Nyéléni Global Forum

Fishing waters, food, genetic inheritance, cooperatives, language, oxygen, community supported agriculture, minerals, currency, the internet… all of these can be commons, referring to when things are held in common and co-produced in different ways.

Sri Lanka — shaped by the violence of debt and the strength of popular resistance — is no random choice. After ousting a neoliberal regime, movements here are building alternatives — and we’re here to build them together.

Since the UN’s 2019 resolution on the social and solidarity economy, efforts have focused on safeguarding its core values against dilution by “social business” or entrepreneurial models that fail to question the unjust, unsustainable economic system.