Organizing is always a relationship between the person who arrives and says 'Let's meet together' and the person who comes to the meeting.
Vijay PrashadTo be a Communist or to be somebody who believes in the future is a curious thing. So you have to live with people around you, you have to be with the people.
Vijay PrashadThe United States is facing serious pushback from Turkey, which is not comfortable with the view that the Islamic State is a terrorist organization.
Vijay PrashadI don't recall an American president basically coming out and criticizing the Israeli public.
Vijay PrashadThere are several studies done of peasant uprisings where the first chapter might be 'conditions in that area' and so the conditions are bad, and then the second chapter is a kind of conjectural event, somebody's shot and then there's an uprising. But there's no consideration, no chapter on preparation.
Vijay Prashad