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  • | Striking Frame Group workers meet for a report back on negotiations with management in Bolton Hall in 1973 Credit David Hemson Collection University of Cape Town Libraries | MR Online

    It was the workers who brought us democracy, and it will be the workers who establish a deeper democracy yet: The Fourth Newsletter (2023)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on January 26, 2023 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Democracy has a dream-like character. It sweeps into the world, carried forward by an immense desire by humans to overcome the barriers of indignity and social suffering.

  • | 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 | MR Online

    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.

  • | Maruja Mallo Spain La Verbena The Fair 1927 | MR Online

    When the people have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich: The Third Newsletter (2023)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on January 19, 2023 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    On 8 January, large crowds of people dressed in colours of the Brazilian flag descended on the country’s capital, Brasília. They invaded federal buildings, including the Congress, Supreme Court, and presidential palace, and vandalised public property.

  • | Spiridonov Yuri Vasilyevich Sakha Landlord of the Moma Mountains 2006 | MR Online

    The winds of the New Cold War are howling in the Arctic Circle: The Second Newsletter (2023)

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

    In 1996, the eight countries on the Arctic rim—Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the United States—formed the Arctic Council, a journey that began in 1989 when Finland approached the other countries to hold a discussion about the Arctic environment.

  • | Philip Guston Canada Gladiators 1940 | MR Online

    Socialism is not a Utopian ideal, but an achievable necessity: The First Newsletter (2023)

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

    In May 2021, the executive director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, and the UN high representative for disarmament affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu, wrote an article urging governments to cut excessive military spending in favour of increasing spending on social and economic development.

  • | Pathy Tshindele Democratic Republic of the Congo Untitled 2016 | MR Online

    The hope of a pan-African-owned and controlled electric car project is buried for generations to come

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on December 29, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    The United States government held the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in mid-December, prompted in large part by its fears about Chinese and Russian influence on the African continent.

  • | Reference photograph Sandinistas at the Walls of the National Guard Headquarters Molotov Man Estelí Nicaragua July 16th 1979 by Susan MeiselasMagnum Photos | MR Online

    The perils of Pious Neoliberalism in the Austerity State: The Fifty-First Newsletter (2022)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on December 22, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    The International Labour Organisation’s Global Wage Report 2022–23 tracks the horrendous collapse of real wages for billions of people around the planet.

  • | 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 | MR Online

    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.

  • | Balqis Al Rashed Saudi Arabia Cities of Salt 2017 | MR Online

    The road to de-dollarisation will run through Saudi Arabia: The Fiftieth Newsletter (2022)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on December 15, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    On 9 December, China’s President Xi Jinping met with the leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to discuss deepening ties between the Gulf countries and China.

  • | John Prince Siddon Australia Slim Dusty Looking Forward Looking Back 2021 | MR Online

    Nothing good will come from the New Cold War with Australia as a frontline State: The Forty-Ninth Newsletter (2022)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on December 8, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 15 November 2022, during the G20 summit in Bali (Indonesia), Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told journalists that his country ‘seeks a stable relationship with China’. This is because, as Albanese pointed out, China is ‘Australia’s largest trading partner. They are worth more […]

  • | Seydou Keïta Mali Untitled 19481954 | MR Online

    Mali’s break with France is a symptom of cracks in the Transatlantic Alliance: The Forty-Eighth Newsletter (2022)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on December 1, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    On 21 November 2022, Mali’s interim prime minister, Colonel Abdoulaye Maïga, issued a statement on social media announcing the government’s decision ‘to ban, with immediate effect, all activities carried out by [French] NGOs operating in Mali’.

  • | Chéri Samba Democratic Republic of the Congo Reorganisation 2002 | MR Online

    In Malay, orangutans means ‘people of the forest’, but those forests are disappearing: The Forty-Seventh Newsletter (2022)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on November 24, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    The dust has settled at the resorts in Sharm el-Shaikh, Egypt, as delegates of countries and corporations leave the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The only advance made in the final agreement was for the creation of a ‘loss and damage fund’ for ‘vulnerable countries’.

  • | KCS Paniker India Words and Symbols 1968 | MR Online

    Those who struggle to change the world know it well: The Forty-Sixth Newsletter (2022)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on November 17, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    In 1845, Karl Marx jotted down some notes for The German Ideology, a book that he wrote with his close friend Friedrich Engels. Engels found these notes in 1888, five years after Marx’s death, and published them under the title Theses on Feuerbach. The eleventh thesis is the most famous: ‘philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it’.

  • | Heloisa Hariadne Brazil Com uma gota já se faz oceano pra sede se matar em mergulho A drop of water becomes an ocean to quench a divers thirst 2021 | MR Online

    The attack on nature is putting humanity at risk: The Forty-Fifth Newsletter (2022)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on November 10, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    In the last week of October, João Pedro Stedile, a leader of the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) in Brazil and the global peasants’ organisation La Via Campesina, went to the Vatican to attend the International Meeting of Prayer for Peace, organised by the Community of Sant’Egídio.

  • | Chaïbia Talal Morocco Mon Village Chtouka 1990 | MR Online

    Africa does not want to be a breeding ground for the New Cold War: The Forty-Fourth Newsletter (2022)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on November 3, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    At this year’s UN General Assembly, the African Union firmly rejected the coercive efforts of the U.S. and Western countries to use the continent as a pawn in their geopolitical agenda.

  • | Raquel Forner Argentina Fin Principio End Beginning 1980 | MR Online

    We need a new Trade Union of the poor rooted in the Global South: The Forty-Third Newsletter (2022)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on October 27, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Chaos reigns in the United Kingdom, where the prime minister’s residence in London–10 Downing Street–prepares for the entry of Rishi Sunak, one of the richest men in the country.

  • | The Geopolitics of Inequality | MR Online

    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.

  • | Gélin Buteau Haiti Guede with Drum ca 1995 | MR Online

    The last thing Haiti needs is another military intervention: The Forty-Second Newsletter (2022)

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

    At the United Nations General Assembly on 24 September 2022, Haiti’s Foreign Minister Jean Victor Geneus admitted that his country faces a serious crisis, which he said ‘can only be solved with the effective support of our partners’.

  • | Wilfried Balima Burkina Faso Les Trois Camarades The Three Comrades 2018 | MR Online

    When will the stars shine again in Burkina Faso?: The Forty-First Newsletter (2022)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on October 13, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    On 30 September 2022, Captain Ibrahim Traoré led a section of the Burkina Faso military to depose Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who had seized power in a coup d’état in January.

  • | León Ferrari Argentina Untitled Sermon of the Blood 1962 | MR Online

    The most dangerous situation that humanity has ever faced: The Fortieth Newsletter (2022)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on October 6, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Since 1947, the Doomsday Clock has measured the likelihood of a human-made catastrophe, namely to warn the world against the possibility of a nuclear holocaust.

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