Vijay Prashad is the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He is the editor of Letters to Palestine (2014) and his most recent book is (with Noam Chomsky), On Cuba (2024).
After a decade-long witch-hunt, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is free. His release is a victory for those who speak truth to power, writes Vijay Prashad.
Narendra Modi may have won a third term in power, but Indian voters have sent the BJP a clear message: we reject your majoritarianism, writes Vijay Prashad.
The paranoid backlash to US campus protests is a reminder that direct action works, writes Vijay Prashad. And this time the students won't be deterred.
Comment: People with a public history of fighting injustice will no longer be silenced by distorted, false and distracting claims of anti-Semitism, writes Vijay Prashad.
As a new bombing plunges Turkey into further instability, Vijay Prashad argues unaccountable Turkish massacres against Kurds, assassinations of activists and misguided foreign policies are at root of the crisis.