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Trump, Racism and Immigration: an Interview With Margaret Kimberley
03 Oct 2018
BAR’s senior columnist: “If everything you know about Russia is from the New York Times and the Washington Post, you don’t know anything about Russia.” “We need to talk about replacingthe Democrats and having a truly progressive party.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Kathleen Belew’s “Bring the War Home”
03 Oct 2018
The white power movement drew recruits, many of them women, from every region of the country and all socio-economic sectors of white America. “This book shows how effective this movement was at disguising what it was trying to do.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Kehinde Andrews’ “Back to Black”
03 Oct 2018
This book shows that the liberal road to reform was a dead end; it is time to commit to revolution. “A radical analysis is necessary to engage with emerging social movements like Black Lives Matter.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Theory 101: Class Struggle in the Age of US Imperial Decline
03 Oct 2018
The focus on separate “identities” has led to numerous academic theories and non-profit career opportunities but no real power for oppressed and working-class people. “Paul Robeson and Huey P. Newton made common cause with oppressed people around the world and defended revolutionary movements in…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Historic Precedent or Footnote? Laura Wells Debates Barbara Lee
03 Oct 2018
Barbara Lee has done what no other Democratic congressional candidate has ever done—agreed to a one-on-one debate with a Green. “Wells is one of three Green California congressional candidates going head-to-head against incumbent Democrats, with neither Republicans nor anyone else in sight.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The Kavanaugh Farce
03 Oct 2018
Now that it’s too late to prevent a total rightwing takeover of the Supreme Court, the Democrats pretend to be the party of opposition. “Perez admitted that the DNC wouldn’t withhold assistance to Democratic Party senators who voted to confirm Kavanaugh.”
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Syria and the S-300s: Re-Centering the People in the Global Struggles for Power
03 Oct 2018
Protecting Russian interests in Syria and the Mid-East was and is the driving force for Russian military and diplomatic activity, nothing else! “The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world [….] No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Hey Mister Tangerine Man
03 Oct 2018
They got Jel-Low Puddin’ Man— one less backwards Taliban treating women like beasts— Packs of predator priests next they’re comin’ for you— your whole predator Krew silver bracelets, orange jumpsuit await you too! Hey Mr. Tangerine Man— They’re comin’ for you next Before you tweet or text Hey Mr.…
Committee For Reconciliation and Truth at HBCUs
Committee for Reconciliation and Truth at HBCUs Files FOIA Seeking Records
04 Oct 2018
The following is a statement by an independent committee which has sent a Freedom of Information Act request to the U.S. federal government’s Department of Education to disclose records of the financial monitoring of HBCUs. This is one step toward a public dialogue and taking back…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Democratic Corporate Fascism vs the Trump Kind
04 Oct 2018
Modern American corporate fascism is rooted in multinational corporate structures and wedded to a concept of racial and cultural “diversity” that (they hope) is compatible with corporate dictatorship. “21stcentury fascism will be race-based and segregated, just as the United States has always been…