
Vijay Prashad
Author · 21 books
Vijay Prashad is the executive director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He is the author or editor of several books, including The Darker Nations: A Biography of the Short-Lived Third World and The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South. His most recent book is Red Star Over the Third World. He writes regularly for Frontline, The Hindu, Alternet and BirGun.
Books

No Free Left
The Futures of Indian Communism
2015

Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting
Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity
2001

The Karma of Brown Folk
2000

Untouchable Freedom
A Social History Of A Dalit Community
2000

The Poorer Nations
A Possible History of the Global South
2012

The East Was Read
2019

Washington's New Cold War
A Socialist Perspective
2022

Paris Commune 150
2021

Letters to Palestine
Writers Respond to War and Occupation
2015

Strongmen
Trump-Modi-Erdoğan-Duterte
2018

Keeping Up with the Dow Joneses
Stocks, Jails, Welfare
2003

Fat Cats and Running Dogs
The Enron Stage of Capitalism
2002

Red October
The Russian Revolution and the Communist Horizon
2017

The Death of the Nation and the Future of the Arab Revolution
2016

On Cuba
Reflections on 70 Years of Revolution and Struggle
2024

Struggle Makes Us Human
Learning from Movements for Socialism
2022

Washington Bullets
A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations
2020

Uncle Swami
South Asians in America Today
2013

Red Star Over the Third World
2017

The Darker Nations
A People's History of the Third World
2007

Arab Spring, Libyan Winter
2012