International

Vijay Prashad, Paola Estrada, Ana Maldonado and Zoe PC
Trump Sends Gun boats to Venezuela While the World Partners to Fight a Deadly Pandemic
08 Apr 2020
The Trump administration has used the fabricated narco-trafficking charges against Maduro and other officials as an excuse to intensify pressure on Venezuela.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of April 6, 2020
06 Apr 2020
Call for a General Strike Beginning May 1st
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Students May Strike for "Social Welfare" During Crisis
06 Apr 2020
Semassa Boko, a student activist and PhD candidate at the University of California at Irvine, wrote an article on the concept of a social welfare strike “under conditions where the
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Working People Must Build Solidarity in Resistance
06 Apr 2020
The general strike is “extremely promising” because “it is the surest way that workers have to protect their own health, since obviously the state and their employers are not interested in doing th
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Call for a General Strike Beginning May 1st
06 Apr 2020
Cooperation Jackson, based in Jackson, Mississippi, issued the call and list of demands to protect the people from both the virus and disaster capitalism.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
“The American Disease”: Only the Overthrow of the Oligarchy Will Cure It
02 Apr 2020
Although the coronavirus provided the trigger for the current global shrinkage, the economic crisis was already looming when the pathogen made its physical appearance.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
China and Cuba’s Medical Internationalism is a Shining Example of Global Solidarity
01 Apr 2020
China sends medical equipment abroad, Cuba sends doctors and cutting-edge drugs, but the US fails to provide its people, doctors and nurses with basic tools and protection.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Pentagon Orders All Installations to Stop Reporting COVID-19 Infections and Deaths
01 Apr 2020
This is going to become a problem for the Pentagon, whether it's on Navy destroyers, submarines, and aircraft carriers or the 800+ bases.
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
Flattening the curve on Capitalism?
01 Apr 2020
CEO from Boeing to CEO from Wells Fargo, heard by the flies on walls at Mar-a-Lago: “It’s their health or our economy— we get to choose…”
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor
COVID-19: The Capitalist Emperor Has no Clothes
01 Apr 2020
The systemic failure of the capitalist order triggered by the coronavirus has reinforced the growing awareness that extreme wealth inequality is a fundamental characteristic of the system.