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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.
  • Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (Portugal), A Poesia Está Na Rua I [Poetry Is out on the Street I], 1974.

    How Africa’s national liberation struggles brought democracy to Europe: The Seventeenth Newsletter (2024)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on April 25, 2024 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    African liberation struggles not only won independence in their own countries; they also defeated Estado Novo colonialism, which spurred the Carnation Revolution 50 years ago.

  • Columbia student encampment for Gaza. Photo: Wyatt Souers

    Elites in the global north are scared to talk about Palestine

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on April 23, 2024 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    While people across the world have been taking bold action in support of Palestine, the global north ruling class has used all tools at its disposal to support Israel’s genocide and criminalize solidarity.

  • Afshin Pirhashemi (Iran), Untitled, 2017.

    The premises of the diplomatic mission shall be inviolable: The Fifteenth Newsletter (2024)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on April 11, 2024 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    From Israel’s bombing of Iran’s embassy in Damascus to Ecuador’s raid on the Mexican embassy in Quito, leaders feel emboldened by the impunity granted by the Global North to disregard diplomatic norms and respect.

  • Diego Rivera (Mexico), El Agua, Origen de la Vida (‘Water, Origin of Life’), 1951.

    Thousands have lived without love, but not one without water: The Fourteenth Newsletter (2024)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on April 4, 2024 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Amid the intensifying water crisis that plagues billions of people across the world, Israel is using water as a weapon in its war against Palestinians by denying access and destroying infrastructure.

  • Nabil Anani (Palestine), In Pursuit of Utopia #1, 2020.

    Palestinians will remain on Palestinian land: The Thirteenth Newsletter (2024)

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

    Jared Kushner joins the chorus calling for Israel to expand its occupation to Gaza’s waterfront through forced displacement, but, if history is any judge, Palestinians will remain.

  • Heba Zagout (1984–2023), Gaza Peace, 2021.

    Conquest, war, famine, and death hit you straight in the heart: The Eleventh Newsletter (2024)

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

    In the face of looming famine, Biden’s promise to build a ‘temporary pier’ to allow aid into Gaza is hollow, undermined by his country’s complicity in Israel’s genocide against Palestine.

  • A Red Books Day event at the May Day Bookstore in Delhi (India), 2024.

    There will be reading and singing and dancing even in the darkest times: The Tenth Newsletter (2024)

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

    Amidst the genocide against Palestinians and the war in Congo, human beings cling to hope. Saleem, in Rafah, dreams beyond the present, of Red Books Day and a brighter future.

  • Ammar Bouras (Algeria), 24°3′55″N 5°3′23″E #2, 2012.

    The nobodies are worth more than the bullet that kills them: The Ninth Newsletter (2024)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on February 29, 2024 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    On 20 February, United States Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Linda Thomas-Greenfield had the terrible job of vetoing Algeria’s resolution for a ceasefire in Gaza. Amar Bendjama, the Algerian Ambassador to the UN, said that the resolution he tabled had been shaped by conversations amongst the 15 members of the UN Security Council.

  • Students display a butterfly they made at the Madu Adu (science, or ‘let’s do it’) corner. Credit: Photographs and collages by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.

    If I understand the world, I can march to change it: The Eighth Newsletter (2024)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on February 22, 2024 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    In December 2023, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released a stunning report showing that, since 2018, literacy in reading and mathematics has declined amongst the world’s students.

  • Erik Bulatov (USSR), Horizon, 1971–72.

    A word like peace is faster than the bullet of war: The Seventh Newsletter (2024)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on February 15, 2024 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    On 26 January, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) announced the start of a massive military exercise called Steadfast Defender 2024 that will continue until the end of May.

  • Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe (Venezuela), Hema ahu (Spider Web with Dew in the Morning), 2021.

    Dawn is breaking out all over, and the World is waking up: The Sixth Newsletter (2024)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on February 8, 2024 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    On 2 February 2024, the people of Venezuela celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Bolivarian Revolution.

  • Malak Mattar (Palestine), Gaza, 2024.

    The only right that Palestinians have not been denied is the right to dream: The Fifth Newsletter (2024)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on February 1, 2024 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    On 26 January, the judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) found that it is ‘plausible’ that Israel is committing a genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

  • Sahra Wagenknecht / Bundesparteitag (Photo: DIE LINKE)

    The entry of a new German Left Party shakes up the Country

    Vijay Prashad

    The new formation is led by Sahra Wagenknecht (born 1969), one of the most dynamic politicians of her generation in Germany and a former star in Die Linke, and Amira Mohamed Ali. It is called the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance for Reason and Justice (Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht, BSW) and it launched in early January 2024.

  • VLADIMIR ILYICH ULANOV (1870-1924)

    A hundred years since we lost Comrade Lenin

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on January 20, 2024 (more by Morning Star Online)  |

    What does Lenin say to us in today’s post-Soviet world and what is his legacy, asks VIJAY PRASHAD. VLADIMIR ILYICH ULANOV

  • Tarek al-Ghoussein (Palestine), Untitled 9 from the series Self Portrait, 2002.

    The Global South takes Israel to court: The Third Newsletter (2024)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on January 18, 2024 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    On 11 January, Adila Hassim, an advocate of the High Court of South Africa, stood before the judges of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and said: ‘Genocides are never declared in advance. But this court has the benefit of the past 13 weeks of evidence that shows incontrovertibly a pattern of conduct and related intention that justifies a plausible claim of genocidal acts’.

  • Liu Hongjie (China), Skyline, 2021.

    Why I believe what I believe about the Chinese Revolution: The Second Newsletter (2024)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on January 11, 2024 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    I have tried not only to provide some facts to guide our discussion but also to thread them into the theory of socialism that I believe is most attractive.

  • Michael Armitage (Kenya), The Promised Land, 2019.

    We need to reverse the culture of decay and march on the street for a culture of humanity

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on January 4, 2024 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    The final months of 2023 pierced our sense of hope and threw us into a kind of mortal sadness.

  • Han Youngsoo (Republic of Korea), Seoul, Korea 1956–1963.

    The World’s Economic Centre of Gravity is returning to Asia: The Fifty-Second Newsletter (2023)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on December 28, 2023 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    In October 2023, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) published its annual Trade and Development Report. Nothing in the report came as a major surprise. The growth of the global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) continues to decline with no sign of a rebound.

  • Quentin Matsys (The Netherlands), The Tax Collectors, c. 1525–1530.

    Transnational corporations provoke a single scream of horror that runs through the vertebrae of the world: The Fifty-First Newsletter (2023)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on December 21, 2023 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Within the United Nations, there is a little-known debate about the status of global tax regulation.

  • Several journalist bodies, students', youth and civil society organisations held protests at Press Club of India and Jantar Mantar on October 4th against recent witch hunt of employees of NewsClick, and the arrest of Prabir Purkayastha and Amit Chakraborty. Photo: CPI(M)

    The suffocation of democracy in India

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on December 20, 2023 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    Attacks on the progressive Indian news outlet NewsClick coincided with the suspension of 141 opposition members of Indian parliament, both constituting serious attacks on Indian democracy.

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