Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, author, journalist, political commentator, and Marxist intellectual.[1][2] He is the executive-director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, Editor of LeftWord Books, Chief Correspondent at Globetrotter,[3] and a senior non-resident fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China.[4] For Tricontinental, he writes a weekly newsletter.[5] 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.[6][7][8]
Previously, Prashad has been the George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and a professor of international studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, United States, from 1996 to 2017. Presently, he is an advisory board member of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, part of the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement,[9][10] and co-founder of the Forum of Indian Leftists (FOIL).[1][11]
Prashad has provided reporting and political commentary for several publications, including Monthly Review,[12]The Nation,[13] and Salon.[14]
In addition, Prashad is often invited to give talks, lectures, and presentations (virtually or in person) all over the world, like at The People's Forum. He is also frequently interviewed by a variety of news sources, such as Democracy Now!, The Real News Network, and BreakThrough News.
^ ab"ZNet - Junevijayint". Archive.is. 16 April 2013. Archived from the original on 16 April 2013. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
^"I came to Marxism against my self-interest. Born into affluence, I was raised in an revolutionary city (Calcutta, India)" Left history, Volumes 11–12, pp 61, Department of History, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, 2006
^Prashad, Vijay. "Vijay Prashad, Author at Globetrotter Media". Globetrotter Media. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
^"Morocco Drives a War in Western Sahara for Its Phosphates". NewsClick. 21 January 2022. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
^"NEWSLETTER". Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
^Vijay Prashad - Imperialism suffocates humanity like a Boa Constrictor, retrieved 8 July 2023
^Vijay Prashad: Why Does India Remain Entrapped by the UK?, retrieved 8 July 2023
^Noam Chomsky & Vijay Prashad: American Exceptionalism is Imperial Policy, retrieved 8 July 2023
^"Advisory Board - US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel". Usacbi.org. 3 February 2009. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
^Guttman, Nathan (26 August 2014). "Anti-Israel Professor Returns to Trinity College — Will Controversy Come Back Too?". Forward. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
^Hindutva For a Few Dollars a Day (author info) Archived 28 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine People's Democracy, Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
VijayPrashad is an Indian historian, author, journalist, political commentator, and Marxist intellectual. He is the executive-director of Tricontinental:...
more material." Two of the co-founders of FOIL are Biju Mathew and VijayPrashad. In an interview from 2005, Biju Mathew describes the founding of FOIL...
Bose, on the Anti-Sikh riots in 1984. She is an aunt of the historian VijayPrashad. Brinda is the author of Survival and Emancipation: Notes from Indian...
The concept of polyculturalism was first proposed by Robin Kelley and VijayPrashad. It differs from multiculturalism which instead emphasises the separateness...
Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPI(M). The Chief Editor is VijayPrashad and the Managing Editor is the actor-publisher Sudhanva Deshpande. LeftWord...
political say within the association. In 2014, the Indian Marxist author VijayPrashad raised the limitations of the BRICS as a political and economic "locomotive...
world, including, among many others, Bertell Ollman, E. San Juan, Jr., VijayPrashad, Gopal Balakrishnan, Nurul Kabir, and by Azfar Hussain, who convened...
External videos In Conversation: Vincent Bevins and VijayPrashad on YouTube The Jakarta Method: How the CIA Promoted Mass Murder & Terrorism Against...
co-edited Viviremos: Venezuela vs. Hybrid War with Manolo De Los Santos and VijayPrashad in 2020, a collection of essays on sanctions imposed on Venezuela by...
an admirer of Maoism. Tricontinental Institute's executive director, VijayPrashad described Singham as “A Marxist with a massive software company!” He...
of U.S. Power is a 2022 non-fiction book written by Noam Chomsky and VijayPrashad and is based on a conversation between them in 2021. The writers discuss...
first-hand account in postcolonial and Afro-Asian studies. In 2006, VijayPrashad stated: "The book that Wright produced from his [Indonesian travels]...
Embrace (PHOTO). The Huffington Post. 8 May 2013. Smile, Work and Die. VijayPrashad. Truthdig. 26 April 2013. Bangladesh factory collapse: Clothes made...
Chinese Communist Party (CCP). According to Indian Marxist historian VijayPrashad, the inclusion of the word 'league' in the organization's name was a...
were held at Imam Turki bin Abdullah Mosque, Riyadh, following day. VijayPrashad (2007). The Darker Nations- A Biography of the Short-Lived Third World...
If You Will, Don’t Sentimentalise Him' ". Outlook. 12 November 2012. VijayPrashad. "A flawed project". Frontline. 29 December 2012 – 11 January 2013....
Usha Haley, author VijayPrashad, Marxist writer, director for Tricontinental, Chief editor for LeftWord Books, written 30 books Vijay Seshadri, Pulitzer...
April – 9 May 2008). "Voice of the streets". Frontline. Vol. 25, no. 9. VijayPrashad, Safdar Hashmi Amar Rahe Eugene van Erven, Plays, Applause and Bullets:...
of Singapore (Class of '72) Arvind Virmani, economist (Class of '65) VijayPrashad, historian (Class of '85) Sir Anish Kapoor, Artist (Class of '70) Sandeep...
Lal, P.B.S.V Padmanabham, G Krishnan & M Azeez Mohideen pages 487-491 VijayPrashad (2002), Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the...
to the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research and its founder, VijayPrashad, who has often appeared on BreakThrough News. PSL's main publication...
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