Globalisation — or Global Justice

Under capitalist globalisation, Western states and corporations continue to plunder the Global South. That’s not internationalism, it’s imperialism.

A stamp celebrating the Tricontinental Congress in Havana, Cuba in 1966, which aimed to unite Africa, Asia and Latin America against the old colonial powers. (Photo by Roberto Machado Noa / LightRocket via Getty Images)

Once Francis Fukuyama had declared the end of history in 1992, it became impossible to challenge the idea that globalisation was both good and inevitable. The fall of the Iron Curtain, the removal of restrictions on capital mobility, and the growth of the multinational corporation would spread free market capitalism around the world, bringing peace […]

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