Burdened by decades of neocolonialism and corruption, Senegal faces an all-too-familiar dilemma faced by countries across the Global South: how to pursue sovereign development under the weight of debt.
Multipolarity and the global demand for democracy
Neoliberalism has caused the widespread and institutional violation of human rights.
Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados, has a plan to create a new financial system that would fund climate spending. She put forward the Bridgetown Agenda would suspend IMF debt payments for the poorest countries.
With this summer’s strike, the country’s powerful Indigenous movement united two agendas long in tension: resistance to austerity and opposition to natural resource extraction.
While industrial capitalism got rid of the landlord class, capitalism still had economic rent, but instead of being paid to the landlord class, it is now paid to the banks in the form of interest.
In the aftermath of Ecuador's longest-running national strike organized by Indigenous movements, activists now face a wave of criminalization.
Ghana initiated talks with the International Monetary Fund to seek a bailout amid a major economic crisis. The Socialist Movement of Ghana and trade unions reject this, arguing it will do nothing to alleviate the economy's structural problems.
A conversation with Jamie Martin about the imperial origins of the world’s economic governance, imagining an alternative to these institutions, and his new book, The Meddlers.
The House passed a bill that sounds good, but doesn’t end Washington's failed, militarized approach or get to root problems.
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