International

Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
06 Nov 2019
This week our readers discussed black feminism and the alleged killing of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi. We print your letters for “
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Keguro Macharia’s “Frottage”
06 Nov 2019
Instead of succumbing to xenophobia and nativism, as with anti-Somali sentiment in Kenya or ADOS in the US, we need to pursue freedom in ways that speak to our differences.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Dario Azzellini’s “Communes and Workers' Control in Venezuela”
06 Nov 2019
Millions of Venezuelans are building socialism from below, and most of them are Black, brown and female.
Vijay Prashad
Europe’s Greedy Lending to Africa Drives the Migration That Fuels the EU’s Xenophobic Politics
06 Nov 2019
The reasons for major flows of migration to Europe actually come from within Europe itself.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Farewell to John Conyers Jr. – and to His Era
31 Oct 2019
John Conyers’ long career is a window on the decline of Black politics in the two generations since the demise of the mass Black movement.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Baghdadi Scam
30 Oct 2019
The Democrats and corporate media don’t really oppose what Donald Trump is doing in Syria or anywhere else.
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
History Demands: Turn Imperialist Wars Into Wars Against Imperialism
30 Oct 2019
US imperialism is white supremacist capital on a global rampage, and must be countered by mass mobilizations of the oppressed -- like this weekend’s Black Is Back Coalition march on the White House
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Rwanda: Victoire Ingabire Endures Relentless Interrogation
30 Oct 2019
Rwanda's democratic opposition leader says “there is no space for people to speak freely and peacefully and engage in real democratic process in Rwanda.”
Ben Norton
Grayzone Editor Arrested on Trumped Up Venezuela Embassy Charges
30 Oct 2019
Almost half a year after the siege of the Venezuelan embassy by a right-wing mob, a journalist who helped defend the embassy has been thrown in jail.
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
I Celebrate Red Roses of Resistance
30 Oct 2019
San Francisco singer sitting in a Manhattan restaurant, ringlets trickling down ‘round Angelic paper bag brown face, like sweat gathering on her glass of white wine.