US Politics

Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Mengele Medicine: Death Panels of Boss Tweet and Pence
08 Apr 2020
STOP! No testing! No testing for the infection— big, big numbers could threaten the $election! STOP! No testing for us poor, us working-class—
Cooperation Jackson
A Call to Action: Towards a General Strike to End the COVID-19 Crisis and Create a New World
08 Apr 2020
We must make demands that will transform our broken and inequitable society, and build a new society run by and for us – the working-class, poor, oppressed majority.
Netfa Freeman
Expect Police-Military Repression Amid the Crisis of COVID-19 and Its Aftermath
08 Apr 2020
The rulers are concerned about the class war becoming sharper in the current crisis and they are preparing to send in the military and police to quell dissent.
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
08 Apr 2020
This week you discussed Black Marxism and the Bernie Sanders campaign.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Xavier Livermon’s “Kwaito Bodies”
08 Apr 2020
The author examines how Black youth in post-apartheid South Africa imagine freedom under tremendous systems of constraint.
Dean Spade and Roberto Sirvent, BAR Contributors
BAR Abolition & Mutual Aid Spotlight: Chicago Community Bond Fund
08 Apr 2020
This arena of the mutual aid movement is energized by “a vision of the absence of prisons, jails, detention, and criminalization.”
Elizabeth Cooney
Blacks May be Bearing the Brunt of Covid-19, But Access to Data is Limited
08 Apr 2020
The feds don’t keep racial data on the coronavirus, but local reports show Blacks are dying at multiple the rates of whites in some cities.
Soraya Nadia Mcdonald
In 1918 and 2020, Race Colors America’s Response to Epidemics
08 Apr 2020
A century ago, In cities across the nation, black people struck by the flu were often left to fend for themselves.
Jessica Corbett
Moral Leaders Demand Coronavirus Relief for Most Vulnerable
08 Apr 2020
The relief package “leaves out the majority of homeless, undocumented immigrants, the disabled, and anyone too poor to have to file taxes,” says the Poor Peoples Campaign.
Vijay Prashad, Paola Estrada, Ana Maldonado and Zoe PC
Trump Sends Gun boats to Venezuela While the World Partners to Fight a Deadly Pandemic
08 Apr 2020
The Trump administration has used the fabricated narco-trafficking charges against Maduro and other officials as an excuse to intensify pressure on Venezuela.