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About Vijay Prashad

Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, editor, and journalist. He is a writing fellow and chief correspondent at Globetrotter. He is an editor of LeftWord Books and the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He is a senior non-resident fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China. He has written more than 20 books, including The Darker Nations and The Poorer Nations. His latest books are Struggle Makes Us Human: Learning from Movements for Socialism and (with Noam Chomsky) The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power.
  • Warren Sare (Burkina Faso), Ancient Fighters 2, 2014.

    Thomas Sankara’s legacy is alive in the Sahel: The Thirty-Third Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on August 14, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Burkina Faso has been trapped in neocolonial underdevelopment for nearly all of its post-independence history–can the new government of Ibrahim Traoré follow in Thomas Sankara’s footsteps and change course?

  • Screenshot from Larry Achiampong and David Blandy (UK), Finding Fanon (2018).

    A tribute to all those who fought for a better world and died so young: The Thirty-Second Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on August 7, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Though they died young, revolutionaries like Frantz Fanon and Patrice Lumumba made invaluable contributions to anti-colonial and national liberation struggles.

  • Vijay Prashad addresses the UNCTAD Public Symposium in Geneva, June 25, 2013 (via Wikimedia).

    The World in a Nutshell: An Interview with Vijay Prashad

    Zhao Dingqi and Vijay Prashad

    VP: “Marxism, which is an ever-evolving field of analysis, is the most accurate critique of capitalism. As long as capitalism remains with us, Marxism must remain until another form of critique—better than Marxism—appears.”

  • Karen Paulina Biswell (Colombia), Nama Bú (We Exist), 2015.

    Unilateral and illegal sanctions–mainly by the United States–kill half a million civilians per year: The Thirty-First Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on July 31, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    A study in The Lancet estimates that unilateral sanctions have caused as much death as wars, with an estimated half a million deaths per year.

  • Featured

    Can the poorer Nations build a new architecture for development and sovereignty?: The Thirtieth Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on July 24, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Though still weighed down by debt and austerity, developing countries are beginning to chart alternative paths as a new mood takes hold in the Global South.

  • Aboudia Abdoulaye Diarrassouba (Côte d’Ivoire), Daloa 29, 2011.

    Peace and development are better than austerity and war: The Twenty-Ninth Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on July 17, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    That is the choice: iron or peace, bullets or development.

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    Who says a chicken feather can’t fly up to Heaven?: The Twenty-Eighth Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on July 10, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    China showcases a number of promising developments in the construction of socialism–though not without challenges and contradictions.

  • The Global North Lives Off Intellectual Rents

    The Global North lives off intellectual rents: The Twenty-Sixth Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on June 26, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Despite rapid technological innovations, Global South countries remain trapped in Global North-dominated intellectual property regimes designed to extract endless rents through patents and licensing fees– stripping them of wealth and stunting their development.

  • Peter Mulindwa (Uganda), Untitled, 1981.

    Despite the pain in the World, socialism is not a distant Utopia: The Twenty-Fifth Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on June 19, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Tricontinental is producing a series of regular newsletters in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, building a roadmap that allows us to grasp the rapid changes before us and highlight the movements taking action to reverse the ugliness inflicted upon humanity.

  • Goyen Chen, Know Love, Know Peace. No Love, No Peace, 2022.

    The people want peace and progress, not war and waste: The Twenty-Fourth Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on June 12, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    As NATO’s secretary general urges member nations to ‘shift to a wartime mindset’, now more than ever it is clear that this aggressive alliance poses a threat to peace on a global scale.

  • Maksud Mirmuhamedov (Tajikistan), Hearth, 2020.

    Hundreds of millions are dying of hunger: The Twenty-Second Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on May 29, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Enough food is produced to meet the needs of 11 billion people. Why do so many of the 8 billion people on the planet go hungry?

  • The art in this newsletter was produced by Tricontinental’s art department for our May dossier, Africa’s Faustian Bargain with the International Monetary Fund.

    How the International Monetary Fund underdevelopes Africa: The Twenty-First Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on May 22, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Once plundered of both its wealth and people by colonial powers, Africa now faces IMF-imposed austerity, obscene debt, and forced underdevelopment.

  • Dahlia Abdelilah Baasher (Sudan), Untitled, n.d.

    A language of blood has gripped our world: The Twentieth Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on May 15, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Sudan’s forgotten civil war has killed at least 150,000 and displaced nearly 13 million. Understanding its political details is key to tracing the causes and potential solutions to the conflict.

  • A large road sign in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, commemorating the 30 April 1975. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

    Vietnam celebrates 50 years of the end of its colonial period

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on May 12, 2025 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    Reflections on Vietnam’s revolutionary reunification, post-war recovery, and socialist transformation–highlighting the enduring legacy of resistance and the challenges of building a sovereign economy.

  • Hands off Venezuela

    They are making Venezuela’s economy scream: The Eighteenth Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on May 1, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    U.S.-led sanctions (more aptly referred to as Unilateral Coercive Measures) caused Venezuela to lose oil revenue equivalent to 213% of its GDP between January 2017 and December 2024, resulting in losses of roughly $77 million per day. Who is the real target of these and other unilateral coercive measures?

  • Jean-Claude Sévère (Haiti), L’ennemi attaqué chacun de sa propre volonté se tient debout pour défendre sa patrie (When the Enemy Attacks, Everyone Stands up of Their Own Free Will to Defend Their Homeland), 1970.

    Two hundred years ago, France strangled the Haitian Revolution with an inhumane debt: The Seventeenth Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on April 24, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    On a stormy August night in 1791, Dutty Boukman (1767–1791) and Cécile Fatiman (1771–1883) conducted a Vodou ceremony at Bois Caïman in northern Saint-Domingue, in the French-owned part of Hispaniola.

  • Waiting for a New Bandung Spirit

    Waiting for a new Bandung spirit: The Sixteenth Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on April 17, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    After many decades of stasis, we see the growth of a ‘new mood’ in the Global South. Though only a hint of a new possibility, it holds tremendous democratic potential, with sovereignty at its centre.

  • Boris Taslitzky (France), Insurrection à Buchenwald 11 avril 1945 (Insurrection at Buchenwald 11 April 1945), 1964.

    The Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated by Communist prisoners: The Fifteenth Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on April 10, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Eight decades ago, communist prisoners organised and liberated the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald, where they were held. As the far right of a special type rises across Europe, these heroic victories of anti-fascist resistance are under attack.

  • Andrée Blouin

    Andrée Blouin is our kind of Pan-African revolutionary: The Fourteenth Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on April 3, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    There is a rich tradition of women writers on the African continent who have played key roles in publishing and national liberation movements alike, from Andrée Blouin to Flora Nwapa. Learn more about their legacy and efforts to carry forward their torch today.

  • Demetrio Urruchúa (Argentina), Nuevo orden (The New Order), 1939.

    What Rodolfo Walsh would demand we write in his place: The Thirteenth Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on March 27, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    As attacks on the media increase in Argentina and beyond, we reflect on the legacy of Rodolfo Walsh, a heroic journalist who fought the military dictatorship with his pen.

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    Over 10,000 people died in transit to Spain in 2024 alone.[1] On June 2022, the border fence of Melilla, one of two Spanish enclaves in Morocco, was witness to a massacre that killed or disappeared over a hundred African migrants.[2]  A recent BBC investigation revealed that Greek border guards systematically repeal immigrants already on Greek […]

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