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Anima Adjepong
BAR Book Forum: “Black Study and Abolition”
29 Jul 2020
The lesson is to remain woke, because not all abolitionists share the goal of Black liberation. “Prison nation exposes the reach of the carceral state beyond prison walls to schools, social welfare agencies, immigration and detention, and surveillance technologies.” In this series we ask organizers…
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
29 Jul 2020
This week cutting through the corporate media buzz on US fascism was on your minds. We share your letters for “Who Is the Most Dangerous Fascist?.” “Who Is the Most Dangerous Fascist?” by Glen Ford calls for clarity on understanding the concept of fascism and its relation to the evils of…
Joy James
Airbrushing Revolution for the Sake of Abolition
29 Jul 2020
“Interest convergence” and “pragmatic compromise” are euphemisms for what might better be called opportunism and truth-avoidance. “Progressive academics performed for Obama the labor that Van Jones provided to Trump.”
Brent Cebul
Tearing Down Black America
29 Jul 2020
More than half the 1.2 million Americans displaced by “urban renewal” were Black. “At its peak in the mid-1960s, urban renewal displaced a minimum of 50,000 families annually.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
The low Barr-Boss Tweet Rapid Response to COVID-19
29 Jul 2020
“If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.” ― Angela Y. Davis Lying anarchists, agitators, communists, Marxists say he’s going Pinochet by the bright light of day… Misdirection? Distraction? No way! Only 140,000— well, maybe twenty times that—have died under…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
No to the New Cold war with China
29 Jul 2020
The African radical, anti-imperialist, internationalist movement, sees the Chinese state and the Chinese people much differently than the U.S. state and its ruling class. “We must name the Pan-European white supremacist colonial/capitalist patriarchy as an existential threat to all of humanity.”
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The Free Speech Fetish is American Exceptionalism on Steroids
29 Jul 2020
Harper’s “Letter” is little more than an exercise in white insecurity and opportunism among so-called liberal sections of the establishment. “Anyone engaged in a struggle for liberation should oppose corporations determining what is ‘free speech’ and what is ‘hate speech.’”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Let the Movement Be Radical
29 Jul 2020
Craven black misleaders jumped at the chance to side with white corporate power against radical white allies. “Decades of movement stagnation and lack of political education has made black people less likely to push the envelope.”
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
The Black Caucus and the Dictatorship of (White) Capital
30 Jul 2020
Black politics does not exist in the Democratic Party, because the duopoly system serves only the corporate rulers. “Clearly, the Democratic Party is the mechanism that spawns and nurtures Black politicians answerable to the Dictatorship of (White) Capital.”
Nick Estes and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Examining the Wreckage White Supremacy and Imperialism Have Wrought
05 Aug 2020
Indigenous and African resistance and intellectual traditions provide key insights to the very nature of capitalism and how it has unfolded throughout space and time. “The young people in the streets are true revolutionary theoreticians, moving history along, sometimes at speeds that feel daunting…