Development

Defying Sanctions, Advancing Socialism: DPRK’s Ninth Party Congress

February 25, 2026 Ju-Hyun Park, People's Dispatch. Create! Development, Five Year Plans, North Korea, Socialism

The 9th Party Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea is now underway. Held every five years, the Congress can be regarded as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) most significant political event. A total of 5,000 delegates and 2,000 observers elected by party organizations from across the country are now gathered in Pyongyang for the event. As preparations for the Congress took place across the country in recent weeks, they were accompanied by celebrations of the successes of the last Five Year Plan, adopted at the 8th Party Congress in 2021. In the past month, completion ceremonies have been held for 21 local projects across the DPRK’s rural communities, ranging from the massive Sinuiju Greenhouse Farm to new factories and hospitals.

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.

Migration Is An Underdevelopment Issue

February 6, 2026 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Educate! Development, Global South, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Migration, Poverty

In 2014, the United Nations’ International Organisation for Migration (IOM) launched the Missing Migrants Project. The project, which ‘hosts the only open-access database of records of deaths during migration on the global level’, estimates that at least 33,220 migrants have died or disappeared while crossing the Mediterranean Sea since 2014. This is a very low estimate because the IOM admits that it cannot account for every boat that leaves the North African coast, let alone trace those that never arrive in Europe. South of the Mediterranean lies the Sahara Desert, where the dangers are even greater.

France’s Bold Experiment In Commons-Based Development

February 1, 2026 David Bollier. Create! Commons, Development, France, Global South

The western world has long promoted “development” as a high-minded mission to bring capitalist markets and growth to impoverished areas of the world. But what if development were seen not just as a matter of creating markets, but of strengthening social collaboration and sharing in meeting needs? In short, what if development agencies were to support commoning? One major national development agency – the French Development Agency, or AFD – is actively experimenting with this very challenge. For the past five years, Stéphanie Leyronas, an AFD research fellow specializing in the commons, has been working with an internal expert network at the agency to investigate how it might support commoners in the Global South.

China / United States – Latin America And The Caribbean

January 1, 2026 Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein, Workers World. Create! Caribbean, China, Development, Foreign Relations, Latin America

As if by fate and unplanned twists of history, at the very moment that Trump was threatening Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and Marco Rubio was making clear his conviction that the Western Hemisphere is Washington’s property, thus reviving the Monroe Doctrine and its Trump corollary for the 21st century, the government of the People’s Republic of China released its third document on its foreign policy toward the region. In 2008, the Chinese government published the first Document on China’s Policy Toward Latin America and the Caribbean, in which it set out the objective of establishing a China-LAC Comprehensive Cooperation Partnership based on equality, mutual benefit and joint development.

The Right To Development Is An Inalienable Human Right

December 26, 2025 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Strategize! Bandung Conference, Development, Global South, Human Rights

Nearly sixty years ago, in January 1966, hundreds of revolutionaries from across the Third World gathered in Havana, Cuba, for the First Solidarity Conference of the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America – the Tricontinental Conference. There, they discussed the inevitability of decolonisation and their ideas for a world beyond imperialism. Fidel Castro and the other organisers called the conference to bring together the two currents of world revolution: the current of socialist revolution and that of national liberation. The delegates saw the need to radicalise the ideals of sovereignty that had been given voice ten years earlier at the Bandung Conference.

First We End The War, Then We Restart The Factories

December 19, 2025 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Strategize! Development, Global South, Hybrid Wars, industrialisation, Sanctions

In mid-November 2025, at a United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) conference in Saudi Arabia, Basher Abdullah, an adviser to Sudan’s Ministry of Industry and Trade, said, ‘First, we need to end the war. Then, we have to restart the factories’. His comment was about Sudan’s appalling civil war, but it could have been about many countries in the Global South that are in the midst of either a shooting war or a trade war. For these poorer nations, development has been set aside in favour of more immediate threats. Yet beyond the horizon of guns and extortion lies the need to imagine possible futures.

Can The Poorer Nations Build A New Architecture For Development And Sovereignty?

July 25, 2025 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Strategize! Austerity, Debt, Development, Global South, Sovereignty

A horrifying statistic hovers over the poorer nations: 3.4 billion people now live in countries that spend more on interest payments for public debt than on education or health. In 2024, according to a new report from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), global public debt reached $102 trillion – a third of which is held by developing countries. The impact on these countries is especially severe: credit markets charge poorer nations far higher interest rates than they do richer nations, making debt servicing payments proportionately higher for the Global South.

Peace And Development Are Better Than Austerity And War

July 18, 2025 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Educate! Development, military spending, NATO, Peace, Wars and Militarism

Reason seems to have been gradually abolished by the language of bombs. As weapons systems get ‘smarter’ and ‘smarter’, the range of diplomatic instruments used by the Global North states becomes blunter and blunter. US and European diplomats have returned to the old colonial habit of speaking loudly and brusquely, lecturing the natives about what they should or should not do while they themselves do whatever they want. If the natives do not agree, then the old colonial rulers simply threaten to cut off their hands or bomb their homes.

Who Says A Chicken Feather Can’t Fly Up To Heaven?

July 11, 2025 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Educate! Capitalism, China, Development, Socialism

In 1957, Mao Zedong oversaw the publication of Socialist Upsurge in China’s Countryside, a three-volume collection of articles compiled by the Communist Party of China for the political education of the peasantry. The following year, selections from these volumes were republished in abridged and regional editions. One such edition included a report from the Anyang Regional Communist Party Committee’s Office for the Co-operative Movement with an introduction by Mao. The text, called ‘Who Says a Chicken Feather Can’t Fly up to Heaven?’, provides the title for this newsletter.

India: Farmers Near Victory After Almost 2,000 Days Of Protest

July 9, 2025 Pavan Kulkarni, People's Dispatch. Resist! Development, Farmers, India, Land Reform

On the 1,188th consecutive day of protest against the forcible land acquisition from the farmers of 13 villages in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, its Chief Minister (CM) Siddaramaiah met with movement leaders on July 4. As a “gift” to the CM, the delegates carried mangoes, flowers, and seasonal vegetables grown on their threatened land, highlighting the fertility of the 1,777 acres his government is acquiring, allegedly for real estate interests. Hinting at his willingness to retreat, his office released a statement after the meeting, explaining that his government needed 10 days to examine the legal complexities involved in reversing the acquisition process for which his government had already issued the final notices this April.

Financing For Development Forum Plants The Seeds Of Debtor Unity

July 8, 2025 Michael Galant, Inter Press Service News Agency. Create! Debt, Development, Global South, United Nations

UN Member States adopted the ‘Compromiso de Sevilla’ at the Fourth Financing for Development Forum (FfD4) which concluded July 3– the culmination of months of contentious negotiations that pitted wealthy nations against the developing world in competing visions for reform of the global economic architecture. The wide-ranging outcome document will be met with both fanfare — from the host countries and UN officials keen to portray the process as a success — and criticism — from civil society groups lamenting the watering down of material commitments into so many toothless words.

The Global Gateway To Nowhere

May 23, 2025 Alexandra Gerasimcikova and Paul Okumu, Africa Is A Country. Educate! Africa, Development, Europe, European Union (EU), Imperialism

European development aid has entered a new phase of the European Union’s neocolonialist agenda. Its “Global Gateway” plan is a wishlist for infrastructure projects to be launched across the world by European companies, backed by liberal reforms to pave the way. At its heart: Africa, where at least half of all investments are set to land. The Global Gateway was introduced by the EU’s technocratic institutions in Brussels as a branding exercise for a new direction for European aid in the world, following the cracks the COVID-19 pandemic revealed in Europe’s supply chains. In effect, this plan has sought to secure access to raw materials as well as energy with a view to reducing reliance on China’s minerals and Russia’s gas.

Community Struggles For Self-Governance In The Global South

April 29, 2025 Shrishtee Bajpai, Resilience. Strategize! Democracy, Development, Global South, Self-Determination

Are we really free? With this seemingly straightforward yet provocative question, Vijay Dethe from Pachgaon village in the Chandrapur district of Maharashtra, India, opened several philosophical and political questions. Vijay belongs to Dalit community and works with the Gond adivasis (indigenous peoples in India) and other marginal communities of Pachgaon towards self rule and overall governance in the village. He further added “the ones who destroyed their forests, polluted their waters, are now telling us what ‘vikas’(development) is! Do they really know what ‘development’ is!?”

Can The Global South Get Out Of The US-Dominated Financial System?

April 13, 2025 Zoe Alexandra, People's Dispatch. Create! BRICS, Development, dollar, Global South, IMF, Sovereignty, US Hegemony, World

Is it possible to create systems of trade, finance, and funding outside the US-dominated system? Is the BRICS bloc able to build the necessary alternatives to challenge this system? Economists, academics, and political leaders participating in the IV Dilemmas of Humanity Conference in São Paulo tackled this pressing question that today the nations of the Global South confront. Nations, who find that their plans for poverty alleviation, economic sovereignty, and trade with their neighbors, are held back by restrictions imposed by the United States and their debt commitments, for which they need a reserve of dollars.

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