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Privatization, Charters & High Stakes Tests: Arne Duncan's Legacy
07 Oct 2015
by the Real News Network Professor Pauline Lipman and educator Jose Luis Vilson discuss the legacy of Arne Duncan and what we know about his successor John B. King
Dale T. McKinley
It’s All About Power and Money: The Present State of the ANC
13 Oct 2015
by Dale T. McKinley The African National Congress has morphed from its earlier transition days as a “modern” bourgeois political party designed to consolidate a class-based system of power overlaid with narrow racial interests to an inveterately factionalized, patronage-centered, corrupt, rent…
Dr. T. P. Wilkinson
Mom, Is It War Yet? Part III: "Terminological Inexactitudes"
13 Oct 2015
by Dr. T.P. Wilkinson The only real challenge to the lies of Empire is to confront the Empire, itself. “The unstated premise of Euro-American domination is that the US and its European vassals constitute the highest stage of human and political development to which all other peoples and cultures…
Jay Espy
Advancing the Anti-Racist Struggle in the Dominican Republic
13 Oct 2015
by Jay Espy Dominicans and Haitians are the worst paid workers in the Americas. Both are exploited by the same North American and European capitalists, yet they are divided by issues of skin color. Meanwhile, “Dominicans in the U.S, Puerto Rico, and Spain are treated much like Haitians are treated…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
US imperialism's Upside Down World
13 Oct 2015
by Danny Haiphong Imperialism’s deep general crisis has become acute in Syria, where Russia has checked the U.S.-led proxy war. So profound is the disarray, Republican Donald Trump says “the US should stand down and allow Russia take out the Islamic State, and concedes that “the Middle East would…
Joel Northam
The Black Lives Matter Schism: Towards a Vision for Black Autonomy
13 Oct 2015
by Joel Northam The #BlackLivesMatter organization’s “Campaign Zero” is the “ultimate bastardization of militant resistance” – an absurd catch-all of proposals masquerading as demands. The “campaign’s” authors reveal themselves as “Black petit-bourgeois liberals who legitimately hate the system,…
Drew Franklin
The Movement Lives in Ferguson: Teach For America, Black Leadership, and Disaster Capitalism
13 Oct 2015
by Drew Franklin Teach for America is a corporate “Trojan Horse” that has deeply penetrated the #BlackLivesMatter organization. Brittany Packnett and Deray Mckesson represent the TFA’s “long game” to develop “a leadership class of its own” – embedded in the upper ranks of an incipient Black “…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Stein Bop Blues March On Gentrifiers
13 Oct 2015
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner Unsettling settlers settle settling like sulfur over UN peace talks. Unsettling settlers settle neighborly disputes using police like cavalry and Kit Carson Indian killers going West.
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
The Million Man March from the Perspective of Millennials: Which Way Forward?
13 Oct 2015
by BAR editor and columnist, Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo They journeyed to the Washington Mall by the hundreds of thousands, as had Black men 20 years before. They were led to believe that an ultimatum had been issued to Power: “Justice or Else.” But, “was the question of ‘Justice or Else’ ever…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: French Workers Show How to Fight
13 Oct 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Workers in the United States have learned some painful lessons: that they live on less than their peers in much of Europe and are woefully insecure in their jobs and retirements – if they have jobs and retirement plans, at all. What U.S. workers…