Thursday, 10 September 2026 — The Tricontinental Capitalism depends on precarious migrant labour to discipline workers, deepen division, and extract wealth while weaponising anti-immigrant rhetoric to obscure the neoliberal destruction of public services and social welfare. Jiang Zhaohe (China), detail from Liumin Tu (Refugees), 1943. Continue reading

While capitalism confines the Global South to raw extraction and cheap exports, democratic planning can break dependence, claim technological control, and turn resources into collective economic power. Continue reading

When imperialism turns knowledge, technology, and art into instruments of submission, radical traditions teach another lesson: oppressed peoples can seize those tools and transform them into weapons of liberation. Continue reading

Behind the polished story of Western progress lies another history: steam power, modern banking, and industrial capitalism were not born of peaceful innovation but paid for with the blood of enslaved people. Continue reading

Thursday, 13 August 2026 — The Tricontinental The revolutionary legacy of Fidel Castro, who would have turned 100 this week, reminds us that breaking free from neocolonial plunder demands the rigorous construction of productive capacity and an unyielding commitment to human dignity. Continue reading

While popular energy can fill streets and win elections, social power is the patient, organised capacity of the working class to transform society and make dignity the common sense of the age. Continue reading

The Global North’s prescriptions for development, including the IMF’s tired dogmas, have failed. It is time for a new development theory rooted in the experiences of the Global South. Continue reading

Every year, unsafe food causes 866 million illnesses and 1.5 million deaths, with young children suffering nearly a third of all cases of foodborne disease. This is the predictable outcome of a food economy organised around profit rather than the right to food. Continue reading

Venezuela is rebuilding amid an information war that obscures the effects of sanctions, frozen assets, and decades of US economic warfare – and turns human suffering into another pretext to discredit the Bolivarian process. Continue reading

Since the 1990s, an invisible intellectual architecture has shaped what counts as legitimate economic thought, narrowing debate until it seems like there are no alternatives. Reversing this brain capture is an urgent task. Continue reading

A profound contradiction confronts East Asia: the region drives global development, yet US imperialism seeks to transform it into a frontline of the New Cold War. The region’s future depends on ordinary people, not war planners. Continue reading

Economic growth alone cannot secure genuine sovereignty in Asia; a regional platform for coordination remains a vital material necessity to safeguard the region against imperialism and neocolonialism. Continue reading

Although modern structures of extraction attempt to mask old systems of colonial plunder, the living legacy of anti-colonial resistance across Africa remains a decisive force in the struggle for sovereignty and genuine freedom. Continue reading

While the capitalist system rewards short-term cycles, building a dignified future is a slow task that requires disciplined organisation and an enduring struggle to bring forth the social forces of a new world. Continue reading

The widespread misery imposed by capitalism demands that we organise hope through collective struggle; only then can we build a future where human dignity supersedes the destructive profit motive. Continue reading

People with disabilities are not marginal to society but central to it – and the injustices they face reveal the failures of a world that treats human dignity as subordinate to profit. Continue reading

The way Iran has been able to stand up to the West has become a source of admiration across the formerly colonised world. Where does that confidence come from? Continue reading