Author Archive: Vijay Prashad

Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, editor and journalist. He is a writing fellow and chief correspondent at Globetrotter, a project of the Independent Media Institute. He is the chief editor of LeftWord Books and the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He has written more than twenty books, including The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World (The New Press, 2007), The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South (Verso, 2013), The Death of the Nation and the Future of the Arab Revolution (University of California Press, 2016) and Red Star Over the Third World (LeftWord, 2017). He writes regularly for Frontline, the Hindu, Newsclick, AlterNet and BirGün.
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Standing Up for Left Literature—In India, It Can Cost You Your Life

Released for Syndication: 02/19/2020

Red Books Day is about standing up to fascism and standing up for our own intellectual development.

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Bolivia: An Election in the Midst of an Ongoing Coup

Released for Syndication: 02/10/2020

On May 3, 2020, the Bolivian people will go to the polls once more. They return there because President Evo Morales had been overthrown...

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Libya Is Being Torn Apart by Outsiders

Released for Syndication: 02/04/2020

Ghassan Salamé is the head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya. He took over this job in 2017, six years after the...

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The War in Libya Will Never End

Released for Syndication: 01/29/2020

General Khalifa Haftar and his Libyan National Army (LNA) continue to partly encircle Libya’s capital, Tripoli. Not only does the LNA threaten Tripoli, but...

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

Released for Syndication: 01/22/2020

It was a curious exchange. Frustrated by the attacks on his party—the Movement for Socialism (MAS)—former president of Bolivia Evo Morales made an audio...

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Not an Inch: Indian Students Stand Against the Far-Right

Released for Syndication: 01/15/2020

With her head bandaged and her arm in a sling, university student Aishe Ghosh went before the cameras to say that the students of...

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Is This the End of U.S. Interference in West Asia?

Released for Syndication: 01/06/2020

Major General Hossein Salami, the chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Iran, said on January 4 that his country would take...

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The People of India Are Taking It to the Streets to Challenge Modi’s Bigoted and Dishonest Government

Released for Syndication: 12/23/2019

Every day and in every part of India, hundreds of thousands of people—mainly young people—gather on the streets to express their anger at the...

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India’s Government Is Going to War Against Its Own People

Released for Syndication: 12/17/2019

On December 13, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights released a powerful statement that criticized India’s new citizenship law. This “fundamentally discriminatory”...

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Why the Afghanistan Papers Are an Eerie Reminder of Vietnam

Released for Syndication: 12/10/2019

Noam Chomsky recently celebrated his 91st birthday. As an homage to Noam, I spent the day with one of his lesser-known books—The Backroom Boys...

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