{"id":235938,"date":"2024-03-03T00:00:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T18:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=235938"},"modified":"2024-03-10T18:20:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T12:50:28","slug":"globally-a-rightward-political-shift-is-visible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/globally-a-rightward-political-shift-is-visible\/","title":{"rendered":"Globally, A Rightward Political Shift Is Visible"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Kumar David<\/a> –<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Prof. Kumar David<\/p><\/div>\n

The global political scene was very left-inclined from about the mid-1960s to say ten or fifteen years ago. The sweeping trend to social democracy in post-war Europe, a surge to the left throughout Asia (Chinese Revolution, defeat of US Imperialism in Vietnam, post-war USSR, our own JVP) and a little later in Africa (Patrice Lumumba, revolution in Mozambique, Nelson Mandela etc), signposted what may be loosely called a period of global shift to the left. That ended about ten to years ago. The last spurt was perhaps Obama\u2019s re-election. The reverse trend became prominent in the US with Trump and internationally a dynamic that began with the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991.<\/p>\n

What are the five critical signs for the rise of the right in this decade? They are: (i) The emergence of Trump and his kind of obnoxious politics and personal and criminal conduct about 15 years ago, (ii) the war in Ukraine which will end in the devastation of that country, (iii) Modi\u2019s Hindutva movement which will eventually be defeated because the roots of liberal democracy are deep-rooted in India, (iv) the border conflict in US south – the Texas border – and the rising tension between Federal and fifteen state level military forces and (v) most serious and what could trigger a major regional war or global military conflict is what for brevity I will call Netanyahu\u2019s ethnic cleansing of Palestine and unrepentant genocide of the non-Jewish people of Palestine. For example, Republican Congressman Andy Ogles of Tennessee replied to a question about the slaughter of Palestinian children in Gaza by asserting: \u201cWe should kill \u2018em all!\u201d. Nevertheless, I grant these are contingent events, that is, of relatively short-term consequence measured in months and years.<\/span><\/p>\n