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Vijay Prashad
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Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Editor at LeftWord Books (India) & Inkani Books (South Africa). Chief Correspondent of Globetrotter. Live in Santiago, Chile.
Latest book: On Cuba, with Noam Chomsky. .. more

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Vijay Prashad is an Indian-born American author, journalist, political commentator, and Marxist. He is the executive-director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, editor of LeftWord Books, Chief Correspondent at Globetrotter, and a senior non-resident fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China. Ideologically a Marxist, Prashad is well known for his criticisms of capitalism, neocolonialism, American exceptionalism, and Western imperialism, while expressing support for communism and the global south. .. more

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 5d
There is nothing like listening to Noor Jehan after midnight. ਧੜਕਣ

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 5d
I will leave this text to the withering criticism of doggie no. 3.

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 5d
“The task of any revolutionary is to pick up every grievance and humiliation, and to politicize it.”
- @vijayprashad.bsky.social

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Zetkin Forum for Social Research @zetkinforum.bsky.social · 5d
Woher sollen ärmere Nationen Investitionen für Infrastruktur, neue Qualifikationen und sauberere Industrie nehmen? Können sie ältere, umweltschädlichere Industriemodelle überspringen und sich in moderne Produktionsketten integrieren? Nicht so lange Krieg herrscht.

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Erst beenden wir den Krieg, dann starten wir die Fabriken neu: Der einundfünfzigste Newsletter (2025)
Industrialisierung ist für die Länder des Globalen Südens nach wie vor oberste Priorität. Doch schuldenbedingte Sparmaßnahmen, Dominanz von Unternehmen, Kriege und Sanktionen halten viele ärmere Natio...
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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 13d
If you enjoy my cricket columns (Leg Glance), here’s another one on the materialism of batting, with a nod to young Vaibhav Sooryavanshi.

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The Majesty of Young Vaibhav Sooryavanshi.
Leg Glance no. 12.
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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 17d
Memories of the First Intifada, which began today in 1987, thirty-eight years ago. Onward the fight for Palestinian liberation.

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The People's Forum NYC "MUTINY PART 4 with Vijay( @vijayprashad.bsky.social )Prashad" Peter( @petermertens.bsky.social )Mertens www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlel...
MUTINY PART 4 with Vijay Prashad
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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 18d
What is the world looking like right now? A wide-ranging conversation from Venezuela to Ukraine with Peter Mertens (General Secretary of the Workers Party of Belgium, a Member of Parliament in the Federal Parliament, and a municipal councillor in Antwerp): www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1gT...

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 28d
Happy birthday to Freddy! The best of them all.
My reflection on his work, some years ago: youtu.be/MzkQMczKt78?...

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · Nov 12
Neuri Rossetto, one of the leaders of the Landless Workers Movement (MST) of Brazil, and I with the passion fruit - 百香果 (fruit of a hundred fragrances) - of Rongjiang. Learning about cooperative production, a part of China’s socialist process.

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · Nov 11
<Chinese countryside> after a long day documenting rural revitalization experiments in Yuezhai, Toutang, and other villages in Rongjiang, I was plied with drink at a long table banquet with the entire village of Toutang that included singing and dancing (even Bhangra!).

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · Nov 7
Is China still a socialist country? Is China interested in taking over the world? These are the questions the journalist Li Jingjing asked me to clarify. And so I did (over our 30 minute conversation): www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnoe...
Leftist Vijay Prashad's view on China: Is China still socialist?
YouTube video by Li Jingjing 李菁菁
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bkeithb @bkeithb.bsky.social · Nov 6
Li Jingjing interviews @vijayprashad.bsky.social

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Are leftists worry about China becoming next hegemony? W/ Vijay Prashad
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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · Nov 1
Revolution forever with the revolutionary Korean students!

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · Nov 1
Happy Halloween!

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Luis Reygada @luis-reygada.bsky.social · Oct 28
🇨🇺🇺🇸"La résistance de Cuba heurte le sentiment de mainmise des États-Unis sur l’Amérique latine"
Entretien avec @vijayprashad.bsky.social directeur de l'Institut de recherche sociale Tricontinental
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Vijay Prashad : « La résistance de Cuba heurte le sentiment de mainmise des États-Unis sur l’Amérique latine » - L'Humanité
À quelques jours d’un nouveau vote à l’Onu pour condamner le blocus imposé par Washington, le directeur de l’Institut Tricontinental Vijay Prashad revient sur la politique anti-cub...
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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · Oct 26
How Europe Sacrificed Itself for a Fading American Empire. A 45 minute conversation with Pascal Lottaz of Neutrality Studies: youtu.be/Y6cwvdL7egc
How the Death of Analysis Drives the Death of Europe | Dr. Vijay Prashad
YouTube video by Neutrality Studies
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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · Oct 26
The United States is a paper tiger. It does not dare to invade Venezuela or Colombia.

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · Oct 26
Long road from Santiago to Seoul to speak alongside the APEC summit.

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · Oct 25
Ceasefire? Israel has already annexed more than half of the territory of Gaza. This is a war crime based on the UN Security Council Resolution 242 (S/RES/242) of November 1967.

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somosmass99.bsky.social @somosmass99.bsky.social · Oct 21
El genocidio no terminará a menos que los líderes políticos palestinos sean libres | #Escribe Vijay Prashad | @vijayprashad.bsky.social | www.somosmass99.com/170704-2/

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · Oct 19
Working on three essays:

1. Gramsci as a Communist intellectual and not as a cultural studies icon.
2. On Gramsci's grave.
3. On the Marxism of Defeat. Trying to excavate the Marxism of class struggle & not of desolation.
These are preparing me to write a book on the Marxism of National Liberation.

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · Oct 18
التغير المناخي يحرق أقدام العمال: المراسلة 42 (2025) - madaar.org/%D8%A7%D9%84...
التغير المناخي يحرق أقدام العمال: المراسلة 42 (2025) - موقع مدار الشعوب
معهد القارات الثلاث للبحث الاجتماعي/ مدار: 18 تشرين الأول/ أكتوبر 20258* فيجاي براشاد صورة الواجهة: حقل النفط برقان الكبير، الكويت، 1991. © سيباستياو سالغادو. عرف
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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · Oct 17
I really hope that the Irish people elect Catherine Connolly
@catherinegalway.bsky.social as president. She has shown her commitment to human dignity by not flinching on the imminent question of Palestinian life. Viva.

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · Oct 17
European elite are truly the vassals of US elite. That they'd go along with the New Cold War is remarkable. Latest example: BMW struggling to get cars off the line due to the @nexperia.bsky.social problems over rare earth minerals & chips. Good luck Europe.
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BMW says supplier network hit by dispute over chipmaker Nexperia
By Rachel More BERLIN (Reuters) -German automaker BMW said on Thursday that parts of its supplier network were being affected by a trade and intellectual property dispute over chipmaker Nexperia,
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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · Oct 17
And, for those who have a seat in the course we are giving on Indian Communism (587 applied, only 10% could be admitted), I will see you on Saturday.

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · Oct 17
The Communist Party of India was founded on 17 October 1920. Today is a day of celebration & reflection. How far have we come? What must we do to go beyond the present? To that end, please re-read the Tricontinental dossier (thetricontinental.org/dossier-32-c...)
One Hundred Years of the Communist Movement in India
Dossier nº32 On 17 October 2020, the Indian communist movement looks back on a century of courageous resistance against tyranny, oppression, and exploitation. This was a century of sacrifices by hundr...
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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · Oct 16
With Jyotisman on the popular channel India and Global Left, we spoke about Gaza, Ukraine, Venezuela, the US military project, and the unused potential of the BRICS. What a ride, as usual.
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Vijay Prashad: Will BRICS confront the US in Palestine and Venezuela?
YouTube video by India & Global Left
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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · Oct 16
Trump has no right to have a 'Gaza plan' and sending tomahawk missiles to Ukraine is madness.
Once more, a very nice conversation with my friend Zain Raza on AcTVism Munich - www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_a0...
Vijay Prashad – Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan & Tomahawks to Ukraine
YouTube video by acTVism Munich
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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · Oct 16
The genocide will not end until the Palestinian political leaders are free. My Globetrotter column on the political situation imposed by Israeli apartheid and occupation on the Palestinians. Read it here:

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The genocide will not end until the Palestinian political leaders are free : Peoples Dispatch
There is no clear Palestinian voice demanding reparations from Israel because Palestinian politics itself has been wounded by the long-term occupation, and by Israel’s targeted assassination and incar...
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