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The National Workers Union
The US Military Occupation Of Trinidad
06 May 2021
The National Workers Union While stationed on the islands during World War Two, US GIs engaged in land dispossession, rape, murder, bullying and violence against local people. “It was not unusual to find the body of a local woman with her throat slit in one of the rivers traversing this US…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jared A. Loggins and Andrew J. Douglas’ “Prophet of Discontent”
06 May 2021
The authors set out to reconstruct King’s critical theory of racial capitalism. “Dr. King’s critical theory of racial capitalism still gets at the foundations of today’s world order.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Kathryn Sophia Belle’s “Hannah Arendt and the Negro Question”
06 May 2021
Arendt saw the “Negro question” as a “Negro problem” rather than a white problem. “We can imagine how Arendt might similarly mischaracterize today’s movements for Black Lives.”
Broderick Dunlap
A Dose of Reality for the #ADOS Movement
06 May 2021
Instead of showing solidarity with the third world, ADOS makes it clear that they want their share of the spoils of imperialism. “Is the ADOS movement evidence that African-Americans are not immune to the vestiges of American exceptionalism?”
Adofo Minka
Black Girl Magic Trio Seeks to Suppress Spirit of Rebellion Inside St. Louis Jails
06 May 2021
The trio of so-called “progressive” female officeholders pretend to fight the power, but only misdirect and bewilder. “The point of ‘black unity’ is for action against the common people’s oppressor, not rallying around the oppressors who look like us.”
Black Alliance For Peace
100 Days of Biden's Bait and Switch
06 May 2021
U.S. policies are not guided by the whims of the individual who sits in the White House, but by the objective interests of dominant sectors of the ruling elite. “The Biden administration cannot pretend that Black lives matter in the United States, while denying the value of Black life and democracy…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Police Terror = “Support The Troops!”—1,000 x in ________
06 May 2021
Police Terror = “Support The Troops!”—1,000 x in ________ Raymond Nat Turner, BAR Poet-in-Residence And you keep wondering how they kill your sons and daughters Daily; leaving them lying in city streets for 4 hrs ‘bleeding out?’ You keep crying the system is “broken” and I keep screaming it’s as…
Editors, Black Agenda Review
Anthropology, Racial Science, and the Harvesting of Black Bones: Dr. Michael Blakey Interviewed by Dr. Jemima Pierre
06 May 2021
Most renowned academic institutions in the United States are implicated in the macabre practices of “racial” science. “They don’t see African Americans as the same real complete human beings that they and their white families and neighbors are.”
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
German Greens Crusade for US/NATO Wars
06 May 2021
The Green Party in the U.S. is also a pro-peace party -- but that's no longer the case in Germany. Ann Garrison: Diana, the German Greens are leading in the polls, heading into Germany's federal elections in September. So Chancellor Angela Merkel may even be replaced by the Greens’…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Lebron James in the Eye of White Supremacy’s Storm
06 May 2021
No one, not even Lebron James, is immune to the disciplinary process meted out by the ruling class to maintain the lie of American exceptionalism on a mass scale, “Black Americans are confronted with the irreconcilable contradiction of opposing a violent, racist, and exploitative system while being…