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Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Covid Funds Spent on Police and Prisons
22 Sep 2021
Systemic racism and weak movement politics allow states and cities to spend relief funds on police and jails.
Arnold August
CLACS: A Significant Step Toward the Inevitable Replacement of the OAS
26 Sep 2021
The recent Community of Latin American and Caribbean (CLACS) meeting was a continuation of the effort to end U.S. domination through its Organization of American States apparatus.
Lola Olufemi
Claudia Jones: A Life in Search of the Communist Horizon
26 Sep 2021
This is the foreword to the new edition of Marika Sherwood’s Claudia Jones: A Life in Exile (Lawrence Wishart, 2021).
Sarah Turberville, Chris Rickerd
Abusing Migrants While on Horseback Fits With the Border Patrol's Long History of Brutality
26 Sep 2021
Such cruelty warrants a congressional investigation—not only into the specific actions in Del Rio but, more importantly, into systemic problems within Border Patrol that allow such abusive conduct with seeming impunity.
Mara Kardas-Nelson, Ngozi Cole, Sean Campbell
A Racial Reckoning at Doctors Without Borders
26 Sep 2021
The Nobel Peace Prize winning organization Doctors Without Borders has been accused of racist policies which privilege so-called ex-pat workers from North America and Europe over local medical staff working in the global south. Local workers speak of mistreatment, wage discrimination, and…
Black Alliance For Peace
The Resignation of Biden’s Special Envoy to Haiti Once Again Exposes the White Supremacist Foundations of U.S. Foreign Policy, No Matter Which Party Is In Charge
26 Sep 2021
The blatant racism of Biden's Haiti policies—in both controlling Haiti’s governance and the illegal and inhuman abuses of Haitian asylum seekers—was too much even for his special envoy to Haiti.
Mireille Fanon Mendes France
20 years After Durban: Africans and Afro-Descendants Colonized or Emancipated?
26 Sep 2021
The 20th anniversary of the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) is an opportunity to analyze the state of African descended people. Reparations for centuries of crimes against humanity must still be paid.
David Marriott
BAR Book Forum: David Marriott’s “Whither Fanon?”
28 Sep 2021
BAR Book Forum: David Marriott’s “Whither Fanon?” David Marriott The following is excerpted from Whither Fanon?: Studies in the Blackness of Being by David Marriott. It is published by Stanford University Press, ©2018 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All…
Ben Norton
U.S. Congress Outlines New Phase of Economic Attacks and Hybrid War on Nicaragua’s Sandinista Government
29 Sep 2021
The US Congress invited neoconservative regime-change strategists to discuss the next stage of hybrid warfare on Nicaragua’s Sandinista government. A House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on September 21 set out plans for the next phase of the United States’ hybrid warfare on Nicaragua…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The Revenge of White Colonialism Motivates the AUKUS Alliance Against China
29 Sep 2021
The newly created AUKUS alliance is the latest futile effort to end China's rise as an economic super power and competitor for global influence.