Vijay Prashad
vijayprashad.bsky.social
Vijay Prashad
@vijayprashad.bsky.social

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

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

Political science 50%
Sociology 20%

<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!).

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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Revolution forever with the revolutionary Korean students!

Happy Halloween!

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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The United States is a paper tiger. It does not dare to invade Venezuela or Colombia.

Long road from Santiago to Seoul to speak alongside the APEC summit.

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

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.

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.

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.
finance.yahoo.com/news/bmw-say...
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,
finance.yahoo.com

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.

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...
thetricontinental.org

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.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlnC...
Vijay Prashad: Will BRICS confront the US in Palestine and Venezuela?
YouTube video by India & Global Left
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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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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:

peoplesdispatch.org/2025/10/16/t...
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...
peoplesdispatch.org

The Man Who Rejected the @nobelprize.bsky.social.
A Reflection on Phan Đình Khải, known as Lê Đức Thọ (a great Vietnamese Communist and patriot).
luciddialectics.substack.com/p/the-man-wh...
Please subscribe to my substack, Lucid Dialectics.
The Man Who Rejected the Nobel Peace Prize.
A Reflection on Phan Đình Khải, known as Lê Đức Thọ.
luciddialectics.substack.com

The United States is flying B-2 bombers next to the boundary of Venezuelan air space. This is a very serious provocation and contrary to international law.
And the @nobelprize.bsky.social committee is responsible.
If there is war, there is blood on the hands of the people in Oslo.

للحرية الحمراء بابٌ
بكلّ يدٍ مضرّجةٍ يُدَقُّ

And for the red freedom there is a door,
that is knocked upon by every blood-stained hand.

[Ahmad Shawqi, 1868-1932]

The Palestinian prisoners walk out of their cells and into the struggle's other battlefield....

Nora Haddada at the Frankfurt Book Fair spoke of a 'discourse psychosis' in Germany that prevented an open condemnation of the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza. 'The shit is really going down', she said. 'Silence is just one step down from cowardice'.

There is no revelation here but only a confirmation. The Republican Youth are basically like the Hitler-Jugend.
Read this for illumination: www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com

Before apartheid Israel released the Palestinian political prisoners in the prisoner exchange, why did Israeli occupation forces raid and ransack the homes of these prisoners in Nablus (in the Balata & Askar al-Jadid refugee camps), in Salem, in Aqraba, in Zeita Jamma'in, in Hebron, & in Deir Samet?

(FACTS) Israel's genocide over the Palestinians in Gaza destroyed:

a. 190,115 buildings (330,500 houses are badly damaged).
b. More than 85% of water and sanitation facilities.

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, 6 October 2025, www.pcbs.gov.ps/post.aspx?la...).

On the road to socialism….

Trump didn’t make the ceasefire. Resistance of the Palestinians ensured Israel couldn’t ethnically cleanse Gaza. Salute to the Palestinian people.
Continue the struggle to end the genocide, the occupation, and the apartheid state.
Let the Palestinian children thrive!
Viva to Palestine viva.

I award the 2025 @nobelprize.bsky.social for Peace to the Palestinian emergency workers in Gaza - the doctors and nurses, the food suppliers and ambulance drivers, the care givers and musicians.