Above photo: The opening panel of the III International Dilemmas of Humanity Conference took place in Johannesburg, South Africa. Rafael Stedile.
The IV International Dilemmas of Humanity conference will be held from April 7-11.
And will bring together over 70 intellectuals and movement leaders from across the world.
Renowned economists, sociologists, and movement leaders from Mexico, Russia, Benin, China, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Argentina, and more, will come together in São Paulo, Brazil from April 7-11 to participate in the IV International Dilemmas of Humanity Conference: Perspectives for Social Transformation.
The conference is being organized by the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST), the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, and the International Peoples’ Assembly (IPA). It follows the III International Dilemmas of Humanity Conference which was held in Johannesburg, South Africa in October 2023.
At the conclusion of the October 2023 conference, the over 500 participants from 75 countries affirmed in the “Letter from Johannesburg” that “socialism is an achievable necessity”, proclaiming “the urgent need to overcome the distress of our present to build socialism now”. The conference, to be held in São Paulo in April, takes this affirmation a step further and seeks to address the question of “how?”.
- How can left and progressive movements in capitalist societies build projects and programs to combat inequality and hunger?
- How can Global South nations advance the productive forces in their country and move from exporters of raw materials to industrial producers?
- How can progressive governments in the Global South invest in critical public sector social programs to eliminate historic inequalities while they are overwhelmed by external debt?
These questions and more will be the subject of the debate of 70 intellectuals from more than 20 countries, including: Josefina Morales (Mexican Economist and Professor at UNAM), Yaroslav Lissovolik (Russia’s Advisor at the IMF and Founder of BRICS+ Analytics), Vijay Prashad (Indian Historian and Executive Director of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research), Esther Dweck (Brazil’s Minister of Management and Innovation), Marcio Pochmann (Director of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics), João Pedro Stedile (Founding Member of the MST), Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr. (Former Vice-President of the New Development Bank), and Argentine Sociologist Claudio Katz, among others.
Brazil’s Minister of Economy, Fernando Haddad, will participate in the opening ceremony of the conference.
Regarding the importance of the conference, Vijay Prashad said: “For a long time now, it’s been clear that the world economy, as it exists now, is incapable of solving the basic problems that working people have around the world. Work has become more precarious, it has become more dangerous, it has damaged the psyche of people who have a hard time making a subsistence, who have a hard time making a life. We need alternative policies to how the globe is structured now.”
IV International Dilemmas of Humanity Conference will take place from April 7 to 10 in São Paulo, Brazil.