In recent years, the Latin American far right has launched a crusade against the rights of women and sex-gender dissidents, hoping to crush some of the region’s most active opposition to neoliberalism. Continue reading

As a new mood in the Global South advances, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently urged Europe to embrace its colonial past and defend Western values against the communist menace. Continue reading

With New START now expired, the United States’ withdrawal from arms control treaties and its embrace of nuclear ‘warfighting’ doctrines are raising the risk of catastrophic conflict between nuclear powers. Continue reading

The drug trade – and the ‘War on Drugs’ that polices it – unleashes a value chain of suffering on peasant communities in the Global South. You cannot explain such systematic brutality without anger. Continue reading

Thursday, 5 February 2026 — The Tricontinental The global number of migrants has nearly doubled in the past thirty-five years, underscoring rising inequality and the imposed underdevelopment of the Global South. Ficre Ghebreyesus (Eritrea), The Sardine Fisherman’s Funeral, 2002. Continue reading

India’s liberalisation beginning in the 1990s has led to a steady decline in manufacturing. To reverse this trend and expand productive employment, industrial policy must address structural issues of dependence and inequality. Continue reading

Thursday, 15 January 2026 — The Tricontinental The US bombing of Venezuela and kidnapping of its president and first lady showcased the current hyper-imperialist stage of the world order. Although a new mood has emerged in the Global South, it is not yet a developed challenge to the collective West. Dagoberto Nolasco (El Salvador), Premio… Continue reading

On the last day of October 2025, leaders from the 21 nations of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum will meet in the city of Gyeongju in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) for the organisation’s 33rd summit. Since its founding in 1989 in Canberra, Australia, APEC has promoted building a zone of ‘free and… Continue reading

Gen Z-led uprisings across the Global South point to long-term socioeconomic and environmental crises caused by neoliberalism. Yet they have often been coopted by entrenched social classes. Can their energy be channelled towards progressive ends? Continue reading

Thursday, 9 October 2025 — The Tricontinental Omar Ba (Senegal), Promenade masquée, 2016. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In February 2025, Senegal’s Court of Auditors released a report that found ‘anomalies’ in the management of public finances between 2019 and 2024, during the presidency of Macky Sall (2012–2024).… Continue reading

I first heard the word ‘depression’ when I was about sixteen. My mother took me to the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) in Bengaluru, India, to be seen by a professional for what I had just considered to be nightmares and difficult afternoons. I was lucky. Today, only 9% of people in… Continue reading

Thursday, 18 September 2025 — The Tricontinental Reading the words of Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975) at the grave of Berta Cáceres, August 2025. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. At the grave of Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores (1971–2016) in La Esperanza, Honduras, where she was born and died, I… Continue reading

Thursday, 11 September 2025 — The Tricontinental With the promise of the Mexican revolution and the sweeping reforms of cardenismo long erased by decades of neoliberalism and dependency, can Morena’s Fourth Transformation restore dignity and sovereignty to the country? Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Continue reading

On 12 August, Samar Abu Elouf, who won the 2025 World Press Photo of the Year for the picture above, posted on her Instagram account that her son’s close friend Sami Shukour had been killed while he ‘went to look for flour to feed himself and his family’. Samar had taken Sami’s graduation photographs just… Continue reading