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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 · 3d
A short note on the ruling class as revealed by the Epstein files:
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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 5d
My friendship with Noam Chomsky goes back decades. But, reading his friendly correspondence with Jeffery Epstein made me shudder. I know that Noam cannot defend himself. But in many ways, the emails speak for themselves. See my note: www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/03/o...
On the Emails Between Jeffrey Epstein and Noam Chomsky
I am heartsick. As a young boy, I experienced horrific sexual violence, which I have written about before and which continues to mark me even decades
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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 15d
This is Caracas. These are the Chavistas. They say Free Maduro and Cillia. They have clarity. They do not live in the fog of imperialism.

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 18d
On the death anniversary of comrade V. I. Lenin, here's a picture of Comrade Prakash Karat and myself with the edition of What is to Be Done (with an introduction by Prakash). It is the best annotated edition of this crucial text that you are going to find: leftword.com/product/what...

¡Viva Lenin!

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 20d
Starting soon: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/trumps-war...
Trump's War on Venezuela - US Hands off Latin America!
INTERNATIONAL FORUM with Tariq Ali // Jeremy Corbyn/Vijay Prashad // Carlos Ron (former Venezuelan Minister) // Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla.
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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 22d
Lovely to chat with Dashran Yohan, a radio presenter in Malaysia, about the world from Venezuela to Iran to South East Asia, www.bfm.my/content/podc...
Vijay Prashad on Venezuela, Iran and American Imperialism
It’s been a turbulent start to 2026. To kick off the year, the United States kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Just days later, some of the biggest protests in Iran in decade...
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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 22d
Contradictions of the Trump era.
My essay in People's Democracy: peoplesdemocracy.in/2026/0118_pd...

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 24d
Kate Hudson (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) is holding up a new painting by John McGrath (whose Irish ancestors moved to Panama, where he was raised). Amongst the crowd listening to Sylvia Pankhurst is me turned away. Why? Well, because he used this photo from The People's Forum as his model!

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 24d
Hyper-imperialism is on hyper-drive. The newsletter highlights three of our most important concepts that have been significantly validated by the rapidly moving events: hyper-imperialism, new mood in the Global South, and the far right of a special type. thetricontinental.org/newsletteris...
Hyper-Imperialism on Hyper-Drive: The Third Newsletter (2026)
The US bombing of Venezuela and kidnapping of its president and first lady showcased the current hyper-imperialist stage of the world order. Although a new mood has emerged in the Global South, it is ...
thetricontinental.org

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Bender Rodríguez @plungerman.bsky.social · 24d
Venezuela, Canada and the ‘Donroe Doctrine’

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with @vijayprashad.bsky.social
Venezuela, Canada and the 'Donroe Doctrine'
In the season 10 premiere of the Courage My Friends podcast series, Vijay Prashad and Shaun Narine discuss the US attack on Venezuela.
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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 26d
What is happening in Iran? Six points to help navigate our conversation, my Globetrotter column in Peoples Dispatch. peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/13/s...
Six points to navigate the turmoil in Iran : Peoples Dispatch
Vijay Prashad offers six points to make sense of the situation in Iran amid protests, violence, and threats of military intervention from Washington
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@charleshb@mastodon.sdf.org @charleshb.bsky.social · 26d
Radio Kookpunt "Vijay( @vijayprashad.bsky.social )Prashad on building political power" www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr7M...
Vijay Prashad on building political power
YouTube video by Radio Kookpunt
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Workers’ Lit Podcast @socialistshelf.bsky.social · Jan 8
Vijay Prashad explains that imperialism needs no master plan. Domination for its own sake is the new logic in the age of hyper-imperialism.

Learn more about hyper-imperialism by reading @vijayprashad.bsky.social's and his comrades' work at the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research!

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · Jan 8
Forty years ago, Mum and I on a jaunt in Somewherepur, where we often went on jaunts. Dad took the picture, as he often did.

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · Jan 5
The Chavistas are on the streets in Venezuela.
The US can blow up cities, but it cannot build a popular project.

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Capitán Swing @capitanswing.bsky.social · Jan 5
así como para establecer su dominio de todo el hemisferio americano mediante la Doctrina Monroe de 1823.»

Noam Chomsky y @vijayprashad.bsky.social en 'La retirada. Irak, Libia, Afganistán y la fragilidad del poder en Estados Unidos'.

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Capitán Swing @capitanswing.bsky.social · Jan 5
Tiempos de reconfiguración geopolítica trumpista son tiempos de leer a dos de los mejores analistas de la política internacional estadounidense del mundo; Chomsky y @vijayprashad.bsky.social.
Sobre Cuba y sobre las injerencias armadas de EEUU en las últimas décadas y sus resultados y consecuencias.

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Okay Gugu @guguspeaks.bsky.social · Jan 5
peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/03/t... “Trump will get his standing ovation at the US Congress, but the price for that has already been paid by hundreds of dead civilians in Venezuela and millions more who are struggling to survive…” - Taroa Zúñiga Silva and @vijayprashad.bsky.social
The United States attacks Venezuela and kidnaps its president in an illegal operation : Peoples Dispatch
The attack on January 3 is part of the US war that began in 2001 and will continue long after the engines of the Chinook helicopters cool down.
peoplesdispatch.org

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · Jan 3
some perspective from @vijayprashad.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMuW...
US bombs CARACAS and kidnaps MADURO ! What's happening? With VIJAY PRASHAD.
YouTube video by Frank Barat
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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · Jan 3
No to War. Yes to Peace.

No Cold War condemns US Attack on Venezuela (nocoldwar.org/news/no-cold...)
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No a la Guerra Fría condena el ataque de EE. UU. contra Venezuela (nocoldwar.org/news/no-a-la...)
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No Cold War: No Cold War condemns US Attack on Venezuela
At 2am, local time, on 3 January 2026 the United States attacked several sites in and around Caracas and adjoining states such as Miranda, Aragua, and La Guaira, including military bases and...
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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · Dec 29
The rules-based international order? No, no. It is really the US commands-based international order.
That's my three minute idea, www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY6s...

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · Dec 22
There is nothing like listening to Noor Jehan after midnight. ਧੜਕਣ

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · Dec 21
I will leave this text to the withering criticism of doggie no. 3.

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · Dec 21
“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 · Dec 21
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 · Dec 13
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.
luciddialectics.substack.com

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · Dec 10
Memories of the First Intifada, which began today in 1987, thirty-eight years ago. Onward the fight for Palestinian liberation.

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@charleshb@mastodon.sdf.org @charleshb.bsky.social · Dec 9
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
YouTube video by The People's Forum NYC
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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · Dec 8
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 · Nov 28
Happy birthday to Freddy! The best of them all.
My reflection on his work, some years ago: youtu.be/MzkQMczKt78?...