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Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 26 July, senior United Nations (UN) officials briefed the UN Security Council about the terrible situation in Gaza. ‘More than two million people in Gaza remain trapped in an endless nightmare of death and destruction on a staggering scale’, said Deputy Commissioner-General Antonia De Meo of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). Within Gaza, the UN officials wrote, 625,000 children are trapped, ‘their futures at risk’. The World Health Organisation has recorded ‘outbreaks of hepatitis A and myriad other preventable diseases’ and warns that it is ‘just a matter of time’ before a polio outbreak spreads amongst children. In early July, a letter in The Lancet from three sci...

By Simon Gallagher - La Marx US The candidacies of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump represent and defend the interests of the ruling classes. Their candidacies serve the interests of bankers, millionaires, Wall Street, and Pentagon bosses. Both parties are responsible for the growing poverty and inequality of our people, as well as for the war crimes that are perpetrated against the peoples in Palestine, Ukraine, and in the past, in Iraq or Vietnam. Don't vote for them! Annul your vote, vote blank, or abstention in the 2024 presidential elections! U.S. imperialism is going through a great crisis The next elecions are taking place in the midst of a huge crisis of the U.S. imperialist state. But this crisis is not the product of the rise of China, or Russia, or the "end of the dollar,...

"WE DO NOT SAY GOOD-BYE TO SUCHARITHA GAMLATH ! I HAVE A BOND TO CONTINUE WITH HIS CORRECT WORLD VIEW AND CONSCIOUSNESS " Excerpted from the speech given by Wicramabahu Karunarathne at the funeral of comrade Sucharitha Gamlath We are not saying good-bye to comrade Bahu or go to heaven or nirvana. But we fraternally ask all of fellow socialists continue the social transformation that comrade Bahu once tried to implement on be-half of all oppressed in the world. (Asia commun committee – Sri Lanka) https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=ZCaZIgxVafUdB6XL&sfnsn=scwspmo&v=iqCGqa9FTWA&feature=youtu.be

Jardy Ndombasi (DRC), Soulèvement populaire et souveraineté (‘Popular Uprising and Sovereignty’), 2024. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 20 June, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) condemned the attacks on civilians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) ‘in the strongest terms’. In its press statement, the UNSC wrote that these attacks – by both the DRC’s armed forces and various rebel groups supported by neighbouring countries such as Rwanda and Uganda – ‘are worsening the volatile security and stability in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in the region and further exacerbating the current humanitarian situation’. Five days later, on 25 June, the United Nations peacekeeping force in eastern DRC with...