International Alliance of Libertarian Parties

The International Alliance of Libertarian Parties (IALP) is an international organization that coordinates cooperation among political parties adhering to libertarian ideology. According to the organization, the alliance’s objectives are to promote libertarian principles, support the development of member parties, encourage the exchange of information and experience, and represent libertarian viewpoints in international discussions.

The IALP’s work is based on ideas such as individual liberty, voluntary association, market economics, opposition to aggression, and political decentralization. Member parties retain their political independence and participate on a voluntary basis. It was created as a libertarian alternative to other global political alliances, such as the International Democracy Union, Socialist International, and Liberal International.

The organization carries out its activities through general assemblies, regional coordination structures, policy statements, and thematic working groups.

The origins of the International Alliance of Libertarian Parties trace back to discussions within the global libertarian movement in the early 2000s about forming a coordinated political network once several countries had elected libertarian representatives, an idea originally promoted by U.S. libertarian theorist David Nolan.

At the 2014 Libertarian National Convention in the United States, the Libertarian National Committee adopted a resolution calling for the creation of an international association of libertarian parties. Former LNC chair Geoff Neale was appointed to lead the initiative and began coordinating with libertarian leaders from the United States, the United Kingdom, Spain, and the Netherlands to establish a global alliance of parties sharing similar principles. The IALP was formally founded on 6 March 2015 at a congress in Bournemouth, United Kingdom, attended by representatives of libertarian parties from Europe, North America, and other regions. In total, delegates from around a dozen countries took part in adopting the alliance’s founding statutes, while Geoff Neale was elected its first Chair.^[1]

Following several years of limited visibility, the alliance resumed regular public activity in the mid-2020s. In September 2024, it adopted a resolution opposing state censorship of social networks. In 2024, IALP Chairman Iván Dubois, also a member of the Mercosur Parliament (Parlasur), visited Ukraine amidst Russia's invasion to meet Ukrainian officials, including at a meeting of Latin American parliamentarians with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.^[2]

Under Dubois’s Chairmanship, reflecting the growing influence of Argentina’s La Libertad Avanza movement following Javier Milei’s election as President of Argentina, the IALP increased its Latin American engagement. The organisation issued statements recognizing Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia as legitimate President of Venezuela^[3] and condemning the use of drug laws against political opponents in Georgia.^[4] Upon the U.S. military intervention to oust Nicolas Maduro from Venezuela, IALP rejected the legitimacy of Delcy Rodriguez.

In 2025, the IALP formally reconstituted and re-registered in the United States as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit advocacy organisation, adopting a new constitution and leadership framework while maintaining its international structure and membership. On 26 January 2026, the Russian Ministry of Justice classified the IALP as an undesirable organization, a designation meant to ban its activities in Russia and hold criminally liable all its partners within the Russian Federation. The Libertarian Party of Russia issued a statement in response denying all ties to the Alliance.^[5]

On 25 February, IALP held its First Congress, during which it expanded to 14 member political parties and elected Belarussian dissident Jaroslav Romanchuk as Chairman.