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Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
The Billionaires’ Duopoly Wins on Tuesday
29 Oct 2020
Allegiance to the Democratic half of the duopoly – whether active or passive – is still allegiance to corporate rule, not a strategy for transformative change. “The Republicans busy themselves emboldening racists, while the Democrats crush the left.”
Stephen Sefton
Julian Assange and the Great Reset
04 Nov 2020
More than a decade of blatant lies and slander have promoted the false belief that Julian Assange is guilty of some criminal offense. “Western corporate elites want to ensure the optimal efficient formation of opinion, taste and consumption in order to maintain their power.”
by the signatories
Open Letter to the Africans of Brazil, Colombia and Guyana
04 Nov 2020
These neo-colonial regimes are covertly and overtly facilitating the US Empire’s encirclement of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. “We cannot and must not allow ourselves to be used by the forces of white supremacy against our brothers and sisters in Venezuela.” Fellow Africans…
K. Philippe Gendrault
French Imperialism and Neo-colonialism in Mali
04 Nov 2020
France has the largest foreign armed force in Africa, with more soldiers on the continent than the US Africa Command. “It is obvious that the social and political situation of the Malian people does not figure on the imperial French agenda.” “France is not there [Mali], as I have heard some…
Lexi McMenamin
Philadelphia Agrees to Provide Community Housing Amid Unhoused Activist Push
04 Nov 2020
Organizers vow to continue the fight for housing on the heels of these tremendous victories. “Encampments were run and maintained by unhoused people, with the support of housed allies.”
Jinette Jimenez and Anya Milberg
Cops Kill People in Psychiatric Crisis
04 Nov 2020
The Police Reform Organizing Project (PROP), a New York City-based policy analysis and advocacy organization, recently released a report on decades of fatal encounters between police and people experiencing a mental crisis. The report is titled, “Save Lives, Not Take Them: An Urgent Call…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Dean Spade’s “Mutual Aid”
04 Nov 2020
Mutual aid work is part of actually addressing survival needs right now, and getting to the root causes of problems. “Mutual aid is the onramp to social movement participation.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Khosi Xaba’s “Queer Africa”
04 Nov 2020
We are in a time zone wherein the problematic of queerness is being emancipated through story telling. “The stories in these books bring a window into easy-to-dismiss lives.”
BAR Comments Editor Jahan Choudhry
Letters from Our Readers
04 Nov 2020
This week Covid-19, Left solidarity, and the duopoly were on your minds. We share your letters for “COVID-19 Exposes Economic Misery as U.S.
Alberto Toscano
The Long Shadow of Racial Fascism
04 Nov 2020
Comparing Trump to European fascists often ignores the fact that racial slavery created its own unique form of fascism. “Black radical thinking about fascism and anti-fascist resistance could provide the resources to confront our volatile interregnum.”