International Cooperative Alliance Global Conference
Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2017)
The full text and video created by youth to shape the larger coopyouth manifesto could not be located; however, a key summary blurb remains accessible and is included here in full:
“Through the increased engagement of youth and the implementation of our practices and systems of organization throughout the broader movement will enable all of us to more effectively fight in the global cultural battle against neoliberalism, which has hurt humanity by making competition and individualism central values within society, and imperialism, which has impaired our efforts to cooperative globally by centering wealth and power accumulation as goals within our politics.”
By and large, the sentiments from the larger manifesto emphasized in this summary statement signaled a clear commitment to continue to explicitly name cooperativism’s foes. It helped to orient cooperative work as revolutionary and transformative. The tone of the presentation during the event and this statement both feel far more assertive and definitive than past statements, which is a reflection of the state of the Coopyouth Movement’s formalization at that time.