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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.
  • Women farmers from Punjab and Haryana protest at the Tikri border in Delhi, 24 January 2021. Vikas Thakur / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research

    The Kisan [Farmers’] Commune in India

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on June 17, 2021 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    On 26 June 2021, tens of thousands of Indian farmers will gather in front of the government offices in India’s twenty-eight states.

  • Keiko Fujimori and Fernando Rospigliosi.

    The coup that is taking place in Peru

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on June 15, 2021 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    While by all accounts, Pedro Castillo won the second round presidential elections, his adversary has refused to concede, and many fear that tensions could escalate with the help of Peru’s loyal right and the newly appointed U.S. ambassador.

  • Faisal Laibi Sahi (Iraq), Cafe 2, 2014.

    Every region of the World is the worst affected

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on June 10 2021 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    The impact of this food price rise will grievously hit developing countries, most of whom are major importers of food staples. 

  • Setu Legi (Indonesia), Take Care of this Land, 2010.

    We hug the trees because the trees have no voice

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on June 3, 2021 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    In 1974, the UN urged the world to celebrate that day on 5 June with the slogan ‘Only One Earth’; this year, the theme is ‘Ecosystem Restoration’, emphasising how the capitalist system has eroded the earth’s capacity to sustain life.

  • Jorge Luis Rodríguez Aguilar (Cuba), Paris Commune 150, 2021.

    Lenin went to dance in the snow to celebrate the Paris Commune and the Soviet Republic

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on May 27, 2021 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    The workers of Paris created the Commune on 18 March, building on the wave of revolutionary optimism that first lapped on the shores of France in 1789 and then again in 1830 and 1848.

  • Laila Shawa (Palestine), The Hands of Fatima, 1989.

    Sleep now in the fire

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on May 20, 2021 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Israel’s massive war machine attacks the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) with total disregard for international law.

  • Tiger Tateishi (Japan), Samurai, the Watcher (Koya no Yojinbo), 1965.

    If I fall in the struggle, take my place

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Ugliness defines the mood of state violence from Cali (Colombia) to Durban (South Africa), each context different and the depth of the violence particular to the location. Images of security forces cracking down on people trying to express their political rights have become commonplace.

  • E. Meera (Kerala), Red Dawn, 2021.

    In Kerala, the present is dominated by the future

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on May 6, 2021 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Kerala, a state in the Indian union with a population of 35 million, has re-elected the Left Democratic Front (LDF) to lead the government for another five years. Since 1980, the people of Kerala have voted out the incumbent, seeking to alternate between the Left and the Right.

  • Protesters against the US war in Afghanistan Minneapolis, Minnesota April 6, 2013 (Flickr: Fibonacci Blue)

    United States withdraws from Afghanistan? Not really

    Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad

    The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 was criminal. It was criminal because of the immense force used to demolish Afghanistan’s physical infrastructure and to break open its social bonds.

  • A mass rally with the Free German Youth that marked the founding of the German Democratic Republic in the Soviet Occupation Zone, October 1949.

    I’m still here, though my country’s gone West

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on April 29, 2021 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    A full generation has elapsed since the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) collapsed in late 1991. Two years earlier, in 1989, the communist states of Eastern Europe dissolved, with the first salvo fired when Hungary opened its border.

  • The Sunday bazaar in Kashgar. Photo: David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

    The U.S. is trying to light the match of Islamic extremism in China’s Xinjiang

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on April 29, 2021 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    The information war now conducted by the U.S. against China centers on Xinjiang. Once again, the U.S. uses longstanding problems—such as the rise of extremism in Central Asia (fueled to some extent by the U.S. since the 1980s)—to create problems for its adversaries.

  • Mohsen Taasha Wahidi (Afghanistan), Rebirth of the Red, 2017.

    A bit of hope that doesn’t come from Miami

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on April 22, 2021 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    After twenty years, the United States government–and the forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)–will depart from Afghanistan. They said that they came to do two things: to destroy al-Qaeda, which had launched an attack on the United States on 11 September 2001, and to destroy the Taliban, which had given al-Qaeda a base.

  • US Secretary of State Antony Blinken

    Why Xinjiang is emerging as the epicenter of the U.S. Cold War on China

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on April 17, 2021 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    The U.S. government’s information warfare against China has produced the “fact” that there is genocide in Xinjiang. Once this has been established, it helps develop diplomatic and economic warfare.

  • Colectivo Culturas Vivas, Senderos latinos / Latino paths, Honduras, 2019

    I entered my country’s House of Justice and found a snake charmer’s temple

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on April 15, 2021 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    On Sunday night on 21 March 2021, a gunmen stopped Juan Carlos Cerros Escalante (age 41) as he walked from this mother’s home to his own in the village of Nueva Granada near San Antonio de Cortés (Honduras). The gunmen opened fire in front of a catholic church, killing this leader of United Communities in front of his children. Forty bullets were found at the scene.

  • From left to right: Vijay Prashad, Fred M’membe, Diego Sequera, and Erika Farías in Caracas, 2019. Photograph taken by Yeimi Salinas.

    Zambia is the tip of the tail of the Global dog

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on April 8, 2021 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    On 12 August 2021, the people of Zambia will vote to elect a new president, who will be the seventh person elected to the office since Zambia won its independence from the United Kingdom in 1964 if the incumbent loses.

  • Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. Photo: Twitter/Zelensky

    Why Ukraine’s borders are back at the center of geopolitics

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on April 6, 2021 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    As tensions heat up on the Ukraine-Russia border, Vijay Prashad takes a look at the factors and interests behind what is happening.

  • Vladimir Griuntal’ and G. Iablonovskii (USSR), Chto eto takoe? (‘What is This?’) 1932.

    The vaccine must be a common good for humanity

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on April 1, 2021 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Nearly three million people have reportedly been killed by the novel coronavirus (SAR-CoV-2) and upwards of 128 million people have been infected by the virus, many with long-lasting health repercussions.

  • Bolivia Protests

    Despite U.S. dirty tricks, Bolivia is finding a way to stay independent

    Vijay Prashad

    Pressure to prevent Morales from running in the election in 2019 mounted early, but it failed. The opposition—with the full backing of the U.S. government—tried to undermine the October 2019 election by painting it as fraudulent. With no real evidence, the military—with a green light from Washington, D.C.—moved against Morales, sending him into exile.

  • Ailén Possamay, Domestic disobedience / What they call love is unpaid labour, Concepción, Chile, 2019

    What you call love is unpaid work

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on March 25, 2021 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Women around the world spend an average of four hours and twenty-five minutes per day on unpaid care work, while men spend an average of one hour and twenty-three minutes per day on the same kind of work.

  • Anujath Sindhu Vinaylal (India), My mother and the mothers in the neighborhood, 2017.

    There are so many lessons to learn from Kerala

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Indian farmers and agricultural workers have crossed the hundred-day mark of their protest against the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. They will not withdraw until the government repeals laws that deliver the advantages of agriculture to large corporate houses.

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