Tricontinental Institute for Social Research
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We produce forward-thinking research in conjunction with movements across the Global South. Spanish: @tricon_es | Portuguese: @tricon_pt
Joined January 2018
Washington is beating the war drums against Venezuela again, weaponising the old 'war on drugs' script and invented cartels to justify regime change. Defending the Bolivarian process means defending all who refuse US hegemony. https://t.co/tHOnHVC0FX
#Venezuela
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Washington is reviving the ‘War on Drugs’ to attempt to overthrow the Bolivarian Revolution, threatening everything from military force to the assassination of government leaders.
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Scholars such as Samia Halaby have documented how Palestinian art is inextricably tied to the liberation struggle as a weapon against Israeli ‘memoricide’. Read more: https://t.co/VgcnKuBfxg
#Palestine
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Against a decades-long Zionist genocidal onslaught, Palestinians wield art and culture to resist erasure, bear witness, and imagine a future where their people are free.
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At COP30 in Brazil, movements and frontline countries reinforced the importance of class struggle and the need to transform economies and societies to save the planet. Read more: https://t.co/4mR80rU2Rf
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Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. During the closing plenaries of the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention...
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This is an incredible research done by @tri_continental Fascism was defeated not by Anglo-American capital but by socialist leadership and mass heroism. This charts shows death distribution in the WW2👇 1⃣Soviet Union & China account for 59.8% of world’s total death. 2⃣13.1% of
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The 80th Anniversary of the Victory in the World Anti-Fascist War As we commemorate eighty years since the people’s victory in the World Anti-Fascist War, we must remember who truly saved humanity – and honour their sacrifice with the truth. https://t.co/kOWeD8xKmv
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As we commemorate eighty years since the people’s victory in the World Anti-Fascist War, we must remember who truly saved humanity – and honour their sacrifice with the truth.
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Wider den Revisionismus und die Geschichtsklitterung! Vor 80 Jahren besiegte die sowjetische Rote Armee Nazi-Deutschland und chinesische Kommunisten das militarisierte faschistische Japan. Der Newsletter stellt eine neue Studie von @tri_continental vor. https://t.co/Dv8y8MQ2Ws
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Lügen und Halbwahrheiten besingen den Heroismus des Westens im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Die Wahrheit ist, dass es die sowjetische Rote Armee und die chinesischen Kommunisten und Patrioten waren – und nicht...
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Backed by powerful working-class and peasant movements as well as left governments that have been in power intermittently, Kerala’s cooperative movement has sprouted thousands of cooperatives, each one an incubator of possible futures beyond capitalism. https://t.co/2JdLZQq2vi
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Backed by powerful working-class and peasant movements as well as left governments that have been in power intermittently, Kerala’s cooperative movement has sprouted thousands of cooperatives, each...
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Across the long arc of Zionist ethnic cleaning, land grabbing, and forced migration, Palestinians have continued to use cultural production as a tool of resistance. https://t.co/oRh4ejrSDw
#Palestine
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Across the long arc of Zionist ethnic cleaning, land grabbing, and forced migration, Palestinians have continued to use cultural production as a tool of resistance.
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Communism Defeated Fascism Eighty Years Ago & Will Defeat it Again National liberation fronts in China, Korea, Indonesia & Indochina led the charge against Japanese militarism. These histories have been erased by the West’s atomic bombs & popular culture. https://t.co/SbFsb6ZfY8
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Amidst a web of lies and half-truths touting the heroism of the West in World War II (what we call the World Anti-Fascist War), the enormous truth is that it was the Soviet Red Army and the Chinese...
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While Trump pocketed $350 billion from South Korea and APEC leaders recycled corporate mantras, hundreds gathered in Gyeongju to declare that neither tariff extortion nor neoliberal nostalgia would go unchallenged. https://t.co/sxtrO4fWOb
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– By Dae-Han Song Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental Asia. The Doomsday Clock advances 10 seconds closer to midnight. Global temperatures rise beyond 1.5°C. Forests burn....
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“They started the war to kill our hopes, but we won’t let that happen.” On Intl Day of Solidarity, honour Palestinian cultural resistance – from Handala to Freedom Theatre. Read: https://t.co/VgcnKuBfxg
#Palestine
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Against a decades-long Zionist genocidal onslaught, Palestinians wield art and culture to resist erasure, bear witness, and imagine a future where their people are free.
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COP30 in Belém didn’t identify the real issue instead Green funds, carbon markets & agribusiness got centre stage, while peoples’ movements insisted: the environmental crisis is a capitalist crisis. We need a popular, anti-capitalist eco-transition. https://t.co/PRwcHA0ZjG
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COP30 made it even clearer that contemporary environmental policy is profoundly subordinate to capital. Climate decisions do not stem from the conservation and recovery of ecosystems, but from the...
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Trump is threatening military action in Nigeria to stop a ‘Christian genocide’—using inflated numbers to sell an old imperial script. This newsletter breaks down the lie, the data, and what’s at stake. https://t.co/i4wEVAmN4U
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When Trump threatens to invade Nigeria over alleged Christian genocide, he recycles old colonial tactics wrapped in 'humanitarian' rhetoric — while Nigerians demand Hands Off.
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“Is Asia possible?” This study shows Asia is not an ancient essence but a modern project born in anti-colonial struggle — from Pan-Asianism burned by empire to BRICS, Asianism and the US-driven New Cold War. Essential reading :
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No political force in Asia could legitimately drive a Pan-Asian agenda. There simply was no intellectual or political resource generated during the Cold War that developed a progressive pan-Asian...
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The enormous truth? It was the Soviet Red Army and the Chinese Communists and patriots that actuallydefeated Nazi Germany and militarist Japan. https://t.co/SbFsb6ZfY8
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Amidst a web of lies and half-truths touting the heroism of the West in World War II (what we call the World Anti-Fascist War), the enormous truth is that it was the Soviet Red Army and the Chinese...
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The second lie? It was the US sacrifices in the Pacific war and the nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that defeated Japanese militarism.
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🧵A web of lies and half-truths tout the heroism of the West in World War II (what we call the World Anti-Fascist War). The first lie? The Western Allies opposed the fascists from the onset and won the war against fascism.
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A United Nations report has exposed the unspeakable impact of the Israeli genocide on Palestinian children. Art can offer a therapeutic space for healing and for reclaiming their imagination. Learn more:
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The Palestinian people continue to resist the inhuman Israeli occupation and genocide, turning art and culture into spaces of memory, dignity, and hope.
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Congratulations to my brother @manolo_realengo for putting together this collection of speeches and documents from the 1966 Tricontinental Conference, which gives our institute its name. Manolo spent a very long time working through the Cuban archives to assemble this book, for
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Role management, custom flows, and integrated SSO. Discover how Clerk Organizations helps you build stronger SaaS.
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For years, I've been digging through archives & now it’s almost here: "Tricontinental, Havana 1966" – a collection of never-before-seen speeches & docs from the 1st Solidarity Conference of Africa, Asia & Latin America. Thrilled to have a foreword by @vijayprashad. Coming soon!
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