Code Pink sanctions
Iran Venezuela

Sanctions against Iran and Venezuela during a pandemic are cruel

Is this not the time for the imperialist bloc, led by the United States of America, to end the sanctions against Cuba, Iran, Venezuela, and a series of other countries?

Vijay Prashad and Paola Estrada
March 15, 2020
Elon Musk Is Acting Like a Neo-Conquistador for South America’s Lithium
Bolivia

Elon Musk Is Acting Like a Neo-Conquistador for South America’s Lithium

Vijay Prashad and Alejandro Bejarano look at the scramble for Bolivia’s lithium resources led by billionaire Elon Musk in the context of the coup d’état

Vijay Prashad and Alejandro Bejarano
March 10, 2020
Berta Caceres 2015 Goldman Environmental Award Recipient
Honduras

Remembering the Heroism of Activist Berta Cáceres Four Years After Her Assassination: an Interview With Her Daughter

COPINH has been engaged in a tireless struggle to end the impunity enjoyed by the elites in Honduras responsible for this crime and others

Vijay Prashad
March 2, 2020
Red Books Day
World

Standing up for Left Literature — in India, it can cost you your life

Red Books Day is about standing up to fascism and standing up for our own intellectual development

Vijay Prashad
February 20, 2020
BOLIVIA
Bolivia

Bolivia: An election in the midst of an ongoing coup

Morales had just won a presidential election in October for a term that would have begun in January 2020

Vijay Prashad
February 13, 2020
What the right wing in Latin America means by democracy is violence
Bolivia Colombia

What the right wing in Latin America means by democracy is violence

What the government of Iván Duque is doing in Colombia is what the interim government of Jeanine Áñez is doing in Bolivia — using extreme state violence against trade unionists and peasant organizers, against socialist leaders and indigenous leaders

Vijay Prashad
January 23, 2020
Not an Inch- Indian Students Stand Against the Far-Right
India

Not an Inch: Indian Students Stand Against the Far-Right

The rods of the muscular Right wing were aimed at Aishe Ghosh’s head, but the students of JNU have pledged to fight the intimidatory, divisive and toxic politics of BJP-RSS with ‘words.

Vijay Prashad
January 17, 2020
People take to streets to challenge Modi’s bigoted, dishonest govt
India

People take to streets to challenge Modi’s bigoted, dishonest govt

The hundreds of thousands of people who are on the streets of India every day are not only angry about the divisive citizenship law but also the arrogance of the government and the disastrous way in which it has managed the economy

Vijay Prashad
December 24, 2019