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Vijay Prashad is the Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research (thetricontinental.org) and is the Chief Editor of LeftWord Books (leftword.com).

Vijay Prashad
The Chinese Ambition
11 Oct 2018
On the Left there is a decades-long debate about how to characterise China – is it still a socialist country, has it restored capitalism?
Vijay Prashad
There Is No Reason For the US to Increase Sanctions on Iran
05 Oct 2018
The UN’s position against Iran is in bad faith. All the member states and the UN secretariat know that Iran has no nuclear weapons programme. Yet, they have allowed the US and Israel to push against…
Vijay Prashad
Harlem Greets the Leaders of Cuba and Venezuela
28 Sep 2018
The 73rd session of UN General Assembly at Riverside Church saw the Cuban and Venezuelan Presidents speak of building a solidarity against the US sanctions and threat of war.
Vijay Prashad
Vamos, Vamos Students: Argentina’s Right to Education
20 Sep 2018
People are pouring onto the streets in protest against Mauricio Macri’s Right wing government’s plan to slash $99 million from public education.
Vijay Prashad
The Art of Shahidul Alam, Prisoner in Sheikh Hasina’s Jails
12 Sep 2018
Art is powerful. Things can be told with a glimpse that make one’s chest heave.
Vijay Prashad
The Land is Predictable, But the Markets Are Not. Small Farmers in Argentina’s Crisis
06 Sep 2018
Argentina, at that time, was still a major producer and exporter of beef.
Vijay Prashad
The Ghosts of a Torture Chamber
30 Aug 2018
As long as you are resisting, you are not defeated.
Vijay Prashad
Israeli Cruelty and Palestine’s Predicament
23 Aug 2018
This is a war against education, a war against Palestinian children, a war against memory and history.
Vijay Prashad
When the Classroom is the Target
16 Aug 2018
Whether this is a classroom up in Baalbek (Lebanon) or in Kabul’s Chaman-e-Babrak (Afghanistan), these children – refugees from Syria in one and from Afghanistan’s countryside in the other – find a…
Vijay Prashad, Nayla Pis Diez
Argentina’s Senate Rejects Argentina’s People
10 Aug 2018
At issue is the fact that the lack of legal abortion led to clandestine abortions, which has led to the deaths of over three thousand women in the past twenty-five years (this number is a very low…