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Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
08 Apr 2020
This week you discussed Black Marxism and the Bernie Sanders campaign. We share your letters for “Can Black Marxists Imagine the Unimaginable?” and “Bernie Sanders’ Socialism Isn’t the Real Thing.”
Netfa Freeman
Expect Police-Military Repression Amid the Crisis of COVID-19 and Its Aftermath
08 Apr 2020
The rulers are concerned about the class war becoming sharper in the current crisis and they are preparing to send in the military and police to quell dissent. “The pre-existing crisis of legitimacy for the rulers is compounded by the government’s inept response to the pandemic.”
Cooperation Jackson
A Call to Action: Towards a General Strike to End the COVID-19 Crisis and Create a New World
08 Apr 2020
We must make demands that will transform our broken and inequitable society, and build a new society run by and for us – the working-class, poor, oppressed majority. “Disaster capitalism and white supremacy are running amok.” Cooperation Jackson, “an emerging vehicle for sustainable community…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Mengele Medicine: Death Panels of Boss Tweet and Pence
08 Apr 2020
STOP! No testing! No testing for the infection— big, big numbers could threaten the $election! STOP! No testing for us poor, us working-class— just fraudulent claims from a fat bag of gas! We say, “Healthcare for ALL,” they scream, “Expense!” practicing Mengele Medicine makes dollars— not sense—…
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.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Standing with Venezuela and Iran
08 Apr 2020
The Trump administration wants a hot war with Iran or Venezuela, or both, and those of us claiming to be anti-war must be on our guard and ready for action. “The Democrats who say Trump must ask permission before killing people will in all likelihood give him the approval he seeks.”
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.”
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.”
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…
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…