{"title":"Vijay Prashad","description":"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. He writes regularly for Frontline, the Hindu, AlterNet, and BirGun.","products":[{"product_id":"red-star-over-the-third-world-paperback","title":"Red Star Over the Third World - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An original and much needed analysis of an important but neglected aspect of the legacy of the Russian Revolution.... Essential reading.\"--Mary Davis, Marx Memorial Library\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From Cuba to Vietnam, China to South Africa, the October Revolution of 1917 inspired millions of people beyond the territory of Russia. It proved that the masses could not only overthrow autocratic governments, but that they could also form an opposing government in their own image. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The new idea that the working class and the peasantry could be allied, combined with the clear strength and necessity of a vanguard party, guided multiple revolutions across the globe. Here is much-needed antidote to all the glum histories written on the demise of the Soviet Union. Vijay Prashad throws a spotlight on the way the Russian Revolution was seen and received in the countries colonized by European empires. With Russia as an inspiration and providing support, suddenly workers and peasants, those left out of capitalist prosperity, organized and attempted to create for themselves real socialist revolution. Prashad's chapters include: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Eastern Graves\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Red October\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Follow the Path of the Russians\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*The Lungs of Russia\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Soviet Asia\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Enemy of Imperialism\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Eastern Marxism\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Colonial Fascism\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Polycentric Communism\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Memories of Communism\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The author writes in this Preface, \"It has been a quarter-century since the demise of the USSR. And yet, the marks of the October Revolution remain--not just in the territories of the USSR but more so in what used to be known as the Third World. From Cuba to Vietnam, from China to South Africa, the October Revolution remains as an inspiration. After all, that Revolution proved that the working class and the peasantry could not only overthrow an autocratic government but it could form its own government.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This book explains the power of the October Revolution in the Global South. From Ho Chí Minh to Fidel Castro, reflections on polycentric communism, and collective memories of communism, it shows how, for a brief moment, another world was possible.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366075039967,"sku":"9780745339665","price":37.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Pc3ECC5OI79780745339665.webp?v=1789080767"},{"product_id":"on-cuba-reflections-on-70-years-of-revolution-and-struggle-hardcover","title":"On Cuba: Reflections on 70 Years of Revolution and Struggle - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn intimate conversation between towering public intellectuals examining the contentious interplay between the Cuban Revolution and U.S. empire\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn audacious revolutionary experiment in the backyard of empire, Cuba has occupied a vexed role in the international order for decades. Though its doctors (and fighters)--and the outsized influence of its example--have traversed the globe, from Venezuela to Angola, its political and economic future remain uncertain as the Castro era comes to a close and the U.S. embargo proceeds unabated.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough an intimate conversation between two of the country's most astute observers of international politics, Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad, \u003cem\u003eOn Cuba\u003c\/em\u003e traces Cuban history from the early days of the 1950s revolution to the present, interrogating U.S. interventions and extracting lessons on U.S. power and influence in the Western Hemisphere along the way. Neither a jingoistic condemnation nor an uncritical celebration, Chomsky's heterodox approach to world affairs is on full display as he and Prashad grapple with Cuba's unique place on the international scene.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn a media landscape saturated with half-truths and fake news, Chomsky and Prashad--\"our own Frantz Fanon . . . [whose] writing of protest is always tinged with the beauty of hope\" (Amitava Kumar, author of \u003cem\u003eImmigrant, Montana\u003c\/em\u003e)--seek to shed light on the truth of a complex and perennially controversial nation, while examining the limits of mainstream media discourse.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368271773919,"sku":"9781620978573","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/4LsA9QSq6K9781620978573.webp?v=1789125155"},{"product_id":"washington-bullets-paperback","title":"Washington Bullets - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWashington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It is a book of fluent and readable stories, full of detail about US imperialism, but never letting the minutiae obscure the larger political point. It is a book that could easily have been a song of despair - a lament of lost causes; it is, after all, a roll call of butchers and assassins; of plots against people's movements and governments; of the assassinations of socialists, Marxists, communists all over the Third World by the country where liberty is a statue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite all this, Washington Bullets is a book about possibilities, about hope, about genuine heroes. One such is Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso - also assassinated - who said: 'You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. 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This narrative suited the landlords and served their interest. In our own times, forces of Hindutva have adopted the same communal narrative and are attempting to write the Malabar Rebellion of 1921 out of the history of the Freedom Struggle. History, however, is the result of a complex interplay of several factors. The early communists and some secular nationalists understood the rebellion to have a class character, but which would be manifest - due to the land tenure system set in place in Malabar - with religious and caste characteristics. This volume collects six of the definitive Communist voices from 1921 to 2021 that challenge the attempt to communalise the Moplah Rebellion; instead, they offer fact-based, materialist analyses that foreground the class character of the agrarian revolt, the way in which class intersected with other social identities (of religion and caste) in the unfurling of the rebellion, and the national and international shape of the rebellion. Together, these writings give the lie to the Hindutva narrative and assert the importance of rational, secular, and evidence-based history writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369700720863,"sku":"9789392018404","price":18.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/0Sg6aXajdO9789392018404.webp?v=1789144364"},{"product_id":"red-october-the-russian-revolution-and-the-communist-horizon-paperback","title":"Red October: The Russian Revolution and the Communist Horizon - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first socialist state in history lasted only seventy years. This is a very small period of time in the scope of world history. Its achievements have been pilloried - its demise being the greatest argument against its achievements. But merely because it disappeared does not mean that it was without merit. It provides us with the assurance that a workers and peasants' state can exist, that it can create policies to benefit the vast masses of the people rather than merely the rich, that it can heal and educate rather than merely starve and kill. Red October is an invitation to rediscover the importance of the Russian Revolution, to explore how it faltered and to nudge us to consider the ghosts of that revolution in our own movements today. Contributors: Prakash Karat, Prabir Purkayastha, Irfan Habib, Prabhat Patnaik, Amar Farooqui, B. T. 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Deepa Bhasthi goes on an emotional journey into the library of her grandfather, a communist intellectual. Rossen Djagalov writes a short history of Progress Publishers. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o talks about how he wrote Petals of Blood in Yalta on the sidelines of the Afro-Asian Writers' Association in 1973. Sumayya Kassamali writes about Faiz in Beirut, giving us a sense of the cultural worlds that drew in both the Soviet Union and the Third World Project. The second half of the book pivots from the page to the stage. Maria Berrios brings an artist's eye to the cultural world of socialist Cuba. Sudhanva Deshpande identifies a momentum in socialist cinema, from the early Soviet period to the early Cuban period. Revati Laul reminds us that watching a Soviet ballet or reading a Soviet book can have an impact in other times and other histories. The East Was Read is a treasure trove of sparkling essays on the impacts of socialist culture in various parts of the Third World. This is a must-have book for bibliophiles, cinephiles, for lovers of reading, watching, listening.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51374042841311,"sku":"9788193466629","price":21.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/TzZXkQOSUT9788193466629.webp?v=1789168409"},{"product_id":"no-free-left-the-futures-of-indian-communism-paperback","title":"No Free Left: The Futures of Indian Communism - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eOver the past twenty years, the Indian political climate has shifted decidedly to the Right - with the BJP and the Congress dragging India into a growth trajectory that squanders the hopes of working people. The old consensus on Indian socialism is threadbare, and socialist parties in disarray. The future of Indian communism is rooted in the popular hopes for a better tomorrow and in the popular discontent with the bitter present. No Free Left is a critical examination of the past of Indian Communism and an assessment of its future. Most literature on Indian communism feels claustrophobic. It assumes that the communist movement lives on a detached landscape - its programme and political judgments are adjudged against a divine standard. A history of communism cannot be written, Gramsci said, without writing a 'general history of a country'. Vijay Prashad does exactly that. No Free Left stays alive to the details of the present while drawing out the long term dynamic, combining a rich historical survey with acute political analysis of the present. It is a compelling work for students of Indian politics. For activists of the Left, it is indispensable reading. 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Seven leading Marxist scholars lay out the conceptual framework of Capital as well as investigate its various themes in essays written specially for this Reader. Moreover, each of the authors has taken care to not limit him\/herself to only preliminary explication of concepts, and has also gone into matters of advanced theory. The volume as a whole also has a broadly similar trajectory - the first couple of essays lay the foundation, the middle four essays graduate from basic concepts to theoretical discussion and debates, and the last essay does not go into basic concepts at all, but applies the method of Capital to theorise about contemporary capitalism. 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