Another world is possible…

 

World leaders gathered in Johannesburg this week for the annual summit of the BRICS bloc. Named after Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – the key players that set it up some 14 years ago – the bloc has become a pivot for the Global South in the struggle to end the economic and political stranglehold of Anglo-American and Franco-German imperialism in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
At the conference in South Africa the Chinese President, Xi Xinping, said China  was willing to deepen solidarity and cooperation with other emerging markets and developing countries to make the international order more just and equitable. "Emerging countries are becoming more and more relevant in the international arena. This summit will very much contribute to the shaping of a new global economic and political order. It will help change the current situation when it comes to international relations,"  the Chinese communist leader said.
The presidents of People’s China, India, Brazil and South Africa were all there together with leaders from all other the Global South because BRICS is not just a forum for the what we used to call the ‘Third World’ – it is a platform for concrete economic and diplomatic co-operation. Co-operation that led to the establishment of the New Development Bank in 2015 and the development of a common diplomatic front to demand  the South’s rightful share of the fruits of global market.
Some 85 per cent of the world’s population live in the Global South – the ‘developing’ world that is still largely excluded from the international institutions set up by US imperialism after the Second World War with the support of the weaker imperialist forces who rely on American might to defend their global interests now that their colonial empires have long gone. 
The people of the Global South are sick and tired of the fact that the Americans and their minions in the West have economically dominated the world for decades, forcing and imposing transactions in dollars with the fear that failure to comply with US directives would result in economic and financial sanctions or even “regime change” à la Iraq and Libya.  
In contrast BRICS is open to helping countries develop, as well as promoting investment and trade without strings or preconditions. BRICS is fighting against the concept of  a new Cold War and opening the possibility of building a fairer and more equitable international economic order from which the world can benefit. The BRICS bloc is helping to build the multi-polar world that will put an end to the American dream of the “new world order” and world domination.
No wonder Argentina, Egypt, Iran, Ethiopia, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia have applied to join the group. Many more will follow in the future.
A new world is indeed possible but it’s not the European Union or the hell-hole of the United States.  It’s the world being built now in the new institutions of the Global South and Russia that offer an even playing field to all countries to trade and peacefully resolve disputes to build as better future for everyone on the planet.