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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…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party, and the UK’s Socialist Surge
21 Jun 2017
by Ann Garrison The resurgence of a more genuinely “left” Labor Party under Jeremy Corbyn has lefty Americans wondering if the magic can be exported. It’s not likely, as long as the Democrats can sucker almost everyone to the left of Citibank. The UK may have a leftist prime minister…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Capitalism Kills, Socialism Heals
21 Jun 2017
by Danny Haiphong Death is a for-profit enterprise. In defense of capitalism, the ruling classes are prepared to kill on a staggering scale. “It is estimated that since World War II, US wars have murdered between 20-30 million people worldwide.” The rich wage economic and political warfare against…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Philando Castile, Charleena Lyles: The Body Count in the U.S. War against Black People Continues
21 Jun 2017
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka Add the name of Charleena Lyles, a pregnant woman from Seattle, to the list of victims of the U.S. State. Her name will soon move down the column, since killer cops “are inherent in the logic of repression that has always characterized the relationship…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: UNAC Brings Power to the People
21 Jun 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The United National Anti-War Coalition, which held a national conference last weekend in Richmond, Virginia, “does not change its organizing principles based on who controls Congress or who sits in the White House Oval Office.” All oppressions…