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Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
11 Sep 2019
This week we discuss the rising popularity of socialism in the US, Bernie Sanders’ energy policy, and the electoral obstacles to electing a new Congress.
Victoria Law
They Survived Solitary Confinement. Now They’re Fighting to End It.
11 Sep 2019
On any given day, 80,000 people are locked in solitary confinement in US prisons and jails. “That’s the first time anyone has touched me except in violence in two years.”
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
3rd International Trade Union Forum: Comments from Ajamu Baraka
11 Sep 2019
There can be no workers’ rights without peace and social justice. “War and militarism are class issues.” Black Alliance for Peace national organizer and Black Agenda Report editor Ajamu Baraka delivered the following remarks to the International Trade Union Forum in Solidarity with Workers and…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Which Way Out of Neoliberalism: Fascism or Socialism?
11 Sep 2019
Without self-determination, socialism becomes an economistic demand that fails to account for imperial rule. “Neoliberalism left workers competing against each other in a great race to the bottom.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Devil got a Donor
11 Sep 2019
The Devil got a donor—a real high roller! The Devil’s donor base blew up like it caught the mumps from this true believer in big Capital projects: The fossil fuel-fired furnace; the fracking fluid fountain; the clean coal-fired career center; the nuclear-fired Climate Denier …
The BAR Team
Black Agenda Report’s 13th Anniversary: An Evening of Information and Inspiration for Liberation, and a Tribute to Co-Founder Bruce Dixon
11 Sep 2019
Every year presents new challenges to those struggling for human liberation. For Black Agenda Report, the essential task remains the same as when we published our first issue, on October 26, 2006: to sustain a radical, Black-led publication that can effectively intervene in the great debates of our…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
What Does Bolton’s Ouster Mean to Victims of US Imperial Aggression?
12 Sep 2019
John Bolton, the hired gun who specializes in warmongering for Republican presidents, has legions of soul mates among Russia-obsessed Democrats. “If Trump tries to make peace with some US ‘enemies’ this election season, he will be opposed by corporate Democrats and their media.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Austerity Means Endless Desperation for Working People
12 Sep 2019
BAR staff
Black Agenda Report’s 13thAnniversary: An Evening of Information and Inspiration for Liberation, and a Tribute to Co-Founder Bruce Dixon
18 Sep 2019
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Erica Caines
Failures of The US Left
18 Sep 2019
The “US Left” conveniently ignores that you can’t be a socialist and not also be anti-imperialist. “#USOutOfAfrica is designed to end what we see as an invasion of Africa by way of US military occupation.” Over the last year, my membership with The Black Alliance For Peace (BAP), a…