War, Racism and Economic Injustice: The Global Ravages of Capitalism

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Fidel Castro, one of the principal advocated for the Third World, challenges the wealthy nations to come up with a more just global economic order:`We are fighting for the most sacred rights of the poor countries; but we are also fighting for the salvation of a First World incapable of preserving the existence of the human species. Overwhelmed by contradictions and self-serving interests, it is incapable of governing itself, and much less of governing the world, whose leadership must be democratically shared. We are fighting to preserve life on our planet."On an optimistic note he concludes: `The end of history, predicted by a few euphoric dreamers, is not here, yet. Perhaps history is just beginning.`


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"Fidel Castro speaks directly to those who are demanding an alternative to the global ravages of capitalism: "People used to talk about apartheid in South Africa. Today we could talk about apartheid throughout the world, where over four billion people are deprived of the most basic rights of all human beings."" "Addressing the Durban conference on racism, the Cuban leader declared that "Racism, racial discrimination and xenophobia are not natural, instinctive human reactions but are social, cultural and political phenomena born directly of war, military conquest, slavery and exploitation."" This collection also contains Fidel Castro's condemnation of Washington's new "war against terrorism," an escalating cycle to terror in which the first victims are always those people living in the poor and underdeveloped world.


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