Reading and popular literacy programmes have played an important role in revolutionary processes, from the Mexican, Chinese, and Russian revolutions in the early twentieth century to today.
In our April 2024 Tricontinental Art Bulletin, we explore how art becomes a collective expression of resistance in Palestine, and over the 40-year existence of the MST in Brazil.
Amidst the genocide against Palestinians and the war in Congo, human beings cling to hope. Saleem, in Rafah, dreams beyond the present, of Red Books Day and a brighter future.
On 24 June, Israeli defence, intelligence, and police released a statement about the ‘violent attacks… by Israeli citizens against innocent Palestinians’, which they characterised as ‘nationalist terror in every sense’. Such a statement is rare…
On 21 February 1848, Marx and Engels published The Communist Manifesto. Today, 21 February is commemorated by thousands across the world as Red Books Day, when people read their favourite red books in public places.…