In turn, we are witnessing the birth of new forms of international organisation that do not strictly respond to the logic of capital accumulation or legitimation of existing international structures. We are therefore facing a new landscape of international relations, in which transnational peoples’ movements (TPMs) and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have emerged as significant new non-state actors within the international system. In this context, an increasing number of actors are questioning the neoliberal capitalist status quo, states are losing a degree of centrality in the international system and bourgeois democracy is suffering a profound crisis of representativeness and legitimacy. New information and communication technologies have been accompanied by, in some respects, greater power for individuals, in particular, and for civil society, in general. In a work focused from a global perspective, we will examine the potential relevance of the IPA with a view to achieving objectives that are extremely difficult to attain within the framework of the nation-state, such as the goal of establishing a counter-hegemony that is strong enough to reverse the power relationships that currently favour the interests of corporate capitalism. From the protests in Seattle against the WTO summit in 1999 to the consolidation of counter-summits or international structures like La Vía Campesina, the articulation and participation of civil society in the context of specific international proposals respond to a loss of legitimacy on a global scale on the part of liberal democracy and to a need to redirect the course of democracy towards a model based on participation in order to guarantee social justice or equality.Ĭontinuing in this vein, in this work we will analyse the case of the International Peoples’ Assembly (IPA) as a new peoples’ proposal of articulation of progressive and revolutionary forces on every continent. Increasing peoples’ participation on the international stage has become particularly important in recent decades.
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