10% tariffs.

As Trump Threatens BRICS, It Grows Stronger

July 11, 2025 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. Resistance Report BRICS, Dedollarization, Trump Administration, Western imperialism

The Global South-led organization BRICS has been growing in size and influence, and this has frightened some Western politicians. Donald Trump is particularly rattled. After he returned to the White House for his second term as US president, Trump threatened very high tariffs on BRICS, and falsely said he had destroyed the organization. “BRICS is dead”, Trump claimed in a press conference on 13 February. The US president stated: BRICS was put there for a bad purpose, and most of those people don’t want — they don’t even want to talk about it now; they’re afraid to talk about it. Because I told them, if they want to play games with the dollar, then they’re going to be hit with a 100% tariff, the day they mention that they want to do it. And they will come back and say, “We beg you, we beg you not to do this”.

Militarism And Organized Crime Against The Development Of Peoples

July 10, 2025 Stephen Sefton, Tortilla con Sal. Educate! BRICS, China, Foreign Policy, G7, Global Economy, Imperialism

In recent days, the member governments of the BRICS+ group have met in the capital of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro. This year, compared to last year's meeting in Kazan, Russia, no significant progress is expected due to the apparent lack of full commitment by the Brazilian government to the development of an economic pole truly independent of North American and European dominance. Currently, the year-on-year growth figures of the largest world economies show that the economies of China and India are growing by more than 5% while the North American economy is growing by 2% on a downward trend, Japan and the United Kingdom by less than 2% and countries such as France, Italy and Germany by less than 1%.

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