Vijay Prashad
@vijayprashad
Director of @tri_continental; Ed, @LeftwordBooks & @inkanibooks; Chief Reporter at Globetrotter. Ed, Wenhua Zongheng: A Journal of Contemporary Chinese Thought.
Noam Chomsky and I have jointly written a book called 'On Cuba', with a foreword by @DiazCanelB, Cuba's president, and an introduction by @manolo_realengo. You can preorder the book from @thenewpress - thenewpress.com/books/on-cuba #unblockCuba #CubaVsBloqueo #LetCubaLive
Reimagining Global Power. An interview I gave to @hey_ter and @AlinaDuarte for @codepink, text on my substack: luciddialectics.substack.com/p/reimagining-…
Lunch with Mirelle Fanon to celebrate her father’s 100th birthday anniversary and then a visit to the legendary Présence Africaine.
People’s leader. The body of Comrade VS is being taken to his home turf in Kerala. Comrades and friends are not allowing the transport to move faster than a few metres at a time. They want to pay their final respect to this beloved man.
It is unprecedented! Crowds gathered to pay homage to the departed leader VS are so huge all along the NH, it has taken 8 hours to the funeral cortege to traverse the first 30 kms. It is a testimony of how much VS had endeared to the people of Kerala. Red salute Comrade.
Enjoyed talking with Rania Iraki and Nader Khalayli of the Palestinapodden in Oslo about the changing of the world order and the genocide of against the Palestinians in Gaza, youtube.com/watch?v=3ekLrU… (one hour long). (picture with the anti-fascist hammer in Oslo, Norway).
The US government has been shut down to prevent any investigation of the role of Jeffrey Epstein and Trump in the rape of young girls.
El pueblo palestino es de los más resistentes en la historia de la humanidad. “Geopolítica del genocidio en Gaza”, libro de Martín Martinelli publicado este mes por la editorial Batalla de Ideas, es un recorrido profundo por la historia y la actualidad del pueblo palestino, y su…
The United States has once more left @UNESCO - again because it left between 1983 and 2003, and then 2017 and 2023. This time the US has left because UNESCO admitted Palestine in 2011 (@BarackObama cut the level of funding in retaliation) and because it - as White House press…
在工人组织问题上，Vijay分析了现代资本主义下劳动者的分散化和物流网络的复杂性，指出传统工会组织面临挑战，需通过政治和社会运动（如印度的大规模罢工或巴基斯坦的反饥饿游行）增强集体意识和政治力量。他强调，全球南方需摒弃狭隘民族主义，拥抱区域与全球团结，借鉴历史经验并警惕外部势力分化。(…
#RedSalute to Comrade V. S. Achuthanandan (1923-2025). Former Chief Minister of Kerala, a lifelong Communist, and member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Comrade VS has died. His spirit inspires us.
ਬੱਦਲ ਹੀ ਆ ਗਏ ਜ਼ਮੀਨ 'ਤੇ Paris, when the clouds hit the ground.
The Israeli Army is now targeting starving children in the head and testicles in Gaza, while terrorising others, together with violent lunatics, in the West Bank. These past 650 days, Israel has written one of the darkest pages of human history. And it is absolutely sickening…
🚨 SHOCKING REPORT: Israeli soldiers in Gaza are reportedly turning the targeting of Palestinian children into a horrifying and systematic “human-hunting game,” according to British surgeon Dr. Nick Maynard. He testified: “These children are being targeted almost as if it’s a…
Below is a message from Anas Alshariff Al Jazeera journalist in Gaza. He, along with nearly two million Gazans, including women and children, are being starved under the draconian siege and ongoing bombardment by Israeli occupying forces. We call for immediate humanitarian aid…
🚩Today, People’s Dispatch turns 7. From Palestine to the Sahel, Kerala to Brazil, we’ve stood where history is written: not by the powerful, but by the people. For these 7 years, we’ve brought you stories from the ground: voices from picket lines, popular uprisings,…
This is Vijay Prashad; reporting for The World This Week.
Seven Screams into the Silence (an essay on pain and struggle): open.substack.com/pub/luciddiale…
#BeijingReview Why must ancient civilizations erase themselves to be "modern"? Principal of the National School of Government of South Africa Busani Ngcaweni analyzes Eric Li’s Party Life (2023), exploring how China’s governance model—rooted in performance, meritocracy, and…
This is what I said in December 2024:
There is no Syrian Revolution. Syria will face a Libyan future.