From Bandung (1955) to 2015: Old and New Challenges for the States, the Nations and the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America

Abstract

This paper reminds us what was really Bandung and non-alignment, which the author understands as having been in its time “non-alignment on the imperialist pattern of globalisation” of the time. Today, again, states and societies of the global South are the victims of the pattern of imperialist unipolar globalisation of our time. Therefore, the challenge is again to construct a South solidarity against globalisation, creating the conditions for a polycentric world order. This is “reviving the spirit of Bandung.”

Keywords:

• globalisation
• multipolar global system
• non-alignment
• spirit of Bandung

Notes on Contributor

Samir Amin has been Director of Third World Forum since 1980 and President of the World Forum for Alternatives since 1997. His major recent books published in English include A Life Looking Forward: Memoirs of an Independent Marxist (Zed, 2006), From Capitalism to Civilisation: Reconstructing the Socialist Perspective (Tulika Books, 2010), Ending the Crisis of Capitalism or Ending Capitalism? (Pambazuka, 2010), Global History: A View from the South (Pambazuka, 2010), and The Law of Worldwide Value (Monthly Review Press, 2010).