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Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
No to the New Cold war with China
29 Jul 2020
The African radical, anti-imperialist, internationalist movement, sees the Chinese state and the Chinese people much differently than the U.S. state and its ruling class.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
The State and White supremacy: The Inextricable Link
08 Jul 2020
The demand for “justice” by the public had the ironic result of re-legitimizing the state as an institution that could in fact render justice – but only an empowered people can establish a just ord
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
The Responsibility to Protect? Bipartisan Crimes Against Humanity in the U.S.
24 Jun 2020
The US committed crimes against humanity by creating the conditions that led to sickness and death for vulnerable sectors of the U.S. population
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Building Power to Win is the Revolutionary Approach to Bourgeois Electoralism”
17 Jun 2020
We must make clear that it is imperialism that degrades and destroys the earth, makes water a commodity, food a luxury, education an impossibility, and health care a distant dream.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
No Compromise, No Retreat: Defeat the War Against the African/Black People in the U.S. and Abroad
03 Jun 2020
The justice for George Floyd mobilizations today reflected the state’s worst nightmare – a multi-national and multi-racial action initiated by Black people with Black leadership.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Neoliberalism, Intervention and Anti-Blackness: A Webinar* Presentation
20 May 2020
The elevation of anti-blackness as a kind of universal problem eliminates the basis for solidarity among the colonized and puts some African Americans on the side of U.S. imperialism.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Trump wins! Completing Obama’s Pivot to Asia and the Confrontation with China
13 May 2020
The Trump administration is determined to “put China in its place,” a white supremacist mindset that will inevitably lead to monumental errors of judgement.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
May 1st General Strike: Claiming People(s)-Centered Human Rights for the Working Class
29 Apr 2020
The failure of the capitalist state to provide the people with elementary protections of their fundamental human rights renders the capitalist state illegitimate.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Coronavirus and the Crisis of African American Human Rights
15 Apr 2020
Pushing workers back to work and attempting to “normalize” the economy was the growing consensus among the capitalist class, not just Trump.