Vijay Prashad
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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, Vijay 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 ...
Over the past twenty years, the Indian political climate has shifted decidedly to the Right – with the BJP and the Congress dragging India into a growth trajectory that squanders the hopes of working people. The old consensus on Indian socialism is threadbare, and socialist parties in disarray.
The future of Indian communism is rooted in the popular hopes for a better tomorrow and in the popular discontent with the bitter present. No Free Left is a critical ...
The book provides an analysis of the revolts and revolutions that broke out in the Middle East and the region of northern Africa in late-2010 and 2011. It studies their origin and the course they assumed in the Arab world to rethink how one apprehends the world. It examines the revolts as a show of the force of suppressed social classes against despotic regimes, the revolts spreading as a tidal wave across the region. It explores the local dynamics and removal of ...
On 11 September 2001, three commercial aircraft became guided missiles and crashed into New York City’s World Trade Centre and the US Military’s Pentagon. In response, the United States Government (along with the United Kingdom) launched an assault on Afghanistan to root out the networks of the Saudi financier Osama Bin Laden, and eventually the Taliban regime. This is the Fifth Afghan War. Who is Osama Bin Laden? Why did the US Government target the Taliban ...
Poverty, racism and sexism are rife within the US, but, in truth, the conditions for major social change are not yet in evidence. This short book of three essays offers an assessment of the contradictions of US life, of the attempts by its economic and political managers to stabilize their dominance (by incarceration, mainly), and of the few social agents at work to transform what Mao called a “paper tiger.†The paper tiger continues to growl—this is the ...
Untouchable Freedom traces the history of these Dalit workers--the Balmikis--from the 1860s to the present. It offers a view of the work process that entraps these Dalits into the sanitation industry, although most worked as agricultural labour prior to the twentieth century. This book will interest historians, sociologists, activists, and all who are concerned with Dalit politics.
In September 2003, Ariel Sharon became the first Israeli Prime Minister to step on Indian soil. Hindutva and Sharonism embraced each other, and these two Asian right-wing ideologies hoped to form some sort of entente against 'Islamic terrorism' with the blessings of George W. Bush's evangelical imperialism. Namaste Sharon, said India's Prime Minister, but what does the rest of the country say?
From the laboratory of neoliberalism-popularly known as “globalizationâ€-Latin America has transformed itself into a launching pad for resistance. As globalization began to spread its devastation, robust and thoughtful opposition emerged in response-in the recovered factory movement of Argentina, in the presidential elections of indigenous leaders and radicals like Chavez and Morales, against the privatization of water in Bolivia. Across Latin America, people ...
This book is a paradigm-shifting history of both a utopian concept and global movement--the idea of the Third World. The Darker Nations traces the intellectual origins and the political history of the attempt to knit together the world's impoverished countries in opposition to the United States and Soviet spheres of influences in the decades following World War II, as nation after nation across Asia, Africa and South America gained political independence from ...