A global human union

The EU has required all members to conform to basic requirements of respect for democracy and human rights and has developed slowly. The Human Union would be the same. A Human Union can do for the world what the EU did for Europe. Just as the EU was unimaginable and thought unachievable until people actually did it, so it will be with the Human Union, and the time to start is now.

We still do not realise that every war fought today and in the future is a civil war, a civil war of humanity, and we need to build a human political system to replace the political systems which give us those civil wars.

The great political battle of the 21st century will not occur inside or between countries. It will occur between those who want to build a truly human political system and those who continue to put the national interest or the religious interest first.

This should be the big issue of the Australian election: will we issue a Human Union Declaration and start building a human political system or will we continue to see ourselves as just one more of the warring tribes of humanity?

Some further reading:

Bilitsos, Byron and Tuttleman, Jerry: One World Democracy (Origin Press 2005).
Hamer, Chris: A Global Parliament.
Reves, Emery: Anatomy of Peace. The original bestseller critiquing the system of nation states and calling for a world federation. A special reprint is now available from the democratic world federalists.
Storey, Lyndon: Humanity or Sovereignty (Peter Lang 2006). Includes some more discussion of the idea of a Human Union.