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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 1973 Durban Strikes: Building Popular Democratic Power in South Africa

January 24, 2023  

In 1973, workers in the industrial port city of Durban embarked on a series of strikes, marking an end to a period of relative quiescence that came on the heels of tremendous state repression. The strikes began a process of unionisation that, within a decade, became the foundation of a wider mass democratic movement that mobilised millions of people in workplaces, communities, and educational institutions into the forms of counter power that brought apartheid to its knees. This dossier returns to the workers whose political contribution was, in the end, decisive.

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Religious Fundamentalism and Imperialism in Latin America: Action and Resistance

December 19, 2022  

This dossier examines the history of Christianity and the rise of fundamentalism in Latin America, from looking at its emergence in the United States and how it has served as a tool of an imperialist project to its insertion in politics in the region today and its misogynist, anti-communist, and anti-democratic manifestations.

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Activist Research: How the All India Democratic Women’s Association Builds Knowledge to Change the World An Interview with R. Chandra

November 8, 2022  

In an interview with R. Chandra, this dossier discusses the strategic role of activist research in the All India Democratic Women’s Association’s fight against caste oppression, patriarchy, and economic exploitation. AIDWA’s survey and the campaigns that they generated deepened members’ understanding of the reality of caste oppression. In research, activists found a powerful tool to substantiate and systematise their own experiences on the ground, gain newer and broader insights, and understand the anatomy of gender oppression among different sections of women.

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The Geopolitics of Inequality: Discussing Pathways Towards a More Just World

October 21, 2022  

The asymmetrical power of the Global North over the Global South is expressed through a new logic of subordination and peripheralisation. Rather than being exclusively a question of the unequal exchange of manufactured goods versus primary goods, it is the control over the process of offshoring and the asymmetrical integration of different regions into global production networks that give rise to substantial distributive differences, even in the context of accelerated industrialisation processes in the periphery.

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Ten Theses on Marxism and Decolonisation

September 20, 2022  

With the failure of capitalism to address the basic questions of our times, the obstinate facts of hunger and illiteracy that stare us in the face, it has become more urgent than ever to recover traditions that are grounded in a scientific approach and have a sincere desire to confront the dilemmas of humanity. Unpacking the traditions of national liberation Marxism in ten theses, dossier no. 56 unearths the foundations of revolutionary praxis that would allow for more factual assessments of our times, a closer rendition of contemporary imperialism that can advance the construction of a socialist world.

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ARCHIVES
The 1973 Durban Strikes: Building Popular Democratic Power in South Africa
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].

 

The People’s Steel Plant and the Fight Against Privatisation in Visakhapatnam

August 23, 2022

Four decades ago, thirty-two Telugu people became martyrs in the fight to build a people’s steel plant in the Indian city of Visakhapatnam. Today, faced with an Indian government that wants to privatise the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant, the people and workers have united in the fight to retain their steel plant in the public sector. Our dossier no. 55 tells a heroic tale of spirited survival in the face of state-induced demoralisation.

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