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  • Make a White Turn and Come to a Dead End
    Mark P. Fancher
    Make a White Turn and Come to a Dead End
    11 Jul 2018
    “White workers have not only failed to precisely identify their class enemies, they have also held on to the racial baggage of their ancestors.”
  • Labor and Liberation: An Interview with Margaret Stevens
    The Public Archive
    Labor and Liberation: An Interview with Margaret Stevens
    11 Jul 2018
    “Black working class militancy is THE essential precondition for the fight against racism, but it is not sufficient.”
  • Military Spending = Cash for Corporations
    Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Military Spending = Cash for Corporations
    09 Jul 2018
    At $716 billion, the US military budget is larger than the defense spending of the next ten nations, combined, yet is mostly wasted, said William Hartung, author of Prophe
  • Scandalizing Homeless Black Men
    Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Scandalizing Homeless Black Men
    09 Jul 2018
    Uhuru Movement activist Akile Anai is leading a campaign to put reparations and community development on the ballot, next year, in St. Petersburg, Florida.
  • Greens Take on Barbara Lee
    Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Greens Take on Barbara Lee
    09 Jul 2018
    Green Party candidates won the right to challenge Democratic incumbents, one-on-one, for three California congressional seats, including Barbara Lee’s San Francisco Bay area district.
  • The “Bought-Off” Black Caucus
    Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    The “Bought-Off” Black Caucus
    09 Jul 2018
    “They won’t do anything for us and, in fact, they’ll vote alongside our enemies,” said BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley, referring to the Congressional Black Cauc
  • Black Caucus Support for Anti-Lynching Law is a Sham
    Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
    Black Caucus Support for Anti-Lynching Law is a Sham
    04 Jul 2018
    “The lynchers-in-blue run amuk because they are aided and abetted by the Black Misleadership Class and its Democratic elected representatives in Congress.”
  • Freedom Rider: Ocasio-Cortez and the Left
    Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
    Freedom Rider: Ocasio-Cortez and the Left
    04 Jul 2018
    “Ocasio-Cortez deserves credit for beating a corrupt but powerful system.”
  • Political Theater and the Immigration Crisis: A Two-Party Problem
    Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
    Political Theater and the Immigration Crisis: A Two-Party Problem
    04 Jul 2018
    “No oppressed people or group in the US knows what it is like to be separated from their families, locked in cages, and murdered by the state more than Black Americans.”
  • When Democrats Aren’t the Least-Worst
    Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
    When Democrats Aren’t the Least-Worst
    04 Jul 2018
    “The argument that anyone to the left of Donald Trump owes their vote to a Democrat has always been stupid and arrogant.”
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