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by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Venezuela's Election Results Hold Global Significance
16 Dec 2015
by Danny Haiphong The stunning defeat of the Socialist Party in Venezuela is a threat to leftist governments and movements around the world, especially in Latin America. “The oligarchy would undoubtedly move to dissolve the ties of solidarity the Bolivarian movement has…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Why African Americans Should Stand with Muslims and Arabs
16 Dec 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka The methods of repression that are now directed against Muslims and Arabs in the United States were developed to oppress Black Americans and will return tomorrow “when the state and public opinion turns against the latest expressions of black opposition…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Rich Countries Subvert Climate Change Talks
16 Dec 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The recent Paris talks on climate change failed utterly to slow the planetary slide towards extinction. The human-induced heat wave will continue to build. President Obama and other world leaders “say they want to reverse fossil fuel emissions…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Rotten Orchards Givin’ Apples a Bad Name
16 Dec 2015
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Rotten apples aren't unique, points out our poet, and ain't caused by bad barrels. The rot's at the root, and roots run deep and true...
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
How Democrats and Republicans Collude to Block the Vote -- And How We Can Un-Block It
17 Dec 2015
We hear lots of outrage about how Republicans block the vote. But blocking the vote by keeping third parties off the ballot with unjust laws in more than a dozen states is a project Democrats share with Republicans. Both capitalist parties know you can't vote against gentrification or mass…
Sokari Ekine
Marcha das Mulheres Negras: The Myth of a Racial Democracy in Brazil
21 Dec 2015
by Sokari Ekine Last month, upwards of 20,000 Brazilians of African descent, predominantly women, came together to protest the deep seated racism, including the targeting and murder of Black youth by the police, and gender based violence in Brazil. This single act of protest shatters the myth of a…
Julian Cola
Elvis, Donny Hathaway and the Daft Hollywood Paradigm
21 Dec 2015
by Julian Cola Hollywood is one of U.S. imperialism’s greatest assets, hyping a world in which all things “super” are white – and speak English. “Media exploitation had famished many of my students’ outlook to humanity's potential for achievement and excellence, reducing it to an almost exclusive…
Jeffrey B. Perry
Hubert H. Harrison’s When Africa Awakes: The “Inside Story” of the Stirrings and Strivings of the New Negro in the Western World
21 Dec 2015
by Jeffrey B. Perry The works of the finest mind in early 20th century Harlem, a man who was more class-conscious than Marcus Garvey and more race-conscious than A. Philip Randolph, are now available in a new, expanded Diasporic Africa Press Edition. Hubert H. Harrison was the “Black Socrates,”…
Geraldine Matthews
Political Prisoner Rev. Edward Pinkney Marks Year Behind Bars
21 Dec 2015
by Geraldine Matthews The United States has many political prisoners. Rev. Edward Pinkney, railroaded for trying to empower the mostly Black population of Benton Harbor, Michigan, “stands as the most glaring example of imprisonment for political activity in Michigan, and possibly in the Midwest.”…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Report: Syria Scores Victory in Moscow Talks Despite Weakness of US Anti-war Movement
22 Dec 2015
by Danny Haiphong The U.S. anti-war movement – which protests only Republican wars – went largely out of business with the election of Barack Obama, who almost immediately started new wars in pursuit of regime change. Russia’s intervention in Syria has blocked Washington’s aims to seize power in…