How to Think About a Genocide. An essay on intellectual vacillation with images by the great Malak Mattar. Read it at my substack, luciddialectics.substack.com/p/how-to-thi...

It is difficult to put into words how wonderful it is to see the growth of our team members over this long decade, watching them move from being student activists to being serious researchers of our conjuncture. Forward ever, backward never.

Our Tricontinental Asia team gathered outside the Colombo Public Library at the Ho Chi Minh Statue for a photograph to celebrate their hard work to build the Hands Off Asia campaign and to do the work that sustains our Asia project.

On the local train, riding along the beach in Colombo toward the centre of town - waves crashing, people fishing, others playing on the beach in the early evening light.

In Colombo, Sri Lanka for the Hands Off Asia conference run by the International Peoples Assembly and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. We hope very much that this gathering will drive forward the momentum to end the US hyper-imperialist military buildup in this part of the world.

Preparing for the workshop on North-South relations in Vienna with a look back to an age of anxiety in Austria. Read my poem on Red Vienna: open.substack.com/pub/luciddia...

On the walls of Johannesburg, pushing back against the virus of xenophobia sowed by scoundrels to turn the working-class against its each other. There is a final answer: A rat became the unit of currency, a line from Zbigniew Herbert's Report from the Besieged City (1983).

Stole the dummy copy of How the International Monetary Fund Strangles Africa by Grieve Chelwa & myself. The book itself will be out very soon from inkanibooks.co.za. For a taste of the medicine, see the latest Tricon newsletter on Brain Capture: thetricontinental.org/newsletteris...

Really looking forward to chatting with the brilliant Françoise Vergès through the David Graeber Institute. You can get more details on the events here (t.co/GzbdrX7HLG) and here is the youtube link (t.co/iaDRFxNiVs).

I hope that @ivancepedacastro.bsky.social prevails in the Colombian presidential election on Sunday. His father, Manuel Cepeda, was a leader of the Colombian Communist Party....of course assassinated in 1994 by the wretched oligarchy of Colombia. Here are father and son:

On Africa Liberation Day, I pay my respects to a great Pan-Africanist, WEB DuBois, a communist and a pioneer sociologist and historian, buried in his favourite gazebo in Accra, Ghana.

Comrades Ho Chi Minh and Raul Castro. Revolutionaries of the Third World. ¡Vivas!

Happy Mother’s Day, my old confidante. That’s me sleeping on the job at our special photoshoot in 1967. Soni Prashad (1929-2020).

Jaffa. Palestine in 1948 looks like Gaza, Palestine in 2026. Israel is a degenerate military state that will rust into oblivion.

मई दिवस पर, मैं लाल झंडा लेकर दिल्ली की सड़कों पर चलना चाहता हूं और अपने आदर्शों का प्रचार करना चाहता हूं।

Let the ruling class tremble…… Hugs, Vijay.

The Foolish Old Man Who Removed the Mountains (愚公移山), a little piece of writing on the connection between India and China, between Rabindranath Tagore and Xu Beihong. Enjoy, luciddialectics.substack.com/p/the-foolis...

Dialectics of History. 1. Israeli Zionist soldiers lay out barbed wire to intimidate and stop Palestinian children from going to school. 2. Palestinian children sit on their ground, take out their books, and educate themselves. 3. Israeli Zionist soldiers have surrendered their brains to their guns.

In Jakarta, we were at the Teater Besar Tim with Bonnie Triyana (MP) and with Hilmar Farid (Megawati Institute). We had a discussion about the problems posed by the imperialist USA, the challenges for countries such as Indonesia. Merdeka!

On my way to the land of Bung Karno

Brimful of Asha. (Here with Mohammed Rafi for Teesri Manzil, 1966). …. aaja aaja mai hu pyaar tera, allah allah inkar tera ooo aaja, aah aah aaja, aa e e aaja…..

Happy Easter. Remembering the great Indian painter, Angelo da Fonseca (1902-1967), expelled from Goa by the Portuguese colonialists for his modernist depictions of Christian scenes rooted in Indian realities. Here is his Annunciation from 1953.

My latest Outlook column, on my substack with some photos, luciddialectics.substack.com/p/submission... For instance, with Hanna Gharib, Secretary General of the Lebanese Communist Party.

Loved this mural of the Siege of Stalingrad and then the triumph of the Soviet citizens. Made me think of this Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research study on the anti-fascist war, thetricontinental.org/the-80th-ann.... Onward in the fight for a socialist world.

Talking to Mbuyiseni Quintin Ndlozi about capitalist crisis, the madness of war, and the new mood in the Global South. You can watch it here (or listen): www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCnV...

Tehran, where the US & Israel continue their illegal war of aggression, hitting the major oil refineries near the city & turning the sky black with smoke & pushing people into a situation of despair (1/3 of all the dead in the bombing so far have been children). This is the Gaza Syndrome for Tehran.

In 1996, Abbas Araghchi - the current foreign minister of Iran - received his PhD from the University of Kent. His dissertation was supervised by the Marxist scholar David McLellan and was on 'The evolution of the concept of political participation in twentieth-century Islamic political thought'.

We stand with the Cuban Revolution against Yanqui Hyper-imperialism. We believe in the importance of sovereignty and dignity against intimidation and theft. ¡Cuba sí! ¡Yanquis no! Donate to buy solar panels for Cuba: letcubalive.info/donate #LetCubaLive #EndTheBlockade #Solidarity

A short note on the ruling class as revealed by the Epstein files: open.substack.com/pub/luciddia...

This is Caracas. These are the Chavistas. They say Free Maduro and Cillia. They have clarity. They do not live in the fog of imperialism.