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Dr. Matthew Quest
The Coming Rebellion: Ten Questions to Ask at the Black Mayors Forum in Newark
22 Feb 2018
On February 23 2018, a forum will be held in Newark, NJ under the banner “The Progress Continues: Newark Forward.” Special guest speakers will be Mayor Ras J. Baraka of Newark, New Jersey and Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba of Jackson, Mississippi. They will be speaking at the Robert Treat Hotel, 50…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Real Goal of “Russiagate” is to Prepare for Endless Austerity and War
22 Feb 2018
“The ruling circles of the imperial superpower set out to destabilize and call into disrepute the government of the home country.”
Patrick Bond
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa Relaunches Neoliberalism
28 Feb 2018
“In spite of repeated rhetorical gestures from Pretoria to the contrary, the BRICS have amplified unfair and inequitable world order processes.”
Phakamile Hlubi-Majola
Cyril Ramaphosa Has No Agenda Except Neoliberal Policies, Says NUMSA’s Irvin Jim
28 Feb 2018
“The South African Communist Party (SACP) and present leadership COSATU are lying to people that Cyril Ramaphosa will deliver socialism.” After Jacob Zuma’s resignation, his deputy Cyril Ramaphosa is the new President of South Africa. Phakamile Hlubi-Majola, national spokesperson of National Union…
LNPM
Libyan National Popular Movement Demands End to Interference by Foreign Forces and “Terrorists”
28 Feb 2018
“The National Popular Movement condemns the local, regional and international silence on the suffering of the inhabitants of Tawergha who had been unjustly and aggressively kicked out of their city.” Statement of the Libyan National Popular Movement on the Seventh Anniversary of the February…
Abayomi Azikiwe
Mass Incarceration for Profit: The 13th Amendment and National Oppression in the U.S.
28 Feb 2018
“Why was it necessary to include language in the Amendment which maintained involuntary servitude within the prison system?” This is a lecture which was delivered at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Detroit on Sunday February 18, 2018. Abayomi Azikiwe presented the sermon or message for…
Joshua Clark Davis
The FBI's War on Black-Owned Bookstores
28 Feb 2018
“In Hoover’s eyes, black-owned bookstores represented a coordinated network of hate-spewing extremists.”
Dylan Rodríguez
“Mass Incarceration” Reform as Police Endorsement
28 Feb 2018
“The reform of mass incarceration, as it has been absorbed by the cultural ensemble of the state and its distensions, endorses an expansion of policing logics.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison , Maurice Carney
Resource Sovereignty: Venezuela, Africa, and the Global South
28 Feb 2018
“The Congolese people in particular and Africans in general need to learn from their brothers and their sisters in the Global South.”
Paul Street
Good Panther, Bad Panther
28 Feb 2018
“Black revolutionary consciousness is merged with white and bourgeois Urban Nightmare images of Black ‘underclass’ ‘thugs’ and ‘Super-predators.’” “They are often the kinds of kids that are called superpredators — no conscience, no empathy. We can talk about why they ended up that way, but first,…