How a young Black organizer challenged Amazon’s power and redefined what worker-led activism looks like in America.
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Democratic Public Finance
Billy Saas and Scott Ferguson are joined by Will Beaman to discuss Money on the Left’s framework for what we call “Democratic Public Finance” (DPF). According to this paradigm, money is public credit, a capacious tool for mobilizing everyone’s capacities to meet our...
The UN embraces colonialism: Unpacking the Security Council’s mandate for the U.S. colonial administration of Gaza
The Security Council's backing of the Trump plan for Gaza ignores international law, punishes the Palestinians, and rewards those responsible for genocide.
Mali defends sovereignty against a Western-backed “proxy war” by terror groups
As panic-inducing travel advisories and doomsaying media reports prophesy the fall of Mali to an Al Qaeda affiliate attacking fuel convoys, the government has re-secured supply routes and hosted Mali’s first international defense expo in a supposedly besieged capital.
Speculation, tariff threat and the working people
It may be thought that just as any tendency towards a financial outflow causes a squeeze on the living conditions of the working people via an exchange rate depreciation, any opposite tendency, towards an inflow of finance (in excess of the autonomously determined...
‘More horrific than Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo’: The unsalvageable depravity of Israel’s prisons for Palestinians
2On June 19, 2024, Khaled Mahajneh, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, became the first lawyer to visit a notorious detention facility for Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, located inside the Sde Teiman military base in the Negev Desert, one of several detention...
An Insider Critique of the Imperial Theory Industry: Gabriel Rockhill Interviewed by Michael Yates
Gabriel Rockhill is Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. He earned PhDs at Paris 8 University and Emory University. An accomplished scholar, he has published works for many outlets, both in the United States and in France. He is the editor of the English...
Mexico’s ‘Gen Z rebellion’ exposed as viral right-wing plot
Presented as a spontaneous youth-led uprising against corruption, violent protests that erupted across Mexico this month were backed by local oligarchs and an international right-wing network determined to topple the popular President Claudia Sheinbaum.
Corporate Media parrot dubious drug claims that justify war on Venezuela
Since August, the U.S. has been amassing military assets in the Caribbean.
You can’t build a revolution on Instagram: Cuba and Venezuela explain why
The Cuban and Venezuelan people are offering hard-won lessons. It is our responsibility to study them—and to act.
Trump’s new radiation exposure limits could be ‘catastrophic’ for women and girls
In a May executive order, aimed at ushering in what he described as an “American nuclear renaissance,” President Donald Trump declared moot the science underpinning decades-old radiation exposure standards set by the federal government. Executive Order 14300 directed...
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Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In the United Nations’ Humanitarian Situation Update #340 on the Gaza Strip (12 November 2025), there is a section on the distress experienced by more than 1 million Palestinian...











