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

Thursday, 9 April 2026 — The Tricontinental The US-Israeli war on Iran has turned the Strait of Hormuz into a choke point for the world economy, with the gravest consequences falling not on the powerful but on the poorer nations of the Global South. Lateefa bint Maktoum (UAE), The Last Look, 2009. Continue reading

Thursday, 2 April 2026 — The Tricontinental In its latest statement, No Cold War takes stock of the long history of US aggression across the world and the need to reject a future of wars without end. Rokni Haerizadeh (Iran), Typical Iranian Funeral, 2008. Continue reading

Faced with an illegal oil blockade, the Cuban government has expressed openness to talks with the Trump administration but will not abandon its principles of sovereignty and dignity. Continue reading

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