Newsletter

Each week, we produce a newsletter that provides a crisp analysis of contemporary developments and the struggles and conflicts of our time, highlights our newly launched publications, and offers a window into the work of left intellectuals and research institutes around the world.

June / 2025

26 June 2025

The Global North Lives Off Intellectual Rents: The Twenty-Sixth Newsletter (2025)

Despite rapid technological innovations, Global South countries remain trapped in Global North-dominated intellectual property regimes designed to extract endless rents through patents and licensing fees– stripping them of wealth and stunting their development.

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19 June 2025

Despite the Pain in the World, Socialism Is Not a Distant Utopia: The Twenty-Fifth Newsletter (2025)

Tricontinental is producing a series of regular newsletters in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, building a roadmap that allows us to grasp the rapid changes before us and highlight the movements taking action to reverse…

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12 June 2025

The People Want Peace and Progress, Not War and Waste: The Twenty-Fourth Newsletter (2025)

As NATO’s secretary general urges member nations to ‘shift to a wartime mindset’, now more than ever it is clear that this aggressive alliance poses a threat to peace on a global scale.

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5 June 2025

Please Ensure That the Planet Does Not Burn: The Twenty-Third Newsletter (2025)

The climate and environmental crisis we live in are driven by the predatory nature of capitalism. Can COP30 and other multilateral initiatives reverse the trend?

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29 May 2025

Hundreds of Millions Are Dying of Hunger: The Twenty-Second Newsletter (2025)

Enough food is produced to meet the needs of 11 billion people. Why do so many of the 8 billion people on the planet go hungry?

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22 May 2025

How the International Monetary Fund Underdevelops Africa: The Twenty-First Newsletter (2025)

Once plundered of both its wealth and people by colonial powers, Africa now faces IMF-imposed austerity, obscene debt, and forced underdevelopment.

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15 May 2025

A Language of Blood Has Gripped Our World: The Twentieth Newsletter (2025)

Sudan’s forgotten civil war has killed at least 150,000 and displaced nearly 13 million. Understanding its political details is key to tracing the causes and potential solutions to the conflict.

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8 May 2025

Israel’s Crimes in the West Bank: The Nineteenth Newsletter (2025)

Israel’s actions in the West Bank – including the denial of basic services, forced displacement, mass killings and incarceration, and the destruction of infrastructure – are part of its genocidal policy.

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1 May 2025

They Are Making Venezuela’s Economy Scream: The Eighteenth Newsletter (2025)

US-led sanctions (more aptly referred to as Unilateral Coercive Measures) caused Venezuela to lose oil revenue equivalent to 213% of its GDP between January 2017 and December 2024, resulting in losses of roughly $77 million…

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24 April 2025

Two Hundred Years Ago, France Strangled the Haitian Revolution with an Inhumane Debt: The Seventeenth Newsletter (2025)

Since its 1804 revolution, Haiti has been punished for its freedom – crippled with debt, coups, and foreign meddling – but we must never forget that it was the first successful anti-imperialist revolution.

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17 April 2025

Waiting for a New Bandung Spirit: The Sixteenth Newsletter (2025)

After many decades of stasis, we see the growth of a ‘new mood’ in the Global South. Though only a hint of a new possibility, it holds tremendous democratic potential, with sovereignty at its centre.

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10 April 2025

The Buchenwald Concentration Camp Was Liberated by Communist Prisoners: The Fifteenth Newsletter (2025)

Eight decades ago, communist prisoners organised and liberated the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald, where they were held. As the far right of a special type rises across Europe, these heroic victories of anti-fascist resistance are…

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3 April 2025

Andrée Blouin Is Our Kind of Pan-African Revolutionary: The Fourteenth Newsletter (2025)

There is a rich tradition of women writers on the African continent who have played key roles in publishing and national liberation movements alike, from Andrée Blouin to Flora Nwapa. Learn more about their legacy…

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27 March 2025

What Rodolfo Walsh Would Demand We Write in His Place: The Thirteenth Newsletter (2025)

As attacks on the media increase in Argentina and beyond, we reflect on the legacy of Rodolfo Walsh, a heroic journalist who fought the military dictatorship with his pen.

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20 March 2025

Unilateral Coercive Measures and the War on Women: The Twelfth Newsletter (2025)

Despite being among the most impacted by economic war, women continue to foster a sense of solidarity, care, and hope in humanity.

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13 March 2025

Twenty-Five Days of Debt-Service Payments Could Emancipate African Women from 40 Billion Hours of Water Harvesting: The Eleventh Newsletter (2025)

In the month of International Working Women’s Day, we explore how debt-austerity regimes and climate change impact women farmworkers across the Global South.

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