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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Darius Bost’s “Evidence of Being”
23 Jan 2019
With the face of AIDS having changed from white gay men to non-whites, it is wise to tap into an earlier radical tradition. “Racial and sexual trauma converged during the early era of AIDS.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Amber Musser’s “Sensual Excess”
23 Jan 2019
The author examines the framing power of sexuality as an ideology of respectability and control. “Artists often work at the boundaries of the historical and the imaginary.”
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
23 Jan 2019
This week we present readers’ thoughts on Kamala Harris, fact checking in the media, and possibilities for the Green New Deal.
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Can the “Wretched” Rule? On Socialism, the State, and the Future of Humanity
23 Jan 2019
it is merely a fantasy to believe that the struggle to bring socialism in the United States will not involve a revolutionary struggle against the state. “Socialism certainly won’t arrive because a Democrat speaks its name.”
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Arrest of Marzieh Hashemi Reveals Nature of Bipartisan Police State
23 Jan 2019
The only reason our sister is being held captive is to once again demonstrate how a runaway slave is treated. “Even the Bill of Rights doesn’t provide protections when you have been designated an enemy of the state.” Arresting PressTV’s Marzieh Hashemi on no criminal charges demonstrates by any…
Paul Street
Chicago Racist Police-State Blues: Sixteen Shots for Laquan, Three Years for Van Dyke
23 Jan 2019
Street activism led to an historic murder conviction of a killer cop, but then a racist judge let him off with a light sentence. “There is one law for the police and another law for those on the wrong side of the racial and socioeconomic oppression structures the police serve and protect.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Anti-imperialist Dilemma: What If the US is “Right” About the Election in DR Congo?
23 Jan 2019
The US may, for once, be doing the right thing in the Congo, although undoubtedly for its own imperial reasons. “The Congolese people no doubt voted to reject the Kabila regime as much as anything else, not to elect a Kabila collaborator.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Free Marzieh Hashemi
23 Jan 2019
A Black American journalist languishes in a DC jail, imprisoned without charge as part of the US vendetta against Iran, yet the Black political class has not raised a peep in protest. “No one knows what the grand jury is investigating or when its work will be done.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Bernie Sanders vs Kamala the Jailer and Her Corporate Backers
24 Jan 2019
The best thing that can happen in 2020 is for Bernie Sanders to do fantastically in the primaries and be cheated out of the nomination, once again, thus giving millions of leftish Democrats a chance to do something useful with their lives: leave the party. “Kamala Harris is by far the most…
Mary Serumaga
Bio-piracy: the Sale of Uganda’s Lakes to Investors
26 Jan 2019
The fishermen of Kabarole District appear to have blown the whistle on an audacious act of bio-piracy. They brought to the attention of the authorities that they were being barred from access to the 53 crater lakes that they have fished in from time immemorial. In law this is known as a customary…