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The Global Majority—represented through organizations such as
BRICS, the SCO, the Eurasian Economic Union, ASEAN, and others—is
bringing about a new era of Mankind, an era of peaceful cooperation
based on the economic development of each and every nation on the
planet. This is based on the spirit of the Five Principles of Peaceful
Coexistence which were enunciated by Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal
Nehru and Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai in the 1955 Bandung Conference of
Asian and African states, a watershed moment for the Global South in
the post-war era, which declared the principle of non-alignment
against bloc mentality.
During this time, in the United States, former Congressman Adam
Clayton Powell, Jr. took a stand against the imperial
narrow-mindedness of the U.S. State Department, run by the Anglophile
John Foster Dulles, who with his brother Allen had helped fund the
Hitler war machine. Powell, Jr. decided to attend the Bandung
Conference as a representative of the U.S. Congress when he had
learned that the U.S. State Department would not be participating, let
alone sending any observers, and had discouraged Powell, Jr. from
attending at all.
In a moment of true independent action, Powell, Jr. ignored these
orders. The United States, and the other nations of the Global North,
must act in that same fashion today. Helga Zepp-LaRouche, in the Sept.
5th International Peace Coalition meeting, proposed a statement which
encouraged the unity of the ‘Western’ nations and the Global Majority.
The end of that statement makes our mission clear:
“The nations of the Global Majority are now overcoming an era of
500 years of colonialism and asserting their right to independent
economic development.... It is in the fundamental self-interest of the
nations of the collective West, no longer truly united, to cooperate
with the states of the Global Majority and jointly address the great
challenges facing humankind: Overcoming poverty and under-development;
ensuring lasting world peace; and securing the right of every person
on the planet to fulfill their potential for the realization of a
shared community for the future of humanity."
A new, security and development architecture, under such an
orientation, would make all wars, conflicts, and tensions in the world
solvable. This, of course, includes the unspeakable genocide going on
in Gaza today.
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