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

6 August 2020 — Tricontinental Greta Acosta Reyes (Cuba), Neoliberalism, 2020. Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Beirut, mon amour. Those shattered mirrors once were The smiling eyes of children, Now are star-lit. This city’s nights are bright. and luminous is Lebanon. Beirut, ornament of our world. Faces decorated with… Continue reading

30 July 2020 — Tricontinental Frew Kebede (Ethiopia), Shimutt, 2018. Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 23 July, World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced that the world now has 15 million people infected by COVID-19. ‘The pandemic has disrupted the lives of billions of people.… Continue reading

23 July 2020 — Tricontinental Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japan), Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Spectre, 1849. Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 18 July, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres posted the following tweet: ‘COVID-19 has exposed the lie that free markets can deliver healthcare for all, the fiction… Continue reading

16 July 2020 — Tricontinental Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Too little has been made of the fact that countries like Laos and Vietnam have been able to manage the coronavirus; there are no confirmed deaths from COVID-19 in either country. Both of these Southeast Asian states border… Continue reading

9 July 2020 — Tricontinental Luis Peñalver Collazo (Cuba), America Latina, Unete! 1960. Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has released its June 2020 update. The prognosis is bleak. Global growth for 2020 is projected at -4.9%, 1.9% below the IMF’s forecast from… Continue reading

25 June 2020 — Tricontinental Arpita Singh (India), My Mother, 1993. Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Alarming news about the COVID-19 disease comes from Brazil and India, where the infection numbers are high, and the death count grows steadily. It appears that a million people are now infected in Brazil… Continue reading