What Fidel Castro Gave Us
Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Fidel Castro would have turned 100 this week. His revolutionary legacy of reminds us that breaking free from neocolonial plunder demands the rigorous…
Social Power Is Built Before It Is Seen
Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Popular energy can fill streets and win elections. Social power is the patient, organised capacity of the working class to transform society and…
The Long Goodbye To The US Dollar
Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. The dollar may appear to be a neutral currency, yet it is in fact a form of imperial power. Disciplining economies, financing war,…
The Generation That Refuses To Crawl: Gen Z Is A Class Struggle
Vijay Prashad, BreakThrough News. The young people in the streets are not asking merely to survive inside the cracks of a decaying system. They want to live, to work, to…
How The Global Food Economy Is Killing Children
Vijay Prashad, The Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Every year, unsafe food causes 866 million illnesses and 1.5 million deaths, with young children suffering nearly a third of all cases…
Vijay Prashad: Why the World Needs a Genuine Left
As a declining imperialist system lashes out to preserve its declining order, working-class organisation becomes not only necessary for the oppressed of the world but indispensable to human survival. Dumile…
Vijay Prashad: When Children Are the Target
Vijay Prashad Z Network The United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel has released one of the most devastating reports…
From Brain Capture To Intellectual Sovereignty
Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute or Social Research. Since the 1990s, an invisible intellectual architecture has shaped what counts as legitimate economic thought. Narrowing debate until it seems like there are…
Vijay Prashad: AI & the US War on Iran
The Iranian schoolhouse in Minab stands as a warning that goes beyond a single strike, or company, or war. It warns of a future in which technological power advances faster…
The Concrete Is Drying In East Asia
Vijay Prashad, The Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. A profound contradiction confronts East Asia. The region drives global development, yet US imperialism seeks to transform it into a frontline of…
Build The New Asia Of Our Dreams
Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Economic growth alone cannot secure genuine sovereignty in Asia. A regional platform for coordination remains a vital material necessity to safeguard the region…
We Shall Not Host Our Executioners
Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Modern structures of extraction attempt to mask old systems of colonial plunder. The living legacy of anti-colonial resistance across Africa remains a decisive…
Socialism Is Slow To Mature
Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. The capitalist system rewards short-term cycles. Building a dignified future is a slow task that requires disciplined organisation and an enduring struggle to…
The Bombs Which Polish the Skulls of the Dead
With New START now expired, the United States’ withdrawal from arms control treaties and its embrace of nuclear ‘warfighting’ doctrines are raising the risk of catastrophic conflict between nuclear powers.
The Value Chain of Suffering in the Global South
The drug trade – and the ‘War on Drugs’ that polices it – unleashes a value chain of suffering on peasant communities in the Global South. You cannot explain such…