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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama’s Prison Charade
15 Jul 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Barack Obama attempts to create a phony legacy as the prison “reform” president by extending clemency to 46 non-violent drug offenders – not all that many, by presidential standards. Yet, he went to the U.S. Supreme Court to keep 5,000 non-…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Fight For A Socialist South Africa
15 Jul 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford South Africa’s most militant labor leaders are pressing forward with plans to build a real socialist party to challenge the ANC government’s capitulation to global capitalism. ANC loyalists this week locked the country’s largest union and the labor federation’s…
Hillary's Family Ties to School Privatizers, and Diane Ravitch's Review of Hoosier School Heist
15 Jul 2015
By Doug Martin at Hoosier School Heist Blog, and Diane Ravitch Last week the American Federation of Teachers endorsed Hillary Clinton's presidential candidacy, without consulting more than a token slice of the union's membership. It's hard not to know that AFT leaders have turned their backs on…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
My Wise Country Cousin on Blak Folk an de 8 yr Blues…
15 Jul 2015
by BAR's poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner With the clock ticking down on Barack Obama's presidency, black America discovers it was a marriage of conveninece. And not ours.
The Real News Network
Glen Ford: Syriza "Punked Out" by Global Banksters
17 Jul 2015
California Moves Towards Banning Grand Juries for Police Killings by the Real News Network
Steve Martinot
The Violence of Police Politics
22 Jul 2015
by Steve Martinot The “dementia” of police behavior is reflected in U.S. prisons, where punishment is justified by the fact of incarceration. “Solitary confinement is imposed on those who think critically and politically.” On the street, police dementia is policy. “In profiling, the police commit…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
A Brief Reflection on the Relationship Between Syriza and Bernie Sanders
22 Jul 2015
by Danny Haiphong The Greek Syriza party and Bernie Sanders’ U.S. presidential campaign have something in common: neither has any intention to challenge the global capitalist system. “Syriza began and remains a social democratic party committed to the maintenance of the Wall Street-controlled…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The Iran Deal Reality
22 Jul 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The U.S. deal with Iran – based on assumptions about an Iranian nuclear weapons program that American intelligence agencies have twice concluded does not exist – allows the U.S. to concentrate on provoking Russia and China while continuing to…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
The Assassination of Sandra Bland and the Struggle against State Repression
22 Jul 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka The Black Lives Matter movement has another martyr, as it prepares for a national conference in Cleveland, this weekend. Sandra Bland’s murder in Texas shows, once again, that “defending one’s dignity in an encounter with the police is a crime that that can…
Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Ph.D and Kevin Berend
Black Unionists Try to Save South Africa from Becoming a Failed State
22 Jul 2015
by Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, editor and columnist “What the South African people fought for is not what they have received… it’s time that we continue the struggle for liberation,” said labor leaders Irvin Jim and Zwelinzima Vavi, meeting with activist allies in Washington, DC and New York City…