Schlagwort: Neo-Colonial World
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Jeremy Birch: Third World living standards and the post-war boom. . . ‚An unending nightmare of squalor and destitution‘
[Militant International Review, No. 31, Summer 1986, p. 12-15] During the prolonged world economic upswing of 1950 to 1973 more was produced than in all the centuries of human endeavour combined up until then. This brought rising living standards compared to the inter-war years and virtual full employment to Europe and North America. Based upon…
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Lynn Walsh: Open warfare postponed
[Militant International Review, No. 55, January/February 1994, p. 21-25] The main achievement of the GATT deal, argues Lynn Walsh, was to preserve the status quo – for now. The long delayed agreement on GATT, reached between US and European union representatives in Geneva on 4 December, was hailed by capitalist leaders as a great triumph…