Vijay Prashad
Editor at LeftWord Books
Director at Tricontinental Institute for Social Research
Chief Correspondent at Globetrotter
Director of @tri_continental; Ed, @LeftwordBooks & @inkanibooks; Chief Reporter at Globetrotter. Ed, Wenhua Zongheng: A Journal of Contemporary Chinese Thought.
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luciddialectics.substack.com | Vijay Prashad
Over the past ten years, I have been involved with the building of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. The idea behind the institute is pretty simple. We believe that Marx’s 11th Thesis on Feuerbach is incorrectly understood. Marx wrote: Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it. In fact, he actually wrote: Die Philosophen haben die Welt nur verschieden interpretiert, es kömmt drauf an, sie zu verändern. But you get the point.
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znetwork.org | Vijay Prashad
In January 2025, Indonesia – the world’s fourth-largest country by population (282 million) with the seventh-largest Gross Domestic Product by purchasing power parity – joined the BRICS+ bloc. Eleven countries are now in this expanded grouping.
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steigan.no | Vijay Prashad
Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, 10. April 2025. For 80 år siden, 11. april 1945, kjørte enheter fra general George S. Pattons 4th Armoured Division of the U.S. Armed Forces mot byen Weimar, Tyskland, hvor konsentrasjonsleiren Buchenwald lå.
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newarab.com | Vijay Prashad
To be in solidarity is not to be with someone else or in someone else’s struggle. It is to be in ourselves, writes Vijay Prashad [photo credit: Getty Images] In 1936, tens of thousands of people from around the world came to Spain to defend the Republic against the fascist forces led by General Francisco Franco. Called the International Brigades, the men and women who came to fight came from around the world: from Bulgaria to India, from China to Palestine. Yes, Palestine.
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scheerpost.com | Vijay Prashad
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinential: Institute for Social Research Dear Friends,Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Eighty years ago, on 11 April 1945, units of General George S. Patton’s 4th Armoured Division of the US armed forces drove toward the city of Weimar, Germany, where the Buchenwald concentration camp was located.
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The new Bandung spirit is about industrial development. My Globetrotter column on 70 years from Bandung and the complexities of the Global South (a new mood, yes, but not more than that): https://t.co/ICFDhxVCRx. For more, read the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research https://t.co/bJHYDnxe4R
RT @The_NewArab: OPINION: Palestinians fought against Franco's fascists in the Spanish Civil War. Here's their story 🖊️ @vijayprashad htt…
During this genocide in Gaza, I have often thought about people such as the Palestinian who went to Spain Muhammad Najati Sidiqi - they broaden our understanding of solidarity. To be in solidarity, for them, was not to be with someone else or in someone else’s struggle. It was to