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The working class is now united: A report on dissent and democracy in Brazil
31 May 2017
Corruption allegations and protests against Brazil's Workers Party and its president Dilma Roussef were widely reported in the US. But since a soft coup ousted the Workers Party and its president a few months ago strikes and protests twice as large are utterly unreported by the US press. Brasil…
The Editors
Good Thing the US Doesn't Interfere in Other Peoples Elections-- Obama Endorses French Bankster for President
01 Jun 2017
Dr. Matthew Quest
Sister Tchaiko Kwayana: An Original Educator of the African World
30 May 2017
by Dr. Matthew Quest Educator and popular historian Sister Tchaiko R. Kwayana (1937-2017) taught in Africa, South America and the US. A forerunner of the Black Power and Black studies movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s, she also challenged post-civil rights, post-colonial independence…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
When I Grow Up…
30 May 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Ralph Pointer, husband of the recently deceased peoples lawyer and political prisoner Lynne Stewart is an accomplished freedom fighter in his own right. A respected elder, he is still with us, and BAR's poet in residence tells us a little about him.
Thomas C. Mountain
Fortress Europe: The Rise of Fascism and Racism in the Netherlands
05 Jun 2017
by Thomas C. Mountain Police in a small Dutch town broke up a long-scheduled and totally peaceful gathering of Eritreans from all over Europe, as the event was besieged by Ethiopians pretending to be Eritreans. Meanwhile, “a well known Dutch ‘human rights activist’” was heard on her cell phone “…
The Failure of the Socialist Movement in Nigeria
05 Jun 2017
by Osaze Lanre Nosaze Africa’s most populous nation has lots of parties that call themselves “socialist” or “communist,” but “all of them fail by the crucial criterion of possessing sufficient interventional capacity for sustained and broad-based influence over the agenda, course, pace, and…
“Zuma Must Fall” and the Left: Lessons from Zimbabwe
05 Jun 2017
by Munvaradzi Gwisai Faced with a growing crisis, South African President Zuma has raised the prospect of a radical reorientation of the ANC and the possibility of radical economic transformation. Alarmed, another faction of the South Africa’s capitalist class has thrown its support behind the “…
In the Face of Trump's Surveillance Threats, Local Movements Demand Disclosure of Police Technologies
05 Jun 2017
by Candice Bernd In anticipation that the Trump administration will expand on Obama’s domestic spying practices, a coalition of civil liberties groups is pushing a Community Control Over Police Surveillance initiative in cities across the nation. The campaign would require local approval of police…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The Crisis of US Imperial Governance and the Struggle for a New World
07 Jun 2017
by Danny Haiphong “The struggle against neo-liberal capital and anti-Russian hysteria is a struggle to transform and revolutionize society,” writes Black Agenda Report contributor Danny Haiphong, who delivered the following remarks at BAR’s “Resisting Trump, Exposing the Democrats” panel the Left…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Climate Agreement Smoke and Mirrors
07 Jun 2017
by BAR editor and senior columist Margaret Kimberley Donald Trump backed out of the Paris climate accords, but “the world leaders who condemn him are even more guilty because they have used sleight of hand to give an appearance of concern and of action when they lie to the world and continue…