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.
Latest book: On Cuba, with Noam Chomsky.
<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!).
November 11, 2025 at 5:37 AM
<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!).
Revolution forever with the revolutionary Korean students!
November 1, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Revolution forever with the revolutionary Korean students!
Happy Halloween!
November 1, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Happy Halloween!
The United States is a paper tiger. It does not dare to invade Venezuela or Colombia.
October 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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.
October 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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.
October 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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.
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.
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.
October 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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.
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.
@catherinegalway.bsky.social as president. She has shown her commitment to human dignity by not flinching on the imminent question of Palestinian life. Viva.
October 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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.
@catherinegalway.bsky.social as president. She has shown her commitment to human dignity by not flinching on the imminent question of Palestinian life. Viva.
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.
October 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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 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.
And the @nobelprize.bsky.social committee is responsible.
If there is war, there is blood on the hands of the people in Oslo.
October 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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.
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....
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....
October 14, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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....
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'.
October 14, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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'.
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?
October 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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...).
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...).
October 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
(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...).
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….
October 13, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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.
Continue the struggle to end the genocide, the occupation, and the apartheid state.
Let the Palestinian children thrive!
Viva to Palestine viva.
October 13, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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.
Continue the struggle to end the genocide, the occupation, and the apartheid state.
Let the Palestinian children thrive!
Viva to Palestine viva.
Thanks to @macba.cat, where I met very bright people who're doing bright things to reshape our world & where developed ideas about our global culture of cruelty and the possibilities of transformation that exist. Thanks to Elvira Dyangani Ose & Maria Berrios.
Moltes gràcies i ens veiem l'any que ve.
Moltes gràcies i ens veiem l'any que ve.
October 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Thanks to @macba.cat, where I met very bright people who're doing bright things to reshape our world & where developed ideas about our global culture of cruelty and the possibilities of transformation that exist. Thanks to Elvira Dyangani Ose & Maria Berrios.
Moltes gràcies i ens veiem l'any que ve.
Moltes gràcies i ens veiem l'any que ve.
Bravery. Ugo Forno was only twelve in 1944 when he was killed by the fascists during his act of resistance at a railway bridge over the river Aniene. The memory of young children like Ugo compels us to courage in our time.
September 30, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Bravery. Ugo Forno was only twelve in 1944 when he was killed by the fascists during his act of resistance at a railway bridge over the river Aniene. The memory of young children like Ugo compels us to courage in our time.
On 11 September- remembering 1973 with Allende and Fidel.
September 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
On 11 September- remembering 1973 with Allende and Fidel.
With my daughter Rosa and Che in Tegucigalpa, Honduras at the office of Poder Popular.
August 26, 2025 at 10:55 PM
With my daughter Rosa and Che in Tegucigalpa, Honduras at the office of Poder Popular.
Lunch with Mirelle Fanon to celebrate her father’s 100th birthday anniversary and then a visit to the legendary Présence Africaine.
July 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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.
July 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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.
Seven Screams into the Silence (an essay on pain and struggle): open.substack.com/pub/luciddia...
July 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Seven Screams into the Silence (an essay on pain and struggle): open.substack.com/pub/luciddia...
<teaching> Tricontinentalism at Fudan (Shanghai)
July 15, 2025 at 12:32 AM
<teaching> Tricontinentalism at Fudan (Shanghai)