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T.P. Wilkinson
Political ABCs: Maybe the Difference between a “Cop” and a “Crook” is Just a Badge
17 Jun 2020
What has recently been condemned as corrupt and brutal policing is actually consistent with historical tradition of localized repression. “The police in the US are an army of occupation.”
Ajamu Baraka and Bahman Azad
Update on Charges Against the Venezuela Embassy Protectors
17 Jun 2020
It was agreed that dropping the federal charges and seeking no jail time in return for pleading to a very low-level DC Code charge was an important victory. “Judge Howell did all she could to create an unfair trial.”
The Public Archive
Caribbean Workers and Capitalist Geography: An interview with Marion Werner
17 Jun 2020
Global Displacements is an examination of the impact of the global organization of capitalist accumulation and exploitation on the life and labor of Haitian and Dominican people. “The Plantation together with The Mine are at the fore of contemporary debates on our rapacious, capitalist…
Erica Caines
Black-Outs, ‘Black Lives Matter’ and Black Power
17 Jun 2020
Community control of police and prison abolition have been completely removed from the conversations dictated by a mainstream and complacent narrative. “We find ourselves settling for ID reductionism void of any real power.”
Berna Ellorin and Adrian Bonifacio
Re-Embracing Internationalism and Class Solidarity in the Time of #BlackLivesMatter
17 Jun 2020
The struggle against systemic racism and the police state in the US is integral and linked to the struggle against US wars of aggression overseas. “The time has come for forging a clearer path to liberation analysis that centers on working class solidarity across race and borders.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Kristen R. Ghodsee’s “Second World, Second Sex”
17 Jun 2020
Socialist ideas about the inextricable links between class, race, and gender predate the concept of intersectionality. “In 1975, women from Asia, Africa, and Latin America argued that you could not separate ‘women’s issues’ from issues of racism, colonialism, and neo-colonialism.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Samantha N. Sheppard’s “Sporting Blackness”
17 Jun 2020
Black memory is a muscle trained, flexed, and disciplined by colonialism, enslavement, and racial terror, as well as collective Black struggle. “Black sporting bodies can representationally and formally disrupt and protest their stereotypical depictions and conservative generic scripts.”
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
17 Jun 2020
This week colonial genocides, white supremacy, and the Democratic Party’s role were on your minds. We share your letters for “BAR Book Forum: Elizabeth R.
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
Say Its Name: Genocide!
17 Jun 2020
Unless we identify genocide as the common underpinning to all of the brutality directed against Black people in the US, we are talking about the wrong thing. “Hit and run driving is becoming the new go anywhere lynching.”
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Building Power to Win is the Revolutionary Approach to Bourgeois Electoralism”
17 Jun 2020
We must make clear that it is imperialism that degrades and destroys the earth, makes water a commodity, food a luxury, education an impossibility, and health care a distant dream. “The struggle is for power not reform.” The following is excerpted from a presentation by Ajamu Baraka to a national…