The Thirteenth Newsletter (2021) Originally published:The Tricontinental (April 1, 2021) | Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Nearly three million people have reportedly been killed by the novel coronavirus (SAR-CoV-2) and upwards of…
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Searching for An Alternative
NOTES TO THE PEOPLE By sumanasiri liyanage My good friend, Prof Sirimevan Colombage, who had a long experience in the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, has, in a couple of articles, raised an issue of…
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Originally published: ROAR Magazine by Michael Kwet (March 3, 2021) This essay is part of the Digital Futures series ROAR is producing in collaboration with the Transnational Institute. In 2020, billionaires made out like bandits.…
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Posted by Internationalist 360° on 2 Mar 2021 Yanis Iqbal Humanity stands at a dangerous crossroads: a conflict between making profits and saving human life is clearly emerging, with the latter being sacrificed by the…
Read More Notes on Revolutionary Hope“Let’s give another story to our children and teach them to be Humans”
Dear friends, I would like to treat you all with a real life story, a rare story, a beautiful story, a love story of a unique kind and a story if properly received and taken…
Read More “Let’s give another story to our children and teach them to be Humans”What coronavirus taught us about the ruling class
Posted Feb 23, 2021 by Ben Hillier Originally published: Red Flag (February 20, 2021) If half a million people in the United States were murdered by an evil cult, the leaders of which said that they would keep killing thousands…
Read More What coronavirus taught us about the ruling classPort struggle, Trade Unions and politics
Gotabhaya Rajapaksa government had to temporarily withdraw the attempt to implement the agreement reached in 2019, in which 51% of the Eastern Terminal of the Colombo Port would be owned by Sri Lanka and 49%…
Read More Port struggle, Trade Unions and politicsImportant Lessons from the Mass Democracy Struggle in Thailand in 2020
This uprising requires an organized democratic structure, connect with working people, and build a new struggle-based left-wing party. Qiu Qing Socialist Action Regardless of subsequent developments, mass demonstrations in Thailand have forever changed the country’s…
Read More Important Lessons from the Mass Democracy Struggle in Thailand in 2020It’s time to imagine, construct and mobilize around left alternatives!
By Amali Wedagedara The apologists to the SLPP government took offense when the budget 2021 was called ‘neoliberal’. However, TINA is not in their control. Starting from the budget, government’s ideologue’s take on how to…
Read More It’s time to imagine, construct and mobilize around left alternatives!Was Rosa Luxemburg an Opponent of the Russian Revolution?
Post on: January 15, 2021 Nathaniel Flakin Rosa Luxemburg is often presented as an opponent of the Russian Revolution, but this is a deliberate misunderstanding. In fact, she was no more and no less than…
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