10 December 2020 — Tricontinental Madhuri Shukla (USA), Wring, 2020 Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. The night before the National Assembly elections in Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro spoke to a group of visitors at Miraflores Palace in Caracas. He recounted how he had been a member of the… Continue reading

3 December 2020 — Tricontinental Aswath (India), Lenin met India, 2020 Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Farmers and agricultural workers from northern India marched along various national highways toward India’s capital of New Delhi as part of the general strike on 26 November. They carried placards with slogans against… Continue reading

26 November 2020 — Tricontinental Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. The total level of global indebtedness now sits at an astronomical $277 trillion, an increase of $15 trillion since 2019. This amount is equivalent to 365% of the global gross domestic product. The debt burden is highest in the… Continue reading

19 November 2020 — Tricontinental Cover of dossier 34: Paulo Freire and Popular Struggle in South Africa Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In 2011, the Swedish novelist Henning Mankell travelled to India to deliver the Safdar Hashmi Memorial Lecture in New Delhi. Mankell recounted an incident from Mozambique, where he lived… Continue reading

12 November 2020 — Tricontinental Leyla Tonak (USA), Lungs I, 2020 Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Finally, after much uncertainty, on the anniversary of the October Revolution of 1917, the numbers added up and US President Donald Trump found that — despite winning over 70 million votes — he would… Continue reading

In mid-October, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released its World Economic Outlook report, which offered some dizzying data. For 2020, the IMF estimates that the global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will decline by 4.4%, while in 2021 the global GDP will rise by 5.2%. Stagnation and decline will define the economic activity in both Europe and North… Continue reading

22 October 2020 — Tricontinental Henry Tayali (Zambia), Destiny, 1962-1966. Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Any day now, Zambia will be the first African country to slip into a private debt default. It can only pay interest on the $3 billion in dollar-denominated bonds if it totally ignores the needs of… Continue reading

15 October 2020 — Tricontinental Kamala Ibrahim Ishaq (Sudan), Procession (the Zār), 2015 Dear friends, Greetings from the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 9 October 2020, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the United Nations’ World Food Programme. In the citation for the award, the Norwegian Nobel Committee pointed to the ‘link between hunger and armed… Continue reading

9 October 2020 — Tricontinental Español Português ಕನ್ನಡ (PDF) Slovenščina (PDF) मराठी (PDF) বাংলা (PDF)   Twenty left publishers from around the world release a joint edition including two essential texts by Che Guevara on the fifty-third anniversary of his assassination by the CIA in Bolivia. These texts, with insight from Aijaz Ahmad and María… Continue reading

8 October 2020 — Tricontinental Judy Seidman, Imperialism Stops Here, 2020. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In 1965, Ghana’s Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah published a bold book, Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism. In this book, Nkrumah documented in great detail the way in which European and North American multinational… Continue reading

1 October 2020 — Tricontinental Liu Xiaodong (China), Refugees 4, 2015. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Here’s a story that encapsulates the terrible situation of our world: Associated Press reporters were on a Turkish coast guard vessel which picked up 37 migrants, including 18 children, from two orange… Continue reading

24 September 2020 — Tricontinental Baasanjav Choijiljav (Mongolia), Promise, 2018. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In April 2020, a month after the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the pandemic, the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) warned that the numbers of people who lived with acute hunger around the world would… Continue reading

17 September 2020 — Tricontinental Liu Bolin (China), Guernica, 2016 Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Dedicated to Soni Prashad, 1929-2020, who spent her life looking for a better world. US President Donald Trump and his ‘war council’ – led by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo – have amplified their aggression… Continue reading

10 September 2020 — Tricontinental Sunil Janah, Mallu Swarajayam and other members of an armed squad during the Telangana armed struggle, 1946-1951. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. When news of the revolution in the Tsar’s empire filtered into British-dominated India in 1917-1918, the reception was universal: if they could… Continue reading

3 September 2020 — Tricontinental Staffordshire Regiment during the Plague, Hong Kong, 1894. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Social media, in March 2020, was awash with rumours. Swans and dolphins could be seen in totally deserted Venetian canals. A group of elephants marched into a village in Yunnan… Continue reading

From Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research comes Red Alert no. 8: The Explosion in Beirut. This red alert has been put together by organisations and people from Lebanon, for whose input we are grateful. Continue reading