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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].

 


Go to Yan’an: Culture and National Liberation

May 16, 2022  

On 2 May 1942, hundreds of China’s leading writers, artists, and communist leaders gathered to discuss the key cultural questions of the time. The historic Yan’an Forum on Literature and Art lasted for three weeks.

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Looking Towards China: Multipolarity as an Opportunity for the Latin American People

April 11, 2022  

The decline of the US empire, a geopolitical transition already in full swing, and the shaping of a multipolar world open up a new series of possibilities and discussions for Latin America and the Caribbean about the region’s possibility for autonomy in a transition away from dependence on capitalist countries that accounts for the needs of the majority.

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The Military’s Return to Brazilian Politics

March 14, 2022  

After nearly three decades, Brazil’s military has re-emerged into the country’s political life with the arrival of Jair Bolsonaro as president. This dossier analyses the composition of Brazil’s armed forces, their relationship to US imperialism, and the militarisation of the public sector. Brazil’s military is characterised by a conservative and liberal ideology, a state that regulates the demands of private interests, and a strong anti-communist vision, aspects allow us to better understand its behaviour and its drive to openly dispute the direction of Brazilian society.

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A Map of Latin America’s Present: An Interview with Héctor Béjar

February 7, 2022  

Camouflaged behind the language of ‘human rights’ and ‘democracy’, the United States has allied itself with the right-wing oligarchies of Latin America and the Caribbean in order to isolate and damage its adversaries in the region. To understand the continent’s current reality, we turn to Héctor Béjar, one of the most distinguished intellectuals in Peru and in the  hemisphere, who has written with great passion about his country’s history, the left, and the possibilities for social change in our time.

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We Will Build the Future: A Plan to Save the Planet

January 10, 2022  

Under the leadership of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP), Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research partnered with 26 research institutes from around the world to draft A Plan to Save the Planet. This living, evolving document puts forward a vision for the present and the immediate future centred on twelve key themes: democracy and the world order, the environment, finance, health, housing, food, education, work, care, women, culture, and the digital world. Dossier no. 48 includes and elaborates on the Plan and lays out our orientation, principles, and horizon.

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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
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].

 

New Clothes, Old Threads: The Dangerous Right-Wing Offensive in Latin America

December 6, 2021

In Latin America, the adoption of the neo-reactionary and alternative right projects of the Global North appears to be a launching pad from which to modify the cognitive maps of the people and to shift political and discursive positions and public agendas to the right. This dossier analyses the right-wing developments in Latin America, identifying how they operate and with what discourses, what social base they mobilise, and their continuities of and ruptures with the history of the right wing in the continent.

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