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Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Whose Crisis?: When the People Lose, the Corporate Parties and the Rich Win
07 May 2020
The Democratic Party is a servant of corporate capital and cannot possibly be converted to a people’s party. The rise and demise of Bernie Sanders proves the point.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Late-Stage Racial Capitalism Opened the Door to the Killer Virus
30 Apr 2020
The white settler state always inflicts excessive mortality on racially subject peoples, and capitalism inflicts death on large sections of its disproportionately non-white working class and poor.
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.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
The End of Sanders, and Maybe the Beginning of a Mass Independent Left
16 Apr 2020
Sander’s early Return of the Prodigal Son to the bosom of the Party allows him to escape the deep critique of capitalist medicine and political-economy that would be required of a “leftish” preside
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Resistance Growing to Covid-Capitalism
09 Apr 2020
Covid-19 has laid bare a fundamental truth: that capitalist healthcare is a contradiction in terms, since capital – like the killer virus -- cares for nothing but reproducing itself.
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.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Time of Plague and Meltdown: Mass Murder by Corporate Duopoly
26 Mar 2020
The shrinking of the public health sector is a capitalist crime, abetted by the two corporate parties.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Late-Stage Imperial Omni-Crisis: Death by Virus and Internal Contradictions
19 Mar 2020
The epidemic reveals the stark truth, that the US dismantled and privatized its public health system, to fatten the pockets of the oligarchy and render working people more helpless and dependent.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
9/11 and the Great American Decline
10 Sep 2008
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The author begins with his encounter with two Israelis on the banks of the Hudson River as the second tower fell at the World Trade Center, and proceeds…