All Mondial articles
Every article from the Citizens for Global Solutions and World Federalist Movement – Canada journal, alongside selected writing from allied organisations, searchable and cross-referenced by topic, issue and source.
Articles
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Accountability for Pandemic Profiteers
March 2023
Loblaw clawed back a pandemic raise for frontline workers while Galen Weston Jr.’s fortune and pay soared, and penalties for price fixing and offshore tax evasion barely dented profits. Wealth that hides offshore will escape national courts until the world builds institutions with reach beyond borders.
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New book explores global solutions to global problems
March 2023
Keith McNeil reviews ‘Breaking Boundaries’ by Johan Rockstrom and Owen Gaffney, a book and companion documentary on the planetary boundaries that define a safe operating space for humanity. He highlights its case for global cooperation and notes where world federalists might extend the argument toward democratic global governance.
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Biodiversity: A Pledge, Now Action
March 2023
Rene Wadlow reports on the agreement reached at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) in Montreal in December 2022, where delegates adopted a new Global Biodiversity Framework. He weighs the promise of the pledges, the role of civil society, and the risk that implementation and funding could fall short.
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The Security Council Veto and the International Court of Justice
March 2023
By vetoing a resolution demanding a Russian withdrawal from Ukraine, Moscow went beyond the powers the UN Charter grants. A World Court advisory opinion saying so could void that veto and curb abuse by the five permanent members without amending the Charter.
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Winter is coming in Ukraine: Are there prospects for peace?
March 2023
Peace in Ukraine will come through talks, not Russia’s total defeat, because humiliating a nuclear power is too dangerous. Canada, though no neutral party, could press NATO to downgrade its nuclear weapons and back a civil society peace platform.
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Who Speaks for the World?
March 2023
Great powers have attacked weaker nations for centuries, and the UN still hands five of them a permanent veto. Ending that privilege, adding an elected parliamentary assembly, a currency speculation tax and a standing rapid force would let the UN act for all humanity.
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The Need for Global Unity: How World Law Can Save Us All
March 2023
The article argues that global threats like climate change, nuclear proliferation, and conflict require immediate global unity and conviction. It critiques the current failures of multilateral institutions, such as the UN Security Council and climate accords, and calls for strengthening the UN into a democratically elected world federation.
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The Clark-Sohn Plan
March 2023
A 1958 plan to end war by amending the UN Charter would have let the world’s peoples elect the General Assembly, disarmed every nation over ten years and armed only a UN peace force. No clearer world federalist blueprint exists.
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International Survey: Citizens Want a Stronger and More Democratic UN
March 2023
A survey across six countries found widespread public support for increasing or maintaining UN authority and making its structures more representative of global citizens. Respondents also showed support for making decisions on major environmental and economic matters binding, and preferred a second chamber with directly elected representatives.
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Constitution for the Federation of Earth: Structure and Function
March 2023
This article outlines a proposed ‘Earth Constitution’ that grounds global governance in shared human dignity rather than national sovereignty. It details a World Parliament structure with three houses (Peoples, Counselors, and Nations) designed to embody the principle of unity in diversity.
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A Principle-Driven Three-Step Action Plan for Building a World Federation
March 2023
World federation can be built in steps. A Global Energy Authority pooling oil, gas and nuclear power, on the model of postwar Europe’s Coal and Steel Community, could tackle proliferation, energy access and climate change at once.
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World Federation Through the Gradual Accession of Willing States
World Federalist Movement – Canada · February 2023
Alec Neilly would begin with non-aligned countries and a few wealthy states that favour redistribution, require even non-democratic members to send elected representatives, and apportion seats by population.
