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

22 July 2021 — Tricontinental Préfète Duffaut (Haiti), Le Générale Canson, 1950. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In 1963, the Trinidadian writer CLR James released a second edition of his classic 1938 study of the Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. For the… Continue reading

8 July 2021 — Tricontinental Sandra Eleta (Panama), La servidumbre, 1978-79. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Between 30 June and 2 July 2021, the United Nations and other multilateral organisations held the Generation Equality Forum in Paris (France). The forum was held to commemorate the 25th anniversary of… Continue reading

1July 2021 — Tricontinental Raúl Martínez (Cuba), Yo he visto (‘I Have Seen’), n.d. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In 1869, at the age of fifteen, José Martí and his young friends published a magazine in Cuba called La Patria Libre (‘The Free Homeland’), which adopted a strong position against Spanish imperialism.… Continue reading

17 June 2021 — Tricontinental Women farmers from Punjab and Haryana protest at the Tikri border in Delhi, 24 January 2021. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 26 June 2021, tens of thousands of Indian farmers will gather in front of the government offices in India’s twenty-eight states.… Continue reading

10 June 2021 — Tricontinental Faisal Laibi Sahi (Iraq), Cafe 2, 2014. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Each month, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) releases a monthly food price index. The release on 3 June showed that food prices have surged by 40%, the largest rise since 2011.… Continue reading

3 June 2021 — Tricontinental Setu Legi (Indonesia), Take Care of this Land, 2010. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, At the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, the delegates decided to hold an annual World Environment Day. In 1974, the UN urged the world to celebrate that day… Continue reading

27 May 2021 — Tricontinental Jorge Luis Rodríguez Aguilar (Cuba), Paris Commune 150, 2021. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 28 May 1871, one hundred and fifty years ago, the Paris Commune collapsed after seventy-two days. The workers of Paris created the Commune on 18 March, building on the… Continue reading

20 May 2021 — Tricontinental Laila Shawa (Palestine), The Hands of Fatima, 1989. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Israel’s massive war machine attacks the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) with total disregard for international law. Since the OPT is an occupied territory, the United Nations does not permit the occupier… Continue reading

13 May 2021 — Tricontinental Tiger Tateishi (Japan), Samurai, the Watcher (Koya no Yojinbo), 1965. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Ugliness defines the mood of state violence from Cali (Colombia) to Durban (South Africa), each context different and the depth of the violence particular to the location. Images of… Continue reading

6 May 2021 — Tricontinental E. Meera (Kerala), Red Dawn, 2021. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Kerala, a state in the Indian union with a population of 35 million, has re-elected the Left Democratic Front (LDF) to lead the government for another five years. Since 1980, the people… Continue reading

29 April 2021 — Tricontinental A mass rally with the Free German Youth that marked the founding of the German Democratic Republic in the Soviet Occupation Zone, October 1949. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. A full generation has elapsed since the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) collapsed… Continue reading

15 April 2021 — Tricontinental Colectivo Culturas Vivas, Senderos latinos / Latino paths, Honduras, 2019 Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On a Sunday night on 21 March 2021, gunmen stopped Juan Carlos Cerros Escalante (age 41) as he walked from this mother’s home to his own in the village of Nueva… Continue reading