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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Julia Rose Kraut’s “Threat of Dissent”
22 Jul 2021
Ideological exclusion and deportation from the United States, and how they has been consistently used as tools of political repression. “There was never a period of open immigration.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Matthieu Chapman’s Book, “Anti-Black Racism in Early Modern English Drama”
22 Jul 2021
This book analyzes Early Modern English Drama as a form of cultural production in which the paradigm of Early Modern England was shifting to account for encounters with black Africans. “What does it mean to be anti-racist in a country whose very foundation is poured and set in the metaphysical…
Mark P. Fancher
Memo to France as Its Soldiers Leave Africa: “Get Out and Stay Out!”
22 Jul 2021
French bullying of Africa has been driven entirely by self-interest and greed. “The longstanding imperialists’ efforts to shoot and bomb their way into domination of devastated regions is a manifestation of clueless arrogance and a failure to consider Africa’s realities.” France has thrown its…
Patrick D. Anderson
The Conspicuous Absence of Derrick Bell—Rethinking the CRT Debate, Part 1
23 Jul 2021
Bell levels a class critique against the Black bourgeoisie, whom he sees as having led Black political protest down the wrong path time and time again. “Bell favored a cyclical view of history in which Black people experience progress through interest convergence and setbacks under racial sacrifice…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Our ‘democracy’
23 Jul 2021
Shangri-La—untaxed, socially-distanced champagne- caviar, Cayman Island, yacht crowds who Pay nothing for water washing their waste to sewage treatment plants; Roads delivering their indulgences to gated palaces; Schools researching their earthly strategies for class war—…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The TPLF Attack on Ethiopia Contains the Accumulated Evil of the War
23 Jul 2021
The western nations that Ethiopia previously kow-towed to claim national government forces attacked Tigrayan troops first, when precisely the opposite occurred. “The US and its allies haven’t even been able to get past the first step—UN Security Council censure—with regard to Syria, then Burundi,…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Joe Biden is Wrong, Capitalism IS Exploitation
23 Jul 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has produced numerous examples of “disaster capitalism, and spectacular profits for billionaires.” “History is clear that capitalist competition is sustained by an intense level of violence toward oppressed nations and classes.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Standing with the Cuban People
23 Jul 2021
The current Black-centered Cuban protest operation is very well orchestrated and if Black people in this country are not careful, they will end up amplifying the dictates of U.S. imperialism. “The same people who claim concern for the Cuban people are also in favor of continuing their…
Ready for the Revolution
Glen Ford – From Elder to Ancestor
02 Aug 2021
Ford led the way in political education. “I’m telling you these stories because that is what elders do, we remember things” - Glen Ford
Milton Allimadi
Glen Ford’s Passing – Devastating Blow for Africans Everywhere
02 Aug 2021
Glen Ford was committed to the liberation of African people. The global African community lost a fearless truth seeker and speaker, journalist Glen Ford, who joined the ancestors at the age of 71.