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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Adam Elliott-Cooper’s “Black Resistance to British Policing”
08 Jul 2021
Historically, most of Britain’s policing hasn’t taken place on the British mainland – it has taken place in its colonies. “Racial governance has been fundamental to British policing for centuries.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jennifer Goett’s Book, “Black Autonomy”
08 Jul 2021
The author examines postwar violence through the activism of Afro-Nicaraguan women and men from the Caribbean coast of the country. “Gendered Black practices are sites of oppositional consciousness that drives resistance to the state and racial capitalism.”
by the Socialist Movement of Ghana’s Research Group
Defending Our Sovereignty: US Military Bases in Africa and the Future of African Union
08 Jul 2021
Neither the Organization of African Unity nor the African Union have been able to realize the two most important principles of pan-Africanism: political unity and territorial sovereignty. “Thes images are visual testaments to the continued ‘fragmentation and subordination of the continent’s…
Tamar Sarai Davis
Organizers Are Calling on Congress to Close Loophole That Enables Prison Slavery
08 Jul 2021
The ‘slavery clause’ made the passage of restrictions targeting Black people like the Black Codes possible as well as convict leasing of the late 19th century. “Prison labor also fails to provide jobs that can translate into careers upon release.”
Gary Peller
Critical Race Theory Opponents Are Just Proving Our Point For Us
08 Jul 2021
Conservative activists have branded all race reform efforts in education and employment as CRT. “Liberal categories of reason and neutrality might bear the marks of history and struggle, including racial and other forms of social power.” A parents’ group in Washoe County, Nevada wants teachers to…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
A known known…
08 Jul 2021
“…there are known knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns—things we do not know we know…” -- an infamous War Criminal We know “extraordinary rendition” wasn’t Gladys and Marvin dropping smash hit versions of “Grapevine” the same year… We know “…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
MANIFESTO: International African Service Bureau’s Manifesto Against War, 1938
08 Jul 2021
German Nazis, Italian Fascists, British, French, Belgian democracies – all are the same, imperialist exploiters . “The IASB located the causes of the coming conflict in the European contest over the colonized world.”
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Critical Race Theory Debacle Signals the Collapse of the American Empire
08 Jul 2021
Whatever the strengths and limitations of Critical Race Theory, the debate over its usefulness to establishment circles is indicative of the American Empire’s rapid decline “The months-long protests and rebellions against racist policing forced the establishment to take a position on the United…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: How the Billionaires Rule
08 Jul 2021
Predatory Capitalism Has Driven Down Wages and Created a Dystopia for Workers. “Currently, 25 states out of 50 have rejected additional help for the unemployed.” President Calvin Coolidge said, “The business of America is business.” The expression is memorable because it always rang true. But…
Black is Back Coalition
Black Is Back Coalition Holds Conference on Community Control of Police
15 Jul 2021
“We must deepen the resistance to police terror and all attempts to protect a status quo of colonial domination of our people,” the 17 organizations of the coalition declared.