US Politics

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
A "Fighting United Front” for Community Control of Police
03 Dec 2019
Eight hundred delegates to the newly re-founded National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression chose veteran organizer Frank Chapman as their executive directo
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Dr Gerald Horne: Africans See China as Counterweight to US and Europe
03 Dec 2019
In contrast to US hysteria over China’s growing role in world affairs, “in Africa itself, it’s felt that there needs to be a counterweight to the North Atlantic powers, and they feel that China hel
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Haitians Blame US and France for Corrupt Regime
03 Dec 2019
Daoud Andre, of the Committee to Mobilize Against Dictatorship in Haiti, said the “clear demand” animating protests that have shut down much of the country is that President “Joven
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
A (Re)Born National “Black and Left-Led” Organization Fights for Community Control of Police
28 Nov 2019
On the momentum of Chicago’s anti-police movement – the most advanced in the nation – the city’s Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression has gone national after a highly successful confere
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
count ALL votes
27 Nov 2019
POW…POW…POW…POW… My leaders were voted out of office with hot lead ballots: red runoffs in driveways, beds, ballroom floors, on balconies, and college campuses.
Álvaro García Linera
Bolivia Coup: Hatred of the Indian
27 Nov 2019
How did the traditional middle class incubate so much hatred and resentment towards the people, leading them to embrace racialized fascism centered on the Indian as the enemy?
Mark P. Fancher
Give No Thanks for Settlers’ Savagery
27 Nov 2019
The peculiar national holiday is a celebration of white settler conquest – a whitewashing of unspeakable crimes.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The End of American Thanksgivings: A Cause for Universal Rejoicing
27 Nov 2019
The mythology that Thanksgiving nurtures is itself inherently evil.
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
27 Nov 2019
Readers wanted to discuss police accountability, the impeachment hearings, the electoral college, and Barack Obama in this round of feedback. We print your letters for “
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Gary Phillip’s “The Be-Bop Barbarians”
27 Nov 2019
This book looks at the collision of race and class in a repressive time, in this case the late 1950s.