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About The Tricontinental

Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research is an international, movement-driven institution that carries out empirically based research guided by political movements. We seek to bridge gaps in our knowledge about the political economy as well as social hierarchy that will facilitate the work of our political movements and involve ourselves in the “battle of ideas” to fight against bourgeois ideology that has swept through intellectual institutions from the academy to the media.
  • Bandung Conference

    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?

  • 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.

  • Artwork by Kael Abello (Venezuela/Utopix and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research).

    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.

  • Dossier no. 84: Towards a New Development Theory for the Global South

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on January 14, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    As progressive governments take office in the Global South, now more than ever there is a burning need for a new development theory that can fulfill the Promethean aspirations of the darker nations.

  • Dossier no. 82: How Neoliberalism Has Wielded ‘Corruption’ to Privatise Life in Africa

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on November 26, 2024 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    In Africa, the leading forces of capitalism have ruthlessly wielded a neoliberal conception of corruption to undermine states’ sovereignty and open the continent to plunder at the hands of Western multinational corporations.

  • The Twentieth Century, the Global South, and China’s Historical Position

    Dossier no. 81: The Twentieth Century, the Global South, and China’s historical position

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on October 22, 2024 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Chinese scholar Wang Hui looks back at the twentieth century, which was born out of the multiple revolutions in the peripheral areas of the world, including China.

  • International Strategy Center (ISC) in Seoul, South Korea, and written by Dae-Han Song

    Dossier No. 76: The New Cold War is sending tremors through Northeast Asia

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on May 21, 2024 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    This dossier looks at how the U.S.-led New Cold War against China is destabilizing Northeast Asia, focusing on the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan Strait, and Japan.

  • ‘Forty Years of the MST’

    Dossier No. 75: The Political Organisation of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on April 16, 2024 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    This dossier focuses on the MST’s tactics and forms of organisation and why it is the only peasant social movement in Brazil’s history that has managed to survive for over a decade in the face of the political, economic, and military power of Brazil’s large landowners.

  • Interrupted Emancipation

    Dossier no. 74: Interrupted emancipation: Women and work in East Germany

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on March 19, 2024 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    This dossier looks at the history and unfinished work of women’s liberation in the German Democratic Republic, such as its achievements, legacy, and the challenges it faced.

  • Students from various schools in Siddapura and nearby villages participate in a rally to inaugurate the 2023 Joy of Learning Festival in Siddapura.

    Dossier no. 73: How the People’s Science Movement is bringing joy and equality to education in Karnataka, India

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on February 13, 2024 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    The People’s Science Movement in India has few parallels in the world in concept, scale, and scope.

  • The Churning of the Global Order

    Dossier no. 72: The churning of the global order

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on January 23, 2024 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    In January 2023, a reporter from Yomiuri Shimbun asked the press secretary of Japan’s foreign ministry, Hikariko Ono, for a definition of the term ‘Global South’.

  • Global North 'Rings' and Global South 'Groupings'

    Hyper-imperialism: A dangerous decadent new stage

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on January 23, 2024 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    It has been a scant 30 years since the ‘end of history’ was declared by bourgeois ideologists in pantomimes of wish-fulfillment for sensing the inviolability of United States imperialism. For peoples’ struggles and movements feeling the boot of imperialism on their necks, no such end was in sight.

  • Freedom Park’s Medu Art Ensemble Collection

    Dossier no. 71: Culture as a weapon of struggle: The Medu Art Ensemble and Southern African Liberation

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on December 12, 2023 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    The story of Medu is not just a South or southern African story, but an international one. No single liberation struggle can exist without the circulation and exchange of ideas, strategies, material resources, political solidarity, and culture across the globe.

  • Patricia Israel and Alberto Pérez (Chile), América despierta (‘America Awakens’), 1972. Silkscreen print, 144 x 110 cm.

    Dossier no. 68: The coup against the Third World: Chile, 1973

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on September 5, 2023 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    The relationship between Chile, the curtailment of its socialist reforms, and the ongoing processes in other countries in the region and in the Global South more generally have been systematically erased in Chile, from official historiography and media narratives alike.

  • Marini, Ruy Mauro. Ruy Mauro Marini: “Dialética da dependência” e outros escritos [Ruy Mauro Marini: ‘The Dialectics of Dependency’ and Other Writings]. Organised by Roberta Traspadini and João Pedro Stedile. São Paulo: Expressão Popular, 2005.

    Dossier no. 67: Dependency and Super-exploitation: The Relationship between Foreign Capital and Social Struggles in Latin America

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on August 8, 2023 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    In the different countries of the world, capitalism is shaped and consolidated not only by the general logic of this mode of production, but also by the social, historical, and cultural conditions of each country. The way each country and region understand the forms of accumulation and expansion of capitalism is fundamental to the class struggle.

  • 1. Referenced projects include: The Aswan High Dam in the Nile River built in the 1960s and 1970s in Egypt during Gamal Abdel Nasser’s presidency, the Bhilai Steel Plant in Chhattisgarh, India completed under Jawaharlal Nehru’s presidency with the Soviet Union’s assistance in 1959, and the Eisenhüttenstadt high-rise housing project in the German Democratic Republic, completed in 1959.

    Dossier no. 66: The world needs a new socialist development theory

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on July 4, 2023 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Across the world, evidence of human misery is increasingly easy to find. The data collected and reported by international agencies is stunning. Billions of people around the planet lack access to adequate education, healthcare, food, and shelter, as well as information and culture.

  • Dossier no. 65: Whose Land Is It and What Is It For? An Unfinished Debate About Land Access in Argentina

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on June 7, 2023 by The Tricontinental (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    How is it that a country like Argentina, with its vast rural territory, longstanding agricultural tradition, and capacity to produce food for hundreds of millions of people, is plagued by hunger and malnourishment?

  • Dossier no. 64: The Condition of the Indian Working Class

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    In this latest dossier, the Tricontinental offers a broad analysis of the living and working conditions of India’s large and diverse working class.

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    Dossier no. 63: Life or debt: The stranglehold of neocolonialism and Africa’s search for alternatives

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on April 11, 2023 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Before the pandemic was announced by the World Health Organisation in March 2020, the poorer nations of the world already struggled with seriously high—and unpayable—levels of debt.

  • Josie Mpama

    The Tricontinental

    The twentieth century was marked by national liberation struggles that emerged in Africa and Asia, as well as in Latin America, where neocolonial structures had subordinated the formally independent countries. The achievements of the Russian Revolution in 1917 inspired the peasantry and the working class across the Global South. The fight for equality and liberation […]

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