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

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