Vijay Prashad

An intimate conversation between towering public intellectuals examining the contentious interplay between the Cuban Revolution and U.S. empire. An audacious revolutionary experiment in the backyard of empire, Cuba has occupied a vexed role in the international order for decades. Though its doctors (and fighters) and the outsized influence of its example have traversed the globe, from Venezuela to Angola, its...

Two of our most celebrated intellectuals grapple with the uncertain aftermath of the American collapse in Afghanistan. Through the structure of a deeply engaging conversation between two of our most important contemporary public intellectuals, we are urged to defy the inattention of the media to the disastrous damage inflicted in Afghanistan on life, land, and resources in the aftermath of...

An incisive and inspiring call to look beyond capitalism to chart a road map for a planet ravaged by pandemics, climate crisis, and wars. Prompted by trenchant questions by international solidarity organiser Frank Barat, renowned author and activist Vijay Prashad shows that the path toward hope and liberation lies in looking closely at myriad, under-covered struggles being waged all across...

The Darker Nations is 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. Praised by critics as a welcome antidote to apologists for empire, it has defined for a generation of scholars, activists, and dreamers what it is to imagine a more just international...

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...

From Cuba to Vietnam, from China to South Africa, the October Revolution inspired millions of people beyond the territory of Russia. The Revolution proved that the masses could not only overthrow autocratic governments, but also form an opposing government in their own image. The new idea that the working class and the peasantry could be allied, combined with the clear...