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joshua briond
Rock-A-Bye Baby: The Anesthetizing Effects of Political Concessions
01 Jul 2021
The response to Black rebellion are all distinct types of “reforms” to politically sedate Black surplus populations and sustain white settler-capitalist hegemony. “The violence being exported everyday in and around the could be changed with a shift in political leadership, but an inevitable…
Scott Cooper
JuneTeenth: A Marxist Perspective
01 Jul 2021
As long as capitalism exists, the capitalists will seek to elevate some people and denigrate others, sowing divisions to deflect attention away from a common enemy. “To Marx, there could be no emancipation for the proletariat while slavery continued to exist. “
Lisa Armstrong
Lost Opportunity, Lost Lives
01 Jul 2021
Prison officials could have prevented sickness and death by releasing those who were most vulnerable to coronavirus and least likely to reoffend — older incarcerated people. “Vaccination alone won’t stop the spread of the coronavirus in correctional facilities, which are inherently high-spread,…
Andrew Lanham
American Racism in the Time of Plagues
01 Jul 2021
The U.S Has a long history of blaming Asian immigrants for outbreaks of disease, and every time, democracy and public health suffer. “Racialized discourse about the outbreak can be found on the left as well.”
Keeanga-Yamahia Taylor
The Unknown History of Black Uprisings
01 Jul 2021
Historian Elizabeth Hinton’s book reveals that, in the late sixties and early seventies, there were hundreds of local rebellions against white violence and racial inequality. “These events did not represent a wave of criminality, but a sustained insurgency.”
João H. Costa Vargas
BAR Book Forum: João H. Costa Vargas’s “The Denial of Antiblackness”
01 Jul 2021
In typical critical analyses and progressive multiracial mobilizations Black suffering is acknowledged while antiblackness is negated “While there appears to exist a greater social awareness of Black suffering, there is a generalized incapacity to locate the antiblack logic at the very core of…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Monika Gosin’s “The Racial Politics of Division”
01 Jul 2021
Miami serves as a heightened case to explore such contradictions as I look closely at tensions between African Americans, white Cubans, and Black Cubans. “My observations offer lessons from the past that illuminate the white supremacist roots of interethnic conflict.”
Ready for Evolution
Don’t Allow Another U.S.-NATO Libya in the Horn of Africa
01 Jul 2021
The US clearly intends to justify yet another armed intervention in Africa in order to reinstate its former proxies in Ethiopia “The United States and its EU-NATO allies know no compassion or genuine concern for the Black lives in Ethiopia, the Horn of Africa or anywhere else.”
Josmar Trujillo
The Thin Blue Lies Behind Crime Wave Hype
01 Jul 2021
Data fail to show that bail restrictions or any other reform fueled the spike in violence during the pandemic – but facts don’t matter to the corporate press “Newspapers supported police tactics like “broken windows”—a crackdown on minor offenses in poor communities, no matter the costs on…
BAP and HOA PALS
Western Powers Only Seek to Curtail the Right of Self-Determination for the Horn of Africa and Global South States.
01 Jul 2021
Western powers only seek to curtail the right of self-determination for the Horn of Africa and Global South states. Don’t Allow Another U.S.-NATO Libya in the Horn of Africa BAP and HOA PALS “We unequivocally support and uplift mutual cooperation, solidarity, and peace among all parties and…