“Solidarity is Something you can Hold in your Hand”

This article tells the story of an organization based in Copenhagen, Denmark, which supported the Liberation struggle in the Third World from 1969 until April 1989. It focus on the support to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (pflp). The story is told in a historical and global context. The text explains the strategy and tactic behind the support-work. It explains how the different forms of solidarity work developed over two decades (for a more detailed account of the history of the group, see Kuhn, 2014). Finally, the article offers an evaluation of the past and a perspective on the future struggle for a socialist Palestine.

The end of the internet rush

The concept of natural growth in competition is being exploited to produce forecasts for the use of Internetworldwide. Population trends and Internet-user trends indicate that the percentage of the population using theInternet is slowing down everywhere despite large discrepancies: 68% in the US, 45% in Europe, and 8% in therest of the world. Whereas new growth phases with slow rates of growth should be expected from the third world,the boom years of Internet explosion are over. Significant growth in the use of Internet in the rest of the world mustawait for a couple of decades.

LAW AND DEVELOPMENT MOVEMENT IN LIGHT OF CONTRADICTIONS OF LEGAL RECEPTION

The western Law and Development movement engaged in legal assistance to the socioeconomic development of the third world states as well as the postsocialist countries by the Western patterns includes two different stages, the first one continues about a decade and a half from the beginning of the 1960s, the second lasts approximately twenty years starting the beginning of the 1990s. The article provides a detailed consideration of the history and the achieved results, the content of the activities as well as the theoretical sources of the movement in the jurisprudence, the sociology and the economics. The Law and Development movement encourages and assists in the legal reception from the Western legal orders. Taking into account the distinction between the political and the doctrinal legal reception, the movement acts within framework of the former because it uses the legal regulations as an instrument for achievement of extra-legal purposes. Informed by this approach, the legislation serves the present-day policy whereas the law, which is a special social regulator establishing freedom in a social life, does not find a proper expression in the legislation, a statute compliant with the law is not the legislator’s reference point. Hence the political legal reception does not contribute to a successful legal development, establishment of legal values and the rule of law. This predetermines a failure of the Law and Development movement as a whole. The true outcome of the movement is an impulse of some kind to the further independent legal development in the interested recipient countries.

Benjamin R. Young. 2021. Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader. North Korea and the Third World. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Ebook ISBN 9781503627642. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503627642

Benjamin R. Young. 2021. Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader. North Korea and the Third World. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Ebook ISBN 9781503627642. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503627642