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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.
  • Religion is the Sigh of the Oppressed Creature_ The Twenty-Seventh Newsletter (2019).  _Page_1_Image_0002

    Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on July 4, 2019 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    On the one hand, people who spend most of their time working develop an understanding of the ‘practical transformation of the world’. This framework is implicit in the workers’ activity, since the worker–given the theft of their time–is often prevented from having a ‘clear theoretical consciousness of this practical activity’.

  • Working hours lost to heat stress by subregion

    Burnt workers are the newest wave of climate casualty

    Vijay Prashad

    The International Labor Organization (ILO) has just released a brief—but very important—report on the impact of heat stress on workers. What the ILO finds is that the areas of the world most threatened by heat deaths of workers are Southern Asia and Western Africa.

  • Ola Bini

    My friend is in a prison in Ecuador

    Vijay Prashad

    This article was first published on June 10, 2019 in the Daily Hampshire Gazette. Two months ago, the police in Ecuador arrested my friend Ola Bini at Quito airport. Ola was on his way to Japan for a two-week martial arts course. He’s a software developer from Sweden who has lived in Ecuador since 2013. […]

  • "Today’s Life and War" (2008) by Gohar Dashti

    The hybrid war against Iran

    Vijay Prashad

    Trump might not have sent in a suite of missiles to hit Iran last week, but the United States has—of course—already opened up a certain kind of war against Iran.

  • Using Democratic Institutions to Smash Democratic Aspirations (the Brazil Model): The Twenty-Fifth Newsletter (2019). (Photo: Saira Wasim)

    Using Democratic institutions to smash Democratic aspirations (the Brazil model)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on June 20, 2019 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Brazil’s former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has now been in prison since April 2018. More than four hundred Brazilian lawyers have signed a statement that expresses alarm at what they see as procedural irregularities in the case against him.

  • Operation AJAX cartoon from the book, Operation Ajax: The Story of the CIA Coup that Remade the Middle East. Mike de Seve (Author), Daniel Burwen (Illustrator), Stephen Kinzer (Foreword)

    Have you heard of the CIA’s Iran mission center?

    Vijay Prashad

    In 2017, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) created a special unit—the Iran Mission Center—to focus attention on the U.S. plans against Iran. This predated the Trump administration.

  • Lula by Ricardo Stuckert, 7 April 2018.

    Be careful of the crooked smile of powerful people

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on June 13, 2019 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    “For humanity, comrades,” writes Frantz Fanon at the close of his monumental The Wretched of the Earth, “we must turn over a new leaf, we must work out new concepts, and try to set afoot a new man’. Terrible inequalities in our world keep humanity divided.

  • Afghanistan. Photo by Huib Scholten

    Peace is a word that the West has taken from the Afghans

    Vijay Prashad

    The war on Afghanistan has been ugly. Death is one consequence of war—2019 has been the deadliest year for civilians since the United States first began to bomb Afghanistan in 2001. Starvation is another—according to the UN, half of the population will need food assistance over the course of this year.

  • Rana Javadi, Never-Ending Chaos, 2013.

    The world divided by a line is a dead body cut in two

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on May 30, 2019 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    A war against Iran–as Hamid says–will be catastrophic, not only for Iran but for Eurasia. It would divide the world into two, vultures and hyenas feasting on both halves.

  • Commercial oil tanker AbQaiq readies itself to receive oil at Mina-Al-Bkar Oil terminal (MABOT), an off shore Iraqi oil installation

    Does Iran’s economic fate depend on a lifeline from China?

    Vijay Prashad

    China has increased its oil purchases from Saudi Arabia by 43 percent in April. There is every indication that China will continue to increase its buys from the kingdom during the course of this year—to substitute for Iranian oil and, perhaps, for U.S. oil.

  • Agus Suwage, Room of Mine, 2017.

    The dogs of war are unchained once more

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on May 23, 2019 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    This week’s newsletter features an open letter to the President of Indonesia, written by Khamid Istakhori, General Secretary of Federasi SERBUK–a large trade union federation in Indonesia. He asks President Jokowi to use Indonesia’s presidency of the UNSC to denounce violations of international law against Venezuela.

  • Mural of Chávez in Caracas. (Univision)

    The plot to kill Venezuela

    Vijay Prashad

    Vijay Prashad looks at the purpose and impact of sanctions against Venezuela.

  • Wilfredo Lam, The Jungle, 1943.

    We are the shadow-ghosts, creeping back as the camp fires burn low

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on May 16, 2019 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Professor Sandra Díaz, who teaches in Argentina’s National University of Cordoba and is the co-chair of the IPBES report, said that although bio-diversity and eco-diversity are ‘declining fast’, ‘we still have the means to ensure a sustainable future for people and the planet’.

  • Tito Zungu, Airplane (South Africa, 1970).

    We have stolen his land. Now we must steal his limb

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on May 9, 2019 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    When the late South African artist Tito Zungu wanted to depict the world of the migrant labourer, he settled on the envelope. It was by infrequent letters that the migrant would be able to be in touch with family – letters dictated to professional letter writers at one end, which would be read out by professional letter readers at the other.

  • We thought it was merely a stone, but it carried away our wealth

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on May 2, 2019 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    n Venezuela, the political leadership of the oligarchy beg for the men in green to set aside the Constitution, as Juan Guiadó and the Venezuelan right-wing opposition attempted a military coup in Venezuela this Tuesday.

  • Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937.

    If war is an industry, how can there be peace in a capitalist World?

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on April 25, 2019 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    On 26 April 1937, twelve bombers of the German Condor Legion and the Italian Aviazione Legionaria flew low over the Basque country of Spain in the midst of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). They tore down over the small town of Guernica, where they let loose their fiery arsenal. Almost two thousand people died in this defenceless town.

  • Bullet Holes

    This is the hour of madness

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

    The title of this newsletter comes from a poem by Faiz Ahmed Faiz, a poem called This Hour of Chain and Noose (Tauq o dar ka Mausam, 1951).

  • la Guinee Guinea

    Radical thinking must fall like a gentle mist, not a heavy downpour

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on April 11, 2019 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    The work of a radical artist and intellectual should be carried out in the manner of a gentle breeze and mild rain. It cannot be done with haste. It should be done over a long period and done patiently.

  • Ricardo Stuckert/Instituto Lula, Lula (2018).

    You can’t have Democracy when you put the truth in prison

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on April 2, 2019 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Lula will likely eat what he ate on his first day in prison: bread and butter with his coffee. He will know that across the planet there will be demonstrations in his name. ‘Lula Livre’ (Free Lula) the people will cry out. You’re not alone, they will say, você não está sozinho. It will give him hope.

  • Silent Victims

    Singing in a cage is possible and so is happiness

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on March 28, 2019 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Once more, punctually, Israel—with the vengeance of Zeus—has begun to bomb Gaza, from which the sounds and smells of war are never absent due to Israeli bombings. It helps Israel that the United States is fully behind its policy of annihilation.

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