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.

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0Resurrecting the Concept of the Triad: The Twenty-Second Newsletter (2023)

June 1, 2023

This year’s G7 meeting revealed the unity and differences that exist between the United States and its allies, Europe and Japan. To understand this tripartite alliance and the current world order, we must recover Samir Amin’s concept of the ‘Triad’. Since the end of WWII, the US-led international system has been premised on the subordination and integration of Europe and Japan. Today, Europe and Japan continue to act as vassals for the US as it pursues a New Cold War.

The Group of Seven Should Finally Be Shut Down: The Twenty-First Newsletter (2023)

May 25, 2023

During the May 2023 G7 summit, the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States met and claimed to represent the interest of humanity. Whilst the people of Hiroshima demanded ‘No to Nuclear War! No to G7 Imperialists!’ in the streets, summit leaders advanced war, using the bizarre claim that China uses ‘economic coercion’ to justify Western military expansion.

Can the Global South Build a New World Information and Communication Order?: The Twentieth Newsletter (2023)

May 18, 2023

It is remarkable how the media in a select few European and North American countries is able to set the record on matters around the world. In the second half of the twentieth century, post-colonial nations sought to address this severe imbalance, pushing for a New World Information and Communication Order. Though the US-led wave of neoliberal globalisation ultimately killed off these initiative , in recent years the dream of a new information order has been revived in the Global South.

The Work That Tricontinental Does: The Nineteenth Newsletter (2023)

May 11, 2023

In March 2018, our first newsletter identified one of the Left’s serious challenges: providing reasonable answers to the practical problems that humanity faces. Over the past sixty-two months, this challenge has been at the heart of our work. Our recent publications have grappled with the global tensions imposed by the US-led New Cold War against China, the contradictions of the capitalist development model, and the three major deficits besieging the Global South: financial debt, science and technology, and political integrity.

In the Factories There Is Wealth, but There Is No Life: The Eighteenth Newsletter (2023)

May 4, 2023

Across India, there is an ongoing debate about a revision of the limits on the length of the working day. A bill in Tamil Nadu, for instance, recently sought to allow factories to lengthen the workday from eight hours to twelve hours. Trade unions and other organisations of the working class provide the only platform with liberatory potential, with the unity of sectoral unions and union confederations playing a key role for any such effort to succeed.