Global South

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.

Half Of The World’s Population Owns Just 2% Of Global Wealth

December 19, 2025 Abdul Rahman, People's Dispatch. Educate! Global Economy, Global South, Taxes, wealth inequality

Neoliberal free-market economic policies are creating an unprecedented concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few, leaving the majority of the world population with little or no means to make a decent life and almost no power over their destiny, claims the 2026 World Inequality Report published earlier this month. The report claims, “inequality today is not confined to income or wealth; it affects every domain of economic and social life” resulting in the world facing unequal access to basic material resources, gender disparities, territorial divides and climate change, among others.

The Earth Is Unhappy With The Capitalist Climate Catastrophe

December 5, 2025 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Educate! Capitalism, climate crisis, COP30, Environment, Global North, Global South

During the closing plenaries of the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30) in Belém do Pará in the Brazilian Amazon, United Nations Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell gave a rousing speech. Stiell, from Grenada, came to his post after a long career in the corporate sector and then as his country’s environment and climate resilience minister under the pro-corporate New National Party. In his speech he said that ‘denial, division, and geopolitics [have] dealt international cooperation some heavy blows this year’.

Rich Countries At COP30 Are Robbing The Global South

November 16, 2025 David Goeßmann, Truthout. Educate! climate crisis, Climate finance, COP30, Global South

UN climate conferences are primarily announcement summits. For 30 years, industrialized countries, which are primarily responsible for the climate crisis, have been promising that they will reduce greenhouse gas emissions consistent with the climate science, promote the energy transition, and combat the effects of climate change. Additional promises have also been made regarding climate financing at the UN Conference of the Parties (COP) climate summits in Copenhagen (2009) and Paris (2015). At COP30 in Brazil, governments have once again declared their intention to support developing countries with climate funding, repeating their promise at the COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, to increase climate financing to $300 billion annually from 2035. But promises are not yet actions.

How Exxon Exported Climate Denial To The Global South

November 4, 2025 Geoff Dembicki, DeSmog. Educate! Big Oil, climate crisis, climate denial, Global South, Rightwing think tanks

In early September, the Danish climate crisis denier Bjørn Lomborg travelled to São Paulo to deliver a stark warning. On the sidelines of a conference called the Forum Caminhos da Liberdade, happening just as Brazil was gearing up to host annual global climate talks (known as “COP30”) in November, Lomborg claimed that if implemented poorly, government efforts to address climate change could “destroy economic growth.” Lomborg had some behind-the-scenes assistance to help his message land, because one of the top 2025 sponsors of the conference (whose speakers in previous years have included Silicon Valley billionaire and Donald Trump ally Peter Thiel), was Atlas Network, a United States-based worldwide coalition of more than 500 free-market think tanks and allied partners.

Global South Cooperation Needed To Counter Hegemonic Disinformation

November 2, 2025 Tim Anderson, Orinoco Tribune. Strategize! Collaboration, Global Hegemony, Global South, Independent media, Media

Systematic disinformation is employed by the hegemonic powers to destabilise, divide, and weaken independent peoples and nations. It serves to disempower entire populations, justify suffocating sieges, proxy wars, invasions, and occupations, and to disqualify resistance. The problem: hegemonic propaganda is broad, deep, and well integrated. The Anglo-American enemy has lost its advantages in technology, industry and commerce, but maintains them in finance and propaganda. The dollar/SWIFT dictatorship still rules, and media, communicational, and ideological Anglo-American hegemony remains firmly in place, through well-developed networks.

Seven Theses On The Gen Z Uprisings In The Global South

October 24, 2025 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Strategize! Chile, Gen Z, Global South, Youth Activism

The walls of Santiago, Chile – the city where I live – are marked with faded graffiti from the estallido social (social uprising) of 2019. Years later, these slogans continue to spill onto the sidewalks, from Nos quitaron tanto que nos quitaron hasta el miedo (they took so much from us that they even took away our fear) to No son 30 pesos, son 30 años (it’s not 30 pesos; it’s 30 years). Both slogans refer to the 30 years of neoliberal austerity imposed on the Chilean people, including a 30-peso hike on the price of metro tickets and deep cuts to the country’s social wage system. The uprising was led by high school students born between 2001 (age 18) and 2005 (age 14), who are part of Generation Z or ‘Gen Z’.

China’s Material Squeeze Exposes US Industrial Fragility

October 13, 2025 Warwick Powell, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! China, Global South, Imperialism, Resources

When Washington declared an economic war on China’s technology ascent, it assumed it held the upper hand. Tariffs, export bans, entity lists and chip sanctions were meant to isolate Beijing, choke its access to critical inputs, strangle its technological development and protect American primacy. Yet with remarkable precision, Beijing has now demonstrated that the United States is the one more deeply entangled in – and dependent upon – China’s command of critical material supply chains. China’s latest round of export controls on lithium batteries, graphite anode materials, and rare earth technologies amounts to the most significant intensification yet in the global race for material sovereignty.

China Is Greening The Global South

September 29, 2025 Robert Hunziker, Counter Punch. Educate! China, climate crisis, Energy, Global South, net zero, Renewable Energy

According to an extensive study by Bloomberg NEF, it requires a staggering $7 trillion a year in renewable investments to achieve net zero by 2050, totaling $175 trillion by 2050. Hmm. Accordingly, in 2024 the world invested a record amount, or roughly $2 trillion, which was $5 trillion short of what is necessary per annum for net zero/2050. That $5 trillion shortfall increases the bogey next year and the years after for every year below $7 trillion, until it’ll take $8 trillion in one year, then $9T, then more. For comparison purposes: The Marshall Plan, or European Recovery Program, cost approximately $13.3 billion between 1948 and 1952. Adjusted for inflation, it would be roughly $130 billion in today’s dollars, looking very peaked next to Net Zero.

Momentum Builds For Sweeping United Nations Reforms

September 25, 2025 Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. Strategize! Global South, International Law, UN80, United Nations

In March of this year, UN Secretary-General António Guterres launched the UN80 Initiative, a system-wide reform effort. UN80 proposals center around reshaping how the United Nations works, including goals which are intended to make the body more efficient and cost-effective. There are more ambitious proposals, including plans to move major UN agencies including UNICEF, UNFPA, and UN Women from western cities such as New York to Nairobi, Kenya. But some are calling for an even more transformative agenda of reform, which could shift long-standing power imbalances in the UN from the West and towards other regions. “The agenda set by the UN is focused on its own organisational weaknesses and does not address the largely political questions that scuttle the UN’s work,” writes Vijay Prashad.

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.

United Nations Turns Eighty

September 5, 2025 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Educate! Global South, History, Human Rights, United Nations (UN)

There is only one treaty in the world that, despite its limitations, binds nations together: the United Nations Charter. Representatives of fifty nations wrote and ratified the UN Charter in 1945, with others joining in the years that followed. The charter itself only sets the terms for the behaviour of nations. It does not and cannot create a new world. It depends on individual nations to either live by the charter or die without it. The charter remains incomplete. It needed a Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, and even that was contested as political and civil rights had to eventually be separated from the social and economic rights. Deep rifts in political visions created fissures in the UN system that have kept it from effectively addressing problems in the world.

African Union Joins Calls To End Use Of Mercator Map That Shrinks It’s Size

September 3, 2025 Reuters, Portside. Resist! African Union, Global South, Inequality, Maps

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa’s size. Created by the cartographer Gerardus Mercator for navigation, the projection distorts continent sizes, enlarging areas near the poles like North America and Greenland while shrinking Africa and South America. “It might seem to be just a map, but in reality, it is not,” the African Union Commission deputy chair, Selma Malika Haddadi, told Reuters, saying the Mercator fostered a false impression that Africa was “marginal”, despite being the world’s second-largest continent by area, with more than 1 billion people. The union has 55 member states.

Global Day Of Solidarity With Venezuela Against US Interventionism

September 1, 2025 TeleSur, Orinoco Tribune. Resist! Global South, International Day of Action, International Solidarity, Mexico, US Imperialism, Venezuela, Wars and Militarism

The Global Day of Solidarity with Venezuela and for Peace in Latin America and the Caribbean was held in locations around the world. On Saturday, August 30, mass organizations, political parties, and social movements from various countries united under the slogan “Venezuela is not a threat, Venezuela is a hope” to express their support for Venezuela and peace in Latin America. The solidarity event comes in response to the recent interventionist actions and threats by the United States Government against the Venezuelan people and government, which include the deployment of military vessels in the Caribbean Sea as an excuse for intervention and destabilization, as well as the increase of a bounty on President Nicolás Maduro’s head, whom the US falsely accuses of association with drug trafficking.

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