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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.
  • John (Prince) Siddon (Australia), Slim Dusty, Looking Forward, Looking Back, 2021.

    Nothing good will come from the New Cold War with Australia as a frontline State: The Forty-Ninth Newsletter (2022)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on December 8, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 15 November 2022, during the G20 summit in Bali (Indonesia), Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told journalists that his country ‘seeks a stable relationship with China’. This is because, as Albanese pointed out, China is ‘Australia’s largest trading partner. They are worth more […]

  • Seydou Keïta (Mali), Untitled, 1948–1954.

    Mali’s break with France is a symptom of cracks in the Transatlantic Alliance: The Forty-Eighth Newsletter (2022)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on December 1, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    On 21 November 2022, Mali’s interim prime minister, Colonel Abdoulaye Maïga, issued a statement on social media announcing the government’s decision ‘to ban, with immediate effect, all activities carried out by [French] NGOs operating in Mali’.

  • Chéri Samba (Democratic Republic of the Congo), Reorganisation, 2002.

    In Malay, orangutans means ‘people of the forest’, but those forests are disappearing: The Forty-Seventh Newsletter (2022)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on November 24, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    The dust has settled at the resorts in Sharm el-Shaikh, Egypt, as delegates of countries and corporations leave the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The only advance made in the final agreement was for the creation of a ‘loss and damage fund’ for ‘vulnerable countries’.

  • K.C.S. Paniker (India), Words and Symbols, 1968.

    Those who struggle to change the world know it well: The Forty-Sixth Newsletter (2022)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on November 17, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    In 1845, Karl Marx jotted down some notes for The German Ideology, a book that he wrote with his close friend Friedrich Engels. Engels found these notes in 1888, five years after Marx’s death, and published them under the title Theses on Feuerbach. The eleventh thesis is the most famous: ‘philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it’.

  • Heloisa Hariadne (Brazil), Com uma gota já se faz oceano pra sede se matar em mergulho (‘A drop of water becomes an ocean to quench a diver’s thirst’), 2021.

    The attack on nature is putting humanity at risk: The Forty-Fifth Newsletter (2022)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on November 10, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    In the last week of October, João Pedro Stedile, a leader of the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) in Brazil and the global peasants’ organisation La Via Campesina, went to the Vatican to attend the International Meeting of Prayer for Peace, organised by the Community of Sant’Egídio.

  • Chaïbia Talal (Morocco), Mon Village, Chtouka, 1990.

    Africa does not want to be a breeding ground for the New Cold War: The Forty-Fourth Newsletter (2022)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on November 3, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    At this year’s UN General Assembly, the African Union firmly rejected the coercive efforts of the U.S. and Western countries to use the continent as a pawn in their geopolitical agenda.

  • Raquel Forner (Argentina), Fin-Principio (‘End-Beginning’), 1980.

    We need a new Trade Union of the poor rooted in the Global South: The Forty-Third Newsletter (2022)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on October 27, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Chaos reigns in the United Kingdom, where the prime minister’s residence in London–10 Downing Street–prepares for the entry of Rishi Sunak, one of the richest men in the country.

  • Gélin Buteau (Haiti), Guede with Drum, ca. 1995.

    The last thing Haiti needs is another military intervention: The Forty-Second Newsletter (2022)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on October 20, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    At the United Nations General Assembly on 24 September 2022, Haiti’s Foreign Minister Jean Victor Geneus admitted that his country faces a serious crisis, which he said ‘can only be solved with the effective support of our partners’.

  • Wilfried Balima (Burkina Faso), Les Trois Camarades (‘The Three Comrades’), 2018.

    When will the stars shine again in Burkina Faso?: The Forty-First Newsletter (2022)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on October 13, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    On 30 September 2022, Captain Ibrahim Traoré led a section of the Burkina Faso military to depose Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who had seized power in a coup d’état in January.

  • León Ferrari (Argentina), Untitled (Sermon of the Blood), 1962.

    The most dangerous situation that humanity has ever faced: The Fortieth Newsletter (2022)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on October 6, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Since 1947, the Doomsday Clock has measured the likelihood of a human-made catastrophe, namely to warn the world against the possibility of a nuclear holocaust.

  • Relief work in Cuba in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian. Photo: José Manuel Correa/Granma

    How Cuba is dealing with the devastation of Hurricane Ian

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on October 5, 2022 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    The day before Hurricane Ian hit Cuba, 50,000 people were evacuated and taken to 55 shelters. By October 1, less than five days after landfall, 82% of the residents of Havana had their power restored with work ongoing for the western part of the island.

  • Óscar Muñoz (Colombia), Línea del destino (‘Line of Destiny’), 2006.

    From wounded Latin America, a demand comes to put an end to the irrational war on drugs: The Thirty-Ninth Newsletter (2022)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on October 3, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    The end of the War on Drugs, that is, the war on the Colombian peasantry, will only advance Colombia’s fragile struggle towards peace and democracy.

  • Since August 22, tens of thousands of Haitians have been taking to the streets across the country demanding the resignation of de-facto Prime Minister and acting President Ariel Henry. (Photo: Madame Boukman/Twitter)

    Four straight years of nonstop street protest in Haiti

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on September 28, 2022 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    In recent weeks, the streets of Haiti have once again been occupied by large marches and roadblocks. Banks and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)–including Catholic charities–faced the wrath of the protesters who denounced U.S. interference in Haitian affairs.

  • Roberto Matta (Chile), Cuba es la capital (‘Cuba Is the Capital’), 1963.

    Without culture, freedom is impossible: The Thirty-Eighth Newsletter (2022)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on September 22, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    In 2002, Cuba’s President Fidel Castro Ruz visited the country’s National Ballet School to inaugurate the 18th Havana International Ballet Festival.

  • Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (Iran), Sunset, 2015.

    War is not the answer to deep planetary insecurity: The Thirty-Seventh Newsletter (2022)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on September 15, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    The latest Human Development Report (2021–22) records that for the first time in thirty-two years, the Human Development Index has registered a second consecutive year of decline.

  • Ali Imam (Pakistan), Untitled (Deserted Town with a Black Sun), 1956.

    We will march, even if we have to wade through the Pakistani floodwaters: The Thirty-Sixth Newsletter (2022)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on September 8, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Calamities are familiar to the people of Pakistan who have struggled through several catastrophic earthquakes, including those in 2005, 2013, and 2015 (to name the most damaging), as well as the horrendous floods of 2010. However, nothing could prepare the fifth most populated […]

  • Women in São Paulo partake in a rally in support of the candidacy of Lula da Silva. The sign reads: "Lula president and for the lives of women". Photo: Elineudo Meira

    The most important election in the Americas is in Brazil

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on September 1, 2022 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    Former president Lula is in the lead in the polls ahead of the first round of elections in Brazil to be held on October 2. These elections will be transformative for Brazil and will have ramifications across the globe.

  • George Bahgoury (Egypt), Untitled, 2015.

    Capitalism created the climate catastrophe; Socialism can avert disaster: The Thirty-Fifth Newsletter (2022)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on September 1, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    In November 2022, most member states of the United Nations (UN) will gather in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm El Sheikh for the annual UN Climate Change Conference.

  • Visakhapatnam Steel Plant

    Indian workers defend their steel with their lives: The Thirty-Fourth Newsletter (2022)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on August 25, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    The long and distant epoch of pre-history, dated to the time before the start of the Common Era, is conventionally divided into three periods: the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age.

  • Communist Party of India (Marxist) protest in Khila Warangal, 10 May 2022.

    When people want housing in India, they build it: The Thirty-Third Newsletter (2022)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on August 18, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    It all started with a survey. In April 2022, members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPI(M), went door to door in the town of Warangal in Telangana state. The party was already aware of challenges in the community but wanted to collect data before working on a plan of action.

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