The Critical Minerals Beneath the Trump Corollary: The Fortieth Newsletter (2026)

The imperial drive to monopolise critical minerals unmasks a renewed strategic architecture: securing military and industrial supply chains enforces peripheral subordination, turning sovereign nations across the Global South into captive reservoirs for Western capital.

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Building a New Development Theory from the Global South

Wenhua Zongheng

This issue of the international edition of Wenhua Zongheng (文化纵横) examines how the Global South can build a New Development Theory grounded in its own practice.

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Of Soil and Blood: Lu Xun’s Revolutionary Literature Ninety Years After His Death

Art Bulletin

Through political essays and speeches from the final decade of his life, we revisit Lu Xun’s reflections on language, despair, internationalism, and the cultural soil needed for social transformation.

Walking on Two Legs: The Socialism of Chinese Modernisation

The Chinese experience shows that true national independence demands both technological advancement and the constant realignment of economic power, proving that market mechanisms can be directed toward human need rather than profit.

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Nuestra América Newsletter

Defending Cuba and Socialism – Reflections from the IV Continental Assembly of ALBA Movements in Havana

BRICS in Delhi: Building a Trading System Free of Western Control

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Red Alerts

Red Alert no. 22: Truth Amid the Rubble

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Pan Africa Newsletter

The Continuing Struggle for Reparatory Justice

Fidel Castro: a revolution can only be child of culture and ideas

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Dossier

11 August 2026
A Vietnam in the Field of Culture: The Cultural Congress of Havana, 1968
In 1968, delegates from seventy countries gathered in Havana to confront cultural imperialism and imagine culture as a decisive front of anti-imperialist struggle.
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7 July 2026
The Architecture of Power: The Dollar, Financialisation, and the Struggle for Sovereignty
The role of the dollar as the principal currency of exchange in world trade grants the United States exorbitant power. This dossier examines the rise of this currency, the mechanisms of its domination, and the…
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2 June 2026
East Asia’s Double Bind: Contradictions and Possibilities in the New Cold War
Caught between US military dependence and deep economic integration with China, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, and Taiwan face mounting contradictions as the New Cold War reshapes East Asia.
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5 May 2026
The Future
The future is not what comes tomorrow, the time of the calendar. It is when our human journey breaks from the realism of capitalism and enters a structure that permits us to fully solve human…
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7 April 2026
Class Struggle and Climate Catastrophe in the Sahel
In the Sahel, growing conflict is rooted in class struggle, shaped by imperialist extraction, and intensified by the climate catastrophe.
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3 March 2026
The Anti-Feminist Agenda of the Latin American Far Right
An anti-gender crusade is sweeping across Latin America: the far right, religious fundamentalists, and transnational networks are mobilising to roll back feminist gains to consolidate political power.
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Studies

Historical Materialism

18 August 2026
The Roots of Capitalism: Slavery and the Sugar Trade
The modern capitalist world was built not only in banks and factories but also through the plantations, ports, and ships that transformed sugar and enslaved human beings into sources of global profit.
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Socialist Construction

2 December 2025
The Cooperative Movement in Kerala, India
Backed by powerful working-class and peasant movements as well as left governments that have been in power intermittently, Kerala’s cooperative movement has sprouted thousands of cooperatives, each one an incubator of possible futures beyond capitalism.
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Contemporary dilemmas

12 November 2025
The 80th Anniversary of the Victory in the World Anti-Fascist War
As we commemorate eighty years since the people’s victory in the World Anti-Fascist War, we must remember who truly saved humanity – and honour their sacrifice with the truth.
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Contemporary dilemmas

23 January 2024
Hyper-Imperialism: A Dangerous Decadent New Stage
Our latest study explores how the decline of Global North hegemony has shifted the geopolitical landscape and opened new possibilities for emergent organisations of the Global South.
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Feminisms

21 March 2023
Josie Mpama
This study discusses the life and political struggles of Josie Mpama, a leader in the resistance against colonial oppression and the apartheid system in South Africa.
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Contemporary dilemmas

13 March 2023
Eight Contradictions of the Imperialist ‘Rules-Based Order’
Significant global changes have emerged in the years since the Great Financial Crisis of 2008. This can be seen in a new phase of imperialism and the particularities of eight contradictions, summarised in our latest…
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Regions

Bandung Circuits

Bandung Circuits is a publication by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and Global South Insights building AI research tools that serve scholars and movements in the Global South.

Currents

Artificial Intelligence in the Hands of the People: The Rongjiang Experiment

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Foundations

Declarative Multi-Agent Systems: From Using AI to Building AI

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Tricontinental Political Economy

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24 August, 2026