bilaterals.org: 20 years supporting resistance to free trade agreements
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16 December 2024
bilaterals.org: 20 years supporting resistance to free trade agreements
This year, bilaterals.org celebrated its 20th anniversary. Twenty years of supporting struggles against free trade and investment agreements around the world through communication and information dissemination, giving visibility and connectedness to social struggles on the ground, and promoting values of solidarity and cooperation between movements.
To mark the occasion, we gathered in October in Bandung, Indonesia, to reflect on our journey, the changes over these two decades and the challenges we face both politically and in our communications.
During the meeting, we analysed the evolution of trade issues in different regions, the current challenges and how to improve bilaterals.org to make it an even more useful tool for movements. We also shared insights and experiences with allied organisations from Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines and Sri Lanka, who enriched the discussions with their contributions.
Throughout the year, we published a series of articles written by the movements and activists at the heart of the campaigns against these agreements. The articles aim to take stock of what has happened over the past 20 years and look ahead to the resistance to free trade agreements in the years to come. They share experiences from Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America, connecting the dots between different struggles.
- Twenty years of bilaterals.org, twenty years of fighting FTAs
- A tsunami of trade agreements: Reflections on 20 years of resistance
- European trade deals : Greenwashed but still dirty
- 20 years of free trade in Morocco, the dominant class cashes in
- Bringing together social and environmental demands in the fight against FTAs
We are deeply grateful to everyone who has accompanied us over the years, who has read our content, supported us and been part of this global network. We fondly remember Carlos Vicente and Aziz Choudry, fundamental pillars of this project, and we honour Renée Vellvé, who was not only the driving force but also the heart behind the creation and early development of bilaterals.org.
