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Hadjara Ali Soumaila, Confederation of Women Combatants and Pan-African Leaders (Niger). Photograph by Pedro Stropasolas for Peoples Dispatch. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. A cascade of anti-French sentiment continues to sweep across the belt of the Sahel in Africa: joining Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, Chad and Senegal demanded in November that the French government withdraw its military from their territories. From the western border of Sudan to the Atlantic Ocean, French armed forces, which have been in the area since 1659, will…

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La Marx International A nationwide uprising in Georgia against the rule of the capitalist oligarchy of billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili and his Georgian Dream party that responds to Vladimir Putin’s dictatorship is once again convulsing this ancient Caucasus country, which is at a crossroads between Slavic, Turkish and Persian cultures. For 4 days mass mobilizations have been going through the capital of Georgia, the Georgian people have been fighting for several decades to become independent from the prison of peoples that the Russian Federation represents. The capitalist oligarchy headed by Putin…

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Emily Karaka (Aotearoa), Parallel Process: Palestinian Horizon, 2024. Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation. Installation view: Ka Awatea, A New Dawn, Al Mureijah Square, Sharjah, 2024. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Finally, before history ends, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The indictment stated that there ‘are reasonable grounds to believe that both individuals intentionally and knowingly deprived the civilian population in…

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Heri Dono (Indonesia), Two Guards Who Protect Their Leaders, 2013. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 31 May, the United States military endorsed a Statement of Principles for Indo-Pacific Defence Industrial Base Collaboration to strengthen military industry cooperation with its allies in the region. The principles outline commitments to initiatives such as the co-production of missile and rocket systems in Australia, the co-development of hypersonic missile interceptors with Japan, and possible collaboration with South Korea on defence technologies, including artillery systems. This collaboration…

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Boris Taslitzky (France), Le Petit Camp à Buchenwald (The Small Camp of Buchenwald), 1945. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. When Dante Alighieri and his guide reach the fifth circle of hell in Inferno’s Canto VII, they come across the River Styx, where people who could not contain their anger in life now wallow and fight each other on the surface of the turbulent, muddy water, and below them lie those who had been sullen in life, their frustrations coming to the surface as…

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