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Lauren Kaori Gurley
Amazon Launches Anti-Union Website to Derail Alabama Union Drive
27 Jan 2021
The drive at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama marks one of the few times in the company's history that workers will have the opportunity to vote in a union election. “They will do anything for unions not to get a foothold.”
Stephen Joseph Scott
Martin Luther King Jr. and the Socialist Within
27 Jan 2021
Each year in January as King is honored in the eyes of the public, there is little mention of the demands of the man and his mission: his fight for economic justice. “Martin Luther King Jr. was a Socialist and radical humanist at his core.”
Jacob Whiton
Where Trumpism Lives
27 Jan 2021
Support for pro-Trump Republicans remains driven by relatively well-off whites in fast-growing, rapidly diversifying suburbs – not by economic despair in rural America. “The evidence cuts strongly against the common view of the movement as driven by ‘lumpen’ Rust Belt rage and economic despair in…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Andrea Allen’s “Violence and Desire in Brazilian Lesbian Relationships”
27 Jan 2021
Even those who are significantly marginalized act in ways that, unfortunately, inflict pain on others. “There is no refuge for Brazilians who are not white, male, heterosexual, and wealthy.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Maurice Rafael Magaña’s “Cartographies of Youth Resistance”
27 Jan 2021
Activist youth who weave deep histories of resistance together with anarchist, autonomous, and decolonial politics and urban culture. “A broad-based social movement formed that exercised grassroots control of Oaxaca’s capital city for nearly six months.”
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
27 Jan 2021
This week our readers talked about the weakness of the U.S. left, the storming of the Capitol, and the crisis of U.S. imperialism.
Mary Retta
We Have To Stop Valorizing Black Cops
27 Jan 2021
The purpose of policing––to jail and kill Black folks––remains the same regardless of the officers’ race. “Allowing Black people into inherently racist systems does not make those systems better, safer, or more equitable.”
Andrea J. Ritchie
New Toolkit Tallies Up Victories and Summarizes Strategies to Defund the Police
27 Jan 2021
It is more imperative than ever to reduce the funding, power, weaponry, and reach of law enforcement agencies that are committed to protecting a white supremacist status quo. “We cannot give police more power to fight ‘domestic terrorism,’ which will predictably be used against the…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
First 100 Daze: A ‘new’ dance craze
27 Jan 2021
Everybody’s wild ‘bout this ‘new’ dance craze— this lewd, crude dance called “The 1st 100 Daze…” Here come Ol’ Blak Schmo and Ladee Blu— listen up—they’re gonna teach it to you: First you do the Fat Cat, War Hawk/Lame Duck— line dancing, passing war-profiteers Megabuck! Then kickback ’til you find…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Neither Class Reduction nor Race Reduction: Toward a Revolutionary Left Framework on an Age-Old Debate
27 Jan 2021
White supremacy and class struggle must thus be taken together as parts of a whole social system rather than separate categories of oppression. “Socialist policies cannot be truly achieved within a racist power structure, and racism cannot be fully eradicated without a transformation of class…