Behind widespread youth uprisings lies a stark contradiction: an economic system that protects capital while stripping young people of dignified work, community and the confidence that tomorrow can be different.
Vijay Prashad: The Future
Category: Poetry
Vijay Prashad: Over a Billion Disabled People
People with disabilities are not marginal to society but central to it — and the injustices they face reveal the failures of a world that treats human dignity as subordinate to profit.
Vijay Prashad: The Necessary Future
Dark forces seek to colonise the future to ensure it remains subordinate to accumulation, not dignity. Talk of the future is not utopian fantasy but affirmation that the current order is intolerable and impermanent.
Vijay Prashad: Senegal on the Edge of Collapse
Burdened by decades of neocolonialism and corruption, Senegal faces an all-too-familiar dilemma faced by countries across the Global South: how to pursue sovereign development under the weight of debt.
Vijay Prashad: Bombs That Polish the Skulls of the Dead
With New START now expired, the United States’ withdrawal from arms control treaties and its embrace of nuclear “warfighting” doctrines are raising the risk of catastrophic conflict between nuclear powers.
Vijay Prashad: The Challenges of Post-Colonial Industry
India’s liberalisation beginning in the 1990s led to a steady decline in manufacturing. To reverse this, industrial policy must address the issues of dependence and inequality.
Vijay Prashad: End the Wars & Restart the Factories
While industrialisation remains a top priority for Global South countries, debt-driven austerity, corporate dominance, wars and sanctions keep many poorer nations locked into dependency and underdevelopment.
Vijay Prashad: Can Mexico’s Dignity Be Restored?
With the promise of the Mexican revolution and the sweeping reforms of cardenismo long erased by decades of neoliberalism can sovereignty be restored to the country?
Chris Hedges Report: How ‘Paradise Lost’ Revolutionized the World
Orlando Reade discusses the influence of John Milton’s 17th century epic poem on revolutionary thinkers and grapples with the moral gray area that exists in revolutions.