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DOSSIER

Conflicts, crises and struggles appear into the news media without much context. This is for two reasons. First, the compression of space – the brevity of a television news report or of the print media’s 300 word story – prevents any broad context from being offered to a readership which might not know how to assess a conflict, crisis or struggle. Second, the ideology of the governing class is one that proceeds with the premise that too much depth would give people too much understanding of how the world works. Far better to have a ‘free media’ that merely skims the surface, if it at all reports on a story. Shallow news reports saturated with corrosive ideological implications are what is on offer particularly when a crisis strikes. Events appear as a sudden crisis with no history.

From the Tricontinental, each month, we will produce a brief dossier on a current event that we believe requires some elaboration. These dossiers will provide a short anti-imperialist history of the crisis, offer interviews with key experts on the region and on the issue at stake and provide human stories of the people who are at the heart of the crisis.

To suggest crises that need elaboration or to offer information as well as stories for these events, please contact us at [email protected].

 


Pity the Nation: Honduras Is Being Eaten from within and without

April 12, 2021  

Where does Honduras stand twelve years after the 2009 coup? In our dossier, jointly produced with People’s Dispatch and the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organisations of Honduras (COPINH), we look at the coup against progressive leader and President Manuel Zelaya and the prolonged violence in the country in the years since by examining the assassination of Berta Cáceres, the forced disappearances of five members of the Garifuna community in July 2020, and the concerted attacks on trade unionism to understand the far-reaching impacts of the coup.

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Uncovering the Crisis: Care Work in the Time of Coronavirus

March 7, 2021  

The pandemic uncovered a reality that has long been brewing in which inequalities, injustices, and asymmetries are violently embedded in the order of society. The crisis of wage-based society did not alter the unequal distribution of work, nor did it recognise it as an integral element of all lives – despite how feminisms have long politicised this discussion. This dossier focuses on three main areas around three main areas: communities, houses/homes, and domestic and care work.

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Dawn: Marxism and National Liberation

February 8, 2021  

Dossier no. 37 is an invitation to a dialogue, a conversation about the entangled tradition of Marxism and national liberation – a tradition that emerges out of the October Revolution and that deepens its roots in the anti-colonial conflicts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This is an introduction to a wide-ranging conversation that includes many different revolutionary movements, mostly rooted in the continents of Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

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Twilight: The Erosion of US Control and the Multipolar Future

January 4, 2021  

At the conclusion of World War II, with the European powers severely weakened, the United States – the most powerful of Europe’s settler colonies – took over the neo-colonial management of the planet. Now, almost eighty years later, the primacy of the United States has entered twilight. This dossier explores the emergence of a new cold war imposed by the United States on China and the forms of hybrid war that have been utilised against countries that it deems to be a threat.

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The Legacy of Lekra: Organising Revolutionary Culture in Indonesia

December 1, 2020  

In 1965, the Indonesian revolutionary cultural organisation, Lekra, had 200,000 members and one and half million supporters. This was followed by a coup and the killing of one million communists in the months that followed. On the seventieth anniversary since its founding, this dossier traces Lekra’s history and calls on the artists and militants of today to combine individual creativity with the wisdom of the masses, from whose struggles for emancipation we seek hope and direction.

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ARCHIVES
Twilight: The Erosion of US Control and the Multipolar Future
Dawn: Marxism and National Liberation
Uncovering the Crisis: Care Work in the Time of Coronavirus
Pity the Nation: Honduras Is Being Eaten from within and without
The World Oscillates Between Crises and Protests
People’s Polyclinics: The Initiative of the Telugu Communist Movement.
Frantz Fanon: The Brightness of Metal
Popular Agrarian Reform and the Struggle for Land in Brazil
CoronaShock: A Virus and the World
Health Is a Political Choice.
Latin America Under CoronaShock: Social Crisis, Neoliberal Failure, and the People’s Alternatives
‘The Politic of Blood’: Political Repression in South Africa
One Hundred Years of the Communist Movement in India
Youth in Brazil’s Peripheries in the Era of CoronaShock
Paulo Freire and Popular Struggle in South Africa
The Legacy of Lekra: Organising Revolutionary Culture in Indonesia
India's Communists and the Elections of 2019. Only an Alternative Agenda Can Defeat the Right-Wing.
The New Intellectual    
Brazil's Amazon: The Wealth of the Earth Generates the Poverty of Humankind
The Art of the Revolution will be Internationalist
Resource Sovereignty: The Agenda for Africa's Exit from the State Plunder
Venezuela and Hybrid Wars in Latin America
The Only Answer is to Mobilise the Workers. An Interview with K. Hemalata, President of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions.
Iranians Will Not Forget.
A Brief History of South Africa’s Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (1919-1931)
THE NEOLIBERAL ATTACK ON RURAL INDIA: Two Reports by P. Sainath
Latin America and the Caribbean: Between the Neoliberal Offensive and New Resistances
Peace, Neoliberalism, and Political Shifts in Colombia
Dossier 1: Crisis in the Korean Peninsula.
Dossier 2: Cities Without Water
Dossier 3: Syria's Bloody and Unforgiving War
Dossier 4: The People of Venezuela Go to Vote
Dossier 5: Lula and The Battle for Democracy
Dossier 6: The Story of Solapur, India, Where Housing Cooperatives are Building a Workers’ City
Dossier 7: The Imperialism of Finance Capital and 'Trade Wars'
Dossier 8: The Uprooting in Haiti: Whispers of a Revolutionary Past and Future
Dossier 9: How Kerala fought the heaviest deluge in nearly a century
Dossier 10: Argentina Goes Back to the IMF
Dossier 11: The Homemade Politics of Abahlali baseMjondolo, South Africa’s Shack Dweller Movement

DOSSIER

Conflicts, crises and struggles appear into the news media without much context. This is for two reasons. First, the compression of space – the brevity of a television news report or of the print media’s 300 word story – prevents any broad context from being offered to a readership which might not know how to assess a conflict, crisis or struggle. Second, the ideology of the governing class is one that proceeds with the premise that too much depth would give people too much understanding of how the world works. Far better to have a ‘free media’ that merely skims the surface, if it at all reports on a story. Shallow news reports saturated with corrosive ideological implications are what is on offer particularly when a crisis strikes. Events appear as a sudden crisis with no history.

From the Tricontinental, each month, we will produce a brief dossier on a current event that we believe requires some elaboration. These dossiers will provide a short anti-imperialist history of the crisis, offer interviews with key experts on the region and on the issue at stake and provide human stories of the people who are at the heart of the crisis.

To suggest crises that need elaboration or to offer information as well as stories for these events, please contact us at [email protected].

 

Pity the Nation: Honduras Is Being Eaten from within and without

April 12, 2021

Where does Honduras stand twelve years after the 2009 coup? In our dossier, jointly produced with People’s Dispatch and the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organisations of Honduras (COPINH), we look at the coup against progressive leader and President Manuel Zelaya and the prolonged violence in the country in the years since by examining the assassination of Berta Cáceres, the forced disappearances of five members of the Garifuna community in July 2020, and the concerted attacks on trade unionism to understand the far-reaching impacts of the coup.

DOWNLOAD PDF

Uncovering the Crisis: Care Work in the Time of Coronavirus

March 7, 2021

The pandemic uncovered a reality that has long been brewing in which inequalities, injustices, and asymmetries are violently embedded in the order of society. The crisis of wage-based society did not alter the unequal distribution of work, nor did it recognise it as an integral element of all lives – despite how feminisms have long politicised this discussion. This dossier focuses on three main areas around three main areas: communities, houses/homes, and domestic and care work.

DOWNLOAD PDF

Dawn: Marxism and National Liberation

February 8, 2021

Dossier no. 37 is an invitation to a dialogue, a conversation about the entangled tradition of Marxism and national liberation – a tradition that emerges out of the October Revolution and that deepens its roots in the anti-colonial conflicts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This is an introduction to a wide-ranging conversation that includes many different revolutionary movements, mostly rooted in the continents of Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

DOWNLOAD PDF

Twilight: The Erosion of US Control and the Multipolar Future

January 4, 2021

At the conclusion of World War II, with the European powers severely weakened, the United States – the most powerful of Europe’s settler colonies – took over the neo-colonial management of the planet. Now, almost eighty years later, the primacy of the United States has entered twilight. This dossier explores the emergence of a new cold war imposed by the United States on China and the forms of hybrid war that have been utilised against countries that it deems to be a threat.

DOWNLOAD PDF

The Legacy of Lekra: Organising Revolutionary Culture in Indonesia

December 1, 2020

In 1965, the Indonesian revolutionary cultural organisation, Lekra, had 200,000 members and one and half million supporters. This was followed by a coup and the killing of one million communists in the months that followed. On the seventieth anniversary since its founding, this dossier traces Lekra’s history and calls on the artists and militants of today to combine individual creativity with the wisdom of the masses, from whose struggles for emancipation we seek hope and direction.

DOWNLOAD PDF

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