UNICEF reports that every minute a child is pushed into hunger in fifteen countries most ravaged by the global food crisis. Although exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, food price inflation and growing global hunger are systemic problems with deep, decades-old roots. Projections show that by the end of the 21st century, only 14% of nations will be self-sufficient in terms of food production. This bleak forecast demands that we radically transform the world food system.
The PAIGC’s Political Education for Liberation in Guinea-Bissau, 1963–74
In the pursuit of national liberation between 1963-74, the African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC) was faced with the task of creating anew educational processes, structures, and spaces that could begin to attend to the material needs of the people and the needs of the political struggle. Combating illiteracy, fear, and ignorance, education would become the means through which African people could begin to reclaim and regain their voices and emerge as politically conscious and active members of society, both within their country and in the course of world history.
Red Alert no. 14: The US Ministry of Colonies and Its Summit
The United States is set to host the Summit of the Americas on 8–10 June in Los Angeles.
Dossier 53 discusses the land question in South Africa, looking at the role of white farmers who have long benefited from the labour of exploited Black farmworkers. Beginning with a historical account of the plight of farmworkers, it argues that those who work the land deserve to be its primary beneficiaries, but, instead, they have been excluded from the profits and stability of owning land for generations. Faced with this reality, dossier no. 53 discusses what a land reform agenda that centres the perspectives and needs of farmworkers would look like.
Winds from Fusang: Art, Multipolarity, and China-Latin America Relations
Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research interviewed the painter Zheng Shengtian. Winds from Fusang (2017) is a mural by him and Sun Jingbo included in dossier no.
Nela Martínez Espinosa (1912–2004) Women of Struggle, Women in Struggle
Nela Martínez (1912–2004), Ecuadorian activist and fighter for the people, was a key figure in the struggles of the working class and women.