International

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
DRC’s Virunga: Park, Gorillas, and Rangers All Under Attack
29 Apr 2020
Congolese officials are blaming armed Rwandan Hutu refugees for the massacre of twelve rangers and five civilians, but there are any number of other predators that covet the park.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
May 1st General Strike: Claiming People(s)-Centered Human Rights for the Working Class
29 Apr 2020
The failure of the capitalist state to provide the people with elementary protections of their fundamental human rights renders the capitalist state illegitimate.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
It’s capitalism, baby… / 1 %-Funded Rally Actors / Solidarity
29 Apr 2020
It’s capitalism, baby…
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
29 Apr 2020
This week readers were thinking about the myths of racial progress, finance capital and primaries, the pandemic in Haiti, and the possibilities of revolution.
Granma International Staff
Cuban-Trained Doctor Fights Pandemic in The Bronx
29 Apr 2020
In the South Bronx, Dr Melissa Barber battles COVID-19, putting into practice the lessons she learned in Cuba, at the Latin American School of Medicine.
Robert Greene II
Debating Black Freedom
29 Apr 2020
Time and again, Black radicals have pressed for an expanded scope of political and economic freedoms, for Americans at home and for people abroad.
Susie Day
Puerto Rico, Protest, Prison: Johanna Fernández and Jose Saldaña on The Young Lords
29 Apr 2020
“There’s something profoundly liberating for people who’ve been told all their lives that they ain’t shit to stand up.”
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
24 Apr 2020
The coup in Bolivia and the Bernie Sanders campaign were in your thoughts this week.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Diseased System in Shut-Lockdown: Never a Better Time to Fight for Socialism
23 Apr 2020
The current health and economic crisis will dramatically accelerate the processes of corporate monopolization, finance capital dictatorship, and working class precarity and immiseration.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Racism In and Against China
22 Apr 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has resuscitated the old “yellow peril” canard to its fullest extent, revealing deep xenophobia and racist intent against China.