Alternative Globalization Addressing Peoples and Earth

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• cooperative education and culture; and
• communication in plural dialogue.
The emphasis on solidarity is based on realization that what is produced,
and the conditions of production, are key for the quality of life and the
health of people and the earth. For a transition to an economy of life as
an economy of solidarity, far more attention needs to be paid to lifegiving
agriculture, labour, and the extraction and use of resources.
Transformation to an economy of solidarity is a transformation led by
society as the agent of its own development. The state and multilateral
governance organizations must be the subsidiary actors of development
managed by society. It is the mandate of the state, as the servant of society,
to assure that the democratically formulated development project is carried
out harmoniously, and to implement public policies that guarantee access
for all to productive and reproductive goods and resources and the just
redistribution of income and wealth.
Highlighting this, we reiterate one of the basic assumptions of this
document: matters of economy and of politics cannot be separated. One
of the major challenges since the WCC’s 1998 assembly in Harare has
been the need to pay more attention to present geopolitical tendencies.
The integration of increasingly inter-linked power networks in one imperial
matrix is a main feature of recent history. This process is led by a coalition
of powerful states and societies, with the USA as the most powerful among
them. All efforts to change and transform the economy are confronted by
this reality.