Democrats

Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Our Open Letter To NAPO, MXGM, and Dr. Akinyele Umoja on Ultra-Leftism, the Democratic Party and the Movement in Jackson MS
14 Dec 2017
On December 1, our comrade and friend Akinyele Umoja published a piece titled “’
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Democrats Deploy #BlackLivesMatter Brand For 2018 Elections- The Electoral Justice Project
19 Oct 2017
It was a bright cold Chicago day in January or February 1976. I was working as a security guard at an A&P store on 35th street.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Bernie Sanders Can’t Shake His Imperial Piggishness
28 Sep 2017
“Sanders revealed his own swinish predilections in Westminster.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Senators Cory Booker, Al Franken, and Elizabeth Warren Propose that the US “Prevent Genocide”
30 Aug 2017
Senators Cory Booker, Al Franken, and Elizabeth Warren Propose that the US “Prevent Genocide” By BAR Contributor Ann Garrison
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Indecency of the Black Misleadership Class
09 Aug 2017
If Congresswoman Barbara Lee is among the best that the Black political class has to offer -- which she is -- then that class is “wholly unfit to guide the politics of 40 million people.”
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Barbara Lee and Tulsi Gabbard Side with War Party on Sanctions
09 Aug 2017
The Democrats’ two leading congressional dissidents have finally surrendered, now that the party has “taken the lead in the project of endless war.” U.S.
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…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
How Did Berniecrats Claim the Jackson Mississippi Movement? Do They Want To Be Claimed? Should They?
13 Jul 2017
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon When Jackson's mayor-elect Chokwe Antar Lumumba stepped to the podium at the cynically misnamed "Peoples Summit", the annual June pilgrimage of…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Peoples Summit: Berniecrats Purposefully Ignore War and US Empire
15 Jun 2017
The good news about last weekend’s Peoples Summit, the annual gathering of Berniecrats in Chicago, was that 4,000 Democratic party activists were in one place howling for Medicare For All and not…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Democrats, Including Bernie Sanders, Won’t Fight for Medicare for All
01 Feb 2017
If there is one political project that commands overwhelming support among Democrats -- plus large minorities of Republicans – it is Medicare for All. But Democratic leaders insist that all their…