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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.
  • Red Alert: Only One Earth

    Red Alert: Only one Earth

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

    A new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Making Peace with Nature (2021), highlights the ‘gravity of the Earth’s triple environmental emergencies: climate, biodiversity loss, and pollution’.

  • Roughly 19 million people in Brazil have gone hungry during the COVID-19 pandemic and more than 116 million people (52% of the population) experienced some level of food insecurity, according to Brazilian Research Network on Food and Nutritional Sovereignty and Security (Rede PENSSAN). Gabriela Tornai (@gabrielatornai_) / Design Ativista / 2021

    Dossier no. 40: The challenges facing Brazil’s left

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

    If the social consequences of adopting an ultra-neoliberal project weren’t enough already, the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and the gross mismanagement and negligence in combatting the virus have led to the worst-case social, economic, and health scenarios.

  • By April 1945, troops of the anti-Hitler coalition had liberated most of the territories occupied by the fascist Wehrmacht. The Red Army opened its offensive on the capital of the German Reich and the fierce ‘Battle of Berlin’ ended with the complete military defeat of Nazi Germany. This photograph shows two Red Army soldiers in the Reich Chancellery, Hitler’s last command post. At their feet lies the toppled symbol of fascist power, the imperial eagle above the swastika.

    Risen from the Ruins: The Economic History of Socialism in the German Democratic Republic

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on April 20, 2021 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    The German Democratic Republic (DDR) was a socialist state founded in 1949 as a democratic, antifascist reaction to the Second World War. It redistributed land, socialised the means of production, and collectivised the agricultural system.

  • Colectivo Culturas Vivas, Me lo dijo el río / The river told me so, Honduras, 2021

    Dossier No. 39: Pity the Nation: Honduras is being eaten from within and without

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on April 12, 2021 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    On 28 June 2009, President Manuel Zelaya was overthrown in a coup d’état engineered by the Honduran oligarchy and the United States government. The reverberations of the coup extend into present-day Honduras, which continues to struggle to maintain its political sovereignty.

  • Ailén Possamay, What they call love is unpaid labour, Buenos Aires, 2019.

    Dossier No. 38: Uncovering the crisis: Care work in the time of Coronavirus

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on March 7, 2021 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    The pandemic has sharpened and transformed pre-existing inequalities, reconfiguring the processes that sustain and guarantee life.

  • Dossier 37

    Dawn: Marxism and National Liberation

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on February 8, 2021 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Only at the end of his life did Karl Marx leave the shores of Europe and travel to a country under colonial dominion. This was when he went to Algeria in 1882. ‘For Mussulmans, there is no such thing as subordination’, Marx wrote to his daughter Laura Lafargue.

  • Twilight: The Erosion of US Control and the Multipolar Future

    Dossier no. 36: Twilight: The erosion of U.S. control and the multipolar future

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on January 4, 2020 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    If there was one revolution that marked the beginning of the end of the colonial epoch and that inaugurated a new worker-led civilisation, it was the Haitian Revolution of 1804. Enslaved Africans defeated the four major European powers of the day, won their freedom, and declared an independent republic.

  • S. Pudjanadi, Kaum Tani Menuntut (‘Peasants Make Demands’), published in Harian Rakyat, 21 June 1964. The demands read, from top to bottom: UUPA (‘agrarian law 1960’), UUD 45 (‘Indonesian 1945 constitution’) and demokrasi (‘democracy’).

    Dossier 35: The Legacy of Lekra: Organising revolutionary culture in Indonesia

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on December 1, 2020 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Martin Aleida recalls the moment he was released from prison at the end of 1966. At twenty-two, Martin emerged from nearly a year behind bars to Jakarta, unable to find his friends and comrades.

  • Mural of Paulo Freire at the entrance to the Florestan Fernandes National School of the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) in Guararema, Brazil, 2018. Richard Pithouse

    Dossier 34: Paulo Freire and popular struggle in South Africa

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on November 9, 2020 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    He constantly experimented with and thought about how to connect learning and teaching among the poor and oppressed with the radical transformation of society.

  • Che Guevara

    Che

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on October 8, 2020 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Twenty left publishers from around the world release a joint edition including two essential texts by Che Guevara on the fifty-third anniversary of his assassination by the CIA in Bolivia.

  • The Grito dos Excluídos (‘Cry of the Excluded’) mobilisation brings together post office workers on strike and educators who are occupying the streets in downtown Campinas (Brazil), 7 September 2020. Guilherme Gandolfi/Fotos Públicas

    Youth in Brazil’s peripheries in the era of CoronaShock

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on October 5, 2020 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Across the world, youth have become important political actors, especially since the 1960s. Along with workers, women, and people of colour, youth have been main protagonists in the fight for national, anti-colonial, anti-imperialist liberation in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

  • One Hundred Years of the Communist Movement in India : Dossier 32

    Dossier no. 32: One hundred years of the communist movement in India

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on September 1, 2020 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Through their self-effacing work, the communists have galvanised hundreds of millions of people into action in order to bring about far-reaching changes in society.

  • An Anti-Eviction Campaign activist gazes at the construction site of the Delft transit camp, a ‘temporary relocation area’ for people evicted from shacks closer to the city. March 2009 (Photo: Kerry Ryan Chance)

    Dossier 31: ‘The Politic of Blood’: Political Repression in South Africa

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on August 4, 2020 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    In his famous speech from the dock in April 1964, Nelson Mandela spoke of ‘revolutionary democracy’ rooted in precolonial forms of collective deliberation and decision making.

  • Adapted graphic from People’s Medical Publishing House, China, 1977.

    CoronaShock and socialism

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on July 8, 2020 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    CoronaShock is a term that refers to how a virus struck the world with such gripping force; it refers to how the social order in the bourgeois state crumbled, while the social order in the socialist parts of the world appeared more resilient.

  • Herb and spice vendor working (despite the pandemic). Santa Cruz Street, La Paz, Bolivia, 2020. Carlos Fiengo

    Latin America under CoronaShock: Social crisis, neoliberal failure, and the People’s Alternatives

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on July 7, 2020 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    The first cases of COVID-19 were detected in December 2019 in Wuhan (China). In early March, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the rapidly expanding illness a pandemic.

  • Jorge González Morales (Mexico), Capitalism, 2020.

    Ten-Point agenda for the Global South after COVID-19

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on June 18, 2020 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    In 1974, the United Nations General Assembly passed a New International Economic Order (NIEO), which was driven by the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).

  • 8 May 2020: As part of South Africa’s community screening and testing programme, a Khayelitsha Eastern community team tests farm workers in Faure, where a number of positive cases were discovered. A health worker signals what the minimum social distance should be. Barry Christianson / New Frame

    Dossier 20: Health is a political choice

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on June 9, 2020 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    In the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), Article 25 offers an expanded vision of what it could mean to be a human being. Human beings, it notes, have ‘the right to a standard of living adequate for [their] health and well-being’. This includes ‘food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services’; human beings also have the ‘right to security’, which means they have the right to compensation for any lack of livelihood due to circumstances beyond their control.

  • ‘Home’, a distant dream for India’s migrant labourers. Delhi, India Vikas Thakur / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research In India, migrant labourers traveled across the country en masse after the government declared a lockdown. These are workers who, before the pandemic, already had to struggle daily for even an ounce of food – then COVID-19 hit.

    Dossier 28: CoronaShock: A virus and the World

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on May 5, 2020 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    In December 2019, doctors in Wuhan (China) began to see patients with a kind of viral pneumonia. By the end of the month, an investigation began and China’s health authorities sent out a public warning and notified the World Health Organisation (WHO).

  • March organised by the MST in 2018 to demand former President Luiz Inácio da Silva’s release from jail. More than 5,000 landless workers marched over 50 kilometres in four days. Júlia Dolce

    Dossier 27: Popular agrarian reform and the struggle for land in Brazil

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on April 6, 2020 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    The land question is central to understanding political life and society in Brazil. The country has enormous landed estates, known as latifundios, which have their roots in the beginning of the Portuguese occupation of this part of South America at the start of the 16th century. The Portuguese seizure of this land and its conversion into large latifundios–together with the mono-cultivation of crops for export and the enslavement of human beings–established the roots of social inequality that persist to this day.

  • Frantz Fanon walking up a ship gangway. To Fanon’s right is Rheda Malek, a journalist from the Algerian National Liberation Front newspaper El Moudjahid. . Frantz Fanon Archives / IMEC

    Dossier no. 26: Frantz Fanon: The brightness of metal

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on March 2, 2020 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Frantz Fanon was born on the Caribbean island of Martinique on 25 July 1925. He died in the United States, from leukaemia, on 6 December 1961. He was thirty-six years old.

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