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- Glen Ford, BAR Executive EditorUnless folks are under the delusion that victory over the “fascists” is imminent, the condition of political prisoners should be a deeply personal, as well as political, concern to all activists.
- Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnistThe election was stolen from Clinton four years ago and the even weaker 2020 candidate can expect the same fate.
- Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing EditorWhen it comes to China, Democracy Now, Jacobin, The Nation and others on the imperial-minded US ‘left” are allies of white supremacy.
- Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing EditorLike the first Covd-19 relief package, the pending bill will have been written by “sleep-deprived staff and inattentive lawmakers who are making this all up on the fly.”
- Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residencea man ‘made’ $13 billion in a day—while Stomachs of millions of men, women and children are symphony orchestras tuning to “Last Days of Pompeo…”