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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].

 


The Coup Against the Third World: Chile, 1973

September 5, 2023  

Dossier no. 68 presents an analysis of the 1973 coup against Chile and its effects on the Third World and non-aligned countries. It was the Allende government’s policies to nationalise copper that spurred the coup, but the policy to nationalise copper was part of a broader conversation in the Third World to create a New International Economic Order which would restructure the neocolonial international economic system along democratic lines and give weight to the ideas and peoples of the Third World. In that sense, the US-driven coup against Chile was precisely a coup against the Third World.

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Dependency and Super-exploitation: The Relationship between Foreign Capital and Social Struggles in Latin America

August 8, 2023  

This dossier analyses the role of Marxist dependency theory today as an important scientific tool to understand the processes of development and underdevelopment, the current anti-democratic and fascist trends, and emancipation processes in the Global South.

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The World Needs a New Socialist Development Theory

July 4, 2023  

Over the past century, there have been major shifts in the debates and theories concerning the question of development. In the post-war era, this evolution can be divided into four eras: the era of modernisation theory, the era of the New International Economic Order, the era of neoliberal globalisation, and the current transitional era following the 2007–2008 financial crisis. This dossier examines the historical and current thinking on development and offers an outline for a new socialist development theory.

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Whose Land Is It and What Is It For? An Unfinished Debate about Land Access in Argentina

June 7, 2023  

In Argentina, the concentration of land ownership remains in the hands of a few. This system privileges the export of agricultural and agro-industrial goods, leaving the population facing hunger, a growing rural exodus, and an increasingly high concentration of the population in urban areas. Faced with this reality, this dossier looks at the debate and projects that consider land as a strategic resource, allowing people to put down roots, enjoy a dignified quality of life, and produce food aimed at supplying the local population.

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The Condition of the Indian Working Class

May 1, 2023  

This dossier offers a broad analysis of the living and working conditions of India’s large and diverse working class. The vast majority of workers in India are poorly paid and face terrible living conditions. Most of them are in the informal sector, where unionisation rates have been historically low. During the neoliberal era, corporations have demanded ‘labour market flexibility’, claiming that it would help attract foreign investment and generate economic growth. To overcome unions’ resistance against such ‘reforms’, which make jobs even more insecure, the government has moved to change laws. But workers have not surrendered to capital’s rising power.

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ARCHIVES
The 1973 Durban Strikes: Building Popular Democratic Power in South Africa
The Strategic Revolutionary Thought and Legacy of Hugo Chávez Ten Years After His Death
Sovereignty, Dignity, and Regionalism in the New International Order
Life or Debt: The Stranglehold of Neocolonialism and Africa’s Search for Alternatives
The Condition of the Indian Working Class
Whose Land Is It and What Is It For? An Unfinished Debate about Land Access in Argentina
The World Needs a New Socialist Development Theory
Dependency and Super-exploitation: The Relationship between Foreign Capital and Social Struggles in Latin America
The Coup Against the Third World: Chile, 1973
We Will Build the Future: A Plan to Save the Planet
A Map of Latin America’s Present: An Interview with Héctor Béjar
The Military’s Return to Brazilian Politics
Looking Towards China: Multipolarity as an Opportunity for the Latin American People
Go to Yan’an: Culture and National Liberation
This Land Is the Land of Our Ancestors
Gramsci in the Midst of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST): An Interview with MST Militante Neuri Rossetto
The People’s Steel Plant and the Fight Against Privatisation in Visakhapatnam
Ten Theses on Marxism and Decolonisation
The Geopolitics of Inequality: Discussing Pathways Towards a More Just World
Activist Research: How the All India Democratic Women’s Association Builds Knowledge to Change the World An Interview with R. Chandra
Religious Fundamentalism and Imperialism in Latin America: Action and Resistance
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 Challenges Facing Brazil’s Left
The Farmers’ Revolt in India
Defending Our Sovereignty: US Military Bases in Africa and the Future of African Unity
CoronaShock and Education in Brazil: One and a Half Years Later
Black Community Programmes: The Practical Manifestation of Black Consciousness Philosophy
Indian Women on an Arduous Road to Equality
Big Tech and the Current Challenges Facing the Class Struggle
New Clothes, Old Threads: The Dangerous Right-Wing Offensive in Latin America
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].

 

Life or Debt: The Stranglehold of Neocolonialism and Africa’s Search for Alternatives

April 11, 2023

The African continent has for decades struggled with seriously high – and unpayable – levels of debt. The permanent debt crisis besieging them has not resulted from short-term market failures or from business cycles that will rebound, and that it is not fully a consequence of governments’ mismanagement of finances or deep-rooted corruption.

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