Global South Academic Forum 2025

The article commemorates the 80^th anniversary of the global victory in the Anti-Fascist War and the founding of the United Nations, highlighting the sacrifices made by the World Anti-Fascist Alliance. It discusses the historical opportunities for national liberation movements and the current challenges posed by the resurgence of Cold War thinking and the need for reforming global governance.

At the opening ceremony, Kuai Shuguang, Zhang Meifang, and Cuban Ambassador Alberto Blanco Silva urged Global South solidarity, China–Global South cooperation, and the defence of the postwar international order on the 80^th anniversary of the World Anti-Fascist War victory.

Wang Hui reframes 20^th-century Chinese warfare as a fusion of war and revolution. He argues that people’s war created new political subjects by integrating party, army, state, and mass mobilisation, linking national liberation to anti-fascist and anti-imperialist struggles across China and the Global South.

Through family memory, Japanese war-crimes testimony, and Rongjiang’s Village Super League, Xinyu Lu argues that Marxist journalism is organized mass practice. Drawing on Mao, he links people’s war, permanent peace, and the mass line to a Global South communication order rooted in participation and sovereignty.

Busani Ngcaweni argues that fascism survives as hegemonic statecraft: domination through debt, sanctions, narratives, and digital control. Contrasting it with developmental statecraft, he calls for Global South solidarity, epistemic sovereignty, and institutions grounded in dignity, plurality, and anti-imperial cooperation.

Suh Sung situates China’s September 3 commemorations within East Asia’s imperial history and unfinished justice after Japanese aggression. He contrasts South Korea’s pragmatic Lee administration with Japan’s ultra-right turn and calls for anti-hegemonic regional solidarity.

Sofya Melnichuk describes RT Chinese’s archival reporting on Unit 731, Soviet interrogations, and the Khabarovsk trial. She stresses journalism’s duty to preserve declassified evidence of biological warfare and Soviet–Chinese cooperation against Japanese militarism.

Sanja Horvatincic recovers Yugoslav–Chinese wartime solidarities expressed in partisan press, culture, and rural memory. She contrasts Cold War erasures with grassroots internationalism and argues that micro-histories of resistance challenge Eurocentric fascism narratives.

Men Jing traces how relations between the European Union and the Global South shifted from development partnership to geopolitical competition.

Liang Zhanjun reflects on the United Nations’ 80-year history, its anti-fascist origins, Charter principles, and enduring role in global governance.

Carlos Ron examines how the Yalta system, the UN Charter, and Global South struggles illuminate the need for a more balanced and anti-fascist international order.

Paulo Nogueira Batista examines possible geopolitical scenarios and the role of the Non-Aligned Movement and Global South amid shifting power relations.

Oleg Barabanov discusses Russia’s historical and contemporary role in supporting Global South cooperation through Bandung principles, BRICS, the SCO, and Eurasian partnerships.

Naledi Nomalanga Mkhize reflects on history teaching, South Africa’s negotiated transition, and the need to cultivate African and Global South historical consciousness among post-apartheid students.

Zang Ruxing situates Taiwan’s anti-independence and anti-intervention struggle within a broader East Asian movement against US-Japan militarisation and imperialist containment of China.

Song Dae-han examines the origins, limits, and dangers of Lee Jae-myung’s pragmatism amid South Korea’s unfinished liberation, US pressure, and the need for progressive alternatives.

Ogata Osamu examines Japan’s military buildup across Okinawa and the Southwest Islands, warning that missile deployments and base expansion are intensifying regional tensions.

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Randy Alonso Falcon examines how AI, big tech power, and media manipulation intensify Cuba’s struggle for truth, sovereignty, and a new communication order.

Prasanth Radhakrishnan revisits the MacBride Report and calls for a renewed Global South communications order against imperialism, inequality, and Western media dominance.

He Mingxing examines the global dissemination of Mao Zedong's works as a historical case in the Global South's struggle for a fairer international information order.

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