New Future

Since 2018, Mexico’s National Regeneration Movement has sought to roll back neoliberalism and democratise the country. Though the ideological battle has advanced, economic transformation continues to lag behind.

The renewed struggle for sovereignty in the Sahel has been marked by advances in the cultural sphere, with new symbols to signal the break from neocolonialism.

The principles born in the Global South, from spaces of unity and cooperation such as the Bandung Conference or the Tricontinental Conference of Havana call on us to strongly defend a peace anchored on solid foundations of national sovereignty, sustainable development, and social justice.

On the heels of popular military coups, how are Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger returning to a path of sovereignty while navigating a legacy of dependency and internal-external security challenges?

For Tricontinental, it’s not possible to produce social knowledge without ties and real and concrete on-the-ground accountability to the communities and their organizational expressions.

Fifty years after the publication of Técnicas Latino-americanas de teatro popular, we revisit Augusto Boal’s vision of a ‘Copernican revolution in reverse’ to reclaim the Global South as the centre of artistic and political imagination.

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, we take stock of our view of the world and what lies ahead.

We honour the life and legacy of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o : revolutionary, writer, and prophet of the African soul. Remember his oeuvre, his exile, his fight and the future he envisioned

Rather than a fixed ideal, socialism is a process of experimentation. The essays in this issue examine how China’s modernisation offers new insights into the socialist path, with all its contradictions.

Xiong Jie reviews Lu Xinyu’s influential analysis of the agrarian question and rural modernisation in China, highlighting debates between neoliberal and socialist approaches within contemporary Chinese thought.

Li Tuo traces how China's modernisation can be understood as part of a long tradition of socialist experimentation, from the Paris Commune to Lenin’s New Economic Policy and China’s own reform and opening up.

Meng Jie and Zhang Zibin examine how China’s institutional innovations and inter-governmental competition support a mission-oriented approach to industrial policy and development, distinguishing it from neoliberal models.

While financialization offered by the West only leads to the precariousness of life, scarcity of goods, and inequality, the commitment to multipolarity carried out by the Global South with the East as its axis proposes sovereign political projects and a productive and inclusive means of development.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is the only real military bloc in the world – one whose mandate and ambitions stretch far beyond the North Atlantic and, in fact, constitute the greatest threat to world peace.