Vijay Prashad Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Vijay Prashad

The great Bajan intellectual - George Lamming - has died. His In the Castle of My Skin (1953) is a classic, but then the book that influenced me the most was The Pleasures of Exile (1960) - cultural critique at its highest. Here he is in Cuba, 2011. Pens down in tribute. https://t.co/6QgIIiMTTX

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Thich Nhat Hanh, who urged Martin Luther King to condemn the US war on Vietnam, died at Tu Hien Temple in Hue, Vietnam. In 2005, he said: 'We are those who are truly without possessions, we are the true Communists'. Of course, communism isn't absence of possessions, but equality. https://t.co/PduJ9GEftL

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When Europeans die, it is intolerable. This is the attitude explained by Aimé Césaire in Discourse on Colonialism. Deep well of racism. https://t.co/eFes5ojgAE

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So glad to see that Bharathi Puthakalayam had published AG Noorani's The RSS, originally from @LeftwordBooks, a contemporary classic on Hindutva. The book has been translated into Tamil by @Vijayasankar_FL, my comrade editor at @frontline_india: https://thamizhbooks.com/product/rss-indiavirku-oru-achuruthal/. https://t.co/b2MVvLqysv

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Bongbong Marcos seems to be winning in the Philippines. Time to re-read my old copy of Ninotchka Rosca's State of War (1988). https://t.co/Y9ZP2Uijcm

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Will be joining the Committees of Correspondence to talk about the new 15th anniversary edition of The Darker Nations from @thenewpress - https://t.co/ZvZFcLxDU2. Zoom link in the blog post by comrade Harry. For the book: https://t.co/PPPMqSa1Pq.

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This - friends - is diplomacy. Our friends, @NicolasMaduro of Venezuela and @petrogustavo of Colombia, meet to end the use of Colombia as a platform for the US-imposed hybrid war on Venezuela. In honour of El Libertador - Simón Bolívar - and El Comandante Hugo Chávez..... https://t.co/JWAzzZPd7q

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My first book Untouchable Freedom will be reissued by @LeftwordBooks. The foreword is written by @surajyengde, who wrote the terrific book Caste Matters. Suraj took a picture of me in Dar es Salaam, upon my return from the Ithna-Ashari Masjid with a gift from the maulvi. https://t.co/lSxNSpF9P6

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Sent in my blurb for the @VersoBooks collection of Ruthie Gilmore's Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation, coming soon. So great that the superb collection of essays by my dear friend for thirty-seven years will be out later this year. https://t.co/cXMoy7TcxK

Vijay Prashad

The great Bajan intellectual - George Lamming - has died. His In the Castle of My Skin (1953) is a classic, but then the book that influenced me the most was The Pleasures of Exile (1960) - cultural critique at its highest. Here he is in Cuba, 2011. Pens down in tribute. https://t.co/6QgIIiMTTX