While popular energy can fill streets and win elections, social power is the patient, organised capacity of the working class to transform society.
Vijay Prashad: Social Power Is Built Before It Is Seen
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Vijay Prashad: Silence on Gaza When Headlines Fade
The tapering off of media coverage of the U.S.-Israeli genocide hasn’t abated the violence. In fact, its permanence is what allows the world to look away.
Vijay Prashad: The Long Goodbye to the US Dollar
The U.S. currency is a form of imperial power to discipline economies, finance war and force the Global South to fund its own subordination.
Vijay Prashad: Imagining a New Way
Across much of the Global South the old certainties of the IMF’s dogma of austerity models have evaporated. What replaces it must come from the people of Global South.
Vijay Prashad: Profiting Off Food Kills Children
Every year in the for-profit food system, unsafe food causes 866 million illnesses and 1.5 million deaths, with young children suffering nearly a third of all cases of food-borne disease.
Vijay Prashad: Brain Capture
Since the 1990s, an invisible intellectual architecture has shaped what counts as legitimate economic thought, narrowing debate until it seems like there are no alternatives. Reversing this brain capture is an urgent task.
Vijay Prashad: Why the World Needs a Genuine Left
As a declining imperialist system lashes out to preserve its declining order, working-class organisation becomes not only necessary for the oppressed of the world but indispensable to human survival.
Vijay Prashad: When Children Are the Target
The implications of U.N. inquiry into the Israeli military’s deliberate targeting of children reach far beyond Gaza. They raise fundamental questions about the future of international law itself.
Vijay Prashad: AI & the US War on Iran
The Iranian schoolhouse in Minab stands as a warning that goes beyond a single strike, or company, or war. It warns of a future in which technological power advances faster than public accountability.
Vijay Prashad: Two Ways for East Asia
Contradiction has struck East Asia: the countries most deeply integrated into China’s vibrant economic system are also drawn into military preparations to confront it.