The South-North Dialogue

50 years ago, 27 nations

from across the world gathered in Paris for the Conference on International Economic Co-operation.

Setting up special commissions on energy, raw materials, development, and finance, the Conference marked the highpoint of so-called “North-South Dialogue,” the debates of the 1970s that set out to restructure the relationships between liberated nations of the South and their former colonizers in the North.

Today, the economic relationship between the South and North is once again under severe strain. Sovereign debt traps drain vital resources to rich creditors in the North. Natural resources are pillaged from poor countries to satisfy Northern populations. Sanctions weaponize the financial system to punish their Southern neighbors. And systems of “intellectual property” defend Northern profits from a Southern response to crises like viral pandemics and a rapidly changing climate.

Yet we lack today a common forum to facilitate the North-South dialogue that animated the debates of the 1970s. The result is not only the sustained domination of Northern interests in the international economic system. It is also the absence of common vision to motivate allies across the North-South divide in their pursuit of economic cooperation, and the absence of a shared plan to win it.

The South-North Dialogue — hosted on the occasion of the European Union-Community of Latin American and Caribbean States Summit in Brussels — provides the ideal context to revive, relaunch and rejuvenate the these debates. Fifty years and 300 kilometres from the original CIEC, the new dialogue will invert the terms of its original: led from the South to dictate terms of cooperation to their Northern neighbors.

Convening parliamentarians, diplomats, scholars, and social leaders to the Cumbre de los Pueblos — running parallel to the EU-CELAC Summit 17-18 July — the South-North dialogue will chart a path to a New International Economic Order fit for the needs of working peoples across this deepening geopolitical divide.

Featuring:

Jeremy Corbyn

Jeremy Corbyn

Jean-Luc Mélenchon

Jean-Luc Mélenchon

Cecilia Britto

Cecilia Britto

Adriana Abdenur

Adriana Abdenur

Julia Perié

Guillaume Long

Vahini Naidu

Carolina Alves

Carolina Alves

Farwa Sial

Farwa Sial

Richard Kozul-Wright

Christian Rodriguez

Christian Rodriguez

Elena Corregido

Jordán Rodas

Jordán Rodas

Yuefen Li

NORMA GOICOCHEA

Norma Goicochea

Alejandro Karlen

Alejandro Karlen

Nicolás Valladares

Nicolás Valladares

Esther Lynch

Esther Lynch

Sira Rego

Sira Rego

Grace Blakeley

Grace Blakeley

Alexandra Gerasimcikova

Eyyup Doru

Eyyup Doru

FARWA SIALFarwa Sial

Farwa Sial

Jerome Roos

Jerome Roos

Kojo Koram

Kojo Koram

José Ernesto Novaes

José Ernesto Novaes

Bora Mema

Bora Mema

Rodrigo Arenas

Rodrigo Arenas

Andre Nuila Herrmannsdörfer

Andrea Nuila
Herrmannsdörfer

Carlos Ron

Carlos Ron

Gerardo Torres Zelaya

Gerardo Torres Zelaya

Cristina Faciaben

Cristina Faciaben

Devika Dutt

Devika Dutt

Peter Mertens

Peter Mertens

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