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    Dossier no. 64: The Condition of the Indian Working Class

    Originally published: The Tricontinental (more by The Tricontinental)  |

    In this latest dossier, the Tricontinental offers a broad analysis of the living and working conditions of India’s large and diverse working class.

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    On the Threshold of a New International Order

    Originally published: The Tricontinental (more by The Tricontinental)  |

    In the current global climate of conflict and division, it is essential to develop lines of communication and encourage exchange between China, the West, and the developing world.

  • | | MR Online

    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.

  • | Women farmers from Punjab and Haryana protest at the Tikri border in Delhi 24 January 2021 Vikas Thakur Tricontinental Institute for Social Research | MR Online

    The Kisan [Farmers’] Commune in India

    Originally published: The Tricontinental on June 17, 2021 (more by The Tricontinental)  |

    On 26 June 2021, tens of thousands of Indian farmers will gather in front of the government offices in India’s twenty-eight states.

  • | 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 | MR Online

    Dossier no. 41: The farmers’ revolt in India

    Originally published: The Tricontinental on June 14, 2021 (more by The Tricontinental)  |

    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.

  • | Faisal Laibi Sahi Iraq Cafe 2 2014 | MR Online

    Every region of the World is the worst affected

    Originally published: The Tricontinental on June 10 2021 (more by The Tricontinental)  |

    The impact of this food price rise will grievously hit developing countries, most of whom are major importers of food staples. 

  • | Setu Legi Indonesia Take Care of this Land 2010 | MR Online

    We hug the trees because the trees have no voice

    Originally published: The Tricontinental on June 3, 2021 (more by The Tricontinental)  |

    In 1974, the UN urged the world to celebrate that day on 5 June with the slogan ‘Only One Earth’; this year, the theme is ‘Ecosystem Restoration’, emphasising how the capitalist system has eroded the earth’s capacity to sustain life.

  • | Red Alert Only One Earth | MR Online

    Red Alert: Only one Earth

    Originally published: The Tricontinental on June 2, 2021 (more by The Tricontinental)  |

    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’.

  • | Jorge Luis Rodríguez Aguilar Cuba Paris Commune 150 2021 | MR Online

    Lenin went to dance in the snow to celebrate the Paris Commune and the Soviet Republic

    Originally published: The Tricontinental on May 27, 2021 (more by The Tricontinental)  |

    The workers of Paris created the Commune on 18 March, building on the wave of revolutionary optimism that first lapped on the shores of France in 1789 and then again in 1830 and 1848.

  • | 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 | MR Online

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

    Originally published: The Tricontinental on May 11, 2021 (more by The Tricontinental)  |

    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.

  • | Laila Shawa Palestine The Hands of Fatima 1989 | MR Online

    Sleep now in the fire

    Originally published: The Tricontinental on May 20, 2021 (more by The Tricontinental)  |

    Israel’s massive war machine attacks the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) with total disregard for international law.

  • | Tiger Tateishi Japan Samurai the Watcher Koya no Yojinbo 1965 | MR Online

    If I fall in the struggle, take my place

    Originally published: The Tricontinental (more by The Tricontinental)  |

    Ugliness defines the mood of state violence from Cali (Colombia) to Durban (South Africa), each context different and the depth of the violence particular to the location. Images of security forces cracking down on people trying to express their political rights have become commonplace.

  • | E Meera Kerala Red Dawn 2021 | MR Online

    In Kerala, the present is dominated by the future

    Originally published: The Tricontinental on May 6, 2021 (more by The Tricontinental)  |

    Kerala, a state in the Indian union with a population of 35 million, has re-elected the Left Democratic Front (LDF) to lead the government for another five years. Since 1980, the people of Kerala have voted out the incumbent, seeking to alternate between the Left and the Right.

  • | A mass rally with the Free German Youth that marked the founding of the German Democratic Republic in the Soviet Occupation Zone October 1949 | MR Online

    I’m still here, though my country’s gone West

    Originally published: The Tricontinental on April 29, 2021 (more by The Tricontinental)  |

    A full generation has elapsed since the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) collapsed in late 1991. Two years earlier, in 1989, the communist states of Eastern Europe dissolved, with the first salvo fired when Hungary opened its border.

  • | Mohsen Taasha Wahidi Afghanistan Rebirth of the Red 2017 | MR Online

    A bit of hope that doesn’t come from Miami

    Originally published: The Tricontinental on April 22, 2021 (more by The Tricontinental)  |

    After twenty years, the United States government–and the forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)–will depart from Afghanistan. They said that they came to do two things: to destroy al-Qaeda, which had launched an attack on the United States on 11 September 2001, and to destroy the Taliban, which had given al-Qaeda a base.

  • | 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 Hitlers last command post At their feet lies the toppled symbol of fascist power the imperial eagle above the swastika | MR Online

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

    Originally published: The Tricontinental on April 20, 2021 (more by The Tricontinental)  |

    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 Senderos latinos Latino paths Honduras 2019 | MR Online

    I entered my country’s House of Justice and found a snake charmer’s temple

    Originally published: The Tricontinental on April 15, 2021 (more by The Tricontinental)  |

    On Sunday night on 21 March 2021, a gunmen stopped Juan Carlos Cerros Escalante (age 41) as he walked from this mother’s home to his own in the village of Nueva Granada near San Antonio de Cortés (Honduras). The gunmen opened fire in front of a catholic church, killing this leader of United Communities in front of his children. Forty bullets were found at the scene.

  • | Colectivo Culturas Vivas Me lo dijo el río The river told me so Honduras 2021 | MR Online

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

    Originally published: The Tricontinental on April 12, 2021 (more by The Tricontinental)  |

    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.

  • | From left to right Vijay Prashad Fred Mmembe Diego Sequera and Erika Farías in Caracas 2019 Photograph taken by Yeimi Salinas | MR Online

    Zambia is the tip of the tail of the Global dog

    Originally published: The Tricontinental on April 8, 2021 (more by The Tricontinental)  |

    On 12 August 2021, the people of Zambia will vote to elect a new president, who will be the seventh person elected to the office since Zambia won its independence from the United Kingdom in 1964 if the incumbent loses.

  • | Vladimir Griuntal and G Iablonovskii USSR Chto eto takoe What is This 1932 | MR Online

    The vaccine must be a common good for humanity

    Originally published: The Tricontinental on April 1, 2021 (more by The Tricontinental)  |

    Nearly three million people have reportedly been killed by the novel coronavirus (SAR-CoV-2) and upwards of 128 million people have been infected by the virus, many with long-lasting health repercussions.

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