"Be worried about now!" w/ Vijay Prashad
The Red Nation Podcast
The Red Nation
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Director of the Tricontinental Institute (@tri_continental) Vijay Prashad (@vijayprashad) talks about building the left to fight climate change as well the recent historic victory for Indian farmers.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:02.0 | That is hope. I mean, actually in these moments of darkness, that is what they said, telling truth is a revolutionary act and it's all. |
| 0:11.0 | So, over to you, |
| 0:12.8 | VJ, because money of us say we're fighting the same fight again and again and again. |
| 0:17.6 | There was a conversation yesterday. Will this fight ever end? |
| 0:21.0 | Will this fight ever end? Well, first, Assad, thanks for forcing me to come to Glasgow. |
| 0:29.2 | When I walked the streets of cities like this, you know, Glasgow was the UK's second most important |
| 0:34.9 | city. Beautiful buildings, beautiful streets, a gorgeous city, you know. It had |
| 0:41.0 | red Clydeside in 1919 19 the uprising to create a Soviet in Scotland |
| 0:47.1 | But it was you know crushed of course |
| 0:50.1 | When I see cities like this I think also about the other side of it. |
| 0:55.0 | There's a phrase from Walter Benyam in every monument of civilization is also a monument of barbarism. |
| 1:02.0 | I think of the famines in Bengal, the jute workers in |
| 1:07.2 | Bengal sending jute to Dundee through the Glasgow port. I think of human beings from Africa enslaved and brought from |
| 1:16.8 | Ghana to the new world and all those profits getting sucked into cities like |
| 1:21.8 | London and Glasgow. |
| 1:24.0 | You know, between 1765 and 1938, |
| 1:28.0 | the British Isles stole 45 trillion pounds from India, 45 trillion dollars pounds from India. |
| 1:32.8 | 45 trillion sterling from India. |
| 1:36.6 | We never got paid for that. |
| 1:38.1 | When the British left India, when we threw the British out, |
| 1:41.3 | our literacy rate was 13%. |
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