Coexistence Not Co-Destruction: Remembering Bandung 70 Years On

Coexistence Not Co-Destruction: Remembering Bandung 70 Years On

Image credit: Dossier no. 87 ‘The Bandung Spirit’, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, 2025. Seventy years ago this month, leaders of twenty-nine newly or nearly independent Asian and African nations inaugurated the historic Bandung Conference, embarking on the ‘Freedom Walk’ along Asia-Africa Road to the conference’s Freedom Building (Gedung Merdeka) in Bandung, Indonesia. As a diplomatic performance and collective political action, …

Presentation at the Public Debate: Commemoration of the seventieth anniversary of the Asia-Africa Conference, 29 April 2025. Shalmali Guttal is a member of the UN Working Group on UNDROP. It is part of a series commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Bandung Conference of 1955. Turning point in anticolonial and South-South solidarity, Bandung’s legacy persists in the current global struggles for justice and self-determination. Read the rest of…