Bandung at 70: Tricontinental, NIEO and the Return of Non-Alignment

2025 marks the 70th anniversary of the Bandung conference, the first Afro-Asian summit of formerly colonised nations. From Bandung grew the Tricontinental Conference in Cuba and calls for a New International Economic Order (NIEO) at the UN, as well as the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), a forum of predominantly Global South countries representing more than half of the world’s population. 

While these movements seemed to fall by the wayside as US imperialism and ‘neoliberalism’ swept across the globe, recent calls for a revived NIEO and renewed NAM have gained pace as US-led multilateral institutions have failed in their responses to COVID-19, climate injustice, growing global economic inequality and the genocide in Gaza.  

In this event, we launch Teaching with Tricontinental, an Open Press University of Sussex sourcebook co-written by staff and students at Sussex, and discuss the importance of the NIEO, NAM, Bandung and radical publishing today. This event will also be a chance to introduce the new Radical Library at the Global Studies Resource Centre, a collaborative initiative organised by the University of Sussex, Pluto Press, and the Left Book Club.

All welcome!