Category: English

Dahlia Abdelilah Baasher (Sudan), Untitled, n.d. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Over the past weeks, international focus has no doubt been on the escalation between India and Pakistan, which we will write more about once the dust settles. Though none of the armies crossed the border or the Line of Control, concern is nonetheless understandable: both countries wield nuclear weapons in their arsenal. Now, there has effectively been a return to the ceasefire of 1948, which has lingered in the decades since without…

Malak Mattar (Palestine), If the Olive Tree Knew, 2025. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In 1948, the newly proclaimed Israeli government seized 78% of Palestinian land and expelled more than half of the population (750,00 people) from their villages and towns. This act disregarded United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 (1947), which called for the termination of the colonial British Mandate and the partition of Palestine into a Palestinian and a Jewish state. This process came to be known as the Nakba (Catastrophe).…

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Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In the last days of March, I was in China’s new city of Xiong’an, less than a two-hour drive from Beijing. The city is being built to relieve congestion in the capital, but it will also be home to women and men who are eager to develop China’s new quality productive forces and will be the centre of universities, hospitals, research institutes, and innovative technology companies, including high-tech farming. Xiong’an has the ambition of reaching ‘net-zero’ carbon dioxide…

It is with profound grief and deep sorrow that we mourn the passing of Comrade Anil Chaudhary—a dedicated people’s educator, an activist, and a tireless warrior for social and economic justice. After bravely fighting for over a week on ventilator support following a severe heart attack, he breathed his last at Fortis Hospital, Gurugram.   Anil ji was a guiding light for the NATIONAL HAWKER FEDERATION and countless people’s movements across the country. For over four decades, he played a pivotal role in strengthening the struggle for land rights, amplifying the…

Boris Taslitzky (France), Insurrection à Buchenwald 11 avril 1945 (Insurrection at Buchenwald 11 April 1945), 1964. Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Eighty years ago, on 11 April 1945, units of General George S. Patton’s 4th Armoured Division of the US armed forces drove toward the city of Weimar, Germany, where the Buchenwald concentration camp was located. Patton’s troops eventually took control of the camp, but soldiers’ statements, which were collected later by historians, suggest that the US tanks were not what liberated Buchenwald:…