Tricontinental Institute for Social Research

@tri_continental

We produce forward-thinking research in conjunction with movements across the Global South. Spanish: @tricon_es | Portuguese: @tricon_pt

Joined January 2018

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Tricontinental Institute for Social Research@tri_continental · Jul 24

#NL_30 The theft of social wealth from South to North hinges on onerous borrowing costs and crushing debt payments imposed on developing countries. Learn more: thetricontinental.org/newsletterissu…

tri_continental's tweet image. #NL_30 The theft of social wealth from South to North hinges on onerous borrowing costs and crushing debt payments imposed on developing countries.
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Teri Mattson@hey_ter · Jul 8

Tomorrow night (7pm ET) on @codepink YouTube Live a special edition of WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean. Join @AlinaDuarte_ @hey_ter & @vijayprashad of @tri_continental in conversation about the BRICS 2025 Summit👉YT @codepinkaction

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Tricontinental Institute for Social Research@tri_continental · Jul 17

#NL_29 NATO countries’ military expenditure could rise to $3.8 trillion by 2035, marking a clear choice between war & austerity or peace & social spending. Learn more: thetricontinental.org/newsletterissu…

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NATO countries’ military expenditure could rise to $3.8 trillion by 2035, marking a clear choice between war &amp; austerity or peace &amp; social spending.
Learn more: thetricontinental.org/newsletterissu…

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Zetkin Forum for Social Research@ZetkinForum · Jul 17

Vijay Prashad speaking about cultures of cruelty and the connection between liberalism and fascism. To see the full talks from our conference "Fascism - Back in Europe?", follow our YouTube channel: youtube.com/@zetkinforum

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Tricontinental Institute for Social Research@tri_continental · Jul 16

#NL_28 China’s Communist Party has kept capitalists in check, ensuring that the private sector plays a productive role in national development rather than hoarding wealth or undermining the public interest. Read more: thetricontinental.org/newsletterissu…

tri_continental's tweet card. China showcases a number of promising developments in the construction of socialism – though not without challenges and contradictions.

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Zetkin Forum for Social Research@ZetkinForum · Jul 16

Follow our new youtube channel, where we'll publish all of the talks and panels from the conference "Fascism - Back in Europa?", and other such work we do in the future. youtube.com/@zetkinforum

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Vijay Prashad@vijayprashad · Jul 16

With my friend and comrade Professor Meng Jie (Economics Department, Fudan University), one of the most important Marxist economists in China. In the current issue of Wenhua Zonghen, Meng Jie has an essay - written with Zhang Zibin - on 'Industrial Policy with Chinese…

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Tricontinental Institute for Social Research@tri_continental · Jul 15

#Dossier_No_90 With a new mood emerging in the Global South, it is up to working-class and peasant movements, alongside left-wing parties, to tip the scales in a socialist direction. Read more:thetricontinental.org/dossier-tricon…

tri_continental's tweet card. In July 2015, social and political movements gathered for the Second Dilemmas of Humanity Conference and set in motion what would become Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. A decade later,...

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Tricontinental Institute for Social Research@tri_continental · Jul 15

When Ngũgĩ returned to Kenya in 2004 after 22 years in exile, thousands welcomed him with Mau Mau songs of resistance. He stepped out of the car to touch Kenyan soil. A homecoming like no other. #ArtBulletin #Kenya thetricontinental.org/triconart-bull…

tri_continental's tweet card. We honour the life and legacy of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1938–2025): revolutionary, writer, and prophet of the African soul. Remember his oeuvre, his exile, his fight and the future he envisioned

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Tricontinental Institute for Social Research@tri_continental · Jul 12

Our Director, @vijayprashad, highlights how member nations are increasingly united by concerns over the unpredictable actions of North Atlantic powers for @cgtnamerica youtube.com/watch?v=9jSJWo… #Heat #BRICS #GlobalSouth #Brazil

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Tricontinental Institute for Social Research@tri_continental · Jul 11

“Multipolarity? Maybe Sometime in the Future” An Interview with @vijayprashad for @NatCounterPunch counterpunch.org/2025/07/10/mul…

tri_continental's tweet card. Although the global dominance of the US is crumbling and China is emerging as a rival, the unilateral world order remains intact, according to historian

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Tricontinental Institute for Social Research@tri_continental · Jul 10

»Multipolarität? Vielleicht irgendwann in der Zukunft« jacobin.de/artikel/multip…

tri_continental's tweet card. Obwohl die globale Dominanz der USA bröckelt und China als Rivale auftritt, bleibt die unilaterale Weltordnung intakt, so der Historiker Vijay Prashad. Weshalb er die NATO für die gefährlichste...

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Tricontinental Institute for Social Research@tri_continental · Jul 10

Led by the Communist Party, China has driven socialist modernisation through creative experimentation – or ‘by crossing the river by feeling the stones’. Learn more: thetricontinental.org/newsletterissu…

tri_continental's tweet image. Led by the Communist Party, China has driven socialist modernisation through creative experimentation – or ‘by crossing the river by feeling the stones’.
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Vijay Prashad@vijayprashad · Jul 10

Very pleased to welcome Shri @SudheenKulkarni to the @tri_continental office in Santiago. Over several hours we discussed the current situation in India, the potential for India within the BRICS+ bloc, the importance of good relations for India with China, Pakistan, Bangladesh,…

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Tricontinental Institute for Social Research@tri_continental · Jul 9

Revolution vs Integration: Iran’s Strategic Turning Points Understanding today’s escalation requires examining the deeper historical roots of Iran-Israel tensions. writes @AliAbutalebi in the Asia Newsletter thetricontinental.org/asia/revolutio…

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Tricontinental Institute for Social Research@tri_continental · Jul 9

Ghassan Kanafani: ‘Imperialism has laid its body over the world, the head in Eastern Asia, the heart in the Middle East, its arteries reaching Africa and Latin America. Wherever you strike it, you damage it, and you serve the World Revolution’.

tri_continental's tweet image. Ghassan Kanafani: ‘Imperialism has laid its body over the world, the head in Eastern Asia, the heart in the Middle East, its arteries reaching Africa and Latin America. Wherever you strike it, you damage it, and you serve the World Revolution’.

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Peoples Dispatch@peoplesdispatch · Jul 8

🇵🇸 Ghassan Kanafani on class struggle and why the Palestinian people continue to fight for their liberation. On this day in 1972, Ghassan Kanafani was assassinated by the Israeli Mossad in Beirut.

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Tricontinental Institute for Social Research@tri_continental · Jul 8

Li Tuo argues that China’s reform and opening up continue the long history of socialist experimentation. From Lenin’s New Economic Policy to China’s reform and opening up, socialism evolves through contradiction and risk. Read: thetricontinental.org/wenhua-zonghen…

tri_continental's tweet image. Li Tuo argues that China’s reform and opening up continue the long history of socialist experimentation. From Lenin’s New Economic Policy to China’s reform and opening up, socialism evolves through contradiction and risk. Read:
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Tricontinental Institute for Social Research@tri_continental · Jul 7

On the eve of the #BRICS summit in Brazil, return to Samir Amin’s Globalisation and Its Alternative, a revolutionary call to de-link from imperialist globalisation and build a multipolar world on the terms of the peoples, not capital. thetricontinental.org/globalisation-…

tri_continental's tweet card. Globalisation and Its Alternative lays out Samir Amin’s assessment of the concept of globalisation as well as his concept of ‘de-linking;’ that is, for the Third World to compel imperialism to accept...

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Tricontinental Institute for Social Research@tri_continental · Jul 7

IMF-led defunding or closure of public administration schools, coupled with Western NGOs emerging to fill the void, have deepened the Global South’s disadvantages in international trade relations. Read more: thetricontinental.org/newsletterissu…

tri_continental's tweet card. Amid IMF-imposed cuts to public administration schools and the myriad economic disadvantages imposed by neocolonial structures, countries like the US often run laps around Global South countries in...

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