Activists Resolve To End The Era Of The Billionaires And Build A New Era For The 99%

23 September 2024

THE FIGHT FOR ALTERNATIVES GLOBAL ASSEMBLY - SEPTEMBER 2024

We gathered in Manila, Philippines as over 200 activists from across Asia, Latin America and Africa from 4-7 September for the Fight For Alternatives Global Assembly of the Fight Inequality Alliance, hosted by Fight Inequality Alliance Philippines. We spent four days of spirited learning, networking, and engagement on alternatives to the dominant, neoliberal capitalist mode of economic organisation and the governance architecture that underpins it at the national, regional, and global levels.

We joined together as activists and movements from Indigenous, feminist, labour, young people’s, human rights, academic, environmental, women, farmer and fishing communities, to issue this call to action - together we resolve to end the era of the billionaires, and build a new era for the 99%. This includes ending the era of billionaires not paying their fair share of taxes, capturing governments and global financial institutions, and upholding economic and political systems that serve them and not the 99% of the world population.

To further our collective struggles against inequality in all its forms and for the alternatives we seek, we collectively prioritised to focus our collective activism and energy over the coming year on the gap between the rich and poor, debt crisis, climate crisis, neoliberalism, regressive tax systems, shrinking civic space, and gender, race and caste based inequalities.

In this first year of our 10 year roadmap towards mass mobilising to fight inequality, we agreed to:

1. Scale up our global priority moments across all countries and regions, including towards the World Economic Forum in Davos in January, as well as the G20 summits and the meetings of the international financial institutions. We declared 2025 to be a major year of mobilisation for the Alliance.
2. Increase the priority of national alliance building within countries and across borders This will include countries across Africa, Latin America & The Caribbean and Asia where the Alliance is yet to establish a presence, as well as deepening the movement building and mass mobilisation in countries where the Alliance is already organising towards achieving the 60 strong national alliances we have committed to in the roadmap.
3. Build and undertake large scale political education to support these efforts We will work alongside national organisers and leaders to co-create the knowledge, skills and shared learning to build a global movement in the struggle against inequality. Political education will serve as a catalyst for cultivating a strong corps of organisers and leaders who seek to mobilise to dismantle inequality and advance economic liberation.
4. Evolve the Alliance’s structures to support our growing movement To support and enable this evolution, after many months of co-creation across the movement we agreed a new governance model, a new membership policy, a mass mobilisation model and a new resourcing strategy. These are key pieces of how we will build the movement together across the world.

We call on all like minded movements, groups, trade unions, artists and activists to join with us in this struggle. Only together can we win a world of equality, justice and dignity for all.