Opeck plays a central role as both an inspiration for the new international economic order and as a model of the possible forms of it's not a strike, but a way of generating leverage in the international economy. And so ther's like boxide associations and, you know, all these commodity associations. And the attempt is to kind of collaborate and set prices collectively. So that's one, one version of the, of the ways that they try to intervene in this global economy.
Featuring Adom Getachew on the story of how decolonization struggles across the Black Atlantic tried to not only cast off European rule but also to remake the entire world system. An October 2019 episode from the archives.
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