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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.
  • Rocio Navarro (Mexico), Watering Day, 2024.

    Twenty-five days of debt-service payments could emancipate African women from 40 billion hours of water harvesting: The Eleventh Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on March 13, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    In the month of International Working Women’s Day, we explore how debt-austerity regimes and climate change impact women farmworkers across the Global South.

  • Featured

    The Global North has nine times more voting power at the IMF than the Global South: The Tenth Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on March 6, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    In the deeply undemocratic IMF, where a country’s voting power is tied not to its population size but to the size of its economy, the U.S. effectively holds a veto over any major changes and moulds policies according to its whims.

  • Donald Trump. Photo: Dominique A. Pineiro / CC BY 2.0

    Impossible for a president of the imperialist U.S. to be a peacemaker

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on March 9, 2025 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    ON Friday, February 28, when U.S. President Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office of the White House with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Trump mused: ‘I hope I will be remembered as a peacemaker’.

  • Cao Fei (China), My Future Is Not a Dream 05, 2006.

    China has already become the leader in advanced critical technologies: The Ninth Newsletter (2025)

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

    Will the U.S.’s geopolitical chess moves, from Greenland to Ukraine to Russia, be enough to eclipse China’s rapid advancement in critical technologies?

  • Katsukawa Shunshō (Japan), Japanese Women Reading and Writing, c. 1776.

    We want to build communities of readers, not turn readers into commodities: The Eighth Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on February 20, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Literacy gives us the power to build a collective life–it allows us to see our history with clarity, be critical of our present, and demand the impossible of the future.

  • Chitra Ganesh (United States), Sultana’s Dream, 2018, a series of 27 linocuts published by Durham Press, © Chitra Ganesh.

    Clean waters and green mountains are as valuable as gold and silver mountains: The Seventh Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on February 13, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    What new worlds can science fiction imagine? From clean energy to ecological transitions, this newsletter explores how Global South writers and policymakers alike imagine–and create–futures beyond colonialism, pollution, and environmental destruction.

  • Umar Rashid (United States), I was dreaming when I wrote this. Forgive me if I go astray. The song of the four companions begins in the Sahel in the presence of the marabouts. Pandora comes from the north. The Harmattan approaches and beckon the storms and wars to come, 1799, 2023.

    Let us find our lost diamonds: The Sixth Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on February 6, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Since returning to office, Trump has made clear his intentions of ushering in a new Golden Age of imperialism. With NATO at his disposal, what will this new hyper-imperialism mean for the rest of the world?

  • Abdel Hadi el-Gazzar (Egypt), Popular Chorus, 1949.

    The life expectancy of Palestinians fell by 11.5 years in the first three months of the genocide: The Fifth Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on January 30, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    The U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza has led to a precipitous loss in the population’s life expectancy. Even as the ceasefire allows aid to enter Gaza, this profound demographic loss will take generations to revert.

  • Baasanjav Choijiljavin (Mongolia), The Taste of Money In-Between Clouds, 2009.

    The Promethean aspirations of the darker Nations: The Fourth Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on January 23, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    The U.S. sees the emergence of China and other Asian countries as a ‘fierce competition’. For the Global South, however, these developments bring new opportunities to pursue sovereign development.

  • Aisha Khalid and Imran Qureshi (Pakistan), Two Wings to Fly, Not One, 2017.

    All wars end in negotiations. So will the war in Ukraine: The Third Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on January 16, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Mark Rutte, the current secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), is not a poet.

  • Zulkifli Yusoff (Malaysia), Untitled, 1995.

    Dr Victor Frankenstein disavows his monster: The Second Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on January 9, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Even as the gloomy realities of war and hunger threaten to dull the light of humanity, the red sparkling dance of our struggles illuminates the path forward.

  • Malak Mattar (Gaza, Occupied Palestinian Territory), Prematurely Stolen, 2023.

    The tears of our children: The First Newsletter (2025)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on January 2, 2024 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    A study came out in December that made me cry.

  • Maysa Yousef (Gaza, Occupied Palestinian Territory), Alice in Palestine #1, 2021.

    Resist, my people, resist: The Fifty-Second Newsletter (2024)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on December 26, 2024 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    With a year marked by genocide and conflict almost behind us, we welcome the new year with struggle; may it bring us closer to a socialist world where the dreams of humanity can finally awaken.

  • Houmam al-Sayed (Syria), Namle, 2012.

    How to understand the change of government in Syria: The Fifty-First Newsletter (2024)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on December 19, 2024 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    The fall of Damascus and rise of HTS signal a dangerous shift in Syria, deepening regional instability, and isolation for Palestine. From Israel to Africa’s Sahel region, what comes next?

  • ILLICIT FINANCIAL FLOWS

    The eighth Continent is the Continent of Sleaze: The Fiftieth Newsletter (2024)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on December 12, 2024 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    The Global North and its corporate executives have wielded the concept of ‘corruption’ to underdevelop the Global South, whose social wealth it instead injects into the Continent of Sleaze.

  • Hadjara Ali Soumaila, Confederation of Women Combatants and Pan-African Leaders (Niger). Photograph by Pedro Stropasolas for Peoples Dispatch.

    France must go from Africa is the slogan of the hour: The Forty-Ninth Newsletter (2024)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on December 5, 2024 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    With Chad and Senegal joining Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger in demanding the withdrawal of the French military from their countries, a surge of sovereignty continues to ripple across the Sahel.

  • Emily Karaka (Aotearoa), Parallel Process: Palestinian Horizon, 2024. Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation. Installation view: Ka Awatea, A New Dawn, Al Mureijah Square, Sharjah, 2024.

    The United States raises a middle finger to the International Criminal Court: The Forty-Eighth Newsletter (2024)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on November 28, 2024 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    As the International Criminal Court finally issues arrest warrants for Israeli leaders Netanyahu and Gallant, the United States confirms it has no regard for international law or a genuine rules-based order.

  • Boris Taslitzky (France), Le petit camp à Buchenwald [The Small Camp of Buchenwald], 1945.

    Swimming in mud in the fifth circle of hell: The Forty-Sixth Newsletter (2024)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on November 14, 2024 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Instead of solving the problems of the majority, the ‘far right of a special type’–a right that is intimately tied to liberalism–cultivates a politics of anger.

  • Ōriwa Tahupōtiki Haddon (Ngāti Ruanui), Reconstruction of the Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, c. 1940.

    We don’t want our Islands to be used to kill people: The Forty-Fifth Newsletter (2024)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on November 7, 2024 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Across the Pacific, Indigenous communities lead a growing wave of sovereignty against ongoing legacies of Western colonialism in the region, from the assault on Māori rights in Aotearoa to the US and French military presence in wider Oceania.

  • Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu (Mongolia), Floating in the Wind, 2023.

    A world where our grandchildren have to go to a museum to see what a gun looked like: The Forty-Fourth Newsletter (2024)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on October 31, 2024 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    The world yearns for ‘active’ peace, tired of the attitude of superiority that defines the North’s relations with the South. This means that wealth, which is produced by society, must not deepen the pockets of the rich and fuel the engines of war, but fill the bellies of the many.

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