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by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Raining on Trump’s Parade: An Interview with Margaret Flowers
07 Mar 2018
“The people who are behind this are all groups who are strongly opposed to the corporate duopoly war party, and who have been working to revive the peace movement in the United States.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Black Panther Movie: A Black Face in a High Place
07 Mar 2018
“Questioners are ‘hoteps’ who are too woke to have fun.” The desire to see a black face in a high place is a legacy of slavery and the century of Jim Crow segregation that followed. The psychological impact of America’s apartheid is enduring, and unlikely to end without true revolutionary change.
Patrick D. Anderson
A Black Radical Defense of the Second Amendment
07 Mar 2018
“Black communities have differentiated individual firearm ownership from structured self-defense organizations.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Healthcare Bait-and-Switch: From the Clintons to Obama and Back Again
08 Mar 2018
“Cory Booker and others are joining the pro-single payer bandwagon to weaken it from the inside.”
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Lessons, Successes, Failures of the West Virginia Teachers Strike
08 Mar 2018
The 9 day West Virginia school strike was a long time coming, and contains a number of useful, if not new lessons.
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
My Wise Country Cousin On de Blak Boozewahzee
08 Mar 2018
Dey cum buck dancin’, ‘bout ebry 2 ta 4 years, Afta dat, is dey ‘bout scarce as Lepercon ears? Is dese spooks ‘bout korrup as de day is long— An’ “don’ wanna be rite, if luvin' monee wrong?” Do Dem Negroz ack lak 1 purse-cent pleazers, Got staks ob col’ cash stuff’d in dey freezurs? Is dey de…
Ken Morgan
Black Women and International Women’s Day
14 Mar 2018
“Alongside Assata and Rosa and Harriet and Sojourner, let’s celebrate Grace Campbell, of the Blood Brotherhood and the Communist Party.” Women’s History Month in the U.S. is rooted in the Socialist and Communist traditions of International Women’s Day, March 8, 1911.
Gregory Duff Morton
Blood on the Land in Brazil
14 Mar 2018
“The crimes appear to follow a simple, grim logic: kill the leaders.” Millions of Brazilians spent the evening of January 24 watching a courtroom on television. Three judges were scheduled to announce a verdict in the corruption case of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the country’s former president. The…
Netfa Freeman
Zimbabwe Open for Business, Code for International Finance Capitalism
14 Mar 2018
“Zimbabwe’s new president offered an open invitation to international capital investment and latecomers for Zimbabwe’s trek down the neoliberal development road.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Independent Journalist Corner: A Conversation with John Sibley
14 Mar 2018
“A capitalist does not think that just your existence in-the-world is a contribution.” This week I spoke with author and artist, John Sibley. A Chicago native, Sibley has written two books. His most recent release is a revised version of the title, Being and Homelessness: Notes from an Underground…