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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.
  • A volunteer taking a blood pressure test before a doctor’s consultation at a CPI(M)-run camp in Wyra, Khammam District, Telangana. Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research

    Dossier 25: People’s Polyclinics: The initiative of the Telugu communist movement

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on February 3, 2020 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Under the shadow of the Charter of the United Nations (1945) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), countries are obliged to guarantee the right to health. The 1946 Constitution of the World Health Organisation (WHO) defines health as ‘a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’.

  • People protest from day to night at Jama Masjid in Delhi against the Citizenship Amendment

    Dossier 24: The world oscillates between crises and protests

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

    This dossier is dedicated to offering an assessment of the moment we find ourselves in today. Part 1 provides a quick overview of planetary affairs; and Part 2 there are more detailed reports from our offices on their respective regions: South Africa, India, as well as the Caribbean and Latin America.

  • National Indigenous March, May 2016, Department of Cauca. Credit: Marcha Patriótica’s communication team.

    Dossier 23: Peace, neoliberalism and political shifts in Colombia

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on December 3, 2019 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Once again, the people of Colombia straddle two realities–the drums of war and the hope of peace. This tension has along, complex, and multi-dimensional historical process. This dossier from Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research examines the root causes of the crisis and the two realities of war and peace.

  • The Mtentu river

    Working Document 2: The fate of Xolobeni would be the fate of us all

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on October 2019 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Since 1996, activists in Xolobeni, a coastal region in South Africa, have been fighting a foreign mining conglomerate that learned that their ancestral lands happen to be rich in titanium. The anti-mining activists of Xolobeni, who have lost many comrades to hit squads, continue to struggle against this foreign company and its partners in the South African government. Given that their land is located in a global biodiversity hotspot, their struggle is the struggle of us all: it is the fight for water, soil, food, and air.

  • South American intellectuals

    Dossier 22: Latin America and the Caribbean: between the neoliberal offensive and new resistances

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on November 2019 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Critical thought in our current political conjuncture faces a debate about the characteristics of the neoliberal and neofascist offensive and the challenges that these offensives raise. This debate engages three important dimensions: the character of contemporary capitalism, the new monsters that drive it, and the possibility of necessary alternative futures.

  • Twenty years ago, Pujari Linganna had to uproot vegetation for a film shoot.

    Dossier 21: The neoliberal attack on rural India

    The Tricontinental

    If human agency, driven by a model of economics and development gone berserk, is a major driving factor in the changes upon us, there is plenty to be learned from this region and many like it.

  • The Rate of Exploitation - The Case of the iPhone

    Notebook #2: The Rate of Exploitation

    The Tricontinental

    The rate of exploitation in the production of Apple’s iPhone X, which stands at 2458%, is 25 times the rate of exploitation that is gleaned from Marx’s examples in Capital, published in 1867.

  • I.C.U. Staff

    Dossier no. 20: When you ill-treat the African people, i see you

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on September 2019 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    The Industrial & Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU)—a trade union, rural peasant movement, and urban squatters’ movement—formed on the docks in Cape Town in 1919. Within a decade, the ICU had expanded across Southern Africa without regard for national borders and counted people from various African countries and the Caribbean in its leadership, as well as people who were Indian and mixed race. The largely forgotten history of the ICU is well worth recovering in a time of escalating chauvinism and xenophobia. Our Dossier #20 offers an introduction to this extraordinary popular movement.

  • An Iranian woman (not pictured) holds up an anti-U.S. placard during a rally to mark the 35th anniversary of Iran’s Islamic Revolution

    Dossier 19: Iranians will not forget: The hybrid war against Iran

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on August 2019 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    It is impossible to predict what will happen in West Asia. Impossible to know whether the United States will conduct a military strike against Iran, which has already faced the full brunt of a U.S.-driven hybrid war against it for the past seven decades.

  • Protesters at the Workers’ Mahapadaav (Mass Sit-in) called by the Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions. New Delhi, November 2017. Photo credits: Subin Dennis

    Dossier 18: The only answer is to mobilise the workers

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on July 2, 2019 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research launches its eighteenth dossier, “The Only Answer Is to Mobilize the Workers.” The challenges facing Indian workers and their strategies to fight back are explained through the insights and expertise of K. Hemalata, president of the Center of Indian Trade Unions (CITU).

  • Lula by Ricardo Stuckert, 7 April 2018.

    Be careful of the crooked smile of powerful people

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on June 13, 2019 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    “For humanity, comrades,” writes Frantz Fanon at the close of his monumental The Wretched of the Earth, “we must turn over a new leaf, we must work out new concepts, and try to set afoot a new man’. Terrible inequalities in our world keep humanity divided.

  • Bolivarian Army, Venezuela. August 2017

    Dossier 17: Venezuela and hybrid wars in Latin America

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on June 3, 2019 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Dossier no. 17 reflects on the hybrid war unleashed against Venezuela. We document the repertoire of tactics, but also the motives behind them. We are interested not only in the recent attack on Venezuela, but in the similarities between this attack and others in Latin America over the past decades.

  • Residents of the Lesetlheng village community from the North West celebrating outside the Constitutional Court

    Dossier 16: Resource sovereignty—the Agenda for Africa’s exit from the state of plunder

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on May 2019 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    In this interview Gyekye Tanoh, head of the Political Economy Unit at the Third World Network-Africa based in Accra (Ghana), elaborates upon the themes of corporate plunder, resource nationalism and people-centered forms of resource management in Africa.

  • Dossier 15: The art of the revolution will be internationalist

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on April 2019 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    We need all of the cultural workers today—from graphic designers to cartoonists, programmers to poets, psychologists to meme-makers—to seize what we know in order to dream and to construct a world that is not only possible, but necessary.

  • From the series “Pulsantes”, Belém, Pará, 2018 by Evna Moura

    Dossier 14: Brazil’s Amazon—the wealth of the earth generates the poverty of humankind

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on March 12, 2019 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    The destruction of the Amazon has serious consequences not only for Brazil, but for all of Latin America—and the world.

  • Silent Victims

    Singing in a cage is possible and so is happiness

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on March 28, 2019 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Once more, punctually, Israel—with the vengeance of Zeus—has begun to bomb Gaza, from which the sounds and smells of war are never absent due to Israeli bombings. It helps Israel that the United States is fully behind its policy of annihilation.

  • "Kissing Death" by Ali Arkady

    The sunrise will be the same for those who wake and those who never will

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on March 21, 2019 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Disregard by the dominant powers of human lives in places such as Iraq has a long history. It goes back a hundred years.

  • "Allende’s Glasses"

    Killing the most beautiful things we own

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on March 15, 2019 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    The fight over the Amazon is not new, but the scale of its potential destruction has considerably increased. The protagonists of the murder of the Amazon are clear: capitalist firms of different scales and the political class that enables them.

  • We Refuse to Stop Dreaming- The Tenth Newsletter (2019).

    We refuse to stop dreaming

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on March 8, 2019 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Above all, we’d like to demand the right to dream. For us, the present is unacceptable. We demand the future.

  • We are the invisible. We are the invincible. We will overcome.

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on February 28, 2019 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    The mood in Caracas (Venezuela) is sombre. It appears that the attempted coup against the government that began on 23 January is now substantially over (as the Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza tells me).

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