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Steve Biko was an anti-apartheid activist killed by the apartheid government on this day in 1977. He was a Black Consciousness Movement leader and his memory and political thought, particularly his book I Write What I Like energise popular struggle in South Africa today.

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Aijaz Ahmad, our senior fellow has left us today. He was a leading Marxist philosopher and cultural theorist, author and editor of many books and journals. Rest in power, comrade. ✊

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In 1919, #RosaLuxemburg wrote, ‘Your order is built on sand. Tomorrow the revolution will “rise up again, clashing its weapons” and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing, I was, I am, I shall be’. 104 years back, she and Karl Leibknect were killed in Berlin.

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Spot the difference. The United States is hosting a Summit of the Americas from 8th to 10th June, hoping to deepen its hegemony over the Americas. #Cuba , #Nicaragua , and #Venezuela have not been invited. Several countries – including Bolivia and Mexico – have said that ...(1/2)

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A billion people live without shoes. Yet the $384.2B global footwear industry produces 24.3B pairs of shoes/year, or 3 pairs of shoes for every person on the planet. Meanwhile, those who make shoes, can’t afford to buy them. #TRICONewsletter

Solely Because of the Increasing Disorder: The Thirty-Sixth Newsletter (2021)

Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. A few days ago, I spoke to a senior official at the World Health Organisation (WHO). I asked her if she...

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President Richard Nixon & his Security Advisor Henry Kissinger authorised the US govt. to do everything possible to undermine the incoming government of the socialist president of Chile,Salvador Allende.According to the CIA notes they wanted to ‘make the economy scream’ in Chile.

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On 4 September 1970 - 51 years ago - Salvador Allende became the first socialist president of Chile when his Unidad Popular government took power. Viva Allende. [picture: with an AK-47 given to him by Fidel Castro] #4DeSeptiembre #allendevive

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103 years ago on this day, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Leibknect – leaders of the German Communist Party – were killed in cold blood in Berlin. When the security guards came to arrest her, Luxemburg filled her bag with books, including Goethe’s Faust, which she was then reading.

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Merry Christmas 🎄!! Artwork from @dig_neves .

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Happy 201st Birthday comrade. ✊✊ #Engels201

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Lets salute Razan al-Najjar (1997-2018), who would have turned 24 years old today. A medic who was nursing unarmed protestors in the Great March of Return; they were being shot at by Israeli snipers and she was killed by one of the snipers on 1 June 2018.

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On this day in 1959, #FidelCastro & his comrades overthrew Batista's dictatorship & began building true socialist project.Despite imperialist onslaughts of the US, the people of Cuba continue to resist & fight for a just world.Also, teaching us the true meaning of internationalism

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Remember to attend our colloquium on Paulo Freire today.

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Murder and suppression of leaders of the people is an old tactic. It takes us back to 1961, when Patrice Lumumba, the beloved leader of the Congolese revolution was killed by the Belgians, the United States and by sections of the Congolese military on this day.

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🧵Happy Birthday #KarlMarx . ‘Philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it’. In 1845, Karl Marx jotted down some notes for The German Ideology, a book that he wrote with his close friend Friedrich Engels.

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71 years ago, Mao Tze Tung finally proclaimed the People's Republic of China. One of the most important events in human history is certainly the Chinese Revolution.

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In 1984, President Sankara went to the UN. He said, "We refuse simple survival. We want to ease the pressures, to free our countryside from medieval stagnation or regression. We want to democratise our society, to open up our minds to a universe of collective responsibility,...

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Happy birthday hero.

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“Workers of the World, Unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains!” Happy Birthday Marx !! 🥳 #KarlMarx

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🧵We remember #AntonioGramsci on his 132nd birth anniversary. Sitting in a fascist prison cell in Italy, he wondered about a predicament that faced communists like himself. In The Communist Manifesto(1848), Marx & Engels wrote, ‘workers have nothing to lose but their chains.'

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Rising of the oppressed—in other words, the Revolution—was going to improve the life of the vast majority & it would impact the capitalists. There was no idealism in Freire—only the practical appreciation of study & struggle within the actual world in which we live. #PauloFreire

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In 1929,Ho Chi Minh said that ‘the class struggle does not manifest itself the way it does in the West’. He highlighted the structure of colonial domination, the deliberately underdeveloped productive forces, abundance of peasants and landless agricultural workers.

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Today, in 1969, our leader left us. Next month, from @LeftwordBooks - Selected Ho Chi Minh……

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In 1911, a young Ho Chi Minh arrived in France, which had colonised his homeland of Vietnam. Though he had been raised with a patriotic spirit committed to anti-colonialism, Ho Chi Minh’s temperament did not allow him to retreat into a backward-looking romanticism. (1/2)

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Comrade Ho Chi Minh. On his death anniversary we reaffirm our commitment to build socialism.

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We salute our hero, our guide, our revolutionary and a true internationalist who was murdered by the CIA agents in Bolivia on this day in 1967. They had captured him two days previously, and – despite orders to keep him alive – were informed that he must be killed.

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We stand in Solidarity with our researcher @manolo_realengo . We stand in solidarity with all the young people who are fighting back against the complicity in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. We stand in solidarity with everyone standing against the genocide & demands ceasefire.

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🚨BREAKING! Multiple leaders of the ALL OUT FOR RAFAH march in NYC were arrested by the NYPD while they led over a thousand pro-Palestine demonstrators in the streets of Manhattan. We will not stand for the intimidation of the NYPD. The more they try to silence us the louder we…

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We remember comrade #CheGuevara on the fifty-fourth anniversary of his assassination by the CIA in Bolivia. We invite everyone to go through the texts by Che on Socialism and Internationalism available in multiple languages.

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‘Our enemy is imperialism, not abstract art’ - Fidel Castro. On Fidel's birth anniversary we invite everyone to go through our important dossier which traces the history of graphic production in post-Revolutionary Cuba, particularly through OSPAAAL.

The Art of the Revolution will be Internationalist

This dossier traces the history of graphic production in post-Revolutionary Cuba, particularly through OSPAAAL. Cuba, once a darling of U.S. imperialism, would carve its own path towards socialism....

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Happy Birthday to #PauloFreire a radical educator from Brazil whose work was tied to struggles for human freedom & dignity. He constantly experimented with & thought about how to connect learning & teaching among the poor and oppressed with the radical transformation of society.

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Why do 60% of the world’s mining companies have their headquarters in Canada?Details of these mining companies becomes a corporate crime rap sheet when read alongside concise accounts of the most horrendous violations committed–globally–by these companies.

Ten Canadian Mining Companies: Financial Details and Violations

Raw minerals are needed for everyday life, but when that life is also the cost of our infrastructural needs it is time to start asking questions. Why do 60% of the world’s mining companies have their...

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In 1965, Ghana’s Prime Minister Kwame #Nkrumah published a bold book, Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism. Neo-colonialism, he wrote in his 1965 book, ‘means power without responsibility and for those who suffer it, it means exploitation without redress’.

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Russian revolutionary Alexandra Kollontai was born in St Petersburg this month in 1872. After the October Revolution, she would serve as the People's Commissar for Welfare — the first woman in history to hold an official role in a government cabinet.

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Today marks the birth anniversary of #FrantzFanon , a Marxist revolutionary from Martinique who joined the Algerian liberation struggle. At the Tricontinental, we stand, in the words of Fanon, with the wretched of the earth to create a world of human beings.

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How has the radical Brazilian popular educator Paulo Freire influenced popular struggles in South Africa? What are the continued ties between South African and Brazilian activists today? Learn more about these links in our dossier.

Paulo Freire and Popular Struggle in South Africa

Paulo Freire was a radical educator from Brazil whose work was tied to struggles for human freedom and dignity. He constantly experimented with and thought about how to connect learning and teaching...

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Despite increased intimidation, we remain steadfast in our mission to foster peace and international solidarity, countering the narrative of militarism, hostility, and fear ... Please share and do sign:

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Remembering Amilcar Cabral on his 99th birth anniversary. Cabral was central to the Tricontinental Conference in Havana, Cuba in 1966. At that conference, Cabral delivered a lecture entitled ‘The Weapons of Theory’, in which he made the pithy observation, ‘In our own times, (1/2)

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Today is the third anniversary of the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. His crime- he published the horrifying video from the Apache helicopters on their website under the title ‘Collateral Murder’. To know more about him, read our red alert:

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We offer our salute to more than 700 farmers who lost their life in the struggle agains the three #FarmLaws . We would request everyone to go through our dossier 'The Farmers’ Revolt in India' for a comprehensive understanding on the issue. #Farmers

The Farmers’ Revolt in India

Dossier 41 These are portraits of farmers, not ‘thugs, parasites, terrorists, and secessionists’, as mainstream media paints them to be, not a faceless mob. These are portraits of human beings with...

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“Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.” - Vladimir Lenin Happy Birthday Comrade. #Lenin

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Tune in to the launch of our Paulo Freire and Popular Struggles in South Africa dossier. The talk features Professor Salim Vally, Andile Zulu and Vuyolwethu Toli and livestreams this Thursday on our YouTube channel.

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🧵In 1984, President Thomas Sankara went to the UN. When he took power in his country the previous year, its colonial name was Upper Volta, solely defined by its geographical status as the land north of the Volta River.

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Happy birthday Thomas Sankara (1949-1987), uprightest of upright people, hero.

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Anahita Ratebzad (1931-2014). ‘Women’s emancipation’, she said, ‘has to be a central part of any Left movement’. She became the Minister of Social Affairs after the Saur Revolution of 1978.

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Today, as the Taliban begins to take Kabul, and therefore, all of Afghanistan, I am thinking of my friend and comrade Anahita Ratebzad, who would have been her country's democratic president if imperialism had not pushed the mujahideen (and therefore the Taliban) to power.

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Indian farmers have won their movement against the Indian government with regard to three laws enacted last year. They showed huge courage, discipline, patience and determination to see that the movement succeeded. ✊✊ #FarmLaws .

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(1/2) It was the Allende government’s policies to nationalise copper that spurred the coup, but the policy to nationalise copper was part of a broader conversation in the Third World to create a New International Economic Order.

The Coup Against the Third World: Chile, 1973

Dossier no. 68 presents an analysis of the 1973 coup against Chile and its effects on the Third World and non-aligned countries. It was the Allende government’s policies to nationalise copper that...

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The war in Ukraine has focused attention on the shifts taking place in the world order. To understand the current global situation, one must go through this important text which talks about the US desperation to go to war with Russia and China.

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'At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality'. - Che Guevara in the essay 'Man and Socialism in Cuba'. Happy Birthday comrade.

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We remember Fidel Castro on his 96th birth anniversary. He was the leader of the Cuban Revolution. In 1959 along with his comrades,he overthrew Batista's dictatorship and began building true socialist project in Cuba. Fidel launched a battle of ideas in defense of socialist...

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Happy Birthday, Comrade!! ✊✊ #KarlMarx204

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Hiroshima Day – I believe there must be bones Under the paved street. - Shigemoto Yasuhiko Have we as a human civilisation – forgotten about Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the terrible weapons dropped upon their populations by the United States in 1945. (1/4)

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China’s technological advances could result in a generational advantage over the West. It came because of the country’s investment in higher education. Also, it has rattled the US knowing that Chinese leadership is unwilling to go the Gorbachev road. Save the date to know more.

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On this day in 1959, #FidelCastro & his comrades overthrew Batista's dictatorship & began building true socialist project. Despite imperialist onslaughts, the people of Cuba continue to resist & fight for a just world. Also, teaching us the true meaning of internationalism. #Cuba

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20th July marked 98th birth anniversary of Fanon. The intellectual cannot simply leap into the universal & avoid the muck of everyday struggles. We stand, in the words of Frantz Fanon, with the wretched of the earth to create a world of human beings.

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“Condemn me. It is of no importance. History will absolve me.” — Oct. 16,1953, at his trial for rebel attack that launched Cuban Revolution. #FidelCastro rested in power five years back, but taught us to believe in the 'Battle of Ideas' & that the US imperialism is not eternal.

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The president of Venezuela @NicolasMaduro preparing for the "Battle of Ideas" with our publication 'Hyper-Imperialism: A Dangerous Decadent New Stage.'

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This day marks the 100th anniversary of the death of comrade Lenin. Gripped by the suffering induced by capitalism and by the hopes of a communist revolution, he worked hard between the energy of Marx's theories and the praxis of workers and peasants. #Lenin100

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We salute #ThomasSankara , the president of Burkina Faso. It was his 72nd birth anniversary yesterday. Sankara was, in many ways, the heir to Fanon, a clear-sighted leader of his people who understood the power of imperialism.

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After the Nazis took power in Germany, the playwright Bertolt Brecht took refuge in Svendborg (Denmark). There, in 1938, Brecht wrote a poem to suggest that the time had come to focus on the disorder and to break open the door to a different future.

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Happy Birthday comrade. ✊🥳 Read our work on #Lenin153 , the chief theorist of the October Revolution of 1917, and one of the most important leaders of the new Soviet Republic and then the USSR.

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🧵 It is impossible to keep up with the scale and frequency of the protests supporting Palestine, which are in turn pushing political parties and governments to clarify their stances on Israel’s attack. These mass demonstrations have generated three kinds of outcomes:

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Did you know that 21 Latin American and Caribbean countries have signed cooperation memoranda or agreements with China as part of the Belt and Road Initiative?

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33 years ago on this day, the communist director, actor & writer. Safdar Hashmi & his comrade Ram Bhadaur was brutally killed near Delhi while performing with @JanamTheatre . He was luminous, a person of talent & affection & of commitment to his party- @cpimspeak & to the struggle.

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🧵 Today we celebrate the life and legacy of Kwame Nkrumah, whom many regard as one of the world’s most important promoters and contributors to pan-African thought, international socialism and anti-colonial struggles. #Nakrumah

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‘Imperialism has laid its body over the world, the head in Eastern Asia, the heart in the Middle East, its arteries reaching Africa and Latin America. Wherever you strike it, you damage it, and you serve the World Revolution’. - Ghassan Kanafani He was assassinated at age 36.

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On the birth anniversary of #CheGuevara we remember and slaute his contributions to the cause of building a better world. Please download the book Che available in multiple languages

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If you wish, throw your bomb at the university. Reduce its hostel to a heap of rubble. Throw your white phosphorus on our slums. What will you do to me? I am grass.I grow on everything. - Pash (1950-1988) One of the most revolutionary poets in India would have turned 71 today.

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🧵‘We are no longer your macaques [monkeys].We are going to begin a new struggle, a sublime struggle, which will lead our country to peace, prosperity & greatness’. - Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961) He was murdered on 17th January, 1961 by the Belgians, the United States and by...

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After the financial crisis of 2007-08, developing countries began to reconsider their economic reliance on the US due to the weaknesses of the US domestic market and Western financial networks. This has led to two important practical shifts in the Global South. 🧵

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3rd September was 92nd birth anniversary of our comrade Samir Amin. Just before his death he gave us a long interview, where he laid down the assessment of the concept of ‘globalisation’ as well as his concept of ‘de-linking’that is, for the Third World to compel imperialism...

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Today marks the 91st anniversary of the birth of Chinua Achebe, one of Nigeria's foremost writers. His work has been celebrated globally for its elegant style and trenchant critique of colonialism and necolonialism's effects on the culture and psyche of African people.

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The day marks the anniversary of the October Revolution. Not only did the working class and the peasantry take over the state, but the leadership of the new state offered a strong defence of anti-colonial movements. What better day to read Lenin.

LENIN 150

On April 22, we celebrate V. I. Lenin’s 150th birth anniversary. Lenin was the chief theorist of the October Revolution of 1917, and one of the most important leaders of the new Soviet Republic and...

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‘Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfil it, or betray it.’ – Frantz Fanon Read our dossier based on archival photographs and activities that breathed life back into the spaces of the Black Community Programmes.

Black Community Programmes: The Practical Manifestation of Black Consciousness Philosophy

This dossier focuses on the Black Community Programmes, a series of projects that served as the practical implementation of the Black Consciousness philosophy.

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War itself is a crime. Peace is a priority. But make no mistake: the war in Ukraine did not begin with Russia's military intervention. This conflict has a series of authors, not the least of which is NATO’s decades-long expansion eastward. Learn more:

In These Days of Great Tension, Peace Is a Priority: The Ninth Newsletter (2022)

Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. It is impossible not to be moved by the outrageousness of warfare, the ugliness of aerial bombardment,...

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Che’s spirit of conviction, scientific insights, human compassion, and unrelenting will to achieve the victory of the oppressed over the oppressors has been captured in the text published by more than 20 left publishers across the world. A must read.

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Today, 103 years ago, the British officer General Dyer had his troops open fire on thousands of unarmed Indians in Jallianwalla Bagh (Amritsar). (In the picture, we can see the bullet holes on the walls of Jallianwalla Bagh, Amritsar, India).

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On this Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, we pay our tribute to Walid Daqqah who was arrested on 25 March 1986, by the Israeli authorities arrested & sentenced to 37 years in prison. As per reports in the media, he died from intentional medical neglect by Israeli prison authorities.

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Langston Hughes: I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread. Freedom Is a strong seed Planted In a great need. I live here, too. I want my freedom Just as you.

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1 Million Strong in Cuba! Happy May Day! ✊🏾✊🏾

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Today we celebrate the birth of #Am ílcarCabral—anti-imperialist, revolutionary intellectual, and key leader in the national liberation movements across Africa and the colonized world #CapeVerde #GuineaBissau

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Tributes to @DanielEllsberg - a fighter for peace and justice - by our Director @vijayprashad . In solidarity with Jullian Assange. @MichaelEllsberg @RobertEllsberg @MaryEllsberg @EdgeEllsberg @LukeyEllsberg @TheEIPAD @martinezjuliod @acmartineze @Stella_Assange @DefenseAssange

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Important day to read our important dossier on Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the battle for democracy. #Lula #Brazil

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Why is Africa unable to drive its own agenda? Dossier no. 42 explores how the enduring and expanding presence of Western foreign militaries in Africa continues to impede the African people in their pursuit of political unity and territorial sovereignty.

Defending Our Sovereignty: US Military Bases in Africa and the Future of African Unity

Dossier no. 42 Co-publication with The Socialist Movement of Ghana’s Research Group How do you visualise the footprint of Empire? The images in this dossier map some of AFRICOM’s military bases on...

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On this day in September 1973, Salvador Allende died in the regime change operation. The operation was authorised by the US President Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger. War was acceptable to them as long as Allende’s government was removed from power.

Twelve Step Method to Conduct Regime Change: The Fifth Newsletter (2019)

Faustino Perez, Organisation of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America, Day of Solidarity with the People of Venezuela, 1969. Twelve Step Method to Conduct Regime Change: The...

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Happy Birthday Kwame Nkrumah. In 1965,Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah published a bold book, Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism. In this book, Nkrumah documented in great detail the way in which European & North American multinational firms–in close collaboration (1/2)

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Almost 50 years after Paulo Freire’s ideas began to influence intellectuals and movements in South Africa, they remain relevant and powerful. Read our new dossier on Freire's influence on popular struggles in the country: #Freire #PauloFreire

Paulo Freire and Popular Struggle in South Africa

Paulo Freire was a radical educator from Brazil whose work was tied to struggles for human freedom and dignity. He constantly experimented with and thought about how to connect learning and teaching...

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The approach of the socialist states in tackling COVID-19 has been based on: 1. Science-based government action 2. Public sector production of essential materials 3. Public action mobilised to facilitate social life 4. Internationalism Read for more:

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#Palestine ✊✊🇵🇸🇵🇸

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You cannot decolonise your mind unless you also decolonise the conditions of social production that reinforces the colonial mentality. A must read dossier on Marxism and Decolonisation:

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Today, it is the 50th year of the coup against the #SalvadorAllende , driven by the US. This coup was not only a brutal act against the Chilean left, but against the Third World. After the coup in Chile, workers in Delhi went to protest at the US embassy.

The Coup Against the Third World: Chile, 1973

On 11 September 1973, a coup took place against the socialist government of Chilean President Salvador Allende, driven by the United States. Though it was th...

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Anti-China discourse has a definite point of origin in the US, whose ruling elites are greatly threatened by the advances of the Chinese people and the existential threat posed to the advantages long enjoyed by Western corporations.

Can We Please Have an Adult Conversation about China?: The Thirty-Second Newsletter (2022)

Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. As the US legislative leader Nancy Pelosi swept into Taipei, people around the world held their breath. Her...

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‘Educate, agitate, organise'. -Dr B R Ambedkar Remembering Dr. B. R. Ambedkar on his 133rd birth anniversary–he came from an oppressed community and struggled against the wretchedness of caste and also wrote India’s 1950 Constitution. #AmbedkarJayanti

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We remember Marielle Franco on her 43rd Birth anniversary. She was a socialist, a bisexual black woman, a champion of the downtrodden in Brazil’s favelas. Franco wanted to protect the most beautiful things around us – the most beautiful of them all being 'Hope'.

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We remember #pablopicasso on his 140th birth anniversary. Once a Gestapo officer barged into Picasso’s apartment in Paris.There was a photograph of his powerful work-Guernica on the wall. The Gestapo officer asked if Picasso had done the painting. ‘No’,Picasso replied.‘You did’.

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We remember, Yaa Asantewaa (1840-1921), the anti-imperialist queen mother in the Ashanti Empire (modern-day Ghana). In 1900, she led the War of the Golden Stool against British colonialism, declaring that, if the men will not fight the colonial power, then the women will.

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📕 Did you know that China lifted over 800 million people out of extreme poverty? What does this have to do with socialism? Issue no. 2 of the international edition of #WenhuaZongheng , the Chinese political and cultural magazine, is out now via @tri_continental & @DongshengNews 🧵

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We stand in solidarity with president @LulaOficial and #Brazil at this hour when there is a fascist attack in #brasilia . Is it a tactic to attack and bring Brazil’s democracy under siege? Go through our dossier on the threat to democracy in Brazil.

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It is impossible to be calm about the fate of the Palestinian people. Since 1948, they have been denied their country & denied their right to exist. One United Nations resolution upon another has said that their exile must end, that they must be allowed to build lives of dignity.

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🧵20th January, 1973-Amílcar Cabral, the revolutionary Pan-Africanist, was assassinated in Conakry. Cabral, the foremost leader of the struggle for the independence of Guinea-Bissau & Cape Verde from Portugal, is often primarily remembered as a military strategist and theorist.

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Coinciding with Latin America’s neoliberal turn has been the rise of Pentecostalism, which has shaped working-class consciousness and been used to draw these populations to the New Right. This dynamic has been particularly important in Brazil. Learn more:

The Perils of Pious Neoliberalism in the Austerity State: The Fifty-First Newsletter (2022)

Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. The International Labour Organisation’s Global Wage Report 2022–23 tracks the horrendous collapse of real...

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Do we know how to measure the rate of exploitation? Let's understand it in order to know precisely how much workers deliver into the total social wealth produced each year by looking at the case of the iPhone.

The Rate of Exploitation: The Case of the iPhone

Our second Notebook analyses the contemporary production process that results in Apple’s iPhone. We move from a look at the iPhone’s production to the inner workings of profit and exploitation. We...

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A Short Course on Indian Communism 1920-1947 by @vijayprashad .Links to all the six lectures in the series: I- II: III: IV: V: VI:

A Short Course on Indian Communism || Class VI: Indian Communism in...

Class VI: Indian Communism in the Freedom Movement, 1933-1947

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Our dossier no. 32 provides a brief introduction to the history of the communist movement in India, which turns one hundred years old on 17 October 2020. It is a history dotted with glorious struggles, tremendous achievements and immense sacrifices.

One Hundred Years of the Communist Movement in India

Dossier nº32 On 17 October 2020, the Indian communist movement looks back on a century of courageous resistance against tyranny, oppression, and exploitation. This was a century of sacrifices by...

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After the financial crisis of 2007-08, developing countries began to reconsider their economic reliance on the US due to the weaknesses of the US domestic market and Western financial networks. This has led to two important practical shifts in the Global South. A thread 🧵

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