Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian and journalist. He is the author of forty books, including Washington Bullets, Red Star Over the Third World, The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World, The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South, and The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power (2022), written with Noam Chomsky Vijay is the executive director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, the chief correspondent for Globetrotter, the chief editor of LeftWord Books (New Delhi), and a senior non-resident fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China. He has also appeared in the films Shadow World (2016) and Two Meetings (2017).

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Renata Porto Bugni is a public policy analyst, an activist, and a teacher. She received a bachelor’s degree in international relations from São Paulo State University (UNESP) and a master’s degree from the University of São Paulo (USP). Renata spent seven years working to develop public policies that address social justice, notably in the areas of citizenship, social justice, and fighting violence against women. She coordinates the feminisms working group of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and is based in São Paulo.

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Celina is an organiser and militant who works with the institute’s publications, English-language editing, and translations. Before joining Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, she worked in the labour movement with the Service Employees International Union and the Fight for 15 as an organiser, union representative, and shop steward and was an editor and photographer for Humans of St. Louis. She has been an active participant in the fight for social, economic, and racial justice in the streets from Missouri to Massachusetts.

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E. Ahmet Tonak is the author and editor of several books including Measuring the Wealth of Nations: The Political Economy of National Accounts (with Anwar Shaikh), Turkey in Transition: New Perspectives (edited with Irvin Schick) and Marxism and Classes (edited with Sungur Savran and Kurtar Tanyılmaz). Trained as a mechanical engineer at Istanbul Technical University, he earned a Ph.D. in economics from the New School for Social Research. Tonak taught for many years at Istanbul Bilgi University, Middle East Technical University, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, and is currently a visiting professor at UMASS Amherst. He wrote for several Turkish dailies and contributes to sendika.org, an alternative news portal in Turkey.

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Tings Chak is an artist, writer, and organiser whose work contributes to popular struggles across the Global South. Her current research focuses on the art of national liberation struggles. She received her Master of Architecture from the University of Toronto and is the author and illustrator of Undocumented: The Architecture of Migrant Detention (2017). She leads the Art Department of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.

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Ingrid Costa N.R. Guimarães is an artist and graduate of Communication and Multimedia Studies from the Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP). She interned at the PUC-SP and worked at Anhembi Morumbi University (UAM), where she specialized in the production of educational videos and animations. She is currently a designer with Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.

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Born in Buenos Aires, Daniela is a teacher of visual arts, an illustrator, a designer, and a creator of fanzines. Her visual production is developed around comics, graphic design, and illustration, collaborating – especially in the latter – with worker cooperatives and  empresas recuperadas (companies that have been reclaimed by and are run by workers). She works with self-managed book and fanzine-producing collectives as an editor and author and participates in the organisation of meetings and exhibitions of independent Argentine comic strips. She is part of the Art Department of the Tricontinental Institute of Social Research and responsible for art and design for the Buenos Aires Office.

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P. Sainath is India’s most important reporter. He has spent the past three decades covering rural India, work that resulted in the creation of the People’s Archive of Rural India. Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen calls Sainath ‘one of the world’s great experts on famine and hunger’. In 2000, Sainath was the first reporter to win Amnesty International’s Global Award for Human Rights Journalism and that same year he won the UN Food & Agricultural Organisation’s Boerma Prize. Sainath is the 2007 winner of the Ramon Magsaysay Award (Asia’s most prestigious prize) and the 2014 winner of the World Media Summit Global Award. Sainath’s book – Everybody Loves a Good Drought (1996) – has been reprinted in a 20th anniversary edition as a Penguin Classic. He has written the foreword for John Reed’s Ten Days that Shook the World (LeftWord, 2018).

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Li Bo is the executive director of Shanghai Chunqiu Institute for Development and Strategic Studies and assistant dean at China Institute of Fudan University, one of the top national think tanks. Dr. Li obtained a PhD degree in economics from Kiel University in Germany. From 1994 to 2015, he served in a variety of senior executive roles in several prestigious domestic and foreign strategy consulting firms and public listed companies. Before joining Chunqiu Institute, Dr. Li served as the Academic Representative of Guancha Syndicate in Beijing. His research interests include the history of socialism, socialism in China, the digital economy, and development economics and geopolitics around China and the Global South.

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Aijaz Ahmad is a leading Marxist philosopher and cultural theorist. He is the author of In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literature (1992), Lineages of the Present: Ideological and Political Genealogies of Contemporary South Asia (2001), and Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Imperialism of Our Time (2004). He has been a Professorial Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, the Rajiv Gandhi Chair at Jawaharlal Nehru University, the Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Chair at Jamia Millia University, and is currently the Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California (Irvine).

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Ghassane Koumiya is a Professor of Translation at the Institute of Leadership and Journalism in Rabat (Morocco). He is a political anthropologist who has worked on grassroots, political and popular movements from the Maghreb region. Ghassane has been active in the trade union movement and human rights movement in Morocco. He is currently completing his PhD in Cultural Anthropology at Ljubljana University (Slovenia).

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Pilar is a militant and researcher. She is an Ecuadorian feminist anthropologist and has a master’s degree in women and gender studies. Her main areas of interest are social public policies, especially concerning gender equality and the feminist movement. Her activism began in college as part of the student movement and she was involved in the Women’s Assembly in Quito. She worked as a researcher with the System of Social Indicators (SIISE) and the Latin America Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), where she also taught classes on public policies and social indicators. She then served as an advisor to the Ministry of National Planning, and as an advisor and Deputy Minister to the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology of Ecuador.

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Manolo is an organiser and educator. He owes his political education to people’s movements from the Caribbean to New York City. He was the founding director of the People’s Forum, a movement incubator for working-class communities to build unity across historic lines of division at home and abroad.

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Nitheesh has been an activist with the Students' Federation of India (SFI) since 2003 and is currently working as a member of its central secretariat. He is a PhD scholar at the Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy of Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi, India), where he studies the connections between caste and class as well as the political mobilisation of the early communist movement in North Malabar. He is currently the editor of Student Struggle, SFI’s journal. Nitheesh received his MA in Politics with a specialisation in International Studies and his MPhil on the agrarian movement and caste question from the same university. Nitheesh writes about social and political issues in a number of periodicals and portals in English and Malayalam.

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Mika is an educator and researcher. She has an MA in history from the University Currently known as Rhodes (UCKAR) and is a graduate of the Unit for Humanities at Rhodes University fellowship program. She works closely with educational programming in the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA). In the last few years, she has been dedicated to work that builds the international networks of social movements, trade unions, and people’s organisations on the African continent, with a particular focus on education and solidarity work.

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Luciana is a high school teacher and militant in Argentina. She has participated in various political movements since 2009 organizing with students and education workers. She has a bachelor’s degree in communication studies, which she also teaches. Through her studies and teaching, she has developed her knowledge of youth and their connection to information and new technology.

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Luiz Felipe Albuquerque is a journalist who is responsible for communications in Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research’s Brazil office. He worked in the communications sector of the Landless Workers Movement (MST) for five years, contributing to the movement’s public relations and press outreach. He was also an editor of the MST’s website and the Jornal Sem Terra (‘Landless Journal’). He worked for the journal Brasil de Fato for four years as an associate editor, also assisting in the coordination and political guidance for the Center of Popular Media (CPMídias).

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Richard Pithouse is an Associate Professor at the Wits Institute for Social & Economic Research (WiSER), the editor of New Frame and a newspaper columnist. He has been a regular contributor to the press for 25 years, and for a time was a contributing editor at The Con. He has held various academic positions, teaching philosophy and politics, and writing about political theory, popular movements and cities. He has a particular scholarly interest in Frantz Fanon

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Efemia Chela is an editor and has worked in publishing for a decade. She is an MA candidate at Wits University where her research sits at the intersection of queer studies and African studies, looking at lesbian, bisexual, and queer communities in Zambia. She manages publishing at Inkani Books.

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Jie Xiong is a Chinese technologist, translator, and editor. He has participated in the digitisation process of multiple leading enterprises in China. He has written and translated more than ten books, most of them related to information technology and digitisation. His latest translation is of Cybernetic Revolutionaries, a book about the Chilean technological Project Cybersyn during Salvador Allende’s administration. He has an MBA degree from the University of Liverpool and is a senior researcher at the Sichuan Institute for High Quality Development.

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