by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Adebayo Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the indomitable heroine of the South African freedom struggle, celebrated her 80th birthday surrounded by friends and enemies…

by Adam Johnson This Monday showed there were multiple ways to fix a crooked presidential debate.  The first way is to exclude everyone but the representatives of the two capitalist parties.…

by Danny Haiphong The fantastically-timed new Census figures showing large income advances, based on recently altered measuring sticks, cannot mask the deep crisis afflicting capitalism and its…

by Paul Street Police violence provides the “spark” that draws crowds instantly to the streets, but apartheid and inequality are the “underlying tinder that fuels the fires of rage across Black…

by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner As the farcial and nightmarish presidential contest winds into its final month, we try to make sense of the senseless, and point to the only avenue of…