Andre Vltchek

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Andre Vltchek is an American writer, journalist, political analyst, playwriter and filmmaker. Together with Tony Christini, he founded Mainstay Press, a publishing house for political fiction. In addition, he is a senior fellow at Oakland Institute, a progressive political think tank.

Vltchek is the author of several fiction and non-fiction books in both English and Czech, which include Point of No Return, a book of political essays, Western Terror: From Potosi to Baghdad, and LFE Exile: Pramoedya Ananta Toer in conversation with Andre Vltchek and Rossie Indira published in English and Indonesian. Vltchek has also written a theatre drama, Ghosts of Valparaiso.

With Linda Puroaho and Rossie Indira, he is the founder of MillaChe Productions and writer/producer of a 89-minute documentary film Terlena: Breaking of a Nation about the destruction of Indonesian intellectuals after the 1965 US-backed military coup in Indonesia.

For many years he has been involved in covering military conflicts and social unrests all over the world for the mainstream and alternative media, predominantly in Southeast and South Asia, South Pacific, the Middle East and Latin America.

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