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Pavan Kulkarni
“December Revolution’s rebirth”: Sit-ins Mark New Stage of Protests Against Sudan’s Military Junta
20 Jul 2022
In the aftermath of the violent repression of protesters on June 30, sit-ins have been organized in various parts of Sudan even as the military junta tries to consolidate power.
Mark P. Fancher
Oil and Imperialism in Africa
20 Jul 2022
Under imperialism resource wealth can become a curse, such is the case with the EACOP pipeline in East Africa.
Black Alliance For Peace
Black Alliance for Peace Condemns Renewal of the UN Mission to Haiti (BINUH)
20 Jul 2022
The ineffective and unpopular UN Mission to Haiti must end.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Crystal Eddins’ Book, “Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution”
20 Jul 2022
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Crystal Eddins. Eddins is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at UNC Charlotte. Her book is Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution: Collective Action in the African Diaspora…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Steven W. Thrasher’s Book, “The Viral Underclass”
20 Jul 2022
This week’s featured author is Steven W. Thrasher. Thrasher holds the inaugural Daniel H. Renberg chair at Northwestern University’s Medill School, the first journalism professorship in the world created to focus on LGBTQ+ research. His book is The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Mr. Magoo, what’s new? “Oh, say, can you see?”
22 Jul 2022
I. Didn’t Lynne say something like, “The law’s What they say it is…today…” (????????????????) Didn’t Lenin say something like, “The state is an organ of class rule…” (??????????????????) Failed state Federalist Society sadists stress positioning, waterboarding, force-feeding fantasies into Patriot…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Congresswoman Karen Bass and the Will to Intervene
20 Jul 2022
Congresswoman Karen Bass is running for mayor of Los Angeles. She's also Vice Chair of the NED, the CIA's soft power arm. She epitomizes everythng that is wrong with the Black political class.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The American Empire Has No Clothes
20 Jul 2022
The U.S. is empire is in a state of crisis, creating chaos around the world and contradicting its own goals.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Negro Revolutionary Hero: Toussaint L'Ouverture, Cyril Briggs, 1929
20 Jul 2022
In 1929, Black radical Cyril Briggs penned an essay on Toussaint L’Ouverture and the Haitian Revolution. For Briggs, both provided inspiration for the fight against the U.S. occupation of Haiti. We need that inspiration now.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Celebrating Revolution in Nicaragua
20 Jul 2022
Genuine peoples holidays are hard to come by in the U.S. But in Nicaragua the ongoing revolutionary process is widely celebrated.