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Achille Mbembe
Blacks From Elsewhere and the Right of Abode
15 Jan 2020
Sorrowing over the treatment of migrants, Achille Mbembe calls for Africa to adopt a pro-migration stance, phase out colonial borders and become “a vast space of circulation.” “South African forms of black nationalism are morphing into virulent forms of black-on-black racism.” Achille Mbembe…
Denise Lynn
Du Bois and the Jefferson School of Social Science
15 Jan 2020
W.E.B. Du Bois’ classes at the radical school fixed Black Americans firmly within diasporic history and his vision for a socialist future. “Students were expected to take their education into the street in mass actions including protests, and political organizing.”
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
The World Must End Washington’s Illegal Economic War
15 Jan 2020
The US is currently attacking one-third of the planet’s population with 8,000 economic sanctions, ongoing acts of war against 39 nations. “Their intent is to shrink the economy and cause chronic shortages and hyperinflation while ensuring a lack of access to finance to pay for essentials.”
Djibo Sobukwe
Ahmed Sékou Touré’s Unique and Dynamic Contribution to the Philosophy of Class Struggle
15 Jan 2020
The ideology of Touréism combines aspects of Marxist – Leninist methodology with traditional African values. “There is no part of the peoples’ socio-cultural life that capitalism/ imperialism does not attempt to dominate, commodify and corrupt.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Courtney Pace’s “Freedom Faith”
15 Jan 2020
“Freedom Faith” is the belief that God wants all people to be free, and that God equips and empowers those who work for freedom. “It is possible for us to be both oppressed and oppressor.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Annette Joseph-Gabriel’s “Reimagining Liberation”
15 Jan 2020
When fascism was on the march Black women intellectuals and activists imagined, and struggled for, a new world. “Black women are political protagonists, not secondary characters in global movements.”
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
15 Jan 2020
Since our last column readers have been writing to us about the assassination of Gen Soleimani and the coup in Bolivia. We share your letters for “Will the Assassination of Gen. Soleimani Be Trump’s 1914 Moment?” and “Pachamama and the Pope.”
BAP-Baltimore
Baltimore’s Black Alliance for Peace Demands End to Policing Surge
15 Jan 2020
Baltimore is among the seven cities targeted by the Trump administration for a high-tech “surge” in police penetration of Black communities. “Increased militarization of police departments leads to increased numbers of civilians murdered by police.”
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Voices of the California Progressive Alliance
15 Jan 2020
The anti-corporate, pro-public bank alliance has thrown Its support to Bernie Sanders. “Our central goal for 2020, is to elect corporate-free candidates to all levels of government and pass strong progressive ballot measures.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
It’s not personal, it’s Business…
15 Jan 2020
Blood!Fire! First 48 hours New Year; New Decade. Primitive, hi- tech bloodshed for rogue state ‘freedom’ muscling in on Mullah turf. Luftwaffe whacks gangster rivals. Headlines should scream; History whispers: It’s not personal, it’s business… Wehrmacht stock just shot to the…