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Abayomi Azikiwe
Unjust Measures Imposed on Labor and African Americans After Midterm Elections
07 Dec 2022
The Biden administration and congress forced railroad workers to accept a contract without paid sick leave and Jackson, Mississippi residents face an administration consent decree on water services.
Ndongo Samba Sylla , Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Open Veins of Africa Bleeding Heavily
07 Dec 2022
African nations are rich in resources yet remain impoverished due to onerous IMF and World Bank loan policies and capital flight.
Seth Donnelly
US Tax Dollars at Work: Neocolonial Dictatorship, Paramilitary and Police Terror in Haiti Today
07 Dec 2022
The call for "law and order" and strengthening police in Haiti is as dangerous as talk of any occupation. The police force is connected with Haitian oligarchs and their political puppets and is yet another tool for denying the people their sovereign and human rights.
Bahman Azad
Speech at the World Peace Council's Hanoi Peace Conference
07 Dec 2022
The multipolar world is a reality, but the U.S. is determined to assert itself as a unipolar hegemon and endanger the whole world in the process.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jean-Thomas Tremblay’s Book, “Breathing Aesthetics”
07 Dec 2022
This week’s featured author is Jean-Thomas Tremblay. Tremblay is Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities in the Department of Humanities at York University. Their book is Breathing Aesthetics.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Stacy J. Lettman’s Book, “The Slave Sublime”
07 Dec 2022
This week’s featured author is Stacy J. Lettman. Lettman is an Assistant Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University. Her book is The Slave Sublime The Language of Violence in Caribbean Literature and Music.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Unbelievable
07 Dec 2022
Unbelievable
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Hakeem Jeffries and the Railroad Workers
07 Dec 2022
A new Black "first" came along at the same moment that the Democratic Party showed itself to be a servant of the ruling classes. Hakeem Jeffries is a very willing tool of powerful people. There is no reason to celebrate his ascension to the House Minority Leader position.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Labor, Neoliberalism, and the 2004 Coup in Haiti, Jeb Sprague, 2008
07 Dec 2022
What role did labor play in the 2004 coup in Haiti? A 2008 essay illuminates the convergence of labor politics, neoliberal policy, and imperial malfeasance.
Chris Hedges
Israel and the Rise of Jewish Fascism
14 Dec 2022
The mask is being lifted from the face of Israel’s apartheid state, exposing a grinning death’s head that portends the obliteration of the few restraints against killing Palestinians.