How the Global Food Economy Is Killing Children: The Twenty-Eighth Newsletter (2026)

Every year, unsafe food causes 866 million illnesses and 1.5 million deaths, with young children suffering nearly a third of all cases of foodborne disease. This is the predictable outcome of a food economy organised around profit rather than the right to food.

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Nuestra América Newsletter

Two hundred years after the Amphictyonic Congress of Panama, we analyse the challenge of unity, the constant US imperialist sabotage, and the urgent need to close ranks to achieve Latin American emancipation.

The Architecture of Power: The Dollar, Financialisation, and the Struggle for Sovereignty

The role of the dollar as the principal currency of exchange in world trade grants the United States exorbitant power. This dossier examines the rise of this currency, the mechanisms of its domination, and the structural limits to building an alternative to the dollar.

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3 Fifty Years After Soweto: A Struggle Without Documentation Is Not a Struggle

From Conference to Production: Building the Left’s Economic Power

Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research seeks to build a bridge between academic production and political and social movements to promote critical thinking and stimulate debates and research with an emancipatory perspective.

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Dossier

13 July 2026
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2 June 2026
East Asia’s Double Bind: Contradictions and Possibilities in the New Cold War
Caught between US military dependence and deep economic integration with China, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, and Taiwan face mounting contradictions as the New Cold War reshapes East Asia.
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5 May 2026
The Future
The future is not what comes tomorrow, the time of the calendar. It is when our human journey breaks from the realism of capitalism and enters a structure that permits us to fully solve human…
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7 April 2026
Class Struggle and Climate Catastrophe in the Sahel
In the Sahel, growing conflict is rooted in class struggle, shaped by imperialist extraction, and intensified by the climate catastrophe.
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3 March 2026
The Anti-Feminist Agenda of the Latin American Far Right
An anti-gender crusade is sweeping across Latin America: the far right, religious fundamentalists, and transnational networks are mobilising to roll back feminist gains to consolidate political power.
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3 February 2026
The War on the Poor: Narcotics, Campesinos, and Capitalism
Far from tackling the narcotics trade, the War on Drugs has become an imperial tool to discipline defiant governments and advance counterrevolutionary agendas. Campesinos and the working class pay the price, while capital reaps the…
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Socialist Construction

2 December 2025
The Cooperative Movement in Kerala, India
Backed by powerful working-class and peasant movements as well as left governments that have been in power intermittently, Kerala’s cooperative movement has sprouted thousands of cooperatives, each one an incubator of possible futures beyond capitalism.
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Contemporary dilemmas

12 November 2025
The 80th Anniversary of the Victory in the World Anti-Fascist War
As we commemorate eighty years since the people’s victory in the World Anti-Fascist War, we must remember who truly saved humanity – and honour their sacrifice with the truth.
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Contemporary dilemmas

23 January 2024
Hyper-Imperialism: A Dangerous Decadent New Stage
Our latest study explores how the decline of Global North hegemony has shifted the geopolitical landscape and opened new possibilities for emergent organisations of the Global South.
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Feminisms

21 March 2023
Josie Mpama
This study discusses the life and political struggles of Josie Mpama, a leader in the resistance against colonial oppression and the apartheid system in South Africa.
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Contemporary dilemmas

13 March 2023
Eight Contradictions of the Imperialist ‘Rules-Based Order’
Significant global changes have emerged in the years since the Great Financial Crisis of 2008. This can be seen in a new phase of imperialism and the particularities of eight contradictions, summarised in our latest…
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Feminisms

8 March 2023
Chrysalises: Feminist Memories from Latin America and the Caribbean
This publication tells the stories of women who have led struggles throughout the region at different moments in history, recovering the seeds of the popular Latin American feminisms that exist today.
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Nuestra América

Tierra, violencia y despegue agroexportador 1874-1903

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O futuro já nasceu e é uma menina | A posição estrutural na reprodução da força de trabalho

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Asia

Building a New Development Theory from the Global South

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Pan Africa

Interventions Issue 6: Kenya Is Not in Crisis – Kenya Is the Crisis

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Bandung Circuits

Bandung Circuits is a publication by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and Global South Insights building AI research tools that serve scholars and movements in the Global South.

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Digital Sovereignty: The Global South’s Predicament and How to Measure It

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Declarative Multi-Agent Systems: From Using AI to Building AI

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Who Can Still Steer? State Capacity from Beijing to Buenos Aires

1 July, 2026