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Building the Greens Into a Mass Party: Interview with Bruce Dixon
04 May 2016
by Ann Garrison The Green Party has been around for two decades as an alternative to the two corporate parties. It's time some Greens paid attention to why it hasn't caught a mass following, despite being mostly correct on the issues and closer to the beliefs of actual votes than either of…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Detroit Teachers Strike Against Disaster Capitalism
05 May 2016
The corporate narrative on the Detroit teacher’s sick-out is that the public schools are “failing,” just as the city has “failed” to manage its own finances. But the state has intervened in Detroit’s schools for decades, and has destabilized the public system with charters. “Charter schools play a…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Drain the Swamp
04 May 2016
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Our poet tires of the swatting zika-infested mosquitoes that bring us emergency managers and privatization, of seeing the crocodile tears of our black big city mayors and the rest of the black misleadership class. this week he advocates a more…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Bernie to Deliver Captive Constituencies to the Democratic Convention
05 May 2016
Bernie will take his campaign all the way to the convention. We called him a sheepdog back in May 2015, and he's filling exactly that role, enticing the Dems' captive constituencies back into the trunk of the party one more time, where their votes will count but not their demands. The…
Amber Murrey
“Our stomachs Will Make Themselves Heard”: What Sankara Can Teach Us About Food Justice Today
11 May 2016
by Amber Murrey In recent weeks, news of food crises in countries across Africa has been intensifying. From the Democratic Republic of Congo all the way down to South Africa – via Malawi, Zimbabwe, Angola and many others – low rainfall has contributed to millions more being left vulnerable. “Thomas…
Jeb Sprague
Polyarchy in the Dominican Republic: The Elite Versus the Elite
11 May 2016
by Jeb Silgado-Sprague The two leading candidates in the upcoming Dominican Republic presidential elections differ little when it comes to economic policy and the targeting of migrant and migrant-descendant communities. The political establishment spouts the racial rhetoric of an “Hispanic” state,…
Zwelinzima Vavi
Zuma’s Denialism and Betrayal
11 May 2016
by Zwelinzima Vavi South African President Jacob Zuma run “a pro-big business government that is implementing neoliberal and anti-poor economic policies,” writes the author, a former trade union leader. Zuma “should have introduced a national beneficiation program complemented by a socially and…
Shea Howell
There’s Nothing Fair About Detroit’s Massive Water Shut Offs
11 May 2016
by Shea Howell The corporate rulers are relentless in their drive to push the poor out of Detroit. With tens of thousands more households facing water shut offs, the authorities held – of all things – a water fair. The author was there: “Almost everyone I talked to said the same thing, ‘The city…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Johanna Fernandez Speaks on the Revolution and Counter Revolution that Mumia Abu-Jamal Embodies
11 May 2016
by Danny Haiphong Mumia Abu Jamal has spoken Truth to Power since his teen days in the Black Panther Party, then as a crusading radio newsman and, since 1981, as a political prisoner. Historian and activist Johanna Fernandez is editor of Writing on the Wall, a compilation of Abu Jamal’s essays.…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
40% of Detroit Will be Deprived of Life Sustaining Water: the UN Investigates Human Rights Violations
11 May 2016
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The United States has no moral authority to speak of “human rights” as an American “value” when it systematically deprives Detroit’s Black poor population of water. “The Detroit Water and Sewerage Department has begun shutting off water to 3,…