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Musawenkosi Cabe
In South Africa, channelizing Marx Towards Building a United Front
09 May 2018
“The union understands that it will have to go beyond theory and mobilize the working class.” “Now and then the workers are victorious, but only for time. The real fruit of their battles lies, not in the immediate result, but in the ever expanding union of workers.”– Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Tryon P. Woods
“Rest in Power”: Stephon Clark and Black Self-Defense, Part I
09 May 2018
“Policing precedes law and literally creates it as it goes along.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Why Michelle Wolf Angered the US Ruling Class So Much
09 May 2018
“The so-called ‘anti-Trump’ opposition is only concerned with critiquing the president so long as its relationship with the White House remains relatively stable.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Trump and Israeli Collusion
09 May 2018
“Trump is the one true believer in Israeli’s right to reign supreme in its region and in command of American foreign policy.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Why Is Former Black Panther Chip Fitzgerald Still Behind Bars?
09 May 2018
“The good news is that we don't have to wait the full five years.”
Howie Hawkins
The case for an independent Left party: From the bottom up
10 May 2018
...Democrats may replace the irrationalities and racist revanchism of Trump, but they won’t replace the austerity capitalism and militaristic imperialism to which the Democratic Party is committed...
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Trump Wages Economic War on the Planet
10 May 2018
“Trump is a man with no foreign policy of his own, but who is currently acting like a hand-puppet of -- not Russia, but Israel and its de facto ally, Saudi Arabia.”
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Barber Sermon on Militarism Reveals Philosophical & Political Limitations of the Poor Peoples Campaign
11 May 2018
"Rev. Barber speaks for the politically leftish wing of the Institutional Church in the US, which has pretty much anointed him the mantle of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s final year, minus the burden King carried as one of the nation’s most hated, derided and despised public figures."
Sam Levin
Balogun Speaks Out on FBI Surveillance of “Black Identity Extremists”
16 May 2018
“Balogun is believed to be the first person targeted and prosecuted under the secretive program.” RakemBalogun thought he was dreaming when armed agents in tactical gear stormed his apartment. Startled awake by a large crash and officers screaming commands, he soon realized his nightmare was real,…
R. Divya Nair
“The Truth Shall Make You Free”: The Friendship Of Paul Robeson, Shirley Graham Du Bois, and W.E.B Du Bois
16 May 2018
“Robeson and the Du Boises knew that the struggle against European imperialism had to be waged on both the material as well as the ideological front.”