Thursday, 23 March 2023
Vijay Prashad is a historian, journalist, commentator and a Marxist intellectual.
He is a writing fellow and chief correspondent at Globetrotter, a project of the Independent Media Institute.
He is the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and chief editor of LeftWord Books. He is the author of several books, notably The Darker Nations (2007). His most recent book is Strongmen (2018).
The war in Libya, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s first major military operation on the continent, was part of a strategy to coalesce Western power and expansion into Africa.
The fractious relationship between the two countries has reached a new low with France being ordered to leave immediately. This has many implications for the strife-torn region.
Noam Chomsky, Ruth Wilson Gilmour and others pledge their support for the shack dwellers’ movement and call for solidarity in the wake of the assassination of Nokuthula Mabaso.
If Western-led globalisation ends, the end of ‘the second great age of globalisation’ may be upon us.
The so-called peace-loving nations that signed the 1919 League of Nations Covenant were the same ones that oppressed the colonised world and eventually dropped an atomic bomb on Japan.
The eminent activist, philosopher and writer died at home on 9 March surrounded by his books and papers, and by the warmth of his children and his friends.
The elections coming up in three states will pit the BJP and its Islamophobia against those who want a more democratic India.
Vijay Prashad recalls his early encounters with the struggle for national liberation, and the work of Archie Singham, an important intellectual in the latter part of that sequence of struggle.
The climate conference ended with a watered down promise to phase down rather than phase out coal-powered energy generation and only the most powerful countries got to finalise the pact.
A new constitution is being written after a series of student protests rocked Chilean politics. Now, an upcoming presidential election could shift the country towards economic and social change.
The eKhenana Occupation has received strong international support following abuse it has endured from the state, including the arrest of its leaders on false charges.
Though touted as a security partnership, the pact between the three nations smacks of an attempt to build pressure against China, threatening the stability of the Indo-Pacific.
In July and August, Rwandan soldiers were deployed in Mozambique purportedly to fight the Islamic State. But behind this campaign is French manoeuvring that benefits an energy giant.
Aid flow had collapsed, half the population lives in poverty and the Taliban portrayed themselves as more efficient and less corrupt administrators.
Leaders promise a ‘peaceful transition’ in Afghanistan, but there are profound fears for the future of women and girls. It is also unclear if the Taliban will, as promised, be able to control extremist groups.
Hunger continues to kill every day, around the world. This global failure to sustain humanity stems from the very nature of capitalism.
The campaign to overturn Peru’s presidential election results involves unconventional warfare, including help from the CIA and bribes offered by an imprisoned intelligence officer.
Protests against the coup continue in the streets, demonstrating the appetite among Myanmar’s public for a democratic process.
Pakistan and India celebrate their independence days on 14 and 15 August, respectively. But neither country has ever been free from the toxicity of regional and religious conflict.
With the latest annexation of the West Bank, Israel is aggressively executing its plan to kill or push out all remaining Palestinians into Syria or Jordan.
With the might of the powerful industrial country behind them, fuel tankers from Iran heading for the Venezuela coast cruised past US Navy ships threatening an embargo.