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As the peoples, movements, and leaders of newly independent, formally colonized states looked across the world in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, they found a commonality amid their diversity.

Their flags had changed, but the economic domination of the third world by the global north remained the

same. The world capitalist system was organized to plunder, facilitating the mass transfer of

wealth from poor countries to rich ones. The third world contained multitudes, encompassing nationalist, social democratic,

socialist, communist, monarchical, and liberal democratic regimes across Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

While they proposed many ideas to combat global inequality, by the 1970s, many came together

around the demand for a new international economic order, or N-I-E-O.

Unfortunately, this vision, limited as it sometimes was, met defeat at the twin assaults of the debt crisis in the global

north's neoliberal counteroffensive. But out of that defeat, new global South social movement

and civil society networks arose to take on neoliberal globalization. All the way through the Battle of Seattle at the

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