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by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Challenging Democratic Party Corruption in Pennsylvania’s District 197
16 May 2018
“It's time for us to grow up and join the rest of the world that has several different political parties.” In 2017, Cheri Honkala was the Green Party’s candidate for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in Philadelphia’s District 197. I spoke to her about what happened. Ann Garrison:Cheri,…
Tafi Mhaka
On Trump, Gaza and White Supremacy in South Africa
23 May 2018
“Our experiences of white supremacy oppression are real and they don't end with the end of slavery.” On May 2, representatives of Afriforum, a controversial South African organization, traveled to the US on a mission to lobby the US government to take a stance against what they called a "racist…
Yves Engler
The French Imperial Role in Africa
23 May 2018
“Criticizing France’s role in Rwanda dovetails with the interests of Kigali, Washington, London and Ottawa.” Left criticism of French imperialism in Africa provides a stark example. Incredibly, the primary contemporary criticism North American leftists make of French imperialism on that continent…
Mark P. Fancher
Africans Can Become a People Not to Be Trifled With
23 May 2018
“One effective method of attacking the imperialist infrastructure is to drain its pool of enforcers by organizing a total boycott of the U.S. military.” In 1835, poet Alfred Tennyson penned the oft-quoted verse: “…in the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love…” In 2018, “Gator…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ M Archive
23 May 2018
“This moment we are living through has infinite possibilities, and not all of those possibilities include the existence of humans.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Keisha Blain’s Set the World on Fire
23 May 2018
“It is impossible to understand, or even fully appreciate, how black women have shaped national and global politics today without knowing the larger history.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The Defeat of US Imperialism is a Strategic Necessity, not a Single Issue
23 May 2018
“Anti-colonial nationalism is the antithesis of US imperial rule, which is predicated to the unmitigated corporate and military plunder of the planet.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Gaza: Grandstanding Around a Slow Motion Genocide
23 May 2018
“Israel is massacring Palestinian civilians again, but ‘the UN’—meaning the Security Council—has no power to stop it.” Any relief for the people suffering in Gaza will have to come from outside the UN, so long as the US has veto power on the Security Council. As during the Vietnam War, the Council…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: CIA and FBI Election Interference
23 May 2018
“The same forces which went after Trump will come after anyone else who is seen as a danger to the system.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Black Caucus Sells Out Its Constituents Again – to the Cops
23 May 2018
“This bill will be received as yet another attack on these communities and threatens to exacerbate what is already a discriminatory system of mass incarceration in this country.”