Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty, and Resistance is an examination of philosophy, politics, and economics in relation to Jamaica, other formerly colonized countries, and the world at large. Neoliberalism is an in-depth look at how large-scale Western capitalist forces affect and, in general, harm smaller countries and their own citizens who are usually black, brown or people of the Global South. The book uses Jamaica and the US to provide context and a case study. In the second part of the book we consider the response to the pro- cesses of decolonization and globalization that have deepened the realities of the peoples of the Global South and the peoples in the diaspora. There have been hundreds of protests against the Washington Consensus and their lackeys since 1976 by the global justice move- ment and recently the Black Lives Matter movement in America. Street protests and some degree of violence have been the main strategies of the group until recent- ly. But are the resistance movements closer to achiev- ing their aims? The effectiveness of the resistance will be determined by the extent to which they have real- ized actual power: “demonstrated change in the desired direction.

Preface to Neoliberalism… When we hear of Jamaica or the Caribbean, we think of beautiful islands of paradise with sun, sea and sand, reggae music, cannabis, and “irie” people like Usain Bolt— people who are living out their best dreams, desires, and lives. But this book analyzes this motif, given the historical and current economic and political situation in Jamaica […]