Amrus Natalsya: The last, farewell and thank you
Amrus’s passing marks the final chapter of making artwork that served his people and an Indonesia whose revolution never saw its completion
From South Africa to Palestine: Art, culture, and the anti-apartheid struggle
Anti-apartheid fighter and cultural worker Mongane Wally Serote spoke at a recent event about the centrality of art and culture to the struggle for liberation
Looking back at Bolsonarismo and its project of cultural and national destruction
During the riots in Brasília on January 8, Bolsonaristas caused irreparable damage to the country’s cultural patrimony, destroying art that represents everything they are against
China’s path to socialist modernization
The discussions in the Communist Party of China’s 20th National Congress reflected recent achievements and challenges for the coming period
La ruta de China hacia la modernización socialista
Los debates del XX Congreso Nacional del Partido Comunista de China reflejaron los logros recientes y los retos para el próximo periodo
Women hold up half the sky: how China eradicated extreme poverty
Artist and researcher Tings Chak writes for Capire on grassroots organizing and policies to fight poverty in China.
Guangzhou 1927: The Paris Commune of the East
On the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Paris Commune, its legacy is remembered in the Guangzhou Uprising, when workers and peasants established a popular republic in the southern Chinese capital in 1927.
The enduring legacy of China’s Red Detachment of Women
On the eve of the Communist Party of China’s centenary in July 2021, the story of the country’s first women’s military brigade in the 1930s continues to find life in popular culture and the imagination of the Chinese people
The Lekra spirit lives: Martin Aleida on Indonesia’s revolutionary cultural group
Designer Tings Chak spoke with Indonesian writer Martin Aleida about Lekra and the legacy of repression of left movements in Indonesia
Not only to stay alive, but to stay human: An interview with Pavel Égüez
Designer Tings Chak spoke at length with Ecuadorian artist Pavel Égüez about revolutionary art, the crisis of capitalism and his series ‘Cuarentena’ which seeks to address the human suffering provoked by the COVID-19 pandemic
Painting an epidemic: An interview with Li Zhong (李钟)
Tings Chak of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research speaks to Li Zhong a Chinese painter who produced a series of paintings on the country’s heroic fight against the COVID-19 pandemic
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