In response to the atmosphere of war that the U.S. is creating during the Great Lockdown, Vijay Prashad and Abdallah El Harif are issuing a fresh appeal for peace.
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COVID-19: Hunger Gnaws at the Edges of the World
Agricultural workers, farmers and social movements can teach us how the food system should be reorganized during this crisis, write Vijay Prashad and Richard Pithouse.
COVID-19: Calendar Year 2020 Has Been Cancelled
Almost 3-in-4 essential frontline workers are women, writes Vijay Prashad. During CoronaShock they are in more danger than ever.
COVID-19: These Migrant Workers Did Not Suddenly Fall from the Sky
A hasty show of compassion is not enough, writes Vijay Prashad. The system that keeps them barely alive must be replaced.
COVID-19: We Won’t Go Back to Normal, Because Normal Was the Problem
When a global pandemic strikes, the private-sector austerity model simply falls apart, writes Vijay Prashad.
COVID-19: The Mutilated World Is Moved by the Nurses and Doctors
There is no substitute, as this catastrophe unfolds, to transfer priorities from privatization to the creation of a robust public sector at the very least for health, says Vijay Prashad.
‘We Who Were Nothing & Have Become Everything’
Nina Agadzhanova leapt before a tramcar on March 8, 1917, grabbed the keys from the driver and declared the city of Petrograd on strike, writes Vijay Prashad in this overview of International Women’s Day celebrated on Sunday.
‘Tired of Holding Other Worlds in My Fist’
In the aftermath of the coup against Evo Morales, Vijay Prashad sizes up U.S.-driven “democracy protection” in Bolivia, where elections are set for May 3.
‘I Will Hold You in My Arms a Day After the War’
Vijay Prashad reflects on neoliberal orthodoxy, the latest meeting of tired decision makers in Davos and a hybrid war in Latin America that is creating the conditions for chaos.
Come Free Me
It is no surprise that young people are on the streets with banners that plead for a new world, for it is these young people who recognize that their lives are at stake, writes Vijay Prashad.