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Join the growing movement to build Peoples’ Alternatives to an economy that serves
the 1% and ignores the 99%. The rich have put everyone's future at risk.
It's time we took back control.
We, the everyday people, have the answers.
Join The Movement to Create an Equal Future
For the last 50 years, governments and international financial institutions around the globe have continued to push an economic model that has consistently failed the vast majority of the world’s population. Neo-liberal policies have reduced public spending and left devastating impacts on people’s lives. As the cost of living rises, public services are underfunded, and debt repayments are prioritised over the rights and needs of the people. This backwards thinking has led us to a point of crisis for people and the planet.
We are activists, artists, social movements, unions and civil society organisations mobilising people around the world. We aim to claim our stake in remaking our broken economy. We are calling on governments and international financial institutions like the IMF and World Bank to stop worsening inequality by slashing taxes on the rich, imposing austerity, underfunding public services and pushing countries into a debt trap.
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“We the 99” is an urgent call to movements, civil society groups, activists, and communities across the Global South and beyond to unite, build, organise and demonstrate their counterpower. With their collective voices and actions, draw a red line to the 1% to bring about transformative change.
We the 99% are the people of the Global Majority.
We are rural farmers and informal workers. We are township youth and precarious migrants. We are workers, land defenders, caregivers, artists, and activists. We are housekeepers, teachers, fisherfolk, miners, market traders and nurses. We are displaced people, indebted communities, and overworked mothers. We are queer, trans, Black, Brown, Indigenous, and from every corner of the earth still reeling from centuries of theft.
We are the people of the Global South—Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Oceania and the Caribbean. We are also the gendered, racialised, and working classes of the Global North. We are feminists, socialists, ecologists, abolitionists, and ordinary people struggling to survive and live with dignity.
We come from places burdened by debt, exploitation, war, and climate collapse—but we are rich in knowledge, culture, resistance, and care. We rise from our lands, communities, and histories to reclaim power and reshape the global order.
We are not a brand. We are not a campaign. We are a movement.
The 1% refers to a small, elite group of wealthiest individuals that benefits from a system built on inequality. They are those who control a disproportionate share of wealth, resources, and political influence.
The red line is a “symbolic boundary or limit that should not be crossed, indicating a point of no return or a refusal to negotiate further on a particular issue”. For the Fight Inequality Alliance, the red line is an indication that we are not tolerating the obscene amassing of wealth of the 1% that deepens inequality, marking our resistance by demanding a new global economy for the people and the planet.
No, we are not. The Fight Inequality Alliance is made up of social movements, NGOs, trade unions, community groups, activists, and artists from around the world fighting the root causes of inequality. However, some political figures, political parties and others may agree with some or all of our proposals. Everybody now says that tackling inequality is a problem and uses some of the language of the movement - that includes the IMF,World Bank, governments signing up to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (especially SDG 10 on fighting inequality), wealthy individuals, the Pope ,and many others. Despite this rhetorical agreement, there is no consensus on the systemic change that is needed to fight inequality.