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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. “We have to ensure that we never return to the society that enabled this pandemic to emerge.”
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Andrew Cuomo and the Crisis of Liberalism
08 Apr 2020
The “liberal” champion is a corporate thug who pays prisoners slave wages to make hand sanitizer and is trying to cut Medicaid. “The liberal class cannot overstep the narrow confines of austerity even amid a pandemic.”
Jessica Corbett
Moral Leaders Demand Coronavirus Relief for Most Vulnerable
08 Apr 2020
The relief package “leaves out the majority of homeless, undocumented immigrants, the disabled, and anyone too poor to have to file taxes,” says the Poor Peoples Campaign. “We need a relief bill that centers the needs of the homeless, the uninsured, the underemployed and the low-wage workers now…
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. “The Democratic party will attempt to take credit for things they did in agreement with Republicans, but never pursued when in power themselves.” The global COVID-19/…
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? “Racial outsourcing occurs when organizations transfer the work of reaching communities of color onto the few black professionals in their…
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. “Support organizations need to think through safety teams for their building, blocks, streets, or even whole neighborhoods without…
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. “The sense of denial of the calamity staring us in the face— a Biden or Trump presidency in an era of economic collapse and climate catastrophe— is…
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. “It’s time for people to see that backing progressive candidates in the ‘Democratic’ Party is a dead end.” The Green Party of the United States reported an…
Judy Lubin
Systemic Racism Is Making Coronavirus Worse in Black America
15 Apr 2020
COVID-19 is a perfect storm of systemic inequities operating together to worsen existing vulnerabilities. “Long before COVID-19, Black communities were experiencing deep health and economic inequities that are only intensified by a public health crisis of this magnitude.”
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. “Trump is a useful idiot for the neoliberal forces who are in power.”