by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner In the long presidential campaign, a racist clown can run a war criminal can win. With eighty-some days till election day our poet in residence surveys…

by Bakari Kitwana The movement against police terror is spawning another generation of political prisoners, many of them virtually unknown and without organizational support. “Unknown numbers of…

by Jeff Cohen The two-party duopoly not only have a stranglehold on the voting process, they control the televised debates that dominate the political conversation, despite the fact that only the…

by Ronnie Kasrils The unpalatable reality the ANC needs to confront, if it is to mend itself -- and there are those who maintain the rot is too far gone -- is that the strategic initiative which it…

by Fikrejesus Amahazion A massive government crackdown on protestors and dissidents is underway in Ethiopia, but the international community has turned a blind eye to this reign of terror. The first…