Global South

The Strait Of Hormuz, Gate To The Great Sea

April 10, 2026 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Strategize! Global Economy, Global South, Iran, Strait of Hormuz, Wars and Militarism

In the thirteenth century, the great Arab geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi described the Sea of Persia (فارس) as ‘a branch of the Great Sea’. In his compendium, Mu’jem al-Buldaan (Dictionary of Countries), he wrote that through the Sea of Persia would ‘pass the ships of India, Oman, and Basra’. Hormuz was not the name of that sea but of a ‘great mart of trade to which merchants resort from India and other lands’. Centuries later, those waters would be called the Strait of Hormuz: a fifty-four–kilometre passage between the Sultanate of Oman’s Musandam Peninsula and the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Senegal On The Edge Of Collapse

March 27, 2026 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Educate! Debt, Economic crisis, Global South, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Neocolonialism, Senegal

Senegal entered 2026 in the grip of a growing debt crisis that seems insurmountable. After the government of President Bassirou Diomaye Faye took power in April 2024, it became clear that his predecessor, Macky Sall (who held office from 2012 to 2024), had concealed enormous liabilities – including hidden loans equivalent to 25.3 percent of GDP – from the Senegalese people and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). These liabilities expose a structural contradiction: a development model subordinated to external finance has clear limits. Senegal can no longer continue along this path.

Rania Khalek: Resistance And The Fight For The Global South

March 27, 2026 Scheer Post. Strategize! colonization, Global South, Iran, Wars and Militarism

From the frontlines of media to the heart of geopolitical analysis, Rania Khalek brings clarity to the crises shaping our world. In these three must-watch videos, she exposes the realities of imperial aggression, regional resistance, and global economic upheaval. First, she confronts Piers Morgan with the powerful perspective of a Lebanese journalist facing the threat of Israeli expansion. Next, she sits down with Iranian scholar Mohammad Marandi to explore Tehran’s stance against U.S. pressure and the risks of escalation. Finally, she speaks with Marxist economist Prabhat Patnaik on how this conflict reverberates across the Global South, threatening economies, livelihoods, and the balance of power worldwide.

Toward A Revolutionary Charter For Comprehensive Liberation

March 17, 2026 Al-Akhbar, Orinoco Tribune. Strategize! Foreign Relations, Genocide, Global South, Liberation, Palestine, Revolution, Zionism

As liberation movements in the Global South forged their new political language reflecting the perspective of colonized peoples, Amílcar Cabral was one of several leaders who identified the role of intellectuals and the educated elite as a critical vulnerability at the heart of popular revolutions. Some intellectuals have sought to promote Western-friendly approaches while normalizing conciliatory, defeatist frameworks. Cabral’s warning resurfaces sharply in the Palestinian and Arab context, after a brutal and unprecedented genocide met with a widespread silence and betrayal from the public, and complicity on the part of many Arab and Muslim regimes.

This Newsletter Will Make You Angry

February 13, 2026 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Educate! Capitalism, Drug War, Global South, Militarization

A few months ago, I travelled with a team from our institute to Cauca, Colombia, to meet with a range of organisations affiliated with the Popular Unity Process of Southwest Colombia (PUPSOC), a coalition of organisations that defend the land and rights of rural communities. Cauca is home to coca-growing campesino (peasant) communities, where families do not plant coca out of ‘choice’ but because dispossession and state abandonment have closed off dignified livelihoods for them. Their labour barely sustains them, yet their crops are drawn into an obscenely lucrative global value chain of suffering.

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.

The Global South Needs Productive Employment

January 30, 2026 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Create! Finance and the Economy, Global South, Jobs, Manufacturing

On India’s 79th Independence Day, in August 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi devoted his speech to Viksit Bharat 2047 (Developed India 2047) and announced a National Manufacturing Mission. The mission, he said, must ‘reduce import dependence and strengthen economic resilience’ in sectors ranging from aerospace to artificial intelligence. He urged India’s twenty-eight states, eight union territories, and the central government to identify 100 ‘priority products’ for domestic manufacturing and added that state governments should streamline regulations and approvals, ‘especially with respect to land, utilities, and social infrastructure’, in order ‘to attract global companies’.

Ecological Accounting’s Debt-Climate Nexus

January 21, 2026 Arnie Saiki, Decolonize Accounting. Educate! climate crisis, Debt, Global South, Indigenous Activism

The IF20 Religion and Environment Working Group’s 2025 policy brief frames the debt–climate nexus as an existential constraint on low-resource countries, where debt servicing displaces public services and climate response. Building from a proposed UN-centered debt framework, this article focuses on precautionary dangers inside SDG or national accounting instruments, since swaps and valuation-based relief can become predatory when they shift territorial and resource decision-making through external monitoring and data custody.

The Need For Climate And Environmental Internationalism

January 16, 2026 Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. Strategize! Cancer Alley, climate crisis, Environment, Global South, International Solidarity, People's Centered Human Rights

References to the so-called Global South too often primarily connotes the idea of Latin American and Caribbean nations to the geographic south of the United States, as well as African Union nations and a select few in the Middle East, including the Republic of Yemen. While this notion is a factual articulation of the “Global South” parlance, it also carries an Anglo-centric lens that doesn’t consider the fact that the “Global South” is both a preposition and a position in the larger social order of racial capitalism. The Global South is a position in the sense that there are myriad examples that vindicate the assertion of author and scholar Robert L. Allen that Black America is a semi-colony or what he refers to as domestic colonialism.

We Greet The New Year With Optimism

January 2, 2026 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Educate! climate crisis, Economic crisis, Global South, Transformation

Are we entering the new year with anxiety or with hope? I am hopeful because in my travels I see that people around the world are disappointed with the present state of things – they want to live in a society that is not eclipsed by hunger and suffering. But I am not so optimistic as to think that dissatisfaction alone will transform this world of climate catastrophe and genocidal war into one of dignity and peace. While the feeling exists, it has not yet helped us carve a path towards something better. For decades, organisations like the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), founded in 1964, have provided empirical analyses of the suffering in our world.

Digital Bandung: Why The Global South Must Seize Its Data Future

December 28, 2025 Kambale Musavuli, People's Dispatch. Strategize! Artificial Intelligence (AI), Bandung Conference, Data, Ghana, Global South, Imperialism, Kwame Nkrumah, Pan Africanism, Sovereignty

A new pattern is reshaping global digital politics, and African nations must pay attention. The US–Malaysia trade agreement, signed in October 2025, highlights a strategy in which powerful countries design rules that give technology companies broad access to the data of other nations. The agreement instructs Malaysia to “ensure the cross-border transfer of data by electronic means across trusted borders” and prohibits “digital services taxes … that discriminate against US companies.” These clauses establish a legal structure that positions US corporations at the center of Malaysia’s digital economy and places significant limits on national control.

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.

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