US Politics

Netfa Freeman
What Western Imperialism Is Up to Now in Zimbabwe
03 Jan 2018
“The capitalist agenda is to neo-colonize Zimbabwe and appropriate its labor and land.”
Phakamile Hlubi
NUMSA: The South African Union That Confronts New Forms of Apartheid Through Class Struggle
03 Jan 2018
“The massacre of the mine workers in August of 2012 was actually the catalyst for the decision that NUMSA made in the following year to break away from the all
Vijay Prashad
Concentration Camps for African Migrants Blocked from Entering Europe Are Popping Up Across Libya
03 Jan 2018
“The Europeans want to move their southern border from the northern edge of the Mediterranean Sea to the southern rim of the Sahara Desert.”
Julianne Tveten
It’s Time to Nationalize the Internet
03 Jan 2018
“Private network providers prioritize only those they expect to provide a return on investment.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
GOP Deficits Spell Doom for Social Programs
31 Dec 2017
The Republicans will use the multi-trillion dollar debt that will result from its tax cuts to defund Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare, said historian and activist Paul Street
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Stein is Clinton’s Scapegoat
31 Dec 2017
“Democrats are waging an all-out war against anyone that opposes them from the Left,” said Black Agenda Report editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley in her Freedom Rider c
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Democrats’ Russiagate Smear Campaign
31 Dec 2017
Jill Stein, the Green Party’s presidential 2016 candidate, has been targeted by the Senate Select Intelligence Committee “to undermine and smear any third party” challenges to Democrats in 2018 and
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
First They Came for Jill Stein
28 Dec 2017
Anyone that claims to be “on the left” must defend 2016 Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, the latest victim of the anti-Russian dragnet.
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
The Black Political Class and Network Neutrality
21 Dec 2017
Earlier this month, Chicago journalist Curtis Black called the office of Congressman Bobby Rush (D- IL) to ask what the congressman’s position on net neutrality was, now that Donald Trump is presid
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The 1% Will Earn the People's Hatred
21 Dec 2017
“The rich prevail in virtually every contest because their political monopoly matches their monopoly on economic power.”