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Tricontinental Institute for Social Research
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Tricontinental Institute for Social Research
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We produce forward-thinking research in conjunction with movements across the Global South. Spanish: @tricon_es | Portuguese: @tricon_pt
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    Tricontinental Institute for Social Research
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    Sep 12, 2021
    Steve Biko was an anti-apartheid activist killed by the apartheid government on this day in 1977. He was a Black Consciousness Movement leader and his memory and political thought, particularly his book I Write What I Like energise popular struggle in South Africa today.
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    Mar 10, 2022
    Aijaz Ahmad, our senior fellow has left us today. He was a leading Marxist philosopher and cultural theorist, author and editor of many books and journals. Rest in power, comrade. ✊
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    Jan 15, 2023
    In 1919, #RosaLuxemburg wrote, ‘Your order is built on sand. Tomorrow the revolution will “rise up again, clashing its weapons” and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing, I was, I am, I shall be’. 104 years back, she and Karl Leibknect were killed in Berlin.
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    Jun 9, 2022
    Spot the difference. The United States is hosting a Summit of the Americas from 8th to 10th June, hoping to deepen its hegemony over the Americas. #Cuba, #Nicaragua, and #Venezuela have not been invited. Several countries – including Bolivia and Mexico – have said that ...(1/2)
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    Sep 5, 2021
    President Richard Nixon & his Security Advisor Henry Kissinger authorised the US govt. to do everything possible to undermine the incoming government of the socialist president of Chile,Salvador Allende.According to the CIA notes they wanted to ‘make the economy scream’ in Chile.
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    Vijay Prashad
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    Sep 4, 2021
    On 4 September 1970 - 51 years ago - Salvador Allende became the first socialist president of Chile when his Unidad Popular government took power. Viva Allende. [picture: with an AK-47 given to him by Fidel Castro] #4DeSeptiembre #allendevive
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    Sep 9, 2021
    A billion people live without shoes. Yet the $384.2B global footwear industry produces 24.3B pairs of shoes/year, or 3 pairs of shoes for every person on the planet. Meanwhile, those who make shoes, can’t afford to buy them. #TRICONewsletter
    Solely Because of the Increasing Disorder: The Thirty-Sixth Newsletter (2021)
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    Jan 15, 2022
    103 years ago on this day, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Leibknect – leaders of the German Communist Party – were killed in cold blood in Berlin. When the security guards came to arrest her, Luxemburg filled her bag with books, including Goethe’s Faust, which she was then reading.
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    Dec 25, 2023
    Merry Christmas 🎄!! Artwork from @dig_neves.
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    Sep 13, 2021
    Lets salute Razan al-Najjar (1997-2018), who would have turned 24 years old today. A medic who was nursing unarmed protestors in the Great March of Return; they were being shot at by Israeli snipers and she was killed by one of the snipers on 1 June 2018.
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    Nov 28, 2021
    Happy 201st Birthday comrade. ✊✊ #Engels201
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    Jan 1, 2021
    On this day in 1959,#FidelCastro & his comrades overthrew Batista's dictatorship & began building true socialist project.Despite imperialist onslaughts of the US, the people of Cuba continue to resist & fight for a just world.Also, teaching us the true meaning of internationalism
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    Jul 28, 2024
    Happy Birthday comandante Hugo Chávez !! He strengthened the Venezuelan revolutionary project, whose roots lie, above all else, in the Bolivarian premise of independence; the Robinsonian concept of the ‘originality’ of America, that is, the need to find formulas of our own –
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    Sep 16, 2021
    Remember to attend our colloquium on Paulo Freire today.
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    Jan 17, 2022
    Murder and suppression of leaders of the people is an old tactic. It takes us back to 1961, when Patrice Lumumba, the beloved leader of the Congolese revolution was killed by the Belgians, the United States and by sections of the Congolese military on this day.