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                                          <p
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                                            legacy Western media – which
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                                            the world information order
                                            – is painful. During the
                                            genocidal war against
                                            Palestinians, for instance,
                                            these media outlets (such as
                                            <em>CNN</em>, <em>The New
                                              York Times</em>, <em>The
                                              Guardian</em>, <em>Le
                                              Monde</em>, and <em>Bild</em>)
                                            have been unable to bring
                                            themselves to describe the
                                            Israeli military’s attacks
                                            on Palestinians. At most,
                                            and when it suits them, they
                                            resort to passive voice
                                            (‘Palestinians die’) or to a
                                            dangerous form of turning
                                            civilian areas into military
                                            targets (‘Hezbollah village’
                                            or ‘Hamas command and
                                            control centre’).</p>
                                          <p
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                                            of mainstream US print media
                                            coverage during the first
                                            six weeks of the genocide in
                                            Gaza showed that ‘for every
                                            two Palestinian deaths,
                                            Palestinians are mentioned
                                            once. For every Israeli
                                            death, Israelis are
                                            mentioned eight times’. In
                                            other words, in mainstream
                                            media, an Israeli who dies
                                            will be mentioned 16 times
                                            more than a Palestinian who
                                            dies. This trend, which
                                            erases and dehumanises
                                            Palestinian casualties,
                                            seems to have accelerated as
                                            the number of Palestinians
                                            killed has increased
                                            exponentially, with an
                                            estimated 114,000 dead.
                                            There is no excuse for this
                                            abysmal coverage, which
                                            ignores the steady stream of
                                            information provided by the
                                            live reporting of a large
                                            number of Palestinian
                                            journalists and social media
                                            users in Gaza, at great risk
                                            to their lives, as well the
                                            deeper context for the
                                            US-Israeli occupation,
                                            apartheid, and genocidal war
                                            provided by a wide range of
                                            analysis.</p>
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                                            programmes are worse, with
                                            any critic of the genocide
                                            forced to make an admission
                                            (‘I condemn the 7 October
                                            attack by Hamas’ or ‘I
                                            condemn the Russian invasion
                                            of Ukraine’) before the
                                            conversation can proceed,
                                            and, since many critics do
                                            not want to frame the
                                            discussion around this
                                            condemnation, the <a
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                                            never proceeds. This ritual
                                            act of condemnation is not
                                            merely an entry ticket into
                                            a conversation but an
                                            ideological concession that
                                            narrows the space for a
                                            genuine debate about the
                                            facts of when conflicts and
                                            crises begin, how to
                                            understand the structure of
                                            a conflict, and how best to
                                            ascertain the paths forward
                                            based on this longer-term
                                            historical and structural
                                            assessment. This type of
                                            discussion is called a
                                            conjunctural analysis, which
                                            provides political and
                                            social movements with the
                                            materials to intervene to
                                            shape the future and grounds
                                            the work of our institute.
                                            This newsletter will
                                            introduce you to four texts
                                            that are based on
                                            conjunctural analyses, but
                                            first I want to explain what
                                            such an analysis entails.</p>
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                                                  Ahmad (Saudi Arabia),
                                                  <em>The Field</em>,
                                                  2022.</small></p>
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                                            problem with information
                                            these days is not only its
                                            content, but equally its
                                            form. The velocity of
                                            information is striking,
                                            making it near impossible
                                            for a concerned person to
                                            discern both what is
                                            significant and what is
                                            true. Providing an excess of
                                            information that comes
                                            without proper, democratic
                                            analysis and is almost
                                            entirely controlled by a
                                            small oligarchy is its own
                                            form of censorship,
                                            exhausting the reader and
                                            viewer into submission. What
                                            is <em>censored</em> is not
                                            only information itself,
                                            although that does occur
                                            more than we admit, but also
                                            knowledge and wisdom. The
                                            news remains at the level of
                                            <em>it happened</em>,
                                            without explaining most of
                                            what happened at all: it
                                            does not explain why it
                                            happened, what caused it to
                                            happen, or its possible
                                            consequences. This form of
                                            reporting lies by omission,
                                            as events are neither static
                                            nor singular but part of a
                                            complex process.</p>
                                          <p
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                                            analyses are an important
                                            tool for understanding that
                                            complexity, since they seek
                                            to explain the dynamic
                                            process of history at a
                                            certain point in time. Any
                                            given point in time is
                                            rooted in a past and a
                                            future: the past shapes the
                                            present, but the present
                                            also presages what may come
                                            in the future depending on
                                            how one intervenes now. That
                                            is why conjunctural
                                            analyses, derived from a
                                            history of Marxist analysis
                                            and from the work of the
                                            political and social
                                            movements that conduct them,
                                            are rooted in four
                                            principles:</p>
                                          <ol>
                                            <li
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>History</strong>.
                                              Since events do not take
                                              place in isolation but are
                                              part of a long-term
                                              process, there must be a
                                              distinction between
                                              incidental or occasional
                                              events and organic or
                                              structural events.</li>
                                            <li
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>Totality</strong>.
                                              Events are interconnected.
                                              They are part of a complex
                                              structure that encompasses
                                              various possibilities.</li>
                                            <li
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>Structure</strong>.
                                              Events take place within a
                                              lattice that includes
                                              economic, political,
                                              social, and cultural
                                              aspects and within which
                                              people are organised into
                                              classes and power blocs
                                              that interact through
                                              institutions and ideas.</li>
                                            <li
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>Politics</strong>.
                                              Events must be understood
                                              in an active way, which
                                              means asking how a
                                              political force will act
                                              to shape the future,
                                              rather than passively
                                              watching the future
                                              unfold. Answering this
                                              question requires a close
                                              analysis of the nature of
                                              class formation, the
                                              balance of political
                                              forces, and cultural
                                              traditions that could
                                              advance a certain
                                              political agenda.</li>
                                          </ol>
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                                          <p
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                                            Asia, Africa, and Latin
                                            America offices recently
                                            published four texts based
                                            on conjunctural analyses:</p>
                                          <ol>
                                            <li
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                                                moz-do-not-send="true"><em>Nepal’s
                                                  Fight for Sovereignty,
                                                  the Millennium
                                                  Challenge Corporation,
                                                  and the US’s New Cold
                                                  War against China</em></a>,
                                              jointly produced with <a
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                                              magazine and written by
                                              its chief editor Dr Mahesh
                                              Maskey, who was also
                                              Nepal’s ambassador to
                                              China. This text is only
                                              in English.</li>
                                            <li
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                                                  New World Born from
                                                  the Ashes of the Old</em></a>,
                                              written by Hanna Eid and
                                              produced with input from
                                              the West African People’s
                                              Organisation. This text is
                                              only in English.</li>
                                            <li
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href="https://thetricontinental.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=37fe7fd0f5&e=d206d0a40d"
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                                                moz-do-not-send="true"><em>La
                                                  criminalización de los
                                                  cultivadores como
                                                  coartada imperialista:
                                                  economía política de
                                                  las drogas en Colombia</em></a>
                                              (The Criminalisation of
                                              Farmers as an Imperialist
                                              Alibi: The Political
                                              Economy of Drugs in
                                              Colombia), jointly
                                              researched and produced
                                              with Centro de Pensamiento
                                              y Diálogo Político and
                                              Coordinadora Nacional de
                                              Cultivadores de Coca,
                                              Amapola y Marihuana in
                                              Colombia and written by
                                              Karen Jessenia Gutiérrez
                                              Alfonso. This text is only
                                              in Spanish.</li>
                                            <li
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Revista Estudos do Sul Global</em></a> (Journal of Global South
                                              Studies), which contains
                                              articles on themes such as
                                              imperialism, the character
                                              of finance in our times,
                                              and the tempo of the class
                                              struggle. This text is
                                              only in Portuguese.</li>
                                          </ol>
                                          <p
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                                            will write about each of
                                            these texts at greater
                                            length in the coming months,
                                            as their depth and quality
                                            help us navigate beneath the
                                            superficiality and
                                            sensationalism that
                                            typically define analyses of
                                            the present. For instance,
                                            Maskey’s intervention about
                                            the Nepali government’s
                                            acceptance of a US
                                            government grant elucidates
                                            the dynamic structure of the
                                            US-imposed New Cold War on
                                            Asia, while Hanna Eid’s
                                            assessment of the Alliance
                                            of Sahel States (Burkina
                                            Faso, Mali, and Niger)
                                            enables us to understand the
                                            fight for sovereignty across
                                            West Africa as a whole. The
                                            report on the war on drugs
                                            provides a window into the <a
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                                            upon the government of
                                            President Gustavo Petro in
                                            Colombia, which requires an
                                            acknowledgment of the role
                                            of the lucrative
                                            international drug mafia in
                                            the country’s political
                                            establishment.</p>
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                                          <p
style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">Years
                                            ago, I visited the Zacapa
                                            barracks, about two hours
                                            east of Guatemala City. The
                                            scene at the barracks was
                                            near-idyllic, its stone
                                            walls surrounded by green
                                            pastures, yet the sinister
                                            watch towers hinted of the
                                            bloodshed that took place
                                            here: this is where Nora
                                            Paiz Cárcamo (1944–1967),
                                            Otto René Castillo
                                            (1934–1967), other members
                                            of the Rebel Armed
                                            Forces (FAR), and about a
                                            dozen peasants were brutally
                                            tortured and burned alive.
                                            Both Nora and Otto were
                                            members of the communist
                                            movement that fought against
                                            the Guatemalan dictatorship;
                                            trained in the German
                                            Democratic Republic and
                                            Soviet Union, respectively;
                                            and joined the armed
                                            struggle in the Sierra de
                                            las Minas (named for the
                                            mines of jade, marble, and
                                            asbestos), where they were
                                            killed in March 1967. Later,
                                            Nora’s mother, Clemencia
                                            Cárcamo Sandoval, told the
                                            truth commission that her
                                            daughter’s bloody, fractured
                                            corpse was found with clubs
                                            fused into it, a sign of how
                                            brutally she had been
                                            beaten. Two years before he
                                            was murdered alongside his
                                            comrades, Otto, whose
                                            beautiful poems were
                                            inspired by the El
                                            Salvadoran guerrilla poet
                                            Roque Dalton (1935–1975),
                                            wrote an elegy to
                                            ‘apolitical intellectuals’:</p>
                                          <blockquote
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">
                                            <p
style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">I</p>
                                            <p
style="padding-left: 40px;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">One
                                              day,<br>
                                              the apolitical<br>
                                              intellectuals<br>
                                              of my country<br>
                                              will be interrogated<br>
                                              by the humblest<br>
                                              of our people.</p>
                                            <p
style="padding-left: 40px;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">They
                                              will be asked<br>
                                              what they did<br>
                                              when<br>
                                              their homeland was slowly<br>
                                              extinguished,<br>
                                              like a sweet fire,<br>
                                              small and alone.</p>
                                            <p
style="padding-left: 40px;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">No
                                              one will ask them<br>
                                              about their suits,<br>
                                              or about their long<br>
                                              siestas<br>
                                              after lunch,<br>
                                              or about their sterile<br>
                                              battles with nothingness,<br>
                                              nor about<br>
                                              their ontological<br>
                                              way<br>
                                              of making money.<br>
                                              They won’t be questioned<br>
                                              about Greek mythology,<br>
                                              or about the self-disgust
                                              they felt<br>
                                              when someone, deep down,<br>
                                              accepted the fate of dying
                                              a coward’s death.<br>
                                              They’ll be asked nothing<br>
                                              about their absurd<br>
                                              justifications,<br>
                                              born in the shadow<br>
                                              of a total lie.</p>
                                            <p
style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">II</p>
                                            <p
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                                              that day<br>
                                              the humble people will
                                              come.<br>
                                              Those who had no place<br>
                                              in the books and poems<br>
                                              of the apolitical
                                              intellectuals,<br>
                                              yet, every day, brought
                                              them<br>
                                              their bread and milk,<br>
                                              their eggs and tortillas,<br>
                                              those who mended their
                                              clothes,<br>
                                              who drove their cars,<br>
                                              who cared for their dogs
                                              and tended their gardens,<br>
                                              who worked for them,<br>
                                              and they’ll ask:<br>
                                              ‘What did you do when the
                                              poor<br>
                                              suffered, when the
                                              tenderness and life<br>
                                              was snuffed out of them?’.</p>
                                            <p
style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">III</p>
                                            <p
style="padding-left: 40px;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">Apolitical
                                              intellectuals<br>
                                              of my sweet country,<br>
                                              you will have nothing to
                                              say.</p>
                                            <p
style="padding-left: 40px;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">A
                                              vulture of silence<br>
                                              will devour your insides.<br>
                                              Your own misery<br>
                                              will gnaw at your soul.<br>
                                              And you will be silent,<br>
                                              ashamed of yourselves.</p>
                                          </blockquote>
                                          <p
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                                          <p
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                        Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research ·
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