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On this International Workers’ Day, we honour the struggles and achievements of workers across the globe who have fought tirelessly for fair wages, safe working conditions, and dignity in labour. May Day is not just a celebration of past victories but a call to action for the ongoing fight against exploitation, inequality, and oppression in workplaces worldwide.   In 2025, workers continue to face immense challenges—from rising automation and precarious gig economy jobs to union suppression and wage stagnation. In many countries, labour rights are under attack, with governments and corporations undermining collective bargaining, workplace safety, and social protections. Meanwhile, millions still labour in informal sectors without basic rights or security.   Yet, the spirit ...

Originally From: https://thetricontinental.org/dossier-the-joy-of-reading/ Reading and popular literacy programmes have played an important role in revolutionary processes, from the Mexican, Chinese, and Russian revolutions in the early twentieth century to today. 11 February 2025 Artwork by Kael Abello (Venezuela/Utopix and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research). The artwork in this dossier draws from the Red Books Day 2025 Calendar. Each of the twelve contributions, produced in collaboration with the International Union of Left Publishers, is inspired by a red book from a different region of the world. Red Books Day celebrates left books, their authors, and the people’s movements they ushered in on 21 February 1848, the day Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels pub...

In this special interview, journalist and author Fatima Bhutto speaks to Former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin about Israel’s war on Gaza, which he calls the “greatest historical scandal” of our time. Dominique de Villepin spent three decades in public service. Since his opposition to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, he has been an outspoken critic of Western military interventions around the world. In this episode, he explains why he believes there will be no security in the region until a Palestinian state is recognised. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO_-wxUkQn0

Originally posted : https://thetricontinental.org/newsletterissue/continent-of-sleaze/ The Global North and its corporate executives have wielded the concept of ‘corruption’ to underdevelop the Global South, whose social wealth it instead injects into the Continent of Sleaze. 12 December 2024 Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. The eighth continent is the Continent of Sleaze. You and I have never been there, only heard rumours about it. On that continent, there are rivers of money in which corporate executives bathe and from which they extract whatever they want in order to increase their power, privilege, and property. The corporate executives venture out to lay their hands on the wealth of the world and carry it back to...