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The World Social Forum opened in India at least a year ago. That’s when the debates within the Left about the nature…
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.
In mid-October, my email in-box began to receive forwards from Michael Bednar, a graduate student in the department of history at the University…
The UN finally caved. The vote took place in the Security Council on October 16: 15-Love in favor of the US resolution…
In mid-September, India Abroad splashed its front page with this headline: “I would love to have Indian troops in Iraq, Bush tells…
Israel’s Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, will be in India for the second anniversary of the September 11 attack on the United States.…
(1) Can you tell Znet, please, what your new book, Title? What is it trying to communicate? The book is called Keeping…
Over the years, stuck in debates over affirmative action, inevitably someone asks a version of the following question: “Why should white men…
The ruling ideas of a time, wrote the great German sage, are the ideas of the ruling class. So it is with…
The Afghanistan stage of the war on Iraq seems to be over. We are now in the Jenin stage. The demos last…
By Vijay Prashad As a teenager I befriended a boy whose family had moved from Mumbai (India) to Canada. He told…