Mbabane, Eswatini: As the billionaires travel to Davos, Switerland, for the World Economic Forum 2026 dubbed, “The Spirit of Dialogue”, to make decisions for the 99% and exclude their voices, effective change becomes impossible. Global deliberations that exclude women, marginalized communities and grassroots voices cannot deliver justice, equality or impact.
MYSELF AND A MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN THE GRASSROOTS DRAW A RED LINE AGAINST CLOSED DOORS DELIBERATIONS FOR THE 1%!
As global elites prepare for the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2026, Fight Inequality Eswatini issues a clear message from the 99%: decisions affecting the majority of the world’s population continue to be made without their participation.
Inspired by the 99% People’s Dialogue held at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg, this moment calls attention to what real dialogue should be inclusive, participatory, and grounded in lived realities. Davos represents the opposite. It remains a closed space dominated by political elites, billionaires, and corporate interests who speak about the majority, not with them.
For communities in Eswatini and across the Global South, outcomes shaped in Davos directly impact economies, public services, labour rights, land access, climate resilience, and democratic space. Yet workers, informal traders, women, youth, and rural communities are systematically excluded. This makes Davos not a dialogue, but a monologue of power.
WE THE 99% | FIGHT INEQUALITY ESWATINI SAY DAVOS IS NOT A DIALOGUE BUT A MONOLOGUE.
Fight Inequality Eswatini maintains that policies affecting the 99% cannot be legitimate without the direct involvement of the 99% at the decision-making table. Inequality is not accidental; it is the result of systems designed to benefit a powerful few at the expense of the many. Elite platforms such as Davos continue to reinforce these inequalities by prioritising profit over people.
We call on governments, international institutions, and the private sector to stop presenting elite gatherings as global consensus. Sustainable and just solutions to inequality will not emerge from luxury conference halls in Switzerland, but from meaningful engagement with communities and the redistribution of power, wealth, and decision-making.
Until global platforms genuinely include the voices of the majority, the 99% will continue to organise, resist, and build alternative spaces of dialogue rooted in justice, dignity, and equality.
“Wethe99 stand will global allies to draw a red line against the elite power and demand an economy that serves people and the Planet”
We the 99% will not be spoken for. We speak for ourselves.
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