Hello and welcome to this episode of A World to Win and this week I'm talking to

V.J Prashad, director of the Tri Continental Institute of Social Research and

author of many books including

his most recent book Washington Bullets a history of the CIA coups and

assassinations we discussed the recent wave of strikes that have taken place across India, the rise of the far right in India and across the world, and the mechanisms through which imperial power is exercised in the global economy today.

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So without further ado I give you V.J. Proushad talking about the recent wave of strikes that's been taking place across India.

Thank you so much, Vije Prouchad, for joining me on this episode of a World to win.

How are you doing today?

Great, thanks a lot. Super to be with you.

A very nice name for a podcast, by the way.

Yeah, thank you. As always taking influence from Marx there who has a way with words I think it's so today.

So yeah, this week we're going to be talking a bit about Indian politics and then US foreign policy and your new book,

which I'm very excited to talk to you about.

So first we're going to talk a little bit about India.

And I wanted to ask you about the kind of the enormous wave of protest that we've seen in India over the last few months, including a strike that took place on the 3rd of December,

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