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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Shadaab Rahemtulla’s “Qur'an of the Oppressed”
17 Oct 2018
A central aim of liberation theology, in both the Christian and Muslim faiths, is to wrestle theology away from the elites and their privileged pontification
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Ira Dworkin’s “Congo Love Song”
10 Oct 2018
Ida B Wells, Malcolm X, Fannie Lou Hamer and others understood the connections between colonialism in Africa and US racial policies.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Johnny Van Hove’s “Congoism”
10 Oct 2018
The lies that are told about the history and people of Congo are then used to defame Black people everywhere, including the US.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Kavanaugh Farce
03 Oct 2018
Now that it’s too late to prevent a total rightwing takeover of the Supreme Court, the Democrats pretend to be the party of opposition.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Historic Precedent or Footnote? Laura Wells Debates Barbara Lee
03 Oct 2018
Barbara Lee has done what no other Democratic congressional candidate has ever done—agreed to a one-on-one debate with a Green.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
GOP Created Federalist Society to Change the Constitution
01 Oct 2018
“The Republican Party has bred a group of lawyers to maintain power and to change the Constitution and the course of this country,” said Kevin Alexander Gray.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Black People Don’t Need Bill Cosby’s Kind of “Race Man”
26 Sep 2018
Cosby represents a Black American political right wing whose views of the Black poor are just as crude and dehumanizing as their white counterparts.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Standing with Julian Assange
26 Sep 2018
Pacifica radio stations are known as havens for leftwing thought and action, but the Berkeley station and the national Pacifica board have yet to come to the defense of Wikileak’s Julian Assange.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: World War Dangers in Syria
26 Sep 2018
Israel has bombed Syria at will, apparently with Russian permission, but that may change after the downing of a Russian plane.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
What Syria Continues to Teach Us
26 Sep 2018
Leftists should turn their attention to the New Guard Fascists -- the enemies of the people at the top of the class structure and the armed body, the state, that protects the class structure.