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  • The USS COVID-19, from Guam to Puget Sound
    Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
    The USS COVID-19, from Guam to Puget Sound
    15 Apr 2020
    While the world confronts a real-life deadly epidemic, the Covid-afflicted US Navy struggles to maintain the farce of keeping the planet safe from fictitious threats.
  • Coronavirus and the Crisis of African American Human Rights
    ​​​​​​​ 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.
  • …NOW’S THE TIME…
    Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
    …NOW’S THE TIME…
    15 Apr 2020
    coronavirus is coming across treacherous  food deserts—their Red Lined decades of diabetes— over hills of hypertension; steep mountains of medical
  • Capitalism’s Weak Doses of Socialism to Treat the Economic Infection of COVID-19 
    Max Rameau
    Capitalism’s Weak Doses of Socialism to Treat the Economic Infection of COVID-19 
    15 Apr 2020
    The same proposals that were demonized yesterday as radical socialism are embraced today to save the society from collapse.
  • Letters from Our Readers 
    Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
    Letters from Our Readers 
    15 Apr 2020
    This week white supremacy and aggression on Venezuela were on your minds.
  • BAR Book Forum: Adia Harvey Wingfield’s “Flatlining”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Adia Harvey Wingfield’s “Flatlining”
    15 Apr 2020
    How do black workers fare when organizations say they want to attract more minority employees even as they have largely shifted resources away from labor?
  • BAR Abolition and Mutual Aid Spotlight: Ejeris Dixon
    Dean Spade and Roberto Sirvent, BAR Contributors
    BAR Abolition and Mutual Aid Spotlight: Ejeris Dixon
    15 Apr 2020
    Mutual aid efforts are proliferating in this time of epidemic, organizing communities towards self-determination by creating mechanisms that oppose the state violence.
  • Cuba Under Media Attack for Sending Doctors, Not Bombs, to Help Covid-19 
    Belen Fernandez
    Cuba Under Media Attack for Sending Doctors, Not Bombs, to Help Covid-19 
    15 Apr 2020
    Media outlets have exploited the current pandemic to disseminate rank anti-Cuban propaganda.
  • The Cognitive Dissonance of “Democratic Socialists”— Cults Die a Slow Death
    Quetzal Cáceres
    The Cognitive Dissonance of “Democratic Socialists”— Cults Die a Slow Death
    15 Apr 2020
    The blame-anyone-other-than-Sanders apologists exposed themselves as devotees to a cult of personality devoid of any real political strategy.
  • Sanders Supporters Pledge to “#DemExit” and “#GreenEnter” to Make a Home in a Party That Shares Their Core Values 
    Independent Political Report
    Sanders Supporters Pledge to “#DemExit” and “#GreenEnter” to Make a Home in a Party That Shares Their Core Values 
    15 Apr 2020
    Online contributions to the Green Party tripled after Sanders’ capitulated to Biden, and ten times as many people signed up to volunteer.
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