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  •  | Dahlia Abdelilah Baasher Sudan Untitled nd | MR Online

    A language of blood has gripped our world: The Twentieth Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on May 15, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Sudan’s forgotten civil war has killed at least 150,000 and displaced nearly 13 million. Understanding its political details is key to tracing the causes and potential solutions to the conflict.

  •  | Hands off Venezuela | MR Online

    They are making Venezuela’s economy scream: The Eighteenth Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on May 1, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    U.S.-led sanctions (more aptly referred to as Unilateral Coercive Measures) caused Venezuela to lose oil revenue equivalent to 213% of its GDP between January 2017 and December 2024, resulting in losses of roughly $77 million per day. Who is the real target of these and other unilateral coercive measures?

  •  | Jean Claude Sévère Haiti Lennemi attaqué chacun de sa propre volonté se tient debout pour défendre sa patrie When the Enemy Attacks Everyone Stands up of Their Own Free Will to Defend Their Homeland 1970 | MR Online

    Two hundred years ago, France strangled the Haitian Revolution with an inhumane debt: The Seventeenth Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on April 24, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    On a stormy August night in 1791, Dutty Boukman (1767–1791) and Cécile Fatiman (1771–1883) conducted a Vodou ceremony at Bois Caïman in northern Saint-Domingue, in the French-owned part of Hispaniola.

  •  | Waiting for a New Bandung Spirit | MR Online

    Waiting for a new Bandung spirit: The Sixteenth Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on April 17, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    After many decades of stasis, we see the growth of a ‘new mood’ in the Global South. Though only a hint of a new possibility, it holds tremendous democratic potential, with sovereignty at its centre.

  •  | Boris Taslitzky France Insurrection à Buchenwald 11 avril 1945 Insurrection at Buchenwald 11 April 1945 1964 | MR Online

    The Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated by Communist prisoners: The Fifteenth Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on April 10, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Eight decades ago, communist prisoners organised and liberated the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald, where they were held. As the far right of a special type rises across Europe, these heroic victories of anti-fascist resistance are under attack.

  •  | Bandung Conference | MR Online

    Dossier no. 87: The Bandung Spirit

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on April 8, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    In 1955, the leaders of former Global South colonies met in Bandung, Indonesia, brought together by a common spirit for national liberation and cooperation. Seventy years later, is there any trace of it left?

  •  | Andrée Blouin | MR Online

    Andrée Blouin is our kind of Pan-African revolutionary: The Fourteenth Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on April 3, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    There is a rich tradition of women writers on the African continent who have played key roles in publishing and national liberation movements alike, from Andrée Blouin to Flora Nwapa. Learn more about their legacy and efforts to carry forward their torch today.

  •  | Agus Suwage Indonesia Circus of Democracy I 1997 | MR Online

    Students protest continue in Indonesia

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on March 30, 2025 by Max Lane (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  | (Posted Apr 03, 2025)

    Over the last several weeks, demonstrations have erupted across Indonesia.

  •  | Demetrio Urruchúa Argentina Nuevo orden The New Order 1939 | MR Online

    What Rodolfo Walsh would demand we write in his place: The Thirteenth Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on March 27, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    As attacks on the media increase in Argentina and beyond, we reflect on the legacy of Rodolfo Walsh, a heroic journalist who fought the military dictatorship with his pen.

  •  | Alejandra Laprea Venezuela El acuerpamiento de las mujeres es nuestra estrategia de defensa Womens Embodied Solidarity Is Our Defence Strategy 2022 | MR Online

    Unilateral coercive measures and the war on women: The Twelfth Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on March 20, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Despite being among the most impacted by economic war, women continue to foster a sense of solidarity, care, and hope in humanity.

  •  | Rocio Navarro Mexico Watering Day 2024 | MR Online

    Twenty-five days of debt-service payments could emancipate African women from 40 billion hours of water harvesting: The Eleventh Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on March 13, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    In the month of International Working Women’s Day, we explore how debt-austerity regimes and climate change impact women farmworkers across the Global South.

  •  | Featured | MR Online

    The Global North has nine times more voting power at the IMF than the Global South: The Tenth Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on March 6, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    In the deeply undemocratic IMF, where a country’s voting power is tied not to its population size but to the size of its economy, the U.S. effectively holds a veto over any major changes and moulds policies according to its whims.

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    Dossier no. 86: Imperialist War and Feminist Resistance in the Global South

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on March 5, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    In the Global South, women creatively resist the impact of unilateral coercive measures, a form of hyper-imperialist hybrid warfare that reinforces patriarchy and other forms of social discrimination.

  •  | Cao Fei China My Future Is Not a Dream 05 2006 | MR Online

    China has already become the leader in advanced critical technologies: The Ninth Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on February 27, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Will the U.S.’s geopolitical chess moves, from Greenland to Ukraine to Russia, be enough to eclipse China’s rapid advancement in critical technologies?

  •  | Katsukawa Shunshō Japan Japanese Women Reading and Writing c 1776 | MR Online

    We want to build communities of readers, not turn readers into commodities: The Eighth Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on February 20, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Literacy gives us the power to build a collective life–it allows us to see our history with clarity, be critical of our present, and demand the impossible of the future.

  •  | Chitra Ganesh United States Sultanas Dream 2018 a series of 27 linocuts published by Durham Press © Chitra Ganesh | MR Online

    Clean waters and green mountains are as valuable as gold and silver mountains: The Seventh Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on February 13, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    What new worlds can science fiction imagine? From clean energy to ecological transitions, this newsletter explores how Global South writers and policymakers alike imagine–and create–futures beyond colonialism, pollution, and environmental destruction.

  •  | Artwork by Kael Abello VenezuelaUtopix and Tricontinental Institute for Social Research | MR Online

    Dossier no. 85: The joy of reading

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on February 11, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Reading and popular literacy programmes have played an important role in revolutionary processes, from the Mexican, Chinese, and Russian revolutions in the early twentieth century to today.

  •  | Umar Rashid United States I was dreaming when I wrote this Forgive me if I go astray The song of the four companions begins in the Sahel in the presence of the marabouts Pandora comes from the north The Harmattan approaches and beckon the storms and wars to come 1799 2023 | MR Online

    Let us find our lost diamonds: The Sixth Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on February 6, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Since returning to office, Trump has made clear his intentions of ushering in a new Golden Age of imperialism. With NATO at his disposal, what will this new hyper-imperialism mean for the rest of the world?

  •  | Abdel Hadi el Gazzar Egypt Popular Chorus 1949 | MR Online

    The life expectancy of Palestinians fell by 11.5 years in the first three months of the genocide: The Fifth Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on January 30, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    The U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza has led to a precipitous loss in the population’s life expectancy. Even as the ceasefire allows aid to enter Gaza, this profound demographic loss will take generations to revert.

  •  | Baasanjav Choijiljavin Mongolia The Taste of Money In Between Clouds 2009 | MR Online

    The Promethean aspirations of the darker Nations: The Fourth Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on January 23, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    The U.S. sees the emergence of China and other Asian countries as a ‘fierce competition’. For the Global South, however, these developments bring new opportunities to pursue sovereign development.

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