Peace is an interlude between wars.
— Benito Mussolini
The world is corkscrewing through loops of violence and war; repeating.
In the UK we have to hold up a mirror to ourselves and accept our own culpability in this global horror-show. Britain’s imperialist pursuit of wealth and power has never really stopped, only changed its mask to better hide its behaviour. The present mask was created under the auspices of neoliberal dogma. It is producing terrible repercussions for our future generations.
The UK’s imperialist policy fits snuggly as a small piece within a much grander Western agenda. It has been a major contributor to extreme global inequality, brutal proxy wars and increases in poverty worldwide. Societies caught up directly are now entering a process of either breaking down or rising up. This is happening in response to a neoliberal agenda being pushed by the US and the EU.
Breaking Down and Rising Up
Social unrest is no longer exclusive only to nations outside of Western Europe and the US. Serious internal problems are occurring in both regions. Whilst over 1.1 million people in the UK use food banks up to three times a day, states in the US are being compared to ‘third world’ countries.
Explosions of civil upheaval in Ferguson, Baltimore, New Orleans and Flint may at first seem like unrelated events, but all are intrinsically linked to neoliberal policy. A US police crack down was intended to keep protestors in check and assuage the rising…