Vijay Prashad, Author at ZNetwork

Vijay Prashad

Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, editor, and journalist. He is a writing fellow and chief correspondent at Globetrotter. He is an editor of LeftWord Books and the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He is a senior non-resident fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China. He has written more than 20 books, including The Darker Nations and The Poorer Nations. His latest books are Struggle Makes Us Human: Learning from Movements for Socialism and (with Noam Chomsky) The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power. Tings Chak is the art director and a researcher at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and lead author of the study “Serve the People: The Eradication of Extreme Poverty in China.” She is also a member of Dongsheng, an international collective of researchers interested in Chinese politics and society.

The Mutilated World Is Moved by the Nurses and Doctors

By Vijay PrashadMarch 19, 2020 Economy

Even in the most threadbare health systems, cannibalised by austerity, it is the nurses and doctors, the ambulance paramedics and the janitors, who have been heroic in their work; doctors and nurses are being called back from retirement, working now long hours with no time to rest

IMF Refuses Aid to Venezuela in the Midst of the Coronavirus Crisis

By Vijay Prashad, Paola Estrada , Ana Maldonado, and Zoe PC March 19, 2020 Activism

The IMF denial of the $5 billion request from Venezuela follows Pence’s sentiment. It is a violation of the spirit of international cooperation that is at the heart of the UN Charter

Sanctions against Iran and Venezuela during a pandemic are cruel

By Vijay Prashad, Paola Estrada March 18, 2020 Health

Source: Independent Media Institute Swiftly moves the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), dashing across continents, skipping over oceans, terrifying populations in every country. The…

Witnessing the Hell That a Migrant Can Face

By Vijay PrashadFebruary 29, 2020 Immigration

At Obock, Djibouti, 2,000 migrants gather each day along the waters of the Gulf of Aden; they look for boats to get them to Yemen

You write injustice on the Earth; we will write revolution in the skies

By Vijay PrashadFebruary 22, 2020 Activism

This outpouring of the human spirit is taking place in a time of revolt, when the fetters of propriety are set aside.

Bolivia: An election in the midst of an ongoing coup

By Vijay PrashadFebruary 13, 2020 Bolivia

Even with the violence from the government and its fascistic paramilitaries, even with Romero at the helm of the TSE, even with USAID on the ground, and even with the shenanigans of Claver-Carone, MAS is fighting to win

‘This Is About Making a Very Large Number of Indians Second-Class Citizens’

By Vijay Prashad, Janine Jackson February 7, 2020 Activism

Interview on the demonstrations in India

Libya Is Being Torn Apart by Outsiders

By Vijay PrashadFebruary 5, 2020 Featured

It is impossible for the UN to move an agenda if two important Western states who drove the NATO war against Libya in 2011 end up backing both sides; in fact, it is wrong to say that they back both sides, because by blocking condemnation of Haftar’s war, they back Haftar

I Will Hold You in My Arms a Day After the War

By Vijay PrashadJanuary 31, 2020 Economy

There is an economic war against the planet, one that has no anti-war movement

What the Right Wing in Latin America Means by Democracy Is Violence

By Vijay PrashadJanuary 25, 2020 Civil Liberties

This extreme violence undermines the possibility of democracy and allows the oligarchy to be re-elected in polling booths where the Left not dare enter