INTERNATIONALY renowned Indian historian, author, journalist, political commentator and Marxist intellectual, Vijay Prashad is making a speaking tour of Perth on November 6.
Prashad is executive director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, editor of LeftWord Books, chief correspondent at Globetrotter Media and a senior non-resident fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China.
He is the author of 23 books, the latest of which, On Cuba: Reflections on 70 Years of Revolution and Struggle was written in conjunction with Noam Chomsky.
Speaking to the Voice from New York, where he was on a speaking tour, Prashad said he was looking forward to visiting Australia.
“I know that the message of liberation and radical democracy that I spread gets its greatest resonance in the poor countries of the world,” he said.
“I speak against imperialism, colonialism and neocolonialism and the majority of the world’s people understand that from their own experience.
“However, it is the people in the exploiting countries who have to think about these issues and turn the situation around.
“Seriously, why is that Australia is buying nuclear submarines for war with China when you should be joining with China to help develop the world?
“On a planet that is boiling from carbon pollution in its atmosphere warmongering is just not an option.
“Peace is urgent and stopping global warming should be the priority.”
Prashad will be speaking at UWA’s Octagon Theatre on Wednesday, November 6 at 1pm on the topic Palestine: Hyper Imperialism and the Global South.
At 6pm on the same day he will be addressing the Murdoch University Indo-Pacific Studies Centre in the Herbert Smith Freehills Lecture Theatre, on the topic There Will Be No Modi 3.0 in India.
Prashad’s tour has been organised by the Australian radical organisation, Red Ant.
by BARRY HEALY
Perth Voice Interactive 
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