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26 June 2025

The Global North Lives Off Intellectual Rents: The Twenty-Sixth Newsletter (2025)

Despite rapid technological innovations, Global South countries remain trapped in Global North-dominated intellectual property regimes designed to extract endless rents through patents and licensing fees– stripping them of wealth and stunting their development.

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The Global North Has Nine Times More Voting Power at the IMF Than the Global South: The Tenth Newsletter (2025)

In the deeply undemocratic IMF, where a country’s voting power is tied not to its population size but to the size of its economy, the US effectively holds a veto over any major changes and…

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23 July 2024

How Latin America Can Delink from Imperialism

This dossier explores the possibilities that the current crisis of global capitalism creates for sovereign regional development projects in Latin America and the Caribbean and the importance of South-South alliances in this struggle.

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18 July 2024

The Pacific Lands and Seas Are Neither Forbidden nor Forgotten: The Twenty-Ninth Newsletter (2024)

A powerful struggle is taking place in Kanaky (New Caledonia) between the indigenous people and French colonial authorities. In the background, the US-led militarisation of the Pacific intensifies.

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18 July 2024

They Are Making the Waters of the Pacific Dangerous

The US-led militarisation of the Pacific, aimed at China, is intensifying. The ongoing Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise features 25,000 military personnel from 29 countries.

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15 February 2024

A Word like Peace Is Faster Than the Bullet of War: The Seventh Newsletter (2024)

As the second anniversary of the Russia-Ukraine war nears, public support for the war has reached an all-time low. Nonetheless, NATO is escalating tensions along Russia’s border with a four-month military exercise involving 90,000 troops…

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25 January 2024

We Know a Different World Will Be Born Out of This Mess: The Fourth Newsletter (2024)

‘The West is in danger’, warned Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei, at this year’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland. While Milei blamed ‘collectivism’ and social democratic policies, in reality the West is in…

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23 January 2024

The Churning of the Global Order

Based on original research carried out with Global South Insights, dossier no. 72 analyses the tectonic changes taking place in the world and the new mood in the Global South.

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23 January 2024

Hyper-Imperialism: A Dangerous Decadent New Stage

Our latest study explores how the decline of Global North hegemony has shifted the geopolitical landscape and opened new possibilities for emergent organisations of the Global South.

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31 August 2023

On 1 January 2024, the World’s Centre of Gravity Will Shift: The Thirty-Fifth Newsletter (2023)

On the last day of the BRICS summit, the five founding states (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) welcomed six new members: Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. The…

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8 August 2023

Dependency and Super-exploitation: The Relationship between Foreign Capital and Social Struggles in Latin America

This dossier analyses the role of Marxist dependency theory today as an important scientific tool to understand the current anti-democratic and fascist trends and emancipation processes in the Global South.

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7 August 2023

Dependency and Super-exploitation: The Relationship between Foreign Capital and Social Struggles in Latin America

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3 August 2023

There Are Enough Resources in the World to Fulfil Human Needs, But Not Enough Resources to Satisfy Capitalist Greed: The Thirty-First Newsletter (2023)

The United Nations has published A New Agenda for Peace, which declares that ‘we are now at an inflection point. The post-Cold War period is over. A transition is under way to a new global…

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The Global North Has Nine Times More Voting Power at the IMF Than the Global South: The Tenth Newsletter (2025)

How Latin America Can Delink from Imperialism

The Pacific Lands and Seas Are Neither Forbidden nor Forgotten: The Twenty-Ninth Newsletter (2024)

They Are Making the Waters of the Pacific Dangerous

A Word like Peace Is Faster Than the Bullet of War: The Seventh Newsletter (2024)

We Know a Different World Will Be Born Out of This Mess: The Fourth Newsletter (2024)

The Churning of the Global Order

Hyper-Imperialism: A Dangerous Decadent New Stage

On 1 January 2024, the World’s Centre of Gravity Will Shift: The Thirty-Fifth Newsletter (2023)

Dependency and Super-exploitation: The Relationship between Foreign Capital and Social Struggles in Latin America

Dependency and Super-exploitation: The Relationship between Foreign Capital and Social Struggles in Latin America

There Are Enough Resources in the World to Fulfil Human Needs, But Not Enough Resources to Satisfy Capitalist Greed: The Thirty-First Newsletter (2023)