US Politics

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Should UN Peacekeepers Leave the Democratic Republic of Congo?
11 Dec 2019
There was no peace to keep in the Kivu and Ituri provinces when the UN force arrived nearly 20 years ago, and there’s been none since.
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
Black Friday Blues
11 Dec 2019
Here come Black Friday, but I wanna a Green New Deal Here come Black Friday, but I wanna a Green New Deal With a whole lotta street heat just to keep it real…
Michael E. Tigar
Rap Brown Law Today
11 Dec 2019
The law holds that just one person, crossing a state line with the intent to do or participate in mischief, can be prosecuted.
Mary Helen Washington
Racial Terror & Totalitarianism
11 Dec 2019
Rasberry asks how the history of totalitarianism looks from the vantage point of the colonized and the racially subjugated.
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
11 Dec 2019
Readers discussed liberal warhawks, fascism and Trump, and America’s founding myths this week. We share your letters for “
Nana Osei-Opare
BAR Book Forum: “Books I Teach”
11 Dec 2019
This teacher has Black liberation on the menu: from Mau Mau and African communists, to Biko, Nkrumah and Fanon.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Ana Maldonado, Pilar Troya Fernandez, and Vijay Prashad
A Letter to Intellectuals Who Deride Revolutions in the Name of Purity
11 Dec 2019
Critics on the left in North America and in Europe gave the Chavez and Morales governments no time to breathe.
Netfa Freeman
Abstract Leftism Leaves Bolivia and the Global South in Imperialist Crosshairs
11 Dec 2019
The phony US Left specializes in finding excuses to betray victims of US imperialism.
Lucas Koerner
How the Global North’s ‘Left’ Media Helped Paved the Way for Bolivia’s Right-Wing Coup
11 Dec 2019
So-called progressives in the US can find every wart in foreign governments, but are blind to Washington’s regime change crimes.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Many Blacks Would Welcome Police Exit from Their Communities
10 Dec 2019
“The whole battlefield array of weapons is now deployed in Black and brown communities.”