Vijay Prashad Boeken

Two brilliant and influential minds look beyond capitalism, and chart a roadmap for a planet ravaged by pandemics, a climate crisis, and wars.

Exploring the intersection of climate change and occupation, this collection features Naomi Klein's impactful Edward Said lecture, emphasizing how marginalized communities are disproportionately affected by environmental crises. Accompanying essays from global writers, including John Bellamy Foster and Ghassan Hage, reflect on Klein's ideas. Contributors share diverse perspectives, from Karachi's coast to Malaysia's cultural dynamics, and India's climate struggles, culminating in Amitav Ghosh's reflections on globalization and transformation through the lens of spices.

The book explores the significant shift in India's political landscape over the past two decades, highlighting the rise of right-wing ideologies led by the BJP and Congress. It critiques how this trajectory has undermined the aspirations of the working class, revealing a fractured socialist consensus and the disarray of socialist parties. The author delves into the implications of these changes for India's future, emphasizing the need for a renewed focus on social equity and the challenges faced by those advocating for a more just society.

Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It is a book of fluent and readable stories, full of detail about U.S. imperialism, but never letting the minutiae obscure the larger political point. It is a book that could easily have been a song of despair-a lament of lost causes;

The book explores the nostalgic impact of Soviet literature on individuals from the Third World, highlighting its significance in shaping their lives and thoughts. Contributors share personal stories, such as Deepa Bhasthi's emotional journey through her grandfather's library and Ng g wa Thiong'o's experience writing in Yalta. The text also includes a historical overview of Progress Publishers and reflections on cultural connections between the Soviet Union and the Third World, particularly through the lens of influential figures like Faiz.

The book explores the complex geopolitical landscape following the September 11 attacks, focusing on the U.S. military response in Afghanistan and the motives behind targeting Osama bin Laden and the Taliban. It questions the lack of scrutiny on Saudi Arabia and examines the dynamics of radical Islamic groups, the decline of leftist movements in the Arab world, and the influence of oil in global politics. Through extensive research, Vijay Prashad analyzes the historical and social forces shaping these events, offering insights into the broader implications of the Fifth Afghan War.

An inspiring reminder of the great strength of twentieth century Communism in the Global South.

In The Darker Nations, Vijay Prashad provided an intellectual history of the Third World and traced the rise and fall of the Non-Aligned Movement. With The Poorer Nations, Prashad takes up the story where he left off. Since the '70s, the countries of the Global South have struggled to build political movements. Prashad analyzes the failures of neoliberalism, as well as the rise of the BRICS countries, the World Social Forum, issuebased movements like Via Campesina, the Latin American revolutionary revival--in short, efforts to create alternatives to the neoliberal project advanced militarily by the US and its allies and economically by the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO, and other instruments of the powerful. Just as The Darker Nations asserted that the Third World was a project, not a place, The Poorer Nations sees the Global South as a term that properly refers not to geographical space but to a concatenation of protests against neoliberalism. In his foreword to the book, former Secretary-General of the United Nations Boutros Boutros-Ghali writes that Prashad "has helped open the vista on complex events that preceded today's global situation and standoff." The Poorer Nations looks to the future while revising our sense of the past.

The landmark alternative history of the Cold War from the perspective of the Global South, reissued in paperback with a new introduction by the author In this award-winning investigation into the overlooked history of the Third World--with a new introduction by the author for its fifteenth anniversary--internationally renowned historian Vijay Prashad conjures what Publishers Weekly calls "a vital assertion of an alternative future." The Darker Nations, "the first comprehensive political history of the Third World" (Immanuel Wallerstein), has defined for a generation of scholars, activists, and dreamers what it is to imagine a more just international order and continues to offer lessons for the radical political projects of today. With the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the rise of India and China on the global scene, this paradigm-shifting book of groundbreaking scholarship helps us envision the future of the Global South by restoring to memory the vibrant though flawed idea of the Third World whose demise, Prashad ultimately argues, has produced an impoverished and asymmetrical international political arena. No other book on the Third World--as a utopian idea and a global movement--can speak so effectively and engagingly to our troubled times.