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Patrick Bond
World Bank Punches South Africa’s Poor and Coddles the Rich
17 Feb 2016
by Patrick Bond Despite abundant evidence of pro-corporate bias, the Bank endorses the government’s “sound policy” on redistribution because Bank researchers cannot grapple with the core problem that best explains why South African capitalism causes poverty and inequality: extreme exploitation…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Know Thyself? Why Individual and Internal Political Struggle Is Necessary in A Movement
17 Feb 2016
by Danny Haiphong The author traces his development as a “self-identified Asian-American” actively engaged in revolutionary politics. “It became clear that neither reactionary racist ideas nor the conditions that produce them could be eradicated without a transfer of power from the capitalist class…
Shea Howell
Repeal Michigan’s Emergency Manager Law
17 Feb 2016
by Shea Howell Michigan Governor Rick Synder has agreed to testify before a congressional committee about his role in poisoning the people of Flint. The evidence is incontrovertible. Snyder’s emergency financial manager law is designed to disenfranchise local citizens, and “has been used almost…
Tom Stephens
The Flint River Lead Poisoning Catastrophe in Historical Perspective
17 Feb 2016
by Tom Stephens The takeover of Michigan’s majority Black cities by emergency managers was the direct cause of the poisoning of Flint. However, the legal groundwork for the crime was laid a generation ago in two court cases that “established de facto environmental policy to allow such…
Mark P. Fancher
Colonialism in Michigan’s Little Africa
17 Feb 2016
by Mark P. Fancher The rulers of Michigan believed the quickest path to economic development was to place the state’s Black cities under the control of a single, appointed emergency manager. The policy is domestic colonialism in practice, “an implicit – but distinct – embrace of the idea that…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
The Clinton-Sanders Debate: What Was Left Unsaid?
17 Feb 2016
by Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are expressing deep love for Black folks, who will dominate the South Carolina primary. Clinton hopes Black voters have “short or non-existent memories” of the horrors of her husband’s actual criminal justice…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Black Politics and Bernie Sanders
17 Feb 2016
by BAR editor and columnist Margaret Kimberley The Democratic presidential primary has turned into a real battle, but not ideologically, since “there is no leftist among the Democrats.” Hillary Clinton clings to Barack Obama like a life raft, mentioning his name 21 times in a debate with Bernie…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Can We Have A Talk With You?
17 Feb 2016
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Prescient, pertinent and pointed questions to each other, and to our alleged betters about what we have, what we are, what we deserve, and what we settle for, posed by BAR's poet in residence.
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
There’s Nothing "Transformative" About Bernie Sanders (He’s Just Not Hillary)
18 Feb 2016
Bernie Sanders’ domestic policies more clearly match Black America’s left-leaning politics – but they will still reject him in favor of Hillary Clinton, who Blacks think has a better chance against the Republicans. At any rate, Sanders is no prize. He is "incapable of challenging his own party and…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
“Vanguard of the Revolution” is Liberal History, Strips and Omits Socialism from History of the Black Panther Party
18 Feb 2016
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Stanley Nelson's documentary on the BPP is "history" by and for lazy American liberals. He turns the BPP into a pop culture icon a T-shirt. Nelson mentions guns hundreds of times, big naturals and swagger a few dozen times but not the word “socialism” once…