Red Ant is excited to announce that from late October 2024 Australia will be visited by historian, journalist and Marxist thinker Vijay Prashad. Prashad is the author of forty books, including Washington Bullets, Red Star Over the Third World, The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World and The Poorer Nations: A Possible […]
Recent years have seen the emergence of strongmen as serious political forces in liberal democracies the world over: Narendra Modi in India, Donald Trump in the United States, Viktor Orbán in Hungary, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey, Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines, and perhaps now Prabowo Subianto in Indonesia, despite the latter’s attempt to project […]
Vijay Prashad will be presenting on his latest book, On Cuba: Reflections on 70 Years of Revolution and Struggle, written with Noam Chomsky and with a foreword by Miguel Díaz-Canel and an introduction by Manolo De Los Santos. This event is hosted in partnership with the Australia Cuba Friendship Society. Register (free): https://events.humanitix.com/on-cuba-reflections-on-70-years-of-revolution-and-struggle-vijay-prashad-tour Blurb for […]
Cuba has always occupied an outsized role in international affairs. An outpost of socialism in the backyard of the U.S., Cuba has stood as an example for revolutionary movements the world over. But for this reason Cuba has also been subject to unabated attacks from the forces of imperialism: interventions, infiltrations, a U.S. embargo that […]
The Indian election of 2024 reveals two distinct and seemingly contradictory processes: the rise of an electorate angered by the rising inflation and the increasing social inequality, and the entrenchment of the BJP as the embodiment of national destiny. These two contradictory processes are at play beneath the surface and are much more important than […]
In the aftermath of the October Revolution of 1917, two distinct trends opened up in the world communist movement. The defeat of the German Revolution in 1918 set in motion a break between the Marxist intelligentsia and the working-class movement. This break proceeded to develop a philosophical Marxism that remained outside the ranks of the […]
Vijay Prashad will host an all day public teach-in. This will be an opportunity to engage in in-person political discussion with Prashad. Register (free): https://events.humanitix.com/teach-in-socialism-and-anti-imperialism-vijay-prashad-australia-tour The program for the teach-in is as follows: 10:00 am – 11:40 am The Crisis of Capitalist Legitimacy and the New Right Vijay Prashad and Rjurik Davidson Recent events […]
In the current phase of global politics, two distinct trends have emerged in relation to imperialism. On one hand, the consolidation of U.S. hegemony has fostered a deepening of Western dominance in global affairs, with economic, political, and military power being concentrated in the hands of a few elite nations. This has resulted in a […]
The Indian election of 2024 reveals two distinct and seemingly contradictory processes: the rise of an electorate angered by the rising inflation and the increasing social inequality, and the entrenchment of the BJP as the embodiment of national destiny. These two contradictory processes are at play beneath the surface and are much more important than […]
