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The work that Tricontinental does: The Nineteenth Newsletter (2023)
Over the past few years, we have become increasingly alarmed by the serious tensions that have been imposed on the world.
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The rollback of child labor protections is well underway
The hunt for profits is driving ever more despicable labor laws and practices.
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The great denial: Why they don’t want us to talk about class
In the first of three extracts from his new book, Radical Chains, Chris Nineham asks why the establishment is so desperate to suppress the very idea of class.
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The IMF and its ideological orphans
There was a time when the International Monetary Fund’s “recommendations” on how to reorganize an economy were read, defended and executed as if they were a divine mandate.
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“Karl Marx:” A biography by Engels
Karl Marx was born on May 5, 1818 in Trier, where he received a classical education. He studied jurisprudence at Bonn and later in Berlin, where, however, his preoccupation with philosophy soon turned him away from law.
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New report unveils how CIA schemes color revolutions around the world
For a long time, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) plotted “peaceful evolution” and “color revolutions” as well as spying activities around the world.
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A planetary health perspective on menstruation: menstrual equity and climate action
Historically, blood-shedding has often been associated with heroic acts of valour. However, menstruation is not praised and cherished in the same way. Rather, menstruation is shrouded in secrecy, stigma, and stress, despite being a natural physiological process that occurs in a quarter of the global population.
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Karl Marx: A Biographical Sketch with an Exposition of Marxism
This article on Karl Marx, which now appears in a separate printing, was written in 1913 (as far as I can remember) for the Granat Encyclopaedia. A fairly detailed bibliography of literature on Marx, mostly foreign, was appended to the article.
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‘The End of Organized Humanity’
Noam Chomsky lays out the coming apocalypse without taking direct action to quell the climate crisis.
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Multiple U.S. officials confronted about U.S. Assange hypocrisy on World Press Freedom Day
Assange exposed many things about our rulers during his work with WikiLeaks, but none of those revelations have been as significant as what he’s forced them to reveal about themselves in the lengths that they will go to to silence a journalist who tells inconvenient truths.
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U.S. makes up c 40% of global military spending, 10x Russia, 3x China
The United States spent $877 billion on its military in 2022, nearly 40% of the global total, 10 times more than Russia ($86.4 billion), and three times more than China ($292 billion). The U.S. military budget is larger than the next 10 biggest spenders combined.
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Proletariat of the proletariat: Women’s unpaid labor
The pandemic brought the spotlight on many of the wrongs of capitalism, among them the issue of unpaid labor.
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Threats to the hegemony of the dollar
JANET Yellen, the U.S. treasury secretary, has finally acknowledged what has been obvious to most people for quite some time, namely that the imposition of sanctions against countries that the U.S. is hostile to, runs the risk of jeopardizing the hegemony of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency.
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You’re not deficient, you’re just ruled by assholes
Times are hard, and they’re getting harder, but we can turn this thing around. Please be kind with yourself in the meantime.
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De-dollarization kicks into high gear
The U.S. dollar is essential to U.S. global power projection. But in 2022, the dollar share of reserve currencies slid 10 times faster than the average in the past two decades.
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The State and the future of socialism
In his recent book, The Communist Hypothesis, Alain Badiou describes the past defeats of May 1968, the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the Paris Commune as well as those of factory occupations and other such struggles as defeats ‘covered with glory’.
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Ruy Mauro Marini’s Contribution to the Political Economy of Imperialism
In “The Dialectics of Dependency,” Ruy Mauro Marini developed a theory of dependency and unequal exchange that is still invaluable today.
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Review: ‘I Know Who Caused COVID-19’: Pandemics and Xenophobia
A critical review of a Lacanian individualist approach by a fan of Rob Wallace, and chief of infectious disease at Mount Sinai in NY.
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Global military spending reaches record $2,240 billion: SIPRI
According to SIPRI, global military spending will reach a new record high of $2,240 billion in 2022.
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Patriarchy subsidises capitalism
While discussing about primary accumulation of capital, Marx did refer to a process of alienating direct producers from the means of production and this has been done by the use of coercion.