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by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Look Away, Look Away....
28 Jun 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner For us living in the US, our poet reminds us, imperial atrocities are at worst collateral damage, and most often invisible. Only when they come into sight need we look away.... look away...
Norman Richmond
Justin Trudeau is Not a Friend of all God’s Children
04 Jul 2017
by Norman (Otis) Richmond aka Jalali The youthful leader of Canada claims to be many things, including a feminist and friend of all the country’s various ethnicities. However, Canada has a poor history of friendly relations with African peoples. “Canada has played a role in the violence the Congo,…
The Canadian Who Helped Conquer Congo for the Belgian King
04 Jul 2017
by Yves Engler Celebrated Canadian soldier William Grant Stairs helped King Leopold II of Belgium conquer the resource-rich Katanga region of the Congo. Known for his heartless brutality, Stairs headed a heavily armed mission that swelled to 2,000. The goal of the expedition was to extend Leopold’s…
Script For Plans To Destroy Bolivarian Revolution Was Written In Washington
04 Jul 2017
by Sergio Alejandro Gómez Most of the “news” we get in the U.S. about Venezuela is fake, the result of the weaponized selectivity of the international corporate press. “The same day that three million people marched in Caracas to show support for [President] Nicolás Maduro, much less attended…
W. E. B. Du Bois's Revolutions
04 Jul 2017
by Phillip Luke Sinitiere W.E.B. Du Bois did not formally join the Communist Party until 1961, at age 93, but he had long proposed “meaningful socialist solutions to tackle contemporary, systemic problems of racial terror and economic disaster.” The author maintains that Du Bois, a founding Pan-…
Would Slavery Have Ended Sooner if the British Had Defeated the Colonists’ Bid for Independence?
04 Jul 2017
by Keith Brooks By the evidence of their actions, most Blacks wanted the British to defeat their white settler masters. Most Native Americans, too. The British had prohibited settlement west of the Appalachian mountains, and showed some signs of moving towards abolition of slavery. “While 5000…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Their System, Our Lives: A Political Obituary in Service of Revolutionary Emancipation
05 Jul 2017
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong The class conflict remains the central contradiction among human beings – a fact that too many “movement” leaders seem eager to forget. As a result, they attempt to shore up “a crumbling imperialist system and the ideas that sustain it.” The longer this system is…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: America’s Embarrassment
05 Jul 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Much of America is embarrassed by Donald Trump’s boorish ways -- as if bad manners and geopolitical ignorance are the worst faults a president can have. Trump is a truly repugnant human being, but he did not attack seven nations (Obama), destroy…
“Color Revolution” Comes Home? Are Americans Also the Victims of “Regime Change”?
04 Jul 2017
by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers The longstanding U.S. practice of staging “color revolutions” against unwanted governments around world has inevitably come home to roost. Donald Trump’s presidency is the target, “not only based on his policies but also through manufactured crises such as…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Ending the “Austerity” that Affords Endless War and Little Else
05 Jul 2017
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison U.S. leftists in search of a leader and political model could do worse than Jeremy Corbyn, the British Labour Party leader who is pulling the party back to its social democratic roots. “Corbyn has spoken out not only for a more egalitarian, communitarian Britain, but…