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NEWSLETTER

News of struggles and conflicts from Africa, Asia and Latin America is not always easy to find. A general strike in India is not reported in the corporate press, neither is the murder of a human rights activist in Central America nor indeed is news of great humanitarian interest from the multilateral organisations (such as the agencies of the United Nations). As the world’s media gets more and more homogenised by the interests of corporate ideology, more and more news about the world’s peoples vanish. There is so little basic information, for instance, about world hunger and about the fights to feed the hungry. We are not interested merely in the conflicts and the suffering. We are equally interested in the struggles of people to address these broad challenges.

We, at the Tricontinental, will send out a weekly newsletter, a curated note with information from one part of the world, that will offer a window into some of the struggles and conflicts of our time. The newsletter will be available by subscription – and it is free.

To find out more about the newsletter, or to send us stories that you believe we should cover in it, please write to [email protected]. We do not promise to use each and every one of your suggestions, but we do welcome them. If you have objections to anything we run, please let us know. There might be times when we might publish your criticism as part of our mandate to stimulate debate.

 


I Entered My Country’s House of Justice and Found a Snake Charmer’s Temple: The Fifteenth Newsletter (2021)

April 15, 2021  

In 2009, the US government actively participated in and egged on the oligarchy to undertake a coup d’état against the left-leaning government of Manuel Zelaya in Honduras. Since then, a climate of impunity for class violence by the elites has been unleashed against brave people who defend the dignity and land of all the Honduran people.


Zambia Is the Tip of the Tail of the Global Dog: The Fourteenth Newsletter (2021)

April 8, 2021  

On 12 August 2021, the people of Zambia will vote to elect a new president. The incumbent, President Edgar Lungu, is facing a strong challenge from Fred M’membe, the presidential candidate of the Socialist Party. As Zambia, a country rich in minerals, stands at the brink of a major social catastrophe, a socialist agenda could push back against the surrender of the Zambian political elite to multinational corporations and foreign bondholders.


The Vaccine Must Be a Common Good for Humanity: The Thirteenth Newsletter (2021)

April 1, 2021  

As the world nears three million reported deaths from COVID-19 and almost 130 million infections, the call for free vaccines for all people rings louder than ever. There is no alternative to a people’s vaccine, no alternative to life over profit. This week’s newsletter is dedicated to our Red Alert no.10, A People’s Vaccine. Guided by inputs of scientists and doctors, we look at the medical, social, and political basis that undergirds the demand for the production, distribution, and administration of a people’s vaccine.


What You Call Love Is Unpaid Work: The Twelfth Newsletter (2021)

March 25, 2021  

Women form the majority of those performing the physical and emotional labour that holds together the fabric of society. Despite the worsening of the ‘care crisis’ during the pandemic, social movements continue to lead processes of politicising, socialising, and addressing the structural basis of existing care work that makes the world work. From initiatives led by Minister Elizabeth Gómez  Alcorta that are creating a comprehensive care system in Argentina to Kerala’s Left Democratic Front advocating for pensions for housewives in India, the foundations of patriarchy are slowly being shaken.


There Are So Many Lessons to Learn from Kerala: The Eleventh Newsletter (2021).

March 18, 2021  

The Left Democratic Front government in Kerala has impressively confronted a series of serious crises. Organising alongside powerful social movements like the All-India Democratic Women’s Association, the communist-led state has implemented significant change through redistribution programmes, infrastructural development, and economic transformation. Ahead of India’s assembly elections, we spoke with Kerala’s Finance Minister T. M. Thomas Isaac to learn more about the strategies and actions taken up by the government.

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We Are Living in an Emergency That Requires Urgent Action (a note written with Noam Chomsky): The First Newsletter (2021)
The Country Where Liberty Is a Statue: The Second Newsletter (2021)
My Wish Is That You Win This Fight for Truth: The Third Newsletter (2021)
We Should All Be Outraged, But Outrage Is Not a Strong Enough Word: The Fourth Newsletter (2021)
Are We Not All in Search of Tomorrow: The Fifth Newsletter (2021)
The Three Apartheids of Our Times (Money, Medicine, Food): The Sixth Newsletter (2021).
Sometimes Marx’s Capital Is a Pillow, Sometimes It Obliges Us to Deepen Our Struggles: The Seventh Newsletter (2021)
Your Privileges Are Not Universal: The Eighth Newsletter (2021)
The Right to Live in Peace: The Ninth Newsletter (2021)
Neoliberalism Was Born in Chile; Neoliberalism Will Die in Chile: the Tenth Newsletter (2021)
There Are So Many Lessons to Learn from Kerala: The Eleventh Newsletter (2021).
What You Call Love Is Unpaid Work: The Twelfth Newsletter (2021)
The Vaccine Must Be a Common Good for Humanity: The Thirteenth Newsletter (2021)
Zambia Is the Tip of the Tail of the Global Dog: The Fourteenth Newsletter (2021)
I Entered My Country’s House of Justice and Found a Snake Charmer’s Temple: The Fifteenth Newsletter (2021)
How Many Millions Did You Make for the Pennies You Gave to the Coolies: The First Newsletter (2020)
What Passes for Reality Is Not Worth Respecting: The Second Newsletter (2020).
Your Arrow Can Pierce the Sky, But Ours Has Gone into Orbit: The Third Newsletter (2020).
When Will The Winter Come to An End?: The Fourth Newsletter (2020).
I Will Hold You in My Arms a Day After the War: The Fifth Newsletter (2020).
This Is the Time for Solidarity, Not Stigma: The Sixth Newsletter (2020).
I Am Tired of Holding Other Worlds in My Fist: The Seventh Newsletter (2020).
You Write Injustice on the Earth; We Will Write Revolution in the Skies: The Eighth Newsletter (2020).
Show Me The Words That Will Reorder the World, Or Else Keep Silent: The Ninth Newsletter (2020).
We Who Were Nothing and Have Become Everything Shall Construct a New and Better World: The Tenth Newsletter (2020).
Letter From the Great Wound: The Eleventh Newsletter (2020).
The Mutilated World Is Moved by the Nurses and Doctors: The Twelfth Newsletter (2020).
We Won’t Go Back to Normal, Because Normal Was the Problem: The Thirteenth Newsletter (2020)
These Migrant Workers Did Not Suddenly Fall From the Sky: The Fourteenth Newsletter (2020).
Femicide Does Not Respect the Quarantine: The Fifteenth Newsletter (2020).
Without a Country in Which to Live, a Field to Plant, a Love to Cherish or a Voice to Sing, One is Dead: The Sixteenth Newsletter (2020).
Either Socialism Will Defeat the Louse or the Louse Will Defeat Socialism: The Seventeenth Newsletter (2020).
Farewell to the God of Plague: The Eighteenth Newsletter (2020).
It Takes a Revolution to Make a Solution: The Nineteenth Newsletter (2020).
Hunger Gnaws at the Edges of the World: The Twentieth Newsletter (2020).
The Bouficha Appeal Against the Preparations for War: The Twenty-First Newsletter (2020).
If You Do Not Feel for Humanity, You Have Forgotten to Be Human: The Twenty-Second Newsletter (2020).
Goliath Is Not Invincible: The Twenty-Third Newsletter (2020).
Living Is No Laughing Matter: The Twenty-Fourth Newsletter (2020).
Living Is No Laughing Matter: The Twenty-Fourth Newsletter (2020).
Ten-Point Agenda for the Global South After COVID-19: The Twenty-Fifth Newsletter (2020).
The Dangerous Incompetence of Narendra Modi and Jair Bolsonaro: The Twenty-Sixth Newsletter (2020).
We Are in Palestine, Habibi, and Palestine Is Heaven: The Twenty-Seventh Newsletter (2020).
Here Not Death but the Future Is Frightening: The Twenty-Eighth Newsletter (2020).
Each Heartbeat Must Be Our Song; the Redness of Blood, Our Banner: The Twenty-Ninth Newsletter (2020).
Some Are in Super-Yachts and Others Are Clinging to Drifting Debris: The Thirtieth Newsletter (2020).
Humanity Protests Against the Crimes of Death: The Thirty-First Newsletter (2020).
Do Not Reach for the Sky Just to Surrender: The Thirty-Second Newsletter (2020).
It Is Late, but It Is Early Morning If We Insist a Little: The Thirty-Third Newsletter (2020)
Tell the People That the Struggle Must Go On: The Thirty-Fourth Newsletter (2020).
Only the Struggle of the People Will Free the Country: The Thirty-Fifth Newsletter (2020).
Six Complexities of These Pandemic Times: The Thirty-Sixth Newsletter (2020).
Not Just an Orchard, Not Merely a Field, We Demand the Whole World: The Thirty-Seventh Newsletter (2020).
Wise People Know That Winning a War Is No Better Than Losing One: The Thirty-Eighth Newsletter (2020)
Hunger Will Kill Us Before Coronavirus: The Thirty-Ninth Newsletter (2020).
If I Didn’t Believe, I Wouldn’t Know How to Breathe: The Fortieth Newsletter (2020).
When Confronted by Us Hungry Bellies, the Imperialists Reach for Their Guns: The Forty-First Newsletter (2020).
Bullets Are Not the Seeds of Life: The Forty-Second Newsletter (2020)
Paradise for Human Victims of Corporate Persons: The Forty-Third Newsletter (2020).
We Are That History That Is Discredited, but Which Reappears When You Least Expect It: The Forty-Fourth Newsletter (2020)
Wage War Against the Philosophy of War: The Forty-Fifth Newsletter (2020)
Take a Deep Breath and Then Return to the Work of Building a New World: The Forty-Sixth Newsletter (2020).
It Is Freedom, Only Freedom Which Can Quench Our Thirst: The Forty-Seventh Newsletter (2020).
We Suffer from an Incurable Disease Called Hope: The Forty-Eighth Newsletter (2020).
We Are Grass. We Grow on Everything: The Forty-Ninth Newsletter (2020).
We Don’t Listen to the Dying Government of Donald Trump: The Fiftieth Newsletter (2020)
The Revolutionaries, When They Rise, Care for Nothing but Love: Newsletter Fifty-One (2020)
All the Cannons Will Silently Rust: The Fifty-Second Newsletter (2020)
The Future Will Only Contain What We Put into It Now: The Fifty-Third Newsletter (2020)
We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a Revolution: The First Newsletter (2019)
Struggles That Make the Land Proud: The Second Newsletter (2019)
My Hopes Lie Shattered. I Need Your Support: The Third Newsletter (2019)
What The Mountain Taught the Mouse. The Fourth Newsletter (2019).
Twelve Step Method to Conduct Regime Change: The Fifth Newsletter (2019)
The Mines are Weeping: The Sixth Newsletter (2019)
Phrasebook of Imperialism: The Seventh Newsletter (2019)
The President of the United States Is More the President of My Country Than the President of My Country: The Eighth Newsletter (2019)
We are the Invisible. We are the Invincible. We will Overcome. The Ninth Newsletter (2019).
We Refuse to Stop Dreaming: The Tenth Newsletter (2019).
Killing the Most Beautiful Things We Own: The Eleventh Newsletter (2019)
The Sunrise Will Be the Same for Those Who Wake and Those Who Never Will: The Twelfth Newsletter (2019).
Singing in a Cage is Possible and So is Happiness: The Thirteenth Newsletter (2019)
You Can’t Have Democracy When You Put the Truth in Prison: The Fourteenth Newsletter (2019)
Radical Thinking Must Fall Like a Gentle Mist, Not a Heavy Downpour: The Fifteenth Newsletter (2019).
This is the Hour of Madness: The Sixteenth Newsletter (2019). 
If War Is an Industry, How Can There Be Peace in a Capitalist World? The Seventeenth Newsletter (2019).
We Thought It Was Merely a Stone, But It Carried Away Our Wealth: The Eighteenth Newsletter (2019).
We have Stolen His Land. Now We Must Steal His Limb: The Nineteenth Newsletter (2019).
We Are the Shadow-Ghosts, Creeping Back as the Camp Fires Burn Low: The Twentieth Newsletter (2019). 
The Dogs of War Are Unchained Once More. The Twenty-First Newsletter (2019).
The World Divided by a Line is a Dead Body Cut in Two: The Twenty-Second Newsletter (2019).  
Life and the People Have Never Let Us Down: The Twenty-Third Newsletter (2019).
Be Careful of the Crooked Smile of Powerful People: The Twenty-Fourth Newsletter (2019).  
Using Democratic Institutions to Smash Democratic Aspirations (the Brazil Model): The Twenty-Fifth Newsletter (2019)
On Twitter, He Declares War on Iran: The Twenty-Sixth Newsletter (2019)
Religion is the Sigh of the Oppressed Creature: The Twenty-Seventh Newsletter (2019).  
For the Reasons that Follow, that Country is Currently Not Likely to Be the United States: The Twenty-Eight Newsletter (2019).
Revolutions Are Not the Train Ride, but the Human Race Grabbing for the Emergency Brake: The Twenty-Ninth Newsletter (2019).
As the Ocean Waters Rise, So Do the Islands of Garbage: The Thirtieth Newsletter (2019).
Homage to OSPAAAL, the Organisation of Solidarity for the Peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America: Newsletter Thirty-One (2019).
There Must Be Bones Under The Paved Street: The Thirty-Second Newsletter (2019).
History Often Proceeds by Jumps and Zig-Zags. The Thirty-Third Newsletter (2019).  
Hybrid Wars Are Destroying Democracies: The Thirty-Fourth Newsletter (2019).
Hungering For The Language Of Class War: The Thirty-Fifth Newsletter (2019).
We Will See Roots Reaching Out for Each Other: The Thirty-Sixth Newsletter (2019)
Strikes Have Followed Me All My Life: The Thirty-Seventh Newsletter (2019).
My Voice Is the Gallows for All Tyrants: The Thirty-Eighth Newsletter (2019).
iPhone Workers Today Are 25 Times More Exploited Than Textile Workers in 19th Century England: The Thirty-Ninth Newsletter (2019).
At First, I thought I Was Fighting to Save Rubber Trees. Now I Realize I Am Fighting for Humanity: The Fortieth Newsletter (2019).
If You Take Away Freedom, All Four Seasons and I Will Die: The Forty-First Newsletter (2019).
The IMF Does Not Fight Financial Fires But Douses Them With Gasoline: The Forty-Second Newsletter (2019).
There’s Something That’s Ours on Those Streets and We’re Going to Take It Back: The Forty-Third Newsletter (2019).
The Test of a Country Is Not the Number of Millionaires It Owns, but the Absence of Starvation Among Its Masses: The Forty-Fourth Newsletter (2019).
Even a Clown Is Fascinated by Ideas: The Forty-Fifth Newsletter (2019).
Bolivia Does Not Exist: The Forty-Sixth Newsletter (2019).
We Thought the House Was Empty: The Forty-Seventh Newsletter (2019)
We Demand Changes So We Can Have a Future: The Forty-Eighth Newsletter (2019)
The Oppressive State Is a Macho Rapist: The Forty-Ninth Newsletter (2019)
If You Want Peace, You Get War; If You Want War, You Get Rich: The Fiftieth Newsletter (2019)
Those Who Search for Dawn Don’t Fear the Night; Nor the Hand that Holds the Dagger: The Fifty-First Newsletter (2019).
We Are the Ones Who Will Awaken the Dawn: The Fifty-Second Newsletter (2019).
The First Newsletter (2018): Money and People.
The Second Newsletter (2018): Peace and War.
The Third Newsletter: Water and Farmers
The Fourth Newsletter (2018): Economics and Miners
The Fifth Newsletter (2018): Democracy and Tariffs
The Sixth Newsletter (2018): War and Socialism
The Seventh Newsletter: Manual of Anti-Democracy
The Eighth Newsletter (2018): Blindness In Our Times
The Ninth Newsletter (2018): Tender and Radiant World of Sadness and Struggle
The Tenth Newsletter (2018): Marx and His Old Mole
The Eleventh Newsletter (2018): Opening The Doors of Hell
The Twelfth Newsletter (2018): Guns and Butter
The Thirteenth Newsletter (2018): Venezuela
The Fourteenth Newsletter (2018): Imperialism Has Had a Tough Week.
The Fifteenth Newsletter (2018): Trump World
The Sixteenth Newsletter (2018): Lives Taken, Lives Lived
The Seventeenth Newsletter (2018): American Power and the Time of the Soft Coup
The Eighteenth Newsletter (2018): Refugees and Strongmen
The Nineteenth Newsletter (2018): Right to a House, Right to a Life
The Twentieth Newsletter (2018): Assassinations.
The Twenty-first Newsletter (2018): Where Do You Get Your News?
The Twenty-Second Newsletter (2018): Message in a Bottle
Twenty-Third Newsletter (2018): My Land Is Where I Lay My Feet
The Twenty-fourth Newsletter (2018): We Are The Mosquitos
Let Us Be Midwives: The Twenty-Fifth Newsletter (2018)
A World So Changed: The Twenty-Sixth Newsletter (2018)
The Day of the Disappeared: The Twenty-Seventh Newsletter (2018)
Le déchoucaj en Haïti: chuchotements futuristes d'un passé révolutionnaires
If You Care Nothing Of Starvation, You Are Not a Socialist: The Twenty-Eighth Newsletter (2018)
There is No Refugee Crisis. There is Only a Crisis of Humanity: The Twenty-Ninth Newsletter (2018).
If You Think Education Is Expensive, Try Ignorance: The Thirtieth Newsletter (2018).
Solidarity is More Than a Slogan: The Thirty-First Newsletter (2018)
This Village Is Too Big For Us: The Thirty-Second Newsletter (2018)
Tomorrow Will Be Too Late To Do What We Should Have Done A Long Time Ago: The Thirty-Third Newsletter (2018)
The Monstrous Anger of the Guns: The Thirty-Fourth Newsletter (2018).
Experience is the Comb You Get When You Are Bald: The Thirty-Fifth Newsletter (2018)
With Samir Amin By Our Side: The Thirty- Sixth Newsletter (2018)
You Only Run For the Border When You See the Whole City Running As Well: The Thirty-Seventh Newsletter (2018).
Living Our Lives Inside a Tragedy the Size of the Planet: The Thirty-Eighth Newsletter (2018)
If the Field Cannot Feed the Farmer, then Burn the Field: The Thirty-Ninth Newsletter (2018).
Promote The Health of All The People of the World: The Fortieth Newsletter (2018)
This Economic Policy Has Been a Disaster, a Calamity for the Country’s Public Life: The Forty-first Newsletter (2018).
We Have No Choice But To Live Like Human Beings: The Forty-Second Newsletter (2018).
We Want Cash While Waiting for Communism: The Forty-Third Newsletter (2018)
The Butcher Washes His Hands Before Weighing the Meat: The Forty-Fourth Newsletter (2018).

NEWSLETTER

News of struggles and conflicts from Africa, Asia and Latin America is not always easy to find. A general strike in India is not reported in the corporate press, neither is the murder of a human rights activist in Central America nor indeed is news of great humanitarian interest from the multilateral organisations (such as the agencies of the United Nations). As the world’s media gets more and more homogenised by the interests of corporate ideology, more and more news about the world’s peoples vanish. There is so little basic information, for instance, about world hunger and about the fights to feed the hungry. We are not interested merely in the conflicts and the suffering. We are equally interested in the struggles of people to address these broad challenges.

We, at the Tricontinental, will send out a weekly newsletter, a curated note with information from one part of the world, that will offer a window into some of the struggles and conflicts of our time. The newsletter will be available by subscription – and it is free.

To find out more about the newsletter, or to send us stories that you believe we should cover in it, please write to [email protected]. We do not promise to use each and every one of your suggestions, but we do welcome them. If you have objections to anything we run, please let us know. There might be times when we might publish your criticism as part of our mandate to stimulate debate.

 

0I Entered My Country’s House of Justice and Found a Snake Charmer’s Temple: The Fifteenth Newsletter (2021)

April 15, 2021

In 2009, the US government actively participated in and egged on the oligarchy to undertake a coup d’état against the left-leaning government of Manuel Zelaya in Honduras. Since then, a climate of impunity for class violence by the elites has been unleashed against brave people who defend the dignity and land of all the Honduran people.

Zambia Is the Tip of the Tail of the Global Dog: The Fourteenth Newsletter (2021)

April 8, 2021

On 12 August 2021, the people of Zambia will vote to elect a new president. The incumbent, President Edgar Lungu, is facing a strong challenge from Fred M’membe, the presidential candidate of the Socialist Party. As Zambia, a country rich in minerals, stands at the brink of a major social catastrophe, a socialist agenda could push back against the surrender of the Zambian political elite to multinational corporations and foreign bondholders.

The Vaccine Must Be a Common Good for Humanity: The Thirteenth Newsletter (2021)

April 1, 2021

As the world nears three million reported deaths from COVID-19 and almost 130 million infections, the call for free vaccines for all people rings louder than ever. There is no alternative to a people’s vaccine, no alternative to life over profit. This week’s newsletter is dedicated to our Red Alert no.10, A People’s Vaccine. Guided by inputs of scientists and doctors, we look at the medical, social, and political basis that undergirds the demand for the production, distribution, and administration of a people’s vaccine.

What You Call Love Is Unpaid Work: The Twelfth Newsletter (2021)

March 25, 2021

Women form the majority of those performing the physical and emotional labour that holds together the fabric of society. Despite the worsening of the ‘care crisis’ during the pandemic, social movements continue to lead processes of politicising, socialising, and addressing the structural basis of existing care work that makes the world work. From initiatives led by Minister Elizabeth Gómez  Alcorta that are creating a comprehensive care system in Argentina to Kerala’s Left Democratic Front advocating for pensions for housewives in India, the foundations of patriarchy are slowly being shaken.

There Are So Many Lessons to Learn from Kerala: The Eleventh Newsletter (2021).

March 18, 2021

The Left Democratic Front government in Kerala has impressively confronted a series of serious crises. Organising alongside powerful social movements like the All-India Democratic Women’s Association, the communist-led state has implemented significant change through redistribution programmes, infrastructural development, and economic transformation. Ahead of India’s assembly elections, we spoke with Kerala’s Finance Minister T. M. Thomas Isaac to learn more about the strategies and actions taken up by the government.

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