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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.
  • Series of postage stamps with the logos and symbols of multilateral institutions, from the most well-known that exist in our world today to those that are being built, revived, and strengthened and those, yet to be created, that are being imagined to further a new world order.

    Sovereignty, dignity, and regionalism in the new international order

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on March 14, 2023 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    A set of current processes force us to ask ourselves about the possibility of a military conflagration that could affect us all. Some researchers have asked, in the present tense: Are we at war?

  • Dossier No. 61: The Strategic Revolutionary Thought and Legacy of Hugo Chávez Ten Years After His Death

    The Tricontinental

    Hugo Chávez emerged in the history of Venezuela, the Global South, and the international revolutionary movement when the thesis that ideological disputes throughout the world had ended was most entrenched. Far from being over, history had an important task for the Venezuelan people, who rose up against neoliberalism in 1989 and who continue to build a project of twenty-first-century socialism today.

  • Dossier - ‘Socialism Is the Best Prophylaxis’: The German Democratic Republic’s Health Care System

    ‘Socialism is the best prophylaxis’: The German Democratic Republic’s Health Care System

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on February 14, 2023 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    The German Democratic Republic (DDR) was a socialist state founded in East Germany in 1949 as a democratic, antifascist reaction to the Second World War and the subsequent restoration of monopoly capitalism in West Germany.

  • A group of striking textile workers demand an extra R5 per day at the Consolidated Textile Mill in February 1973. Credit: David Hemson Collection, University of Cape Town Libraries.

    Dossier No. 60: The 1973 Durban strikes: Building popular democratic power in South Africa

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on January 24, 2023 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    The 1973 Durban strikes were part of a wider political ferment in the city in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when it became a generative site of political experimentation and innovation.

  • Participants of a march and vigil organised by the Love Conquers Hate Christian Collective light candles during a prayer with believers of various faiths in Rio de Janeiro in 2018, ‘joined together for the same values: life, liberty and the defence of human dignity as Christ taught us’, they declared. Reference photograph by Gabriel Castilho

    Dossier No. 59: Religious fundamentalism and imperialism in Latin America: Action and resistance

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on December 19, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    It is impossible to disconnect religion from the political projects of domination and liberation in Latin America.

  • The Geopolitics of Inequality

    Dossier No. 57: The geopolitics of inequality: Discussing pathways towards a more just world

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on October 21, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    This dossier is about inequality, or inequalities, between the North and South, between the rich and poor, and between the classes that labour and those that profit.

  • Violeta Parra (Chile), Untitled (unfinished), 1966. Embroidery on sackcloth, 136 x 200 cm.

    Ten Theses on Marxism and Decolonisation

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on September 20, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    The Cuban Revolution came about in a country subordinated to the U.S. from all points of view. Although we had the façade of a republic, we were a perfect colony, exemplary in economic, commercial, diplomatic, and political terms, and almost in cultural terms.

  • Visakhapatnam Steel Plant

    The People’s Steel Plant and the fight against privatisation in Visakhapatnam

    The Tricontinental

    The story of the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant is not only a story about its workers. Their resistance, aspirations, and victories are part of a wider canvas that is interwoven with struggles to defend the public sector, confrontations with neoliberalism, and the fight to carry out a national modernisation project. Each collage in this dossier combines […]

  • A teacher writes on a blackboard at a PAIGC school in the liberated areas in the Guinean forests, 1974. Source: Roel Coutinho, Guinea-Bissau and Senegal Photographs (1973–1974)

    The PAIGC’s political education for liberation in Guinea-Bissau, 1963–74

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on July 1, 2022 by Sónia Vaz Borges (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    The liberation struggle against colonialism, if it is to be a total liberation struggle, is not only for the political conquest of territory (‘flag independence’); it is a struggle to liberate the people from the tentacles of colonialism.

  • Photograph by Mídia Ninja

    Dossier no. 54: Gramsci in the midst of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST): an interview with MST Militante Neuri Rossetto

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on July 19, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Despite the persistent hegemony of capitalism and its ruling neoliberal ideology, various forms of resistance, social struggle, and proposals for an emancipated future continue to emerge.

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    Dossier no. 50: The military’s return to Brazilian politics

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on March 14, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Brazil is in danger of becoming a country whose political economy is rooted in militarism, diverting precious social wealth to the military and police as it imposes a military ethic onto public life.

  • Túlio Carapiá and Clara Cerqueira (Brazil), Fruits of the Earth, 2020.

    Dossier no. 49: A map of Latin America’s present: An interview with Héctor Béjar

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on February 7, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Four emblematic coups have now been substantially reversed: Chile (1973), Peru (1992), Honduras (2009), and Bolivia (2019). Each of these coups was driven by political forces of the far right backed by the military and by the United States government.

  • New Clothes, Old Threads: The Dangerous Right-Wing Offensive in Latin America

    Dossier No. 47: New clothes, old threads: the dangerous right-wing offensive in Latin America

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on December 6, 2021 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    The Western world lives in discontent. Progressive models have failed to maintain the levels of politicisation, mystique, capacity to question, transformative purpose, and possibilities of concrete changes for the masses.

  • Digital world and class struggle

    Dossier No. 46: Big Tech and the current challenges facing the class struggle

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on November 1, 2021 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    We cannot give ourselves the luxury of being technophobic, of negating the importance of technologies and their potential in the struggle. At the same time, we cannot believe in the idea that technology in itself will result in advances for the organised working class.

  • ‘She had worn her best saree to come and learn cycling. At a “cycling training camp” in Pudukkottai, Tamil Nadu. She was exuberant with good cause. Some 4,000 very poor women in her district had come to control the quarries where they were once bonded labourers. Their organised struggle, combined with a politically conscious literacy movement, made Pudukkottai a better place’. – P. Sainath Illustration: Vikas Thakur (India) / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research Reference photo: P. Sainath / People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI) (Madhya Pradesh, July 2014)

    Dossier No. 45: Indian women on an arduous road to equality

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on October 11, 2021 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    The current situation might present an opportunity to strengthen mass movements and to steer the focus towards the rights and livelihoods of women and workers. The ongoing Indian farmers’ movement, which started before the pandemic and continues to stay strong, offers the opportunity to steer the national discourse towards such an agenda.

  • Steve Biko (fourth from the right, wearing a cap) at a birthday party at the University of Natal Medical School Non-European Section in Durban, 5 April 1969.

    Dossier 44: Black Community Programmes: The practical manifestation of Black Consciousness philosophy

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on September 10, 2021 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research created the collages in this dossier based on archival photographs, inserting silhouettes of people and activities and breathing life back into the spaces of the Black Community Programmes of decades past.

  • CoronaShock and Education in Brazil: One and a Half Years Later. Dossier no. 43

    Dossier No. 43: CoronaShock and education in Brazil: One and a half years later

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on August 2, 2021 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    One and a half years since the beginning of the pandemic in Brazil, it is possible to better evaluate some of its effects. The most visible immediate aspect of the pandemic has certainly been the sudden suspension of in-person activities and the temporary closure of schools and universities.

  • Women who migrated to the Wangjia community participate in local activities at the community centre in Tongren City, Guizhou Province

    Serve the People: The eradication of extreme poverty in China

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on July 23, 2021 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    On 25 February 2021, the Chinese government announced that extreme poverty had been abolished in China, a country of 1.4 billion people. This historic victory is a culmination of a seven-decade-long process that began with the Chinese Revolution of 1949.

  • AFRICOM’s known permanent and semi-permanent military bases

    Dossier No. 42: Defending our sovereignty: U.S. military bases in Africa and the future of African unity

    The Tricontinental

    Neo-colonialism, Nkrumah noted, seeks to fragment Africa, weaken African state institutions, prevent African unity and sovereignty, and thereby insert its power to subordinate the aspirations of the continent for pan-African consolidation.

  • A farmer from Punjab protests during a tractor march on Republic Day on GT Karnal Bypass Road in Delhi, 26 January 2021. Vikas Thakur / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research

    Dossier no. 41: The farmers’ revolt in India

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on June 14, 2021 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    India’s big capital, in close cahoots with the political class, took advantage of privatisation policies to seize public resources (including profitable public sector assets), acquire vast tracts of land by displacing village and forest communities, control the nation’s mineral resources, and undermine public sector banks through a cascading set of fraud and non-payment schemes.

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