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by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Stopping the Trans-Pacific Partnership is a “Black Issue”*
13 May 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka The Trans Pacific Partner (TPP) that President Obama is trying to ram through Congress is actually a partnership of the global 1% against all the working people of the planet. “The agreement will pit workers in the U.S. – especially Black and Brown workers…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: When a Black Mayor Killed Black People
13 May 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley If the purpose of Black electoral politics is to protect African American interests, the Black political class has been a colossal failure. “The disasters of mass incarceration, police murder, gentrification, privatized public schools, and…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
TPP, Obama's "NAFTA on Steroids" Fails First Senate Test
13 May 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford President Obama looked more like the leader of the Republican Party, as Senate Democrats overwhelmingly rejected “fast track” passage of his Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal. “Obama is even more dependent on the GOP on trade issues than was his mentor, Bill…
Nu’man Abd al-Wahid
British Elections: Deliverance of Liars and the Summoning of Imperial War
20 May 2015
by Nu’man Abd al-Wahid The British Conservative Party won a majority of the Parliament in this month’s elections largely because English voters feared a government that might include Scottish leftists. British imperialism is, if anything, more aggressive than the Americans. “The morning after the…
Derek R. Ford
Studying in the Streets: The Pedagogy of Throwing Bottles at the Cops
20 May 2015
by Derek R. Ford What’s going on the streets and neighborhoods of an awakened and outraged Black America? The author believes the “skirmishes with the cops” in Baltimore “weren't leading up to a big finale; they were rehearsals for a revolutionary event, for something that we can't quite envision…
Ajamu Nangwaya
Dump “Carding” into the Cesspool of History by Refusing to Talk to the Cops
20 May 2015
by Ajamu Nangwaya In the U.S., it’s called “stop-and-frisk.” In Canada, it’s called “carding,” a practice that “should be cast into the cesspool of history through a mass refusal carding campaign that organizes Afrikans, other racialized peoples, Indigenous peoples, and the white working-class.”…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Cuba is Fanon in the Flesh: A Living Example of A New Humanity
20 May 2015
by Danny Haiphong There have been many revolutionaries, and many revolutionary thinkers, but few revolutionary societies have survived as long as Cuba’s. The genius of Frantz Fanon, the Black revolutionary doctor from Martinique, strives to become social reality in Cuba, where “national law…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Blessed…
20 May 2015
by Raymond Nat Turner A poem to the purveyors of deathly cycles
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Cuba’s Kenia Serrano: U.S. Has No “Moral Authority” to Criticize Anybody on Race
20 May 2015
by Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, editor and columnist Cuba, like the United States, has a long history of slavery and racial discrimination. However, unlike the U.S., Cuba has undergone a revolutionary transformation. “The US government has no moral authority to criticize any other country,” said…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
The Political Economy of Black Opposition to Free-Trade Neoliberalism
20 May 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka Despite President Obama’s fierce defense of his rigged trade treaty, “African American organizations have rallied in opposition to the TPP and established its defeat as an immediate priority for black people.” The realities of Black life demand that the job…