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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Robtel Neajai Pailey’s “Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa”
29 Jun 2022
This week’s featured author is Robtel Neajai Pailey. Pailey is Assistant Professor in International Social and Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her book is Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa: The Political Economy of Belonging to…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Drunken Count Ghouliani/low Barr-Boss Tweet revealing irreparable rot of capitalism…
29 Jun 2022
Drunken Count Ghouliani/low Barr-Boss Tweet revealing irreparable rot of capitalism… I. Inebriated or intoxicated; All prevaricated about imbibing magnums of Mahican, Crow, Comanche, Apache, Pawnee, Shawnee, Cherokee, Blackfoot blood… Inebriated or intoxicated; All prevaricated about imbibing…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Ethnic Violence Plagues Ethiopia Near its Mighty New Dam
29 Jun 2022
Conflict in Ethiopia continues to claim the lives of many civilians, as recently happened in the Wellega region.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: Revolution: It’s Not Easy, Quick, or Pretty, Pat Parker, 1980
29 Jun 2022
A 1980 speech by Black lesbian poet and activist Pat Parker provides a feminist, anti-imperialist blueprint for the present.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Democrats Exposed By the End of Roe v. Wade
29 Jun 2022
The full extent of Democratic Party treachery was exposed when the Roe v. Wade decision was overturned. Only right wing Americans have any expectation of getting what they want from the electoral process.
Tanupriya Singh
Belgium Returns Remains of Assassinated Congolese Leader Patrice Lumumba But What About Justice?
29 Jun 2022
Belgium has returned a gold crowned tooth of Patrice Lumumba to his family. But there has been no accountability or justice for his brutal assassination following a western-backed coup in 1961. This article was originally published in Peoples Dispatch.
Jon Jeter
The White Socialist Left: Seeing a Bleak Future for ‘Black and White Unite and Fight’
06 Jul 2022
White leftists have a history of using class reductionism to ignore racism and even of making common cause with white supremacy itself.
Robert Roth
Haiti: The Ransom is Still Being Paid
06 Jul 2022
The acknowledgement that France and the U.S. robbed Haiti of billions of dollars is long overdue. Yet the discussion is useless absent monetary reparation and the end of the control both those countries still hold over Haiti.
Black Alliance for Peace Solidarity Network Afghanistan Committee
Afghanistan News Update #12
06 Jul 2022
In this month’s Afghanistan News Update, the Black Alliance for Peace Solidarity Network’s Afghanistan Committee includes an interview with Obaidullah Baheer, a lecturer at the American University of Afghanistan and a visiting scholar at the New School in New York. He leads an aid initiative…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Emilio Amideo’s Book, “Queer Tidalectics”
06 Jul 2022
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Emilio Amideo. Amideo is a research fellow in English language and translation at the University of Naples “L’Orientale.” His book is Queer Tidalectics: Linguistic and Sexual Fluidity…