Tricontinental Institute

Prashad Again Leaps to Defense of Mass Murderers in Effort to Delegitimize Open Letter on Iranian Political Prisoners

Brian Hioe
In a typical course of action, Vijay Prashad has hit out at a letter by a number of prominent left intellectuals in The Guardian criticizing both the Iranian government and the forces of Western imperialism, which calls instead for solidarity with Iranian political prisoners. Prashad is, of course, predictably an apologist for the Iranian regime–which killed tens of thousands earlier this year under the cover of Internet blackouts to little international reporting...
August 2026EnglishFeaturedPolitics5 min read

History First as Tragedy, Then as Blob: The Taiwan Labor Party on Taiwan’s History in the Tricontinental Institute

Brian Hioe
In the wake of a letter by a Taiwanese academic that claimed Taiwan and China were part of the same polity…based on a land bridge that connected the two during the Ice Age, Vijay Prashad’s Tricontinental Institute has now followed up with a lengthy piece by Zang Ruxing. Zang is the director of the International Department of the Taiwan Labor Party. The piece, entitled “The Taiwan Question: From Civil War to External Intervention,” proves remarkable for many reasons, least of which is that the piece is dead on arrival from the first paragraph. Zang writes...
EnglishJuly 2026Politics16 min read

Tricontinental Institute Letter Claims that Taiwan is Part of China…Because of a Land Bridge During the Ice Age

Brian Hioe
A recent letter published in Vijay Prashad’s Tricontinental Institute written by Chen Meei-shia, a professor of public health at National Cheng Kung University, proves a bizarre exercise in cognitive dissonance. The letter begins by claiming Taiwan to be part of China…on the basis of that the two were connected by a land bridge during the Ice Age...
Cross StraitEnglishInternationalJune 2026PoliticsSelf-DeterminationSocial Movements4 min read

Vijay Prashad’s Letter on Chomsky Proves Hypocritical Attempt at Damage Control

Brian Hioe
A recent letter by Vijay Prashad in Counterpunch is a poor attempt at damage control. In effect, with it now known that Noam Chomsky was an associate of Jeffrey Epstein, as disclosed in what has come to popularly be known as the Epstein files, Prashad attempts to cut ties with Chomsky–this being an effort at damage control shortly after co-authoring a book with Chomsky...
EnglishFebruary 2026PoliticsSocial MovementsTheory and History6 min read

Breakthrough News Program on Protests in China Proves Self-Contradictory

Brian Hioe
It was only a matter of time until tankies–leftist apologists for authoritarian regimes such as China or Russia–weighed in on the current protests in China. The most recent example of this in Anglophone discourse may be Tricontinental Institute researcher and Dongsheng News collective Tings Chak’s appearance yesterday on Breakthrough News’ “The Socialist Program.” The program was hosted by Brian Becker, founder of the ANSWER Coalition and one of the founders of the PSL...
December 2022EnglishLaborSelf-DeterminationSocial MovementsYouth Movements11 min read