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  • China and Cuba’s Medical Internationalism is a Shining Example of Global Solidarity
    Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
    China and Cuba’s Medical Internationalism is a Shining Example of Global Solidarity
    01 Apr 2020
    China sends medical equipment abroad, Cuba sends doctors and cutting-edge drugs, but the US fails to provide its people, doctors and nurses with basic tools and protection.
  • Flattening the curve on Capitalism?
    BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
    Flattening the curve on Capitalism?
    01 Apr 2020
    CEO from Boeing to CEO from Wells Fargo,  heard by the flies on walls at Mar-a-Lago: “It’s their health or our economy— we get to choose…”
  • COVID-19: The Capitalist Emperor Has no Clothes
    Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor
    COVID-19: The Capitalist Emperor Has no Clothes
    01 Apr 2020
    The systemic failure of the capitalist order triggered by the coronavirus has reinforced the growing awareness that extreme wealth inequality is a fundamental characteristic of the system.
  • Racial Profiling Disorder: the All-American Pandemic 
    John G. Russell
    Racial Profiling Disorder: the All-American Pandemic 
    01 Apr 2020
    RAPROD carriers are convinced that blacks disproportionately carry guns and other contraband.
  • Letters from Our Readers 
    Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
    Letters from Our Readers 
    01 Apr 2020
    This week readers discussed the coronavirus’s relationship to NATO, sanctions, and the duopoly.
  • BAR Abolition & Mutual Aid Spotlight: Mutual Aid Disaster Relief
    Dean Spade and Roberto Sirvent, BAR Contributors
    BAR Abolition & Mutual Aid Spotlight: Mutual Aid Disaster Relief
    01 Apr 2020
    The system is a disaster and the victims can best determine their own needs -- only the people save the people.
  • BAR Book Forum: Brenna Greer’s “Represented”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Brenna Greer’s “Represented”
    01 Apr 2020
    This book demonstrates the challenges of pursuing rights or recognition through capitalism and the market.
  • "I'm Detained at Rikers Island and I'm Sick With Coronavirus"
    Jojo Goldman
    "I'm Detained at Rikers Island and I'm Sick With Coronavirus"
    01 Apr 2020
    “The corrections officers think it’s a joke, and I be telling them, ‘This is serious, man.’”
  • The Roots of Organizing: The Young Lords’ Revolution
    Ed Morales
    The Roots of Organizing: The Young Lords’ Revolution
    01 Apr 2020
    Historian Johanna Fernández makes the case for the Young Lords as profound thinkers as well as highly capable street activists.
  • On Being Black, Southern And Rural In The Time Of COVID-19 
    Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson
    On Being Black, Southern And Rural In The Time Of COVID-19 
    01 Apr 2020
    Elders and already sick folks are at risk down South, the Blackest region of the nation with the worst health care.
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