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Victory for the Black Struggle in Buenaventura, Colombia
14 Jun 2017
A Report from the Black Alliance for Peace The three-week strike in Buenaventura was a collective human rights struggle which challenged neoliberalism head on. “The strike involved 117 social organizations, from cargo boat operators, to taxi drivers, to business people, evangelical churches, women’…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
What is "the Resistance," Anyway?
14 Jun 2017
by Danny Haiphong Who is “resisting” what, and on whose behalf? Among folks that claim to be leftists, resistance has become a catch-all term that is “useless” – or worse – “without definition.” Much of the so-called resistance owes allegiance to Hillary Clinton, a true champion of the One Percent…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Under the Democrats’ Bus
14 Jun 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The Democrats continue their decades-long lurch to the right. The party funds right-wing congressional candidates in hopes of appealing to Trump voters, but resists its own supporters’ calls for single payer health care and other reforms. The…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Why Bernie Sanders is an Imperialist Pig
15 Jun 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Leftish Democrats insist they can reform the corporate-run, Russia-obsessed Democratic Party from the inside, but most pay little attention to war. However, “War is not a side issue in the United States; it is the central political issue, on which all the others…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Circus on Capitalist Hill (Comey don’t play that…)
13 Jun 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Big doings this week up there between the War House and the Rogues Garden. Our poet reports on the show, clowns, cloven hooves and all.
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Earning Minimum Wage Puts Affordable Housing Out of Reach
15 Jun 2017
Alemayehu G. Mariam
Ethiopia: Collective Punishment by Internet Clampdown
19 Jun 2017
by Alemayehu G. Mariam Shutting down and criminalizing use of the internet has become a weapon in the government’s cyber warfare strategy against the Ethiopian people, particularly the youth. The internet is making it exceedingly difficult for dictatorships to cling to power and rule tyrannically.…
Arnold August
Trump Cuba Policy: What Will Happen in Coming Months?
19 Jun 2017
by Arnold August Donald Trump’s position on Cuba flies in the face not only of national and world opinion, but also the wishes of the U.S. corporate class, which generally wants more trade with the island. For example, “the powerful accommodations-networking firm Airbnb is not expected to take…
A Case for Reparations at the University of Chicago
21 Jun 2017
by Ashley Finigan, Caine Jordan, Guy Emerson Mount, Kai Parker The University of Chicago, the famous center of laissez-fair capitalist economics on the city’s South Side, was endowed by one of Mississippi’s worst slaveholders. Reparations are in order, but the process must be “a function of what…
Mayor-elect Lumumba: Jackson “to be the Most Radical City on the Planet”
21 Jun 2017
by Anna Wolfe Chokwe Antar Lumumba and his supporters won a second chance to make Jackson, Mississippi, the city that tests the limits of what can be accomplished in a mostly Black city under U.S. bourgeois democracy. Like his father, who died less than a year before capturing city hall, the young…