Vijay Prashad

"The Darker Nations reconstructs the prehistory of the Third World, recalling the now-forgotten 1927 Brussels conclave of the League Against Imperialism, an international effort that brought Albert Einstein together with Jawaharlal, Nehru, Madame Sun Yat-Sen, and hundreds of other far-flung revolutionaries. The narrative then goes on to recount the 1955 conference in Bandung, Indonesia, where twenty-nine African and Asian countries launched the Third World project. Prashad traces the hopes of this decades-long global movement, and delineates its limitations and ultimate downfall in the 1980s."--BOOK JACKET.

A People's History of the Third World

The Darker Nations

Engaging stories in the form of Marxist journalism about US imperialism 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 US 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; it is, after all, a roll call of butchers and assassins; of plots against people’s movements and governments; of the assassinations of socialists, Marxists, communists all over the Third World by the country where liberty is a statue. Despite all this, Washington Bullets is a book about possibilities, about hope, about genuine heroes. One such is Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso—also assassinated—who said: ‘You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.’ Washington Bullets is a book infused with this madness, the madness that dares to invent the future.

Washington Bullets

The Karma of Brown Folk

Noam Chomsky

Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power

The Withdrawal

A truly global history that examines the prospects of a worldwide power shift from North to 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 Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South

Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity

Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting

the futures of Indian communism

No free left

Red Star over the Third World

Frank Barat

Two brilliant and influential minds look beyond capitalism, and chart a roadmap for a planet ravaged by pandemics, a climate crisis, and wars. Frank Barat, who has co-authored books with such luminaries as Angela Davis and Noam Chomsky, sits down with renowned author and academic Vijay Prashad, to explore topics such as debt cancellation, a wealth tax, austerity, the pandemic, the arms industry, the climate crisis, socialism, working-class social movements and much more. Barat and Prashad take an honest look at the challenges involved in overcoming the grip the neoliberal world order has on the planet; and the ability of the wealthy elite to continue to carry out policies that are destroying the lives of millions. Yet, they don't leave the reader in despair. Barat and Prashad, masterfully show us a path towards hope and liberation by highlighting the often ignored worker's struggles and victories that are taking place around the world in countries such as: India, Kenya, Peru, Tunisia, and Argentina.

Learning from Movements for Socialism

Struggle Is What Makes Us Human

Two of our most celebrated intellectuals grapple with the uncertain aftermath of the American collapse in Afghanistan Not since the last American troops left Vietnam have we faced such a sudden vacuum in our foreign policy—not only of authority, but also of explanations of what happened, and what the future holds. Few analysts are better poised to address this moment than Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad, intellectuals and critics whose work spans generations and continents. Called “the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet” by the New York Times Book Review, Noam Chomsky is the guiding light of dissidents around the world. In The Withdrawal, Chomsky joins with noted scholar Vijay Prashad—who “helps to uncover the shining worlds hidden under official history and dominant media” (Eduardo Galeano)—to get at the roots of this unprecedented time of peril and change. Chomsky and Prashad interrogate key inflection points in America’s downward spiral: from the disastrous Iraq War to the failed Libyan intervention to the descent into chaos in Afghanistan. As the final moments of American power in Afghanistan fade from view, this crucial book argues that we must not take our eyes off the wreckage—and that we need, above all, an unsentimental view of the new world we must build together.

Sesudah Uni Soviet runtuh, kapitalisme sempat disanjung sebagai keniscayaan sejarah. Namun krisis demi krisis di abad ke-21 menyadarkan banyak orang bahwa cita-cita sosialisme tidak berakhir dengan Uni Soviet. Semangat Revolusi Oktober nyatanya terus menginspirasi perjuangan demi dunia yang lebih adil. Inilah revolusi yang membuktikan bahwa kelas buruh dan tani bisa menggulingkan pemerintah autokratik dan membentuk pemerintahan sendiri dalam rupa gambarannya.

Bintang Merah Menerangi Dunia Ketiga

Naomi Klein, delivering the Edward Said lecture, links the question of climate with the question of occupation (with Palestine as the focus). Klein points out that those who are 'othered' will be the first victims of the climate catastrophe. This volume collects Naomi Klein's superb essay, along with reactions from important writers who live across the globe. John Bellamy Foster and Ghassan Hage offer direct reflections on Klein's lecture, while other writers are spurred by Klein's insights. Rafia Zakaria takes us to the shoreline of Karachi, Masturah Alatas wonders about 'the hijab' and airconditioning in Malaysia, Shalini Singh meanders through the climate wars in India, and susan abulhawa writes from the 'fossil fuel sacrifice zone' at Standing Rock (North Dakota, USA). The book closes with Amitav Ghosh's meditation on nutmeg and cloves, leading to important insights into globalization, interconnectedness and transformation.//Contributors: NAOMI KLEIN - CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE - JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER - GHASSAN HAGE - RAFIA ZAKARIA -MASTURAH ALATAS - SHALINI SINGH - SUSAN ABULHAWA - AMITAV GHOSH

Will the Flower Slip Through the Asphalt?

Operation Protective Edge, Israel’s seven-week bombing campaign and ground invasion of Gaza in the summer of 2014, resulted in half a million displaced Gazans, tens of thousands of destroyed homes, and more than 2,000 deaths—and, yet, it was only the latest in a long series of assaults endured by Palestinians isolated in Gaza. But, following the conflict, polls revealed a startling fact: for the first time, a majority of Americans under thirty found Israel’s actions unjustified. Jon Stewart aired a blistering attack on Israeli violence, and a video of a UN spokesperson weeping as he was interviewed in Gaza went viral, appearing on Vanity Fair and Buzzfeed, among other sites. This book traces this swelling American recognition of Palestinian suffering, struggle, and hope, in writing that is personal, lyrical, anguished, and inspiring. Some of the leading writers of our time, such as Junot Díaz and Teju Cole, poets and essayists, novelists and scholars, Palestinian American activists like Huwaida Arraf, Noura Erakat, and Remi Kanazi, give voice to feelings of empathy and solidarity—as well as anger at US support for Israeli policy—in intimate letters, beautiful essays, and furious poems. This is a landmark work of controversial, committed literary writing.

Writers Respond to War and Occupation

Letters to Palestine

Neydi “Arap Baharı”? Yozlaşmış gerici rejimlere karşı birikmiş öfkenin sübapları patlatması mı, emperyalist manipülasyon mu? Hangi etmenlerin tetiklemesiyle başladı, nasıl yayıldı, nereye evrildi? Bölge dengelerini nasıl etkiledi, emperyalistler ve bölgedeki rejimler olaylar karşısında nasıl stratejiler geliştirdiler? Tunus'ta bir yoksulun bedeninden sıçrayan kıvılcımla başlayan halk coşkunluğu Libya'da nasıl trajik bir kışa dönüştü? Dumanı üzerinde tüten olayların, engin bilgiye dayanan Marksist bir analizi… “Halkların tarih sahnesine görkemli bir biçimde çıkıp güçlü-silahlı-dış destekli zalimleri yıkmaya başladıkları ve fakat örgütlülük, önderlik, ideolojik vuzuh ve politik netlik bakımından zaaflı biçimde geçmişin bütün yüklerini taşıyarak yoluna koyuldukları kurtuluş serüveninin bugünkü uğrağında, Libya Kışı'nın ertesinde ve Suriye tufanının eşiğinde, bu kitap bir Bahar esintisiyle umutlarımızı ilmek ilmek işlenmiş bilgiyle tazeliyor...” Haluk Gerger

Arap Baharı, Libya Kışı

Across the Third World, people grew up reading inexpensive, beautifully-produced books from the Soviet Union - children's books, classics of world literature, books on science and mathematics, and works of Marxist theory. The first half of The East Was Read is an homage to the lost world of Soviet books. Wang Chaohua and Pankaj Mishra recall with fondness the meaning of these books for their very different lives in China and in India respectively. Deepa Bhasthi goes on an emotional journey into the library of her grandfather, a communist intellectual. Rossen Djagalov writes a short history of Progress Publishers. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o talks about how he wrote Petals of Blood in Yalta on the sidelines of the Afro-Asian Writers' Conference in 1973. Sumayya Kassamali writes about Faiz in Beirut, giving us a sense of the cultural worlds that drew in both the Soviet Union and the Third World Project. The second half of the book pivots from the page to the stage. Maria Berrios brings an artist's eye to the cultural world of socialist Cuba. Sudhanva Deshpande identifies a momentum in socialist cinema, from the early Soviet period to the early Cuban period. Revati Laul reminds us that watching a Soviet ballet or reading a Soviet book can have an impact in other times and other histories. The East Was Read is a treasure trove of sparkling essays on the impacts of socialist culture in various parts of the Third World. This is a must-have book for bibliophiles, cinephiles, for lovers of reading, watching, listening.//Contributors: DEEPA BHASTHI - MARIA BERRIOS -NGŨGĨ WA THIONG'O - PANKAJ MISHRA - REVATI LAUL -ROSSEN DJAGALOV - SUDHANVA DESHPANDE -SUMAYYA KASSAMALI - WANG CHAOHUA

The East Was Read

The world watched as the bud of the Arab Spring was buried under the cold darkness of the Libyan Winter.

Arab Spring, Libyan Winter

David McNally

Heather Brown

Neil Faulkner

Korkut Boratav

Michael A. Lebowitz

Erkin Özalp

Haluk Gerger

E. Ahmet Tonak

Yeşim Dinçer

Prabhat Patnaik

Taner Timur

Metin Çulhaoğlu

Sungur Savran

August H. Nimtz

Aijaz Ahmad

Nail Satlıgan

Cem Eroğul

Haluk Yurtsever

Ellen M. Wood

Marksizmi öğrenmek için öncelikle hangi eserlerden başlamalı? Doğru anlayıp yorumlamak için Marksist klasikleri nasıl okumalı? Merakla sorulan, daima tartışılan bir konudur bu. Ne soru yersizdir, ne de bu konuda yapılan tartışmalar. Zira Marksizm, hayatın tüm alanlarını kucaklayan, devrimci pratikle tamamlanan, sınırsız, çok yönlü, karmaşık bir zenginliktir. Bu devasa Marksizm edebiyatı içinde, okurların yollarını bulabilmesi kolay değildir. Marksist Klasikleri Okuma Kılavuzu, bu soruları gündemine alan özgün bir çalışma olarak, her düzeyde Marksizm okuru için bir başucu kitabı olmayı hedefliyor. Türkiye’den ve dünyadan yetkin Marksist kuramcıları bir araya getiren bu kitapta, Marksizmin kurucu ve geliştirici teorisyenleri Marx, Engels ve Lenin’in yirmi yapıtı, yirmi farklı yazar tarafından tanıtılıp değerlendiriliyor. Bu yazılarda, Marksist klasiklerin doğum iklimi, içeriği, öteki klasiklerle ilişkisi, etkileri, bugün için önemi parlak şekilde değerlendiriliyor. Böylece, okura öncelikli bir okuma listesi önerilirken, bu eserlerin nasıl okunacağına dair bir rehber de verilmiş oluyor. Yazarların bu kitap için kaleme aldıkları yazılar, Türkiye’nin önde gelen Marksist yazarlarından Taner Timur’un giriş yazısıyla sunuluyor. Kitaba makaleleriyle katkıda bulunanlar: Aijaz Ahmad, August H. Nimtz, Cem Eroğul, David McNally, E. Ahmet Tonak, Ellen M. Wood, Erkin Özalp, Haluk Gerger, Haluk Yurtsever, Heather Brown, Korkut Boratav, Metin Çulhaoğlu, Michael A. Lebowitz, Nail Satlıgan, Neil Faulkner, Prabhat Patnaik, Sungur Savran, Taner Timur, Vijay Prashad, Yeşim Dinçer

Marksist Klasikleri Okuma Kılavuzu

This volume is on the Balmikis of Delhi, who work as sanitation workers and keep the city clean. They live in poverty and face sustained discrimination. In response the Balmikis fight to liberate themselves. Untouchable Freedom is the first comprehensive study of this community and traces their struggles from the 1860s to the present, as they have moved from agricultural labor to urban work.

A Social History of a Dalit Community

Untouchable Freedom

This fast-paced and timely book from Vijay Prashad is the best critical primer to the Middle East conflicts today, from Syria and Saudi Arabia to the chaos in Turkey. Mixing thrilling anecdotes from street-level reporting that give readers a sense of what is at stake with a bird's-eye view of the geopolitics of the region and the globe, Prashad guides us through the dramatic changes in players, politics, and economics in the Middle East over the last five years. “The Arab Spring was defeated neither in the byways of Tahrir Square nor in the souk of Aleppo,” he explains. “It was defeated roundly in the palaces of Riyadh and Ankara as well as in Washington, DC and Paris.” The heart of this book explores the turmoil in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon—countries where ISIS emerged and is thriving. It is here that the story of the region rests. What would a post-ISIS Middle East look like? Who will listen to the grievances of the people? Can there be another future for the region that is not the return of the security state or the continuation of monarchies? Placing developments in the Middle East in the broader context of revolutionary history, The Death of the Nation tackles these critical questions.

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