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Dossier no. 68: The coup against the Third World: Chile, 1973
The relationship between Chile, the curtailment of its socialist reforms, and the ongoing processes in other countries in the region and in the Global South more generally have been systematically erased in Chile, from official historiography and media narratives alike.
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Dossier no. 67: Dependency and Super-exploitation: The Relationship between Foreign Capital and Social Struggles in Latin America
In the different countries of the world, capitalism is shaped and consolidated not only by the general logic of this mode of production, but also by the social, historical, and cultural conditions of each country. The way each country and region understand the forms of accumulation and expansion of capitalism is fundamental to the class struggle.
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Dossier no. 66: The world needs a new socialist development theory
Across the world, evidence of human misery is increasingly easy to find. The data collected and reported by international agencies is stunning. Billions of people around the planet lack access to adequate education, healthcare, food, and shelter, as well as information and culture.
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Dossier no. 63: Life or debt: The stranglehold of neocolonialism and Africa’s search for alternatives
Before the pandemic was announced by the World Health Organisation in March 2020, the poorer nations of the world already struggled with seriously high—and unpayable—levels of debt.
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Sovereignty, dignity, and regionalism in the new international order
A set of current processes force us to ask ourselves about the possibility of a military conflagration that could affect us all. Some researchers have asked, in the present tense: Are we at war?
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Dossier No. 61: The Strategic Revolutionary Thought and Legacy of Hugo Chávez Ten Years After His Death
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.
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Dossier No. 60: The 1973 Durban strikes: Building popular democratic power in South Africa
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.
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Dossier No. 59: Religious fundamentalism and imperialism in Latin America: Action and resistance
It is impossible to disconnect religion from the political projects of domination and liberation in Latin America.
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Dossier No. 57: The geopolitics of inequality: Discussing pathways towards a more just world
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.
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Ten Theses on Marxism and Decolonisation
The Cuban Revolution came about in a country subordinated to the U.S. from all points of view. Although we had the façade of a republic, we were a perfect colony, exemplary in economic, commercial, diplomatic, and political terms, and almost in cultural terms.
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Dossier no. 54: Gramsci in the midst of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST): an interview with MST Militante Neuri Rossetto
Despite the persistent hegemony of capitalism and its ruling neoliberal ideology, various forms of resistance, social struggle, and proposals for an emancipated future continue to emerge.
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Dossier no. 53: This land is the land of our ancestors
The labour relations on South African farms continue to maintain race, gender, and class inequalities as a central character of work and life.
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Go to Yan’an: culture and national liberation
The Chinese communist base area of Yan’an was a literal and metaphorical stage for envisioning, experimenting, and building a new society and a new human being.
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Dossier no. 50: The military’s return to Brazilian politics
Brazil is in danger of becoming a country whose political economy is rooted in militarism, diverting precious social wealth to the military and police as it imposes a military ethic onto public life.
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Dossier no. 49: A map of Latin America’s present: An interview with Héctor Béjar
Four emblematic coups have now been substantially reversed: Chile (1973), Peru (1992), Honduras (2009), and Bolivia (2019). Each of these coups was driven by political forces of the far right backed by the military and by the United States government.
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Dossier no. 48: We will build the future: a plan to save the planet
The most scandalous fact of the current period is that 2.37 billion people are struggling to eat. Most of them are in developing countries, but many are in advanced industrial states.
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Dossier No. 47: New clothes, old threads: the dangerous right-wing offensive in Latin America
The Western world lives in discontent. Progressive models have failed to maintain the levels of politicisation, mystique, capacity to question, transformative purpose, and possibilities of concrete changes for the masses.
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Dossier No. 46: Big Tech and the current challenges facing the class struggle
We cannot give ourselves the luxury of being technophobic, of negating the importance of technologies and their potential in the struggle. At the same time, we cannot believe in the idea that technology in itself will result in advances for the organised working class.
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Dossier No. 45: Indian women on an arduous road to equality
The current situation might present an opportunity to strengthen mass movements and to steer the focus towards the rights and livelihoods of women and workers. The ongoing Indian farmers’ movement, which started before the pandemic and continues to stay strong, offers the opportunity to steer the national discourse towards such an agenda.
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Dossier 44: Black Community Programmes: The practical manifestation of Black Consciousness philosophy
Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research created the collages in this dossier based on archival photographs, inserting silhouettes of people and activities and breathing life back into the spaces of the Black Community Programmes of decades past.