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Author:: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Publication Date:: 05-2020
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Abstract:: This dossier on the global pandemic focuses on three main elements: the structural features that resulted in our present crisis (from policies of austerity to the increasing wave of financialization), the most dire and immediate needs for the global working class, and a brief introduction to the idea of the Universal Basic Income (UBI) – including some critiques of the concept and some ways to sharpen the way we think about it.
Topic:: Economics, Universal Basic Income, Pandemic, and COVID-19
Political Geography:: Global Focus

Author:: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Publication Date:: 04-2020
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Abstract:: This dossier discusses the current stage of the struggle for land in Brazil; at its epicenter is the contrast between two vastly different agricultural models: agribusiness versus agroecology. Key to the agroecological model is the concept of popular agrarian reform, which proposes the full-scale reorganisation of landholdings that goes far beyond democratizing access to land, challenging the hegemonic form of capital and presenting a different conception of and a model for agriculture and agrarian life.
Topic:: Agriculture, Reform, Land, and Farming
Political Geography:: Brazil and South America

Author:: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Publication Date:: 03-2020
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Abstract:: This dossier offers a sparkling introduction to Fanon’s life and work, stressing the contemporary political traction of his radical humanism, and noting that his work carries an ‘irrepressible openness to the universal’ and an axiomatic commitment to ‘recognize the open door of every consciousness’. It examines, in particular, Fanon’s contribution as a theorist of praxis committed to move beyond the ontological and spatial ordering of oppression and undertake a form of insurgent and democratic praxis in which ‘a mutual current of enlightenment and enrichment’ is developed between protagonists from different social locations.
Topic:: Political Theory, Social Order, and Biography
Political Geography:: Global Focus

Author:: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Publication Date:: 02-2020
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Abstract:: The Indian Communist movement has experimented with various forms of people’s polyclinics, which provide free or reduced-cost health care to anyone. The epicentre of this initiative has been in the Telugu-speaking region of India, where the Nellore People’s Polyclinic alone treats 1,000 patients per day at rates 40% lower than corporate hospitals and has trained over five hundred doctors who now provide health care across the region. Our Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research Dossier no. 25 focuses on the history of the polyclinics in this region.
Topic:: Communism, Health, Community, and Medicine
Political Geography:: India and Asia

Author:: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Publication Date:: 01-2020
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Abstract:: The two terms that define our epoch are ‘crises’ and ‘protests’. The former are an outcome of a world system that has exhausted itself, while the latter are a cry towards the future. Our January dossier is dedicated to offering an assessment of the conjuncture – where is the world today? This year opens up with a detailed consideration of austerity, the bipolar world order, neoliberalism’s exhaustion, and a planet of protest.
Topic:: Neoliberalism, Protests, Social Order, and Political Crisis
Political Geography:: Global Focus

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