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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Leave North Korea Alone
12 Jul 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley U.S. presidents treat other nations like Dred Scott – as having no rights that the United States is bound to respect. North Korea is called “rogue” – the U.S. term for a country that “dares to exist on its own terms.” The dignity of peoples is…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
In Healthcare Battle, Corporations Continue to Win While Public Loses
12 Jul 2017
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka Both Trumpcare and Obamacare are privatized insurance systems tailored to the needs and greed of healthcare corporations. Corporations wrote the Affordable Care Act, and only the rich benefit from Trumpcare. “The only rational objective for the majority of…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Democrats Gone Mad: The Year of Living Stupidly
13 Jul 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Nobody voted for the War Party in November of 2016, but that’s who’s in power. Which is why both Democrats and Republicans talk of virtually nothing but Russians and war. Polls show most voters think there’s no evidence that Trump “colluded” with Russia, and they…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
How Did Berniecrats Claim the Jackson Mississippi Movement? Do They Want To Be Claimed? Should They?
13 Jul 2017
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon When Jackson's mayor-elect Chokwe Antar Lumumba stepped to the podium at the cynically misnamed "Peoples Summit", the annual June pilgrimage of Berniecrats, he carried with him the credibility of a half century's organizing and struggle in…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Mengele Medicine… Free
12 Jul 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raynmond Nat Turner This week our poet examines the links between the blankets settlers distributed among Native Americans and capitalism's reckless disregard of human, environmental and medica ethics.
Zwelinzima Vavi
South African Communist Party is “Pro-Capitalist and Anti-Socialist”
18 Jul 2017
by Zwelinzima Vavi The newly-formed South African Federation of Trade Unions rejected an invitation to attend a congress of the South African Communist Party (SACP), which is a stalwart ally of the ruling African National Congress and, until recently, President Jacob Zuma. Trade union leader…
Mississippi Autoworkers Mobilize
18 Jul 2017
by Michelle Chen Union sentiment is rising at the Nissan auto plant in Canton, Mississippi, where the mostly Black workforce has experienced “increasingly unstable working conditions and general deterioration in benefits and safety protections.” Much of the work is temporary, and “Nissan promotes a…
Resurrecting the Radical Pedagogy of the Black Panther Party
18 Jul 2017
by Christopher F. Petrella The Black Panther Party for Self Defense was deeply engaged in “education for liberation.” The party’s Intercommunal Youth Institute served children in East Oakland until 1982. Huey New and Bobby Seale “explicitly insisted upon ‘education for our people that exposes the…
50 Years Later, Newark and Detroit Still Feel Tremors from 1967 Rebellions
18 Jul 2017
by Todd Burroughs The shock of the two largest Black rebellions of 1967 caused President Lyndon Johnson to assign the Kerner Commission to study race relations in the U.S. However, the commission’s report “was buried by Johnson because it was honest about the effects of white racism and poverty on…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Organizing Pennsylvania’s 197: Cheri Honkala on Frontline Communities
19 Jul 2017
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Cheri Honkala has always believed in taking direct action on behalf of the poor and dispossessed. A lifelong activist, currently with the Green Party, Honkala has tried to play by the duopoly’s rules. But the rule-makers are the biggest rule-breakers. “I learned…