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Tricontinental Institute for Social Research
@tri_continental
We produce forward-thinking research in conjunction with movements across the Global South.
Spanish: @tricon_es | Portuguese: @tricon_pt
Joined January 2018
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.
- 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. ✊
- 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.
- 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)
- 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.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
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- Happy Birthday comandante Hugo Chávez !! He strengthened the Venezuelan revolutionary project, whose roots lie, above all else, in the Bolivarian premise of independence; the Robinsonian concept of the ‘originality’ of America, that is, the need to find formulas of our own –
- Remember to attend our colloquium on Paulo Freire today.
