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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Xavier Livermon’s “Kwaito Bodies”
08 Apr 2020
The author examines how Black youth in post-apartheid South Africa imagine freedom under tremendous systems of constraint. “What I wanted to get at in this book is the political value of multiple forms of excess and exuberance.”
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
08 Apr 2020
This week you discussed Black Marxism and the Bernie Sanders campaign. We share your letters for “Can Black Marxists Imagine the Unimaginable?” and “Bernie Sanders’ Socialism Isn’t the Real Thing.”
Netfa Freeman
Expect Police-Military Repression Amid the Crisis of COVID-19 and Its Aftermath
08 Apr 2020
The rulers are concerned about the class war becoming sharper in the current crisis and they are preparing to send in the military and police to quell dissent. “The pre-existing crisis of legitimacy for the rulers is compounded by the government’s inept response to the pandemic.”
Cooperation Jackson
A Call to Action: Towards a General Strike to End the COVID-19 Crisis and Create a New World
08 Apr 2020
We must make demands that will transform our broken and inequitable society, and build a new society run by and for us – the working-class, poor, oppressed majority. “Disaster capitalism and white supremacy are running amok.” Cooperation Jackson, “an emerging vehicle for sustainable community…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Mengele Medicine: Death Panels of Boss Tweet and Pence
08 Apr 2020
STOP! No testing! No testing for the infection— big, big numbers could threaten the $election! STOP! No testing for us poor, us working-class— just fraudulent claims from a fat bag of gas! We say, “Healthcare for ALL,” they scream, “Expense!” practicing Mengele Medicine makes dollars— not sense—…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
COVID-19 in DRC: Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst
08 Apr 2020
Deaths caused by the pandemic are likely to occur without assistance of any kind, without any administrative record, and without acknowledgment in the news cycle. “DRC’s lack of preparation and vulnerability during this pandemic is an extension of the ongoing violence and resource wars there.” This…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Andrew Cuomo and the Crisis of Liberalism
08 Apr 2020
The “liberal” champion is a corporate thug who pays prisoners slave wages to make hand sanitizer and is trying to cut Medicaid. “The liberal class cannot overstep the narrow confines of austerity even amid a pandemic.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Standing with Venezuela and Iran
08 Apr 2020
The Trump administration wants a hot war with Iran or Venezuela, or both, and those of us claiming to be anti-war must be on our guard and ready for action. “The Democrats who say Trump must ask permission before killing people will in all likelihood give him the approval he seeks.”
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Resistance Growing to Covid-Capitalism
09 Apr 2020
Covid-19 has laid bare a fundamental truth: that capitalist healthcare is a contradiction in terms, since capital – like the killer virus -- cares for nothing but reproducing itself. “We have to ensure that we never return to the society that enabled this pandemic to emerge.”
Movement for Black Lives
Movement for Black Lives National Demands for Covid-19
15 Apr 2020
Read and save this comprehensive document from M4BL. A vision for Black lives: Policy Demands for Black Power, Freedom and Justice