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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Zakiya Luna’s “Reproductive Rights as Human Rights”
13 Jan 2021
This book is a story about a group of (mostly) women who wanted to make change and understood that liberation is an inside job. “SisterSong have been trying to expand human rights, what I call revolutionary domestication.”
Jason Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
13 Jan 2021
“The Squad Won’t Fight Pelosi and Corporate Power” by Glen Ford discusses newly elected and reelected progressive Democrats’ failure to stand up to the party leadership’s neoliberal agenda. David Gray writes:
Mark P. Fancher
The Capitol Catastrophe and Trump’s Hijacked White Nationalism
13 Jan 2021
Trump threw a monkey wrench into the capitalist system’s population management machine. “They lost the allegiance and control of white workers through neglect and will not be able to reclaim this group’s loyalty.”
Anthony Monteiro, BAR editor and columnist
W.E.B. Du Bois and the Paths to Communism: A Review
13 Jan 2021
Du Bois, the father of Pan Africanism and the towering theorist of race, was – just as importantly -- one of the great theorists of communism. “Du Bois viewed the Russian revolution as the beginning of reclaiming the civilizations of the East as part of a march to communism.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
This is what hypocrisy looks like…
13 Jan 2021
“It's like writing history with lightning.“ — Woodrow Wilson on Birth of A Nation The blood’s mopped up— “This is not who we are…” “We’re better than this…” the bleeding continues— “This is not who we are…” the body count mounts— “We’re better than this…” The most militarized failed…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The Obama-fication of “The Squad” Strengthens the Right at the Expense of the Left
13 Jan 2021
The so-called ‘progressive” model would have us wait half a dozen election cycles before taking real action on the demand for Medicare for All and a Green New Deal. “Black Americans had grown more economically optimistic and pro-U.S. intervention than ever before by the end of Obama’s first…
BAP Coordinating Committee
White Rightwing Chickens Roost Violently at Capitol
13 Jan 2021
The Democrat-aligned oligarchy will try to use last week’s racist violence as an excuse to impose a corporate brand of fascism. “The events of January 6 have given the rulers an opportunity to move even more rapidly to narrow the range of acceptable political thought and participation.”
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Black Citizenship Forum: Black Intellectuals and the Violence of Citizenship
13 Jan 2021
Not just in the White Settler States, but throughout the Black world the very possibility of Black citizenship has been gutted.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Capitol Riot Brings U.S. Foreign Policy Home
13 Jan 2021
There needs to be soul searching and truth telling about invasions, interventions, coups and sanctions that are far more destructive than the Trump lovers could ever be. “The United States is not a ‘beacon of democracy’ or ‘shining city on a hill.’”
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Max Blumenthal: Breach of Capitol Security Was Like a Military Operation
13 Jan 2021
The Grayzone founder notes that “such a disproportionate percentage” of the Capitol building attackers were former military, former law enforcement, or current law enforcement that began rappelling up the sides of the Capitol with ropes.” “We're going to see new laws put into place like this…