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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...

The Global Anti-Apartheid Conference for Palestine held in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 12th May 2024, attended by over 400 participants from 32 countries, adopted the ‘Johannesburg Declaration on Israel’s Settler-Colonialism, Apartheid and Genocide: Towards a Global Anti-Apartheid Movement for Palestine’. The Declaration urged people and organisations globally to expand and escalate actions in solidarity with the Palestinian people’s courageous liberation struggle to end genocide, ethnic cleansing, occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid ‘from the River to the Sea’. Since the Johannesburg conference, and despite the provisional measures issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on 24th May 2024 explicitly ordering Israel to halt its military off...

By Simon Gallagher - La Marx US  The candidacies of Joe Biden 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 "e...

Beatriz González (Colombia), Señor presidente, qué honor estar con usted en este momento histórico (‘Mr President, What an Honour to Be with You in This Historic Moment’), 1987. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. There are times in life when you want to set aside complexity and return to the essence of things. Last week, I was on a boat in the Caribbean Sea, travelling from Isla Grande to the mainland of Colombia, when it began to rain heavily. Though our boat was modest, we were in minimal danger with Ever de la Rosa Morales, a leader of the Afro-Colombian community on the twenty-seven Rosario Islands (located off the coast of Cartagena), at the helm. During the downpour, a range of human emotions swept through me, from fear to...

Leave a Comment / Economics, History, Philosophy, Politics / By left Prof. Ameer Hamza Virk Many political scholars agree that most post-colonial nations have failed to achieve full independence, as imperial powers continued to issue policy directives to their subordinate ruling elites. What we also call modern neo-colonialism in political language. In third world countries, whenever a popular political leader raised his voice against modern colonial powers, establishment or exploitative forces, he got a lot of praise. Polarization occurs when a society splits into different factions at the extremes, without a coherent middle ground. Polarization is shaking societies around the world, from new democracies to long-established democracies. In recent years, we’ve seen the United ...

https://youtu.be/K9m5M5Htuzc As global crises deepen, social movements the world over are striving toward new visions and experimenting with new strategies. From Palestine to the US and beyond, radical politics have re-emerged as necessary for both survival and full liberation. At this critical juncture, the Socialism 2024 Conference will be a vital gathering space for today’s left. A four-day conference featuring dozens of participatory discussions, lectures, and workshops organized by activists from all over the country, the Socialism Conference will host exchanges between existing organizers and organizations, while bringing in new layers of the politically curious as part of building our radical traditions and movements. Join us August 30 – September 2.