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by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Getting Rid of Al Sharpton and the Misleadership Class
18 Dec 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The young activists of the Ferguson “movement” may have altered the course of Black and U.S. history, “Thanks to the liberating model of Ferguson, there is the opportunity to thoroughly discredit the Black Misleadership Class” and move forward towards…
Jeb Sprague
Jamaica and the Politics of Debt Trap
25 Dec 2014
by Jeb Sprague In Jamaica, as in so much of the formerly colonized world, debt strangles development and negates national sovereignty. “Jamaica’s two main political parties are largely concerned with remaking Jamaica into a more globally competitive platform for transnational capital.”
Thandisizwe Chimurenga
Why Shaneka Thompson's Life Matters
25 Dec 2014
by Thandisizwe Chimurenga In their haste to seize a political opportunity with the killing of 2 NYPD officers by Ismaiyil Brinsley, corporate media, cops and politicians have shown once again whose causes and lives really matter. Brinsley's first victim was Shaneka Thompson. Remember her name. Her…
This Is Hell
The Police and the Massacre of Afro-Brazilian Youth
25 Dec 2014
by Brian Mier Brazil has the largest population of black people outside Africa, leads the planet in police murders of young blacks. Like their US counterparts, murderous Brazilian cops enjoy immunity and impunity. Besides the article published below, our friends at This Is Hell interviewed Brian…
Michelle Renee Matisons
Anti-Police Violence Organizing After Ismaaiyl Brinsley's Death
25 Dec 2014
by Michelle Matisons The three deaths in New York this past weekend – two cops, one young Black man with a gun – do not alter the issues and imperatives of the movement against police repression in Black America. However, “the corporate state's policing apparatus will do everything in its power to…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The Politics of Language Pt. 1: Six Concepts For This Movement's Continued Political Education
25 Dec 2014
by Danny Haiphong The battle against the Black Mass Incarceration State will move forward through both organized, concrete action and spontaneous rebellion. The goal is social transformation. “Capitalist ideology is merely window-dressing for a genocidal, racist system built on the graves of…
Mr. Davey D
A Comparative Tale of Two Cop Killers - The Millers VS Ismaaiyl Brinsley
25 Dec 2014
by Davey D When a white couple killed two Nevada cops earlier this year, draping a tea party flag and swastikas on one of the corpses before being gunned down, we didn't hear a nationwide outcry about how cops feared for their lives. There was no pressure on open carry and tea party folks to…
Jihan El-Tahri
Cuba - An African Odyssey, Parts 1 and 2
25 Dec 2014
A Cuban Odyssey: Cuba's key role in the struggle for African Liberation An indispensable film by by Jihan El-Tahri. From its beginnings, the Cuban Revolution has been the indispensable ally of liberation forces on the African continent. This is part of the history that most Africans, and certainly…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Cops Threaten a Blue Coup in New York City
25 Dec 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford New York City’s cops “threaten mutiny if the State does not stick up for the men and women who do its dirty work.” The police say they are now on a “wartime” footing – as if a state of a war has not existed between police and Black America for the past two…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Political Mutiny in the New York Police Department. Does DeBlasio Order Officers to Turn in their Badges?
25 Dec 2014
By Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist Ex NYC Mayor Bloomberg used to call NYPD his army. Facist thug cops are acting the part, publicly feuding with corporate media and liberal authoritarians like the mayor, the attorney general and the president over the degree of their immunity…