2019/08/05 by Michael Franczak · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics #Communism, Protests, Social Movements #Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics
paper · doi:10.1093/dh/dhz043
openalex publication_date 2019/08/05 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
In the early 1970s, Americans of both parties came to resent what they saw as their government’s acceptance of the United States’ declining global power and the Third World’s rise. In speech after speech at the United Nations, Third World representatives denounced the postwar economic order as unequal and immoral, designed by and for the benefit of rich Western countries (above all the United States). On May 1, 1974—International Labor Day—the UN General Assembly adopted the “Group of 77” (G-77) developing countries’ resolution calling for “economic decolonization” and a “right to development” through the establishment of a New International Economic Order...