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  • poverty in the US
    Bill Quigley
    Social Justice Quiz 2017: Children – Ten Questions
    17 Aug 2017
    Spoiler alert for quiz-takers: The U.S. ranks pitifully low in maintaining the health and welfare of its children when compared with most of the richer countries of the world.
  • The Racist Origins of Right to Work
    Michael Pierce
    The Racist Origins of Right to Work
    17 Aug 2017
    From the beginning, right-to-work legislation was designed to maintain the color bar and “protect the Southern Negro from communistic propaganda and influences.”
  • UAW loses Canton MS union election
    Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
    Freedom Rider: The Defeat of American Workers
    09 Aug 2017
    by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
  • Lost Wages
    Juda M
    Lost Wages
    09 Aug 2017
  • The UAW and local workers promise a long fight at Nissan in Canton MS.
    Mike Elk
    “Nissan, You Made Us Mad”: Union Promises to Fight Mississippi Defeat
    08 Aug 2017
    by Mike Elk
  • Repubs and Dems are two wings of the same party.
    Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
    Washington: A One Party State
    02 Aug 2017
    The two corporate parties agree on almost everything of substance. “The one-party state doesn't negotiate police brutality, mass incarceration, or any other manifestation of white supremacy. Nor does…
  • Chris Hedges
    Trump and the Christian Fascists
    01 Aug 2017
    Donald Trump, the authoritarian billionaire liar, has lots in common with the mega-preachers of the far Right, who run despotic fiefdoms and “prey on their followers by extracting ‘seed offerings,’ ‘…
  • Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
    The Unraveling of the US State
    26 Jul 2017
    by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong Born in genocide and slavery, the U.S. state “can neither reform itself out of economic crisis without attacking the poor, nor manage the exploitation of the…
  • Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
    Organizing Pennsylvania’s 197: Cheri Honkala on Frontline Communities
    19 Jul 2017
    by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Cheri Honkala has always believed in taking direct action on behalf of the poor and dispossessed. A lifelong activist, currently with the Green Party, Honkala has…
  • Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
    In Healthcare Battle, Corporations Continue to Win While Public Loses
    12 Jul 2017
    by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka Both Trumpcare and Obamacare are privatized insurance systems tailored to the needs and greed of healthcare corporations. Corporations wrote the Affordable…
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