{"id":35473,"date":"2018-06-25T06:23:52","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T11:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35473"},"modified":"2018-06-25T06:23:58","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T11:23:58","slug":"a-world-for-the-many-not-the-few","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35473","title":{"rendered":"A world for the many, not the few"},"content":{"rendered":"

A world for the many, not the few<\/a><\/h3>\n

“The very notion of \u2018charity\u2019 erases a global history of slavery and oppression”. Asad\u00a0Rehman applauds Labour\u2019s ambition to overhaul neo-colonial development policy<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"Illustration by Andrzej Krauze<\/div>\n

In\u00a0<\/span>1792, pioneering British feminist and social justice activist Mary Wollstonecroft wrote in her seminal book The Rights of Women<\/i>, \u2018It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.\u2019 Two centuries later, the shadow international development minister, Kate Osamor, a black feminist with a background in social justice activism, has anchored that fundamental truth in Labour\u2019s vision for international development, \u2018A World For the Many, Not The Few\u2019. In doing so, she has committed the Labour Party to putting social justice at the heart of its international agenda and listening to the voices of those facing the greatest injustices: women in the global south.<\/p>\n

For too long, politicians and, to their shame, many in the development sector have ignored the key driver of global poverty: neoliberal capitalism, a failed economic system whose rules are stacked in favour of corporate elites. They have stayed silent on the culpability of Britain in promoting unfair trade rules, creating new debt burdens, forcing privatisations and entrenching oppressive neo-colonial power dynamics on the international stage. <\/span><\/p>\n

The new colonialism<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The idea of \u2018international development\u2019 was constructed in the post-war era to cover up the deliberate \u2018underdevelopment\u2019 of the global south. During colonialism, Britain and the other industrial powerhouses had enriched themselves by extracting resources and slave labour from their colonies. They deliberately impoverished the south and, in the process, killed countless millions across Latin America, Africa and Asia. It is estimated that the UK extracted \u00a3600 trillion during its colonisation of India alone, reducing India\u2019s pre-colonial share of the global economy from 27 per cent to just 3 per cent by the time the British left. <\/span><\/p>\n

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A world for the many, not the few “The very notion of \u2018charity\u2019 erases a global history of slavery and oppression”. Asad\u00a0Rehman applauds Labour\u2019s ambition to overhaul neo-colonial development policy Illustration by Andrzej Krauze In\u00a01792, pioneering British feminist and social justice activist Mary Wollstonecroft wrote in her seminal book The Rights of Women, \u2018It is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6],"tags":[20660,195,478,3643,14421,5632,4538,16940,731,805],"class_list":["post-35473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-asad-rehman","tag-debt","tag-labour","tag-neocolonialism","tag-neoliberal-capitalism","tag-oppression","tag-privatisation","tag-red-pepper","tag-slavery","tag-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35474,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35473\/revisions\/35474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}