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

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