2 December 2021 — Tricontinental Likbez (USSR), Tatar Literacy Club, 1935. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Almost every single child on the planet (over 80% of them) had their education disrupted by the pandemic, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural (UNESCO) agency. Though this finding is startling, it… Continue reading

As the last private plane takes off from the Glasgow airport and the dust settles, the detritus of the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP26, remains. The final communiqués are slowly being digested, their limited scope inevitable. António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, closedthe proceedings by painting two dire images: ‘Our fragile planet is… Continue reading

It is perhaps fitting that United States President Joe Biden arrived in Glasgow for the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) on the climate catastrophe with eighty-five cars in tow months after declaring ‘I’m a car guy’ (for details on the climate catastrophe, see our Red Alert no. 11, ‘Only One Earth’). Only three countries in… Continue reading

28 October 2021 — Tricontinental Murad Subay (Yemen), Fuck War, 2018. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In March 2015, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – along with other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) – began to bomb Yemen. These countries entered a conflict that had… Continue reading

21 October 2021 — Tricontinental Jaime de Guzman (Philippines), Metamorphosis II, 1970. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 5 October, the United Nations Human Rights Council passed a historic, non-legally binding resolution that ‘recognises the right to a safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment as a human… Continue reading

14 October 2021 — Tricontinental Junaina Muhammed (India) / Young Socialist Artists, A woman working in the korai fields, where women often work from a young age to earn a living. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Reminder: Indian peasants and agricultural workers remain in the midst of a… Continue reading

7 October 2021 — Tricontinental Ang Kiukok (Philippines), Harvest, 2004. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 1 October, the International Peoples’ Assembly (IPA), a network of over 200 social and political movements, had its public launch. The IPA owes its origin to a meeting held in Brazil in 2015 where movement… Continue reading

30 September 2021 — Tricontinental Rafael Tufiño Figueroa (Puerto Rico), La plena, 1952-54. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Each year in September, the heads of governments come to the United Nations Headquarters in New York City to inaugurate a new session of the General Assembly. The area surrounding the… Continue reading

On Wednesday, 8 September, party workers of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), India’s ruling political party, attacked three buildings in the Melarmath area of Agartala (Tripura). These attacks targeted the offices of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the communist newspaper Daily Deshar Katha, and two private media houses Pratibadi Kalam and PN-24. The violence took place in broad daylight… Continue reading

9 September 2021 — Tricontinental Tshibumba Kanda-Matulu (DRC), The Martyrs of the Union Minière du Haut Katanga at the Stadium Formerly Called ‘Albert I’, now ‘Mobutu’, Kenia Township, Lubumbashi, 1975. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. A few days ago, I spoke to a senior official at the World… Continue reading

2 September 2021 — Tricontinental Bertina Lopes (Mozambique), Dimensão (‘Dimension’), 1972. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 26 August, two deadly attacks on the perimeter of Kabul’s international airport killed over a hundred people, including a dozen US soldiers. The bombings struck people desperate to enter the airport and… Continue reading

19 August 2021 — Tricontinental Malina Suliman (Afghanistan), Girl in the Ice Box, 2013. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On Sunday, 15 August, Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani fled his country for Uzbekistan. He left behind a capital city, Kabul, which had already fallen into the hands of the… Continue reading

12 August 2021 — Tricontinental Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Exactly two years ago, I walked with my colleagues from Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research through the Camp Marielle Vive (‘Marielle Lives’) outside of Valinhos in the state of São Paulo, Brazil with a great sense of déjà… Continue reading

29 July 2021 — Tricontinental Uttam Ghosh (India), Let Cuba Live, 2021. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 23 July 2021, a full-page appeal appeared in the New York Times calling on United States President Joe Biden to withdraw the vindictive US blockade against Cuba. As that appeal went to press, I spoke… Continue reading