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Vijay Prashad

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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

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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 · 9h

للحرية الحمراء بابٌ
بكلّ يدٍ مضرّجةٍ يُدَقُّ

And for the red freedom there is a door,
that is knocked upon by every blood-stained hand.

[Ahmad Shawqi, 1868-1932]

The Palestinian prisoners walk out of their cells and into the struggle's other battlefield....

Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 9h

Nora Haddada at the Frankfurt Book Fair spoke of a 'discourse psychosis' in Germany that prevented an open condemnation of the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza. 'The shit is really going down', she said. 'Silence is just one step down from cowardice'.

Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 9h

There is no revelation here but only a confirmation. The Republican Youth are basically like the Hitler-Jugend.
Read this for illumination: www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 16h

Before apartheid Israel released the Palestinian political prisoners in the prisoner exchange, why did Israeli occupation forces raid and ransack the homes of these prisoners in Nablus (in the Balata & Askar al-Jadid refugee camps), in Salem, in Aqraba, in Zeita Jamma'in, in Hebron, & in Deir Samet?

Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 16h

(FACTS) Israel's genocide over the Palestinians in Gaza destroyed:

a. 190,115 buildings (330,500 houses are badly damaged).
b. More than 85% of water and sanitation facilities.

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, 6 October 2025, www.pcbs.gov.ps/post.aspx?la...).

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 1d

On the road to socialism….

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 1d

Trump didn’t make the ceasefire. Resistance of the Palestinians ensured Israel couldn’t ethnically cleanse Gaza. Salute to the Palestinian people.
Continue the struggle to end the genocide, the occupation, and the apartheid state.
Let the Palestinian children thrive!
Viva to Palestine viva.

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 4d

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.

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 4d

The @nobelprize.bsky.social is a joke.

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 5d

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...

ipa-aip.org

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MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona @macba.cat · 5d

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

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 5d

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

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 5d

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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MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona @macba.cat · 7d

Ens veiem demà 8/10 al #PEIobert amb Vijay Prashad!

🗣️ Conferència “La solidaritat de les nacions més brillants. Fins i tot en ple genocidi, un nou món està naixent”.

El genocidi a Palestina i el silenci còmplice d’Occident ens porten cap a un nou món. Com serà? 🌍
tiny.cc/PEI_obert_pr...

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League Against Imperialism Centennial Campaign @lai2027.bsky.social · 11d

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

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 12d

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.

thetricontinental.org

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 14d

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 · 21d

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 · 28d

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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Breno Altman @brenoaltman.bsky.social · 28d

𝗗𝗔𝗤𝗨𝗜 𝗔 𝗣𝗢𝗨𝗖𝗢!
Conversando com um dos grandes intelectuais de nosso tempo, um giro sobre os grandes temas da geopolítica - Palestina, Venezuela, China, EUA, Brasil, Nepal e por aí vai. Assista a entrevista com 𝗩𝗜𝗝𝗔𝗬 𝗣𝗥𝗔𝗦𝗛𝗔𝗗 nesta 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗰̧𝗮, 𝟭𝟲/𝟬𝟵, 𝗮̀𝘀 𝟭𝟭𝗵.

www.youtube.com/live/ZyV3sqt...

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 · 28d

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...

morningstaronline.co.uk

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rojedo @rojedo.com · Sep 12

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.

substack.com

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · Sep 11

On 11 September- remembering 1973 with Allende and Fidel.

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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

www.youtube.com

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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/