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Motsoko Pheko
The Shame of South Africa’s Black Political Prisoners
10 Feb 2016
by Motsoko Pheko More than twenty years after the end of formal apartheid, several African nationalists who resisted the inhuman system are still languishing in prison. Yet many apartheid agents who committed atrocious crimes against the African people were pardoned, some without even expressing…
Shane Burley
Portland Tenants United Leads a New Call for Organizing Against Evictions and Displacement
10 Feb 2016
by Shane Burley When renters band together, they can stop gentrification in its tracks, say tenants union advocates in Portland, Oregon. “Just as workers can have a union in their workplaces, tenants should have the same power of collective action, and bargaining, in their homes.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Pentagon Request of 582 Billion in 2017 another Indication of Imperialism's Desperation
10 Feb 2016
by Danny Haiphong Washington’s hyper-aggressive rhetoric is backed up by a Pentagon budget that promises never-ending war for the foreseeable future. The world will pay a horrific price. U.S. wars “no longer stimulate a recovery of imperialism’s economic base, but rather exacerbate crisis.” As a…
Mumia Abu Jamal
Water War Against the Poor: Flint and the Crimes of Capital
10 Feb 2016
by Mumia Abu-Jamal The adage that there are different systems of justice for rich and poor, Black and white, is horrifically confirmed in Flint, Michigan, where the white supremacist, capitalist state poisoned a majority Black and poor population. Yet, in U.S. society there is no…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
EPA’s Deliberate Poisoning of Flint’s Children
10 Feb 2016
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Flint, Michigan, was declared a “sacrifice zone” because its majority Black and poor population’s “presence is no longer required and their lives are considered a hindrance to economic progress,” writes the author, who blew the whistle on EPA…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Beyonce and the Politics of Cultural Dominance
10 Feb 2016
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka Beyonce and her dancers perform in pseudo-Panther gear, pretending that resistance to the state is a matter of fashionability. “It is incredibly naive to think that anything subversive or even remotely oppositional to the interests of the capitalist…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: America’s Endless Wars
10 Feb 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley There is no “peace” wing in either the Democratic or Republican parties. “Not only has Obama declared unending war against the rest of the world, but so has the rest of the two party duopoly.” When the warmongers scream “Jump,” the only question…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Throw Off the Dead Weight of the Democratic Party
11 Feb 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford “Blacks haven’t transformed the Democratic Party by our overwhelming presence. Instead, the Party has transformed us – and overwhelmed our radical politics.” The best result that can occur from the Sanders campaign would be that it leads to a split in the…
Lacino Hamilton
Incarcerated Lives Matter
10 Feb 2016
by Lacino Hamilton The struggle against mass incarceration has gained broad support in recent years. However, “as long as reducing the incarceration rate is confined to fiscal pressures, little attention, if any at all, will be paid to the root cause of mass incarceration (racism), or how…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Black Political Discussion On the 2016 Presidential Race is Wider and Deeper Than in 2008 or 2012
11 Feb 2016
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon 2008's black political discussion around presidential politics was all about silencing black noise over housing, jobs, unemployment, education, justice and peace. Be quiet we told each other. White folks will hear you and not vote for Obama. By 2012 we shut…