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Benjamin Woods
Social Democracy Will Not Save Us
16 Nov 2022
The author makes the case that liberalism is a dead end and that socialism is the only tool for Black liberation.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Combat Nihilism: Revolutionary Optimism in the Age of U.S. Imperial Decline
05 Oct 2022
Optimism would seem to be counter intuitive given the many crises facing millions of people in the U.S. and around the world. But optimism backed up by revolutionary thinking is just what is needed…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
A Final Word on “MAGA Communism” and Social Conservatism
21 Sep 2022
Opportunism and foolishness have resulted in the latest example of U.S. decline, the concept of "MAGA Communism." This absurdity is proof that a true socialist movement is badly needed.
Fred M'membe
Socialism is the Key to Peace
12 Apr 2022
The President of the Socialist Party of Zambia explains that imperialism is the root of the Ukraine anf other crises and that socialism is the solution.
Issa Shivji
Let a Hundred Socialist Flowers Bloom: A Conversation with Issa Shivji
17 Nov 2021
In this extensive interview, socialist activist and writer Issa Shivji discusses the peasantry, capitalist development and socialism.
Pavan Kulkarni
First National Congress of Socialist Movement of Ghana Charts a New Course for the Region
08 Sep 2021
The First National Congress of the Socialist Movement of Ghana (SMG) – previously the Socialist Forum of Ghana (SFG) – was held from July 30 to August 1 in Winneba, a town in the country’s Cent
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Mumia: Fear of Socialism
15 Dec 2020
“Politicians have pulled out the fear card – socialism – to ensure that voters stay in their place,” said Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
“America” Doesn’t Need Healing. It Needs Socialism
25 Nov 2020
Biden’s promise to return the United States to “normalcy” comforts corporate executives in the “gig economy,” Wall Street, and the military industrial complex.
Anthony Monteiro, BAR editor and columnist
V.I. Lenin and W.E.B. Du Bois: Class Struggle and Civilization
18 Nov 2020
While the ruling elite is calling for a capitalist reset which could leave half the working class without jobs or adequate income, many leftists are proclaiming working class backwardness.
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.