🇨🇳 News on China | April 2024

• For China, Iran's attack on Israel was 'an act of self-defense'
• The West's new narrative against China: overcapacity
• China exceeds its 5% GDP growth target in first quarter
• Historic 'peace trip' by former Taiwanese leader Ma Ying-jeou

In this issue of the TriconArt Bulletin we celebrate 40 years of struggle and resistance with @mst_oficial through an online exhibition featuring artwork inspired by solidarity, agrarian reform, and liberation. #ArtForChange #MST40Years thetricontinental.org/triconart-bull…

This April issue of the #TriconArt Bulletin is out! This month focuses on the exhibition for 40 years of the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST Oficial) in Brazil, and pays homage to Walid Daqqah (1962-2024) Tricontinental Institute for Social Research

Read: thetricontinental.org/triconart-bull…

On the 21st of every month, we are publishing a new artwork to celebrate #RedBooksDay .

This month is inspired by 'Haydee habla del Moncada' by #HaydeeSantamaría (1922-1980). Artwork by Valentina Aguirre (utopix Venezuela)

Recomendo o novo dossiê do Instituto Tricontinental Instituto Tricontinental de Pesquisa Social sobre a experiência organizativa do MST, lançado nesta semana internacional da Luta por Reforma Agrária
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<Palestinian Prisoners' Day> Please take five minutes to watch the heartwrenching animation based on Walid Daqqah's life, who was locked in an Israeli jail for nearly 40 years, and died 10 days ago.

By the women of Union of Palestinian Women's Committees & Animation Factory. #FreeAllPoliticalPrisoners

On #PalestinianPrisonersDay , our Tricontinental Institute for Social Research in honour of Walid Daqqah mysteriously became the Wikipedia image. Walid spent nearly 40 years in Israeli prison and who died earlier this month due to cancer and medical negligence.
(Portrait by Dani Ruggeri)

📓 Art and National Liberation

🗓️ Weds, April 17, 6:30-8:30PM

“A people’s art is the genesis of their freedom” - Claudia Jones

Across the world, revolutionary movements stood firm that there was no such thing as ‘art for art’s sake’ and rejected the notion that art was

These readouts of the calls between China, Iran and Saudi Arabia are interesting as they confirm that the Iran-Saudi normalization deal (negotiated by China) holds.

You also have Saudi Arabia's foreign minister saying that 'Saudi Arabia and China have highly consistent

Lovely footage of Zhou Enlai at the Water-Splashing Festival (泼水节) of the Dai people in Yunnan province in 1961.

Drawing #ChrisHani , the South African communist leader who was assassinated 31 years ago today.

Já indiquei esse texto da tings chak 翟庭君 traduzido pelo Hugo Albuquerque antes. Reforço a recomendação. Desta vez com o link para a coluna #ChinaemFoco na Revista Fórum. #DitaduraNuncaMais

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Drawing Kollantai.

Important new book is out.
Cover art by Tricontinental Institute for Social Research's own Ingrid Neves 💓

🇨🇳 News on China | No. 181 | March 2024

• “New quality productive forces” concept at center of Two Sessions 2024
• Hong Kong passes its own national security law
• China-Africa relationship moves towards industrialization and mineral development

On the 60th anniversary of the military-led coup in Brazil, I wrote an article about threads connecting between Brazil’s struggle for land reform and China… and why US imperialism found it so threatening leading up to the coup.

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✊🏿Em honra à memória, verdade e justiça!

Sessenta anos de um dos capítulos mais sombrios da nossa história, o golpe militar. A luta pela memória, verdade e justiça segue atual e vital para o povo brasileiro. Não podemos esquecer jamais, #DitaduraNuncaMais +

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Artigaço da tings chak 翟庭君 para a Revista Jacobina sobre o intercâmbio Nordeste-China na luta pela Reforma Agrária, e como isso apavorou o imperialismo nas vésperas do golpe de 1964.

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No 60º aniversário do golpe civil-militar no Brasil, escrevi um artigo resgatando a relação entre o nordeste, a luta pela terra e a China que ameaçava tanto o império antes do golpe de 1964.

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On the occasion of Palestine Land Day, we recall the significant milestones that have contributed to making this day an opportunity for all Palestinian people, both at home and in the diaspora, to unite in defense of their land.

This year, Palestine Land Day comes amidst the