vijay prashad

न्यूज़क्लिक के साथ खड़ा है लेफ़्टवर्ड बुक्स

पिछले कुछ महीनों से देश भर के खेतिहर मजदूर और किसान केंद्र सरकार के तीननए कृषि कानूनों के खिलाफ एक साहसिक आंदोलन कर रहे हैं। ये श्रमिक और किसान कड़कड़ाती ठंड में भी डटे रहे, इन्होंने हर तरह के �[...]

LeftWord Books Stands With NewsClick

Over the course of the past few months, agricultural workers and farmers from across India have been in the midst of a brave agitation against the three farm bills passed by the Indian government. The agricultural workers and farmers have held their line in the cold winter months, braving repression, and harassment; they have been called terrorists and anti-nationals. Nothing has broken their will. They remain resolute: they will defend their livelihood and their lives. The views of the agricul[...]

Operation PBSUCCESS: CIA’s ‘Glorious Victory’

In March 1951, Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán took office as the President of Guatemala. The landless movement and the Left had fought to elect a president who decided to push through a moderate land reform agenda. Such a project threatened to undercut the land holding of the United Fruit Company, a US conglomerate that strangled this American nation. The CIA got to work. To ‘remove covertly, and without bloodshed if possible, the menace of the present Communist-controlled government in Guatemala’, [...]

The Arab Spring in Yemen

This day in the year 1990, North and South Yemen combined to form the Republic of Yemen. It is commemorated by its citizens as Unity Day. Yesterday, on May 21, the Saudi King Salman sent a cable of congratulations for Unity Day to Yemeni President Hadi, considered one of “Saleh’s Orphans”—Saleh being the de facto autarch that the Arab Spring helped oust. The cable, wishing the President good health and the people security and stability, is a complete travesty considering that the Saudi r[...]

Ho Chi Minh, 2020

Tomorrow, 19 May 2020, is Comrade Ho Chi Minh’s 130th birth anniversary. Vijay Prashad speaks about what Comrade Ho meant to the Vietnamese people and their revolution; to the task of creating a socialist society in a country destroyed by thirty years of war imposed by imperialism, on land ravaged and poisoned by conventional and chemical weapons; and on how Vietnam has responded to the global pandemic, Covid-19, with a scientific and human approach. Below the video is a transcript of the tal[...]