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Look Left Staff
Ajamju Baraka on Race, Class and Protest in the United States
15 Jul 2020
Black Alliance for Peace national organizer Ajamu Baraka urged vigilance against US “attempts to control the narrative” of the Black Lives Matter movement. “They were scared to death of young black, white and brown people engaged in resistance.”
Lauren Smith
Truth + Justice = Green Party’s Trailblazing World Peace Platform
15 Jul 2020
With ballot access in most states and a comprehensive new program for world peace, the Green’s national ticket is ready to battle the oligarchs’ duopoly. “The fallacy that the Greens are a one-trick pony environmental group must be dispelled.”
Chip Gibbons
Barr's New Task Force Is a Blatant Attempt to Target Racial Justice Protesters
15 Jul 2020
The attorney general’s theory rests on the premise that there is a set path by which one radicalizes into becoming violent. “By embracing preventive policing, the task force aims to eliminate the threat of dissent.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Propaganda Won’t Get Rid of Trump
15 Jul 2020
The biggest threat to Biden’s chances is the continuing suppression of black votes and the refusal of the Democrats to do anything about it.. “The Democrats’ effort to sell the lackluster and problematic Joe Biden involves telling some outright lies.”
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Democrats Will Never Choose Transformative Change – So Give Them No Choice
16 Jul 2020
An existential political crisis for the racial capitalist order will only happen when the left puts forward a viable political alternative. “There is no political crisis for the ruling order, unless ending their rule is on the agenda of significant social forces.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law’s “Prison By Any Other Name”
15 Jul 2020
Increased police technology, increased training and “community policing” tend to actually expand instead of decreasing policing. “The entire system of policing, surveillance and imprisonment is violent and grounded in white supremacy, and abolishing it is the only viable end goal.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: No Tears for John Lewis
18 Jan 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley John Lewis has parlayed his 1965 beating at the hands of Alabama police into a phony sainthood, and “now exemplifies everything that is wrong with the Congressional Black Caucus, the Democratic Party and the black misleadership class.” He “…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Media Silent as Trump Declares Wars
22 Jul 2020
Donald Trump’s attacks on Venezuela, Syria and Iran are criminal, but Joe Biden vows to be even worse. “There is no congressional opposition to Trump’s acts of aggression which are literally killing people around the world.” The corporate media in this country can endlessly repeat lies about…
Earl Hazell
Essays on The Cult of White Feminism: Dial M for Bernie
22 Jul 2020
Bernie exposed the white supremacist and imperialist contradictions of white feminism to the disinfecting sunlight of reason. “White feminism was never concerned about the overwhelming majority of the world’s women in the first place.” To Bern or Not to Bern – Take 1 I certainly apologize to any…
Carrie Freshour
Poultry and Prisons: Toward a General Strike for Abolition
22 Jul 2020
Poultry-processing plants are critical sites of racial capitalist accumulation produced through an unequal valuation of people and places. “People cannot be released from prisons only to be put on the streets or to premature disability at the poultry.”