African America

Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Sanders Gets Swallowed by the DNC Machine: It’s Time to #DemExit
18 Mar 2020
Only the demise of the Democratic Party can free up the potential of the people to resolve the many problems created by capitalism and imperialism.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
“Virus or No Virus, We Can't Lose Our Voice”: Cheri Honkala on Frontline Communities
18 Mar 2020
Coronavirus is just an extension of the war that we've been forced to fight under capitalism.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Ruling-class Remedies
18 Mar 2020
If you’re feeling exceptionally feverish or feverishly exceptional pull a tight-fitting, cherry red MAGAT cap over your forehead and eyes. Tight
Hannah Appel
Debtors of the World, Unite!
18 Mar 2020
Debt’s ubiquity is a burden, but also an opportunity. “The point of debtors’ unions it is to build collective power—people power.”
Robin D.G. Kelley
The Roots of Anti-Racist, Anti-Fascist Resistance in the US
18 Mar 2020
The militant white supremacists of the current generation are either products of, or influenced by, the “third Klan” of the 1970s and 1980s.
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
18 Mar 2020
This week there was much discussion on the Sanders campaign, the black misleadership class, and the Covid-19.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Kenneth Janken’s “The Wilmington Ten”
18 Mar 2020
The case of the Wilmington Ten was one of the most egregious instances of injustice and political repression from the post-World War II black freedom struggle.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Clarence Taylor’s “Fight the Power”
18 Mar 2020
Only policies that provide people with authority to hire and fire police, investigate, conduct hearings and decide punishment will end police brutality.
Daniel Lazare
The Great Bernie Bust
18 Mar 2020
It is now all but certain that Joe Biden will be the Democratic candidate.
joshua briond
The New White Moderate: Political Coercion, Liberalism, and the Failed Electoral Strategy
18 Mar 2020
A democracy is not just being “allowed” to “choose” your representatives, but having representatives that actually align with peoples material interests.