LaRouche’s 40-Year Record

Fighting forInternationalDevelopment
From 1970 to this day, physical economist
Lyndon LaRouche has an unparalleled recordof proposals for reforming international financial institutions, and for launching thegreat development projects that can uniquely
reverse the decline of the world economy.
Leading instances of those initiatives arelisted below. The impact of these ideas, andthe political fight on their behalf, can beclearly seen in the current dramatic moves by
the BRICS nations to create a new financialarchitecture.

Financial Reform
1975: At a press conference April 24 inBonn, Germany, LaRouche presents his planfor “the immediate establishment of an International Development Bank as an agreement
among the three principal world sectors—theindustrializedcapitalist
sector, the so-called developing sector, and socialist countries.” He specifies that theimmediate concentration of
the investment thus made possible should be industrial development and expanded foodproduction worldwide.
1976: The Group of 77
Developing Countries, meeting in Colombo, Sri Lanka in
August, issues a call for a newworld economic order, basedon respect for sovereignty,
technology transfer to theThird World, and mutuallyadvantageous economic development proposals between
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the developed and developing world. This is followed
in September at the United Nations, by a call for “newdevelopment banks” by Guyanese Foreign Minister
Fred Wills.
1982: LaRouche addresses the exploding international debt crisis with his proposal for Operation
Juárez, which outlines a specific Ibero-American planfor financial reorganization for development (see article below).
1988: Under the title “Development Is the Namefor Peace,” the Schiller Institute, founded by Helga ZeppLaRouche, holds a conferencein New Hampshire on Jan.
30-31, dedicated to elaborating the need to establish a“just new world economicorder.” Lyndon LaRouche addresses this conference on
how the U.S. Presidency could
establish such a new order,
which he later dubbed a “NewBretton Woods.”
1997: At a Jan. 4 webcast,
LaRouche issues a rallying
cry for a New Bretton Woods,
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an international credit system
for global reindustrialization.
In the months that follow, theLaRouche movement organizes a global movement ofprominent political leadersand economists demanding
this reorganization.
2008: In the face of thedevastating global financial
collapse, LaRouche, in theFall, demands an urgent application of FDR’s GlassSteagall principle to banking
systems throughout the world,but starting in the UnitedStates.
2014: On June 8, LaRouche issues his “Four New
Laws to Save the U.S.A. Now!,” which defines theurgent measures required to be taken by the U.S. Congress. These include:“(1) Immediate re-enactment of the Glass-Steagall
law instituted by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
without modification, as to principle of action. (2) A
return to a system of top-down, and thoroughly definedas National Banking.
“The tested, successful model to be authorized is thatwhich was, under the direction of the policies of nationalbanking which had been successfully installed under
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President
Abraham
Lincoln’s superseding
authority of a currency
created by the Presidency of the UnitedStates (e.g., ‘Greenbacks’), as conducted
as a national bankinga n d - c re d i t - s y s t e mplaced under the supervision of the Office ofthe Treasury Secretaryof the United States. . . .
“(3) The use of aFederal Credit-system
is to generate high-productivity trends in improvements of employment, with the intention
to increase the physical-economic productivity and standard of living of the persons
and households of the United States. . .,” and(4) “Adopt a Fusion-Driver ‘Crash Program.’ ”

Development Projects
1970—United States: “How to Lick a
Depression in a Single Day” is the first reconstruction program issued by LaRouche
for the United States. It emphasizes the needfor investment in high-technology infrastructure development, including fusion
power. This program is elaborated through
LaRouche’s Presidential campaigns, which
focuses on developing U.S. scientific capabilities as part of a world development program.
1979—Africa: LaRouche’s Fusion
Energy Foundation releases a book-length program for
the Industrialization of Africa, based on developing
transportation infrastructure, as well as nuclear energy
development. This is followed up in 1981, by LaRouche’s own “Lagos Plan of Action” for Africa.
1979—India: EIR issues a study on “The Industrialization of India,” commissioned by LaRouche, which
defines how it can go “From Backwardness to Industrial Power in Forty Years.”
1983—Asia/Pacific: LaRouche issues an EIR Special Report entitled “A Fifty-Year Development Policy
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for the Indian-Pacific Oceans Basin,” which presents
the conceptual basis for large-scale infrastructure projects, including water development in the Indian Subcontinent, the Mekong River Basin, the Kra Canal Project, the Hangzhou-Beijing Canal, and a second Panama
Canal. These projects represent the “motor for development,” LaRouche says.
1988—Ibero-America: The Schiller Institute issues
a book-length study on “Ibero-American Integration,100 Million New Jobs by the Year 2000!,” which outlined the basis for an integrated agro-industrial modernization of the continent,
including projects onwater management, highspeed rail, increasing agricultural productivity, nuclear energy, and otherinvestments in high-technology development.
1989—Europe:
Lyndon and Helga LaRouche put forward the“Productive Triangle” development plan, in theface of the collapse ofEast Germany. It builds
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deal with the food crisis in the East, andadvancing to the development of hightechnology development corridors between Moscow, Paris, and Vienna—anarea which encompasses the most productive industrial centers in Europe.
1990—Southwest Asia: LaRouche releases his “Oasis Plan,” as a basis for lasting peace between Israel and the Arabworld, based on programs of nuclear desalination and industrial development for
the entire region.
1990s—Eurasia: With the collapseof the Soviet Union in 1991, the LaRouches expand the concept of the Productive Triangle to become the EurasianLand-Bridge, linking all of Eurasia
through development corridors. One ofthe high points of this organizing occurs
in 1996, during a conference sponsored by the Chinese government, which features plans for a “NewSilk Road.” This event is followed by many others
dedicated to the Eurasian Land-Bridge over the following years.
2007—Russia/U.S.: LaRouche puts a special emphasis on the Bering Strait Tunnel during a May visit toMoscow, where he is a featured guest at the Russian
Academy of Sciences in celebration of the 80th birthday of Prof. Stanislav Menshikov, a prominent Russian
economist.

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