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Ken Morgan
Black Workers and Immigrants: Borrow a Page from Marx
15 Aug 2018
“Marx blamed the rulers of colonialism and those that exploited Irish workers for lower wages when they got to England, and not the exploited Irish worker.” Tom Broadwater, a brother, recently wrote a commentary titled “Democrats’ Immigration Dogma is Damaging African American Communities.” It…
Mark P. Fancher
Rebellion on the NFL Plantation
15 Aug 2018
“An alternative league would be the antithesis of the NFL and also take its cue from ‘Bingo Long’s Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings.’” The National Football League’s new national anthem policy is a breathtaking display of arrogance, racism and disrespect for sincere acts of conscience by players…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Lebron James and Nicolas Maduro Attacked for Serving the People
15 Aug 2018
“Both have attempted to serve the people and important lessons can be gleaned from their efforts.” Lebron James doesn’t share Nicolas Maduro’s socialist politics. It is also likely that neither Maduro nor James pay much attention to each other at all. James is a multimillion dollar athlete of the…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
NATO Is a Public Protection Racket
15 Aug 2018
“Putin enraged the West by putting the brakes the looting and refusing to let the new Russian oligarchs run the country.” I wish I could say I’d written that headline all by myself, but, giving credit where it’s due, I swiped it from Hungarian scholar George Szamuely’s remarks on the most recent…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The United States Destroys Venezuela’s Economy
15 Aug 2018
“Sanctions are war by other means, invisible to most eyes.”
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Opposing Bipartisan Warmongering is Defending Human Rights of the Poor and Working Class
15 Aug 2018
“The responsibility of the left is to build on Trump’s anti-NATO remarks – whatever his motivations – by offering a real critique of NATO.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
New Study Reveals Old Fact: Black Male Youth Feel Threatened
16 Aug 2018
“The whiter the neighborhood they entered, the less safe Black boys felt.” A new study has rediscovered -- or scientifically verified -- a very old fact of Black life in the USA: Black boys don’t feel safe in white neighborhoods, or in Black neighborhoods that they perceive as poorer than…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Doing The Math?
16 Aug 2018
Knitting my brow, I’m wondering whether we have a word Problem— numerical, mathematical, logical, or political Problem? Scratching my head, searching for its formula I found: Money Talks to our representatives Year-round and Votes boots, batons, fists, tasers, Glocks, and cuffs cutting off…
David Keys
Details of Horrific First Voyages in Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Revealed
22 Aug 2018
As the world ignores the ignominious 500th anniversary of the buying and selling of slaves between Africa and the Americas, historians uncover its first horrific voyages. “The European slave traders massively expanded demand triggered a whole series of terrible intra-African tribal wars.”
Ameth Lô
The Long March to Post-Capitalist Transition: Pan-Africanist Perspectives
22 Aug 2018
A Pan-Africanist politics is necessary because weak neo-colonial states are incapable of assuring their own survival or of negotiating how their country is inserted into the world system. “The masses are held hostage by the comprador elites, acting as a supplementary force and a buffer between the…