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Vijay Prashad

@vijayprashad.bsky.social

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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

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 · 2h

I award the 2025 @nobelprize.bsky.social for Peace to the Palestinian emergency workers in Gaza - the doctors and nurses, the food suppliers and ambulance drivers, the care givers and musicians.

Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 20h

The @nobelprize.bsky.social is a joke.

Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 1d

Important International Peoples Assembly statement on the ceasefire of the Israelis on the Palestinians in Gaza: ipa-aip.org/statements/p...

Palestine: IPA Statement on the Ceasefire Agreement - IPA

The International People’s Assembly (IPA) recognizes the ceasefire agreement as an important step towards ending the genocide, offering a necessary reprieve from the brutality of the Zionist war machi...

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MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona @macba.cat · 1d

Thank you for your brilliant lecture and for being one of the clearest and most inspiring voices of our time. ✊❤️

Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 1d

A ceasefire is not a cease genocide.
And yet, even on the ceasefire, Israel continues to hammer Gaza City.

Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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League Against Imperialism Centennial Campaign @lai2027.bsky.social · 7d

The spirit of Bandung burns in the Sahel. These states forced the military to throw the French out, resisting neocolonialism through action. Anti-imperialism lives in protest, not in policy. Dismantle neocolonialism
@vijayprashad.bsky.social
#LAI27

Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 8d

Israel comete genocidio en la Franja de Gaza | Boletín 40 (2025) de Instituto Tricontinental de Investigación Social - thetricontinental.org/es/newslette...

Israel comete genocidio en la Franja de Gaza | Boletín 40 (2025)

El 7 de octubre de 2025 se cumplirán dos años del genocidio que Israel sigue perpetrando en Gaza. Al menos 66.000 palestinxs han sido asesinadxs: 30 de cada 1.000 personas.

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 10d

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.

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somosmass99.bsky.social @somosmass99.bsky.social · 17d

La memoria de la resistencia chilena navega hacia Gaza. Conversación con Marita Rodríguez, miembro de la Flotilla Global Sumud | #Escriben Taroa Zúñiga y Vijay Prashad | @vijayprashad.bsky.social | www.somosmass99.com/169931-2/

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Opera Mundi @operamundi.bsky.social · 24d

No '20 Minutos' de hoje, Breno Altman entrevista o internacionalmente renomado Vijay Prashad, para uma análise crítica das guerras ao redor do mundo.

Não perca ao vivo!

Vijay Prashad - Análise Crítica de Um Mundo em Guerra - Programa 20 Minutos

YouTube video by Opera Mundi

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Morning Star @mstaronline.bsky.social · 24d

Following the resignation of Nepali Prime Minister amid mass protests, different narratives have circulated which simplify and misrepresent the complexities and reality on the ground in Nepal at the roots of this crisis, argue VIJAY PRASHAD & ATUL CHANDRA
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/five...

Five theses on the situation in Nepal

IF YOUR house is not clean, then the ants will come through the door and draw in the snakes.The crisis in Nepal escalated in early September, bringing down the centre-right government of Prime Ministe...

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rojedo @rojedo.com · 28d

As always, @vijayprashad.bsky.social says profoundly moving things: substack.com/@luciddialec...

Vijay Prashad (@luciddialectics)

If I went to a funeral a day for every Palestinian child killed in this Israeli genocide, I would spend all the days of my 58 years at funerals.

Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 29d

On 11 September- remembering 1973 with Allende and Fidel.

Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · Sep 11

Spent 15 mins with George Galloway, the lion of the House of Commons in his day. We talked about Nepal as flashpoint in Asia, the Israeli strike on Qatar and the Israeli attack on Palestinian politics, as well as the mediocre political leadership in Europe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q-C...

INTERVIEW: If you don't keep your kitchen clean the rats will enter

YouTube video by George Galloway

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@[email protected] @charleshb.bsky.social · Sep 4

Rania( @raniaakhalek.bsky.social )Khalek Dispatches "NATO Lost in Ukraine and the West Is In Denial, w/ Vijay( @vijayprashad.bsky.social )Prashad" #BreakThroughNews @btnewsroom.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJP4...

NATO Lost in Ukraine and the West Is In Denial, w/ Vijay Prashad

YouTube video by BreakThrough News

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somosmass99.bsky.social @somosmass99.bsky.social · Sep 3

Los Estados Unidos utiliza una acusación falsa relacionada con drogas para un posible ataque contra Venezuela | Comenzaron a repetir el nombre “Tren de Aragua” como si fuera la nueva Al Qaeda, #escribe Vijay Prashad | @vijayprashad.bsky.social| www.somosmass99.com/169193-2/

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somosmass99.bsky.social @somosmass99.bsky.social · Sep 3

Siria después de al-Assad | La #opinión de Vijay Prashad | @vijayprashad.bsky.social | www.somosmass99.com/169181-2/

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bouleusis.bsky.social @bouleusis.bsky.social · Sep 1

Syria after al-Assad
Vijay Prashad
peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/01/s...

Syria after al-Assad : Peoples Dispatch

Since Ahmad al-Sharaa took over in Syria, the Damascus government has been given carte blanche to use maximum force against any threat to its continued rule

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bkeithb @bkeithb.bsky.social · Aug 30

By @vijayprashad.bsky.social

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What Do You Fear the Far Right Will Do That You Have Not Already Done?: The Thirty-Fifth Newsletter (2025)

The passivity – and complicity – of Global North liberals and social democrats has paved the way for the global rise of the far right of a special type.

thetricontinental.org

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up-SCREAM 🎃👻🦇 @upstreampodcast.bsky.social · Aug 27

NEXT WEEK'S PATREON
venezuela pt. 1: a socialist introduction w/ @vijayprashad.bsky.social

Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · Aug 26

With my daughter Rosa and Che in Tegucigalpa, Honduras at the office of Poder Popular.

Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · Aug 25

If I went to a funeral a day for every Palestinian child killed in this Israeli genocide, I would spend all the days of my 58 years at funerals.

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somosmass99.bsky.social @somosmass99.bsky.social · Aug 21

¿Cómo hacer pensar al Fondo Monetario Internacional? | La #opinión de Grieve Chelwa y Vijay Prashad | @vijayprashad.bsky.social | www.somosmass99.com/168897-2|

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Frank @veganatheist.bsky.social · Aug 14

China, India Plan Talks Amid Soaring US Tensions + Israel Targets Gaza Journalists | Vijay Prashad
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China, India Plan Talks Amid Soaring US Tensions + Israel Targets Gaza Journalists | Vijay Prashad

India's Modi is planning to visit China for the first time in over 7 years, at the end of this month, where he will meet with Xi, amid soaring U.S. tensions...

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somosmass99.bsky.social @somosmass99.bsky.social · Aug 14

El destino maldito de los palestinos en las cárceles israelíes | #Escribe Vijay Prashad | @vijayprashad.bsky.social | www.somosmass99.com/168551-2/

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bkeithb @bkeithb.bsky.social · Aug 12

@vijayprashad.bsky.social on India and Global Left podcast

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Vijay Prashad on Palestine, Russia, BRICS & the Fight for Socialism

YouTube video by India & Global Left

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League Against Imperialism Centennial Campaign @lai2027.bsky.social · Aug 12

In his latest @tricontinental.bsky.social newsletter, #LAI27 convener @vijayprashad.bsky.social pays tribute to anti-imperialist heroes like Fanon and Lumumba who died young but made invaluable contributions to anti-colonial and national liberation struggles. thetricontinental.org/newsletteris...

A Tribute to All Those Who Fought for a Better World and Died So Young: The Thirty-Second Newsletter (2025)

Though they died young, revolutionaries like Frantz Fanon and Patrice Lumumba made invaluable contributions to anti-colonial and national liberation struggles.

thetricontinental.org

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Bender Rodríguez @plungerman.bsky.social · Aug 7

"Marxism, which is an ever-evolving field of analysis, is the most accurate critique of capitalism. As long as capitalism remains with us, Marxism must remain until another form of critique—better than Marxism—appears."— @vijayprashad.bsky.social

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ZD: What is the significance of Marxism in the 21st century? Is Marxism, as some people believe, outdated and unsuitable for today’s era?

VP: Marxism, which is an ever-evolving field of analysis, is the most accurate critique of capitalism. As long as capitalism remains with us, Marxism must remain until another form of critique—better than Marxism—appears. Thus far, no clearer critique of capitalism has been developed. It is true now as it was in 1867, when Marx published Capital, that the exploitation of the working class produces surplus value and it is this surplus value that creates the accumulation of capital in the hands of the capitalists and immiserates the worker, and it is this accumulation of capital in the hands of different capitalists who compete with each other that creates the conditions for a general crisis in society. If there were a better explanation of these crises that afflict us, then I do not know it.

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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · Aug 6

The genocide continues. The food is not delivered. The Palestinians are dying of starvation. There is a colonial famine ongoing in Gaza, writes Vijay Prashad ⬇️

Israel is starving Gaza. As in the Bengal Famine, it’s by design

Britain starved millions in Bengal to preserve empire. Israel has revived that same logic and sharpened it into a weapon against Gaza, says Vijay Prashad.

www.newarab.com